There are over 600,000 illegal border crossings per year at the United States southern border. It is obvious the oligarchy gets rich from our cities being flooded with migrants. They get cheap labor. Real estate rates skyrocket. It is like a hit of crack for the economy. Meanwhile communities turn to shit. Roadways are more…

Scums Pelosi and Harris and others are bringing a laundry list of people to the SOTU as though trying to make some kind of statement. President Trump needs to make it clear in the SOTU that Pelosi and Harris are responsible for the shutdown and that their actions are equivalent to blackmail of the American…

So the big news story of today is that there may be snow today on some of the higher peaks around the Bay Area. On some news segments they’ve interviewed people who drove up to some peaks to see snow. But don’t waste fossil fuels to see snow. It just doesn’t seem right. Instead you…

In the news the past week has been information about some states that are implementing late-term abortions. I didn’t really look into this very much but what I briefly saw mentioned that it had to do with fetuses with birth defects. I fully support the right of parents to abort a fetus even if it…

Here is information for configuring the Trackpoint and Touchpad of a Thinkpad T550 in Linux. List of input devices: $ xinput list ⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)] ⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ Synaptics TM3053-003 id=12 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint id=13 [slave…

These are instructions on how to disable middle-click scrolling behavior for a Trackpoint or pointing stick device in Linux. For this you need xinput installed. If it isn’t installed install it with apt install xinput or whatever command is appropriate for your system. First, determine the id of the trackpoint device: xinput list The Trackpoint…

I wish I were the dictator of Planet Earth. Earth would be much healthier. If I were Earth’s dictator there would be almost no fences – I’m not talking about border fences to keep out people from shitholes – I’m talking about fences within a country which usually serve no purpose even though people tend…

Hallelujah! The ridiculously thin vertical scrollbars with Firefox, Thunderbird, and any other Linux apps that use GTK3 for their window toolkit has annoyed me for sooo long. But I just found this simple, excellent fix, courtesy of this post at superuser.com. Create ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css if it doesn’t exist and add the following contents: scrollbar, scrollbar button,…

Amanita Red 🙂 #FA2334 Lately I’ve been grabbing colors from nature shots and using the colors for various things.  This is a color from an Amanita muscaria mushroom. If you use Windows 10 go to Settings -> Personalization -> Colors -> Colors -> Custom Color -> (enter color). Below that make sure Show Accent Color…

This is a disassembled Braun OxyJet oral irrigation and electric toothbrush base unit. You can see the transformer which is very heavy because if its iron core. You can see the motor for the water pump for the irrigator, the pump unit, and the tubes for the water. You can see the large pieces of…