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• Personal/Opinions

  • Chigusa Nagayo vs. Dump Matsumoto (AJW 08/28/1985)

    Some people think of this as more of an angle, some people think of it as more than a match. I get it, it's not easy to define. Hell, I think the easiest part to define about this is the status that it has rightfully deserved and has been rightfully given.

    Iconic, game-changing, history-altering. Especially with the emotional post-match where Chigusa gets her head shaved.

    One of the things that is fantastic about professional wrestling is the showcase of two things, the first of which being the dynamic of power, and the second being struggle. I'm sure if I ask any wrestling fan why they love professional wrestling, they'll provide me some form of the latter.

  • Samoa Joe vs. Necro Butcher (IWA-MS 06/11/2005)

    First off, this one is near impossible to write about without being THAT PERSON™️ with how much I'm willing to rant and rave about this one. I suppose I can be THAT PERSON™️ for once.

    Has anyone reading this heard of Icarus? Even if you have, let's do this dramatic retelling.

    Icarus was the son of a renowned craftsman from the island of Crete named Daedalus, imprisoned on the island of Crete. The two of them, father and son, are both imprisoned on the island by King Midas, as Midas had commissioned Daedalus to build him a labyrinth, a maze so confusing that he himself could barely find his way out, despite having built the labyrinth, so that the design of the Labyrinth could be a protected secret. This part of the story isn't concrete, but this is Greek mythology, so what is concrete? However, what is concrete is that they were both imprisoned on a tower.

  • 🔤SpellBinding: ACEZLOI Wordo: WINCE

  • From green to blue

    A while back, I had to renew my driver's license here in Japan. In the US, it was as easy as sending in some money, and my new license was mailed to me. Here in Japan it's more involved.

    There are 3 license colors: green, blue and gold, denoted by a colored stripe at the top (not an actual gold colored card, which would be cool.) When you first get a license, you start with green. Then you go on to blue, and if you don't get any tickets, you can get a gold license. The license renewal process then depends on which color you have.

• Politics and World Events

  • Tariffs Silver Lining

    Since energy is undercosted and climate externalities unregulated, we transport way too much stuff way too cheaply across the globe. Tariffs unintentionally help mitigate that a little. Even the emperor of free market fantasies, Friedrich von Hayek, wanted to regulate environmental externalies, advice that his acolytes immediately discarded. And tariffs are an unintensional, partial, fee on the transport-related externalities.

• Technology and Free Software

  • GrapheneOS with hotspot and VPN

    Because the 'official' /E/OS on my old OnePlus Nord has discontinued support, I tried to flash the /E/OS 'community' edition onto it. And either during the flashing process, I damaged the WiFi on my phone, or it simply does not support it.

    I hoped for another few years of using this phone, but now it's unusable for me. Bad luck for me.

    So I was in need for another smart phone with WiFi hotspot support. And for my usecase I also need VPN. On my old OnePlus the hotspot traffic was completely sent through the installed WireGuard VPN client which I installed with F-Droid.