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Things I've noticed happen in the general vicinity of my posts:

- Fundie nutjobs reduced to curling up in a little ball, plugging their ears, and spewing either contentless religious copypasta (Freeman) or barely-coherent amateur apologia (Bot).
- The Shitey Uzzard degenerating into mudslinging and pretending (badly) not to care when defeated in arguments...every single one of them.
- Insecure manchildren accusing me of being a transsexual (some random AC) on one hand, and on the other, an actual transwoman accusing me of being a TERF (Kurenai).
- Creeps like VLM, KHallow, JMorris, Entropy, and all their kind simply giving the hell up and abandoning ship when faced with a proper down-smacking for their fallacious sociopathy.

When you have people on the fringes everywhere angry with you, each of them accusing you of the precise opposite on the spectrum they hate, you must be doing something right. In all my time here, I've never gone in for trolling, deception, or shitposting. I've always stood for what's right, and took the fight to those who would try to spread their noetic poisons, fighting it everywhere it appears for the sake of anyone unfortunate enough to encounter it, knowing full well the originators of such poison are by their own choice irredeemable, certainly so in this lifetime.

And my approach drives them nuttier than squirrel vomit.

Well boo fucking hoo. When someone on here tells me I'm bitchy or angry, I just laugh, because what they really mean is "you're making me uncomfortable by exposing my bullshit in such direct, uncompromising, profanity-laced ways." It's pretty obvious the accusations of being a transsexual come from sheltered, misogynist little manchildren who can't handle actual women speaking the plain, unvarnished truth to them, because they have so little truck with the opposite sex they've never seen it in the real world before. No, this insult to their manly honor cannot stand! ONLY another man could POSSIBLY have the balls, literal balls, to stand up to them! (And of course the kind of person who'd make this argument lumps MtFs under the heading of "man." I don't, though I do draw an important distinction between transwomen and cisgender women because, frankly, they are never going to know what it is to have a period or risk being pregnant).

Time to put on your big-boy undies and join the adult world! The toughest people I know are all women, including my own mother and some of the nurses at work. I'm a marshmallow compared to them.

And I don't regret anything, as painful as it's been sometimes. Am I a "nice girl?" No, and haven't been for several years, and you know what? It's better this way. "Nice girls" get used and taken advantage of and thrown away and never have their needs met. "Nice girls" are the permanent victims of tone trolling by people too frightened or too weak to deal with them as the full human beings they are. In this place, at this time, as this site sinks further and further into RWNJ decay, all it means is I'll fight all the harder.

What I hope this does is encourage the people on here who still seek the light to defend it. Hit back. We're seeing on a number of scales, from the President's capitulation on his stupid bullshit shutdown right down to the examples at the head of this post, that the sociopaths are like any bully: weak, cowardly, amoral types who don't expect and can't handle sustained, principled pushback. Part of it is that evil simply can't comprehend good, but mostly it comes down to how bullies work and have always worked. Anyone who wants to join me in fighting the good fight, please do: we've seen that it works.

Oh how easily we slip into tyranny! You are aware, are you not, that we Greeks had two different words for "king", depending on how they "got to be king, because I didn't vote for you." The two words are, Basileus (Greek: βασιλεύς), and Tyrant (Greek τύραννος, tyrannos). Basileus is a legitimate king, whether by birth or by election. Tyrants, um, come to power by other means.

So here we have it. Yet another aristarchus submission has met it's appointed fate, and highly unusual, the eds, (OK, Takyon) provided a justification, beyond the fact that it was, after all, an aristarchus submission.

We're sorry, your submission "MAGA hats are offensive and there’s nothing we can do about it" was declined for the following reason:
There’s nothing we can do about it -takyon

The editors felt it inappropriate for them to correct the issue themselves. Please feel free to correct the issue yourself and resubmit.

Yeah, right, resubmit. One thing about being the target of a programme of censorship, you learn to recognize sarcastic encouragement. Not bloody likely, as janrinock of olde would say. There was nothing they could do? How about doing your job, editors, like, editing something. Throwing back to me what I thought was a perfectly cromulent submission, and expecting me to divine from the fact that there was nothing you could do, that there is something that I could do? Boggles the mind, it does.

Point is, if you wear a MAGA hat, you hate American, you hate Native Americans, which includes the TMB, as lovely and native as he is, and you hate immigrants, which all but the Native Americans are, and you are probably a Catholic Prep School Douche, like Brett Kavanaugh. There. I said it. Catholic preps school boys are fun! And recruits for Opus Dei and the Alt-right. And Takyon seems to be in cahoots (just because I like to use the word "cahoots") with them. #freearistarchus!!!!

Murders at the hand of extremists were up 35% in 2018, with right-wing extremists responsible for more deaths than any other year in more than two decades, the Anti-Defamation League reported Wednesday.

The ADL’s Center on Extremism tracked 50 extremism-related murders last year, according to the new edition of its Murder and Extremism Report. All of them were conducted by right-wing extremists (one perpetrator also had alleged ties to Islamist extremism). That number made 2018 the deadliest year for right-wing extremists since the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, which killed 171.

Among the murders tracked in the ADL’s analysis were the mass shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, which killed 17; Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha Synagogue in Pittsburgh, which killed 11; and a Waffle House in Nashville. All of the suspects in those cases had expressed support online for far-right ideologies.

Right-Wing Extremist Murders Surged In 2018: ADL

I've written about Annie in a couple of previous journals (most recently here: https://soylentnews.org/~Snow/journal/3011 ). Annie works at the coffee shop a block from my house.

Annie recently cut back her hours because she has applied to the school board to become an art teacher. She should find out this week if she is accepted for the position. Obviously, I'm cheering for her.

I went to the coffee shop this weekend to get my morning coffee for my wife and I and Annie was there. I hadn't seen her in about a month, and she ran up to me and gave me a really big hug (as she always does). I really love getting hugs from her. She always gets real close and lets them linger for a bit. It's always a highlight of my day.

While I was waiting for another girl to make my coffee, she stood across the counter from me and asked how I was doing. She placed her hand on mine and I started caressing her fingers. We chatted for a couple minutes and then she had to get back to work. Before she left though, I said I missed seeing her and that we should hang out sometime soon. She said she was going to say the same thing.

I've got to give her credit. Reaching out and grabbing my hand took balls. She put herself out there for me. She was also the one who initiates all the hugs.

I texted her later in the day saying it was great to see her and that I missed her. I'd like to see her next week.

I've had a crush on her for several years now. She's a petite Asian girl. Very cute. Very into DOTA2. Very sweet.

I'm still seeing Jasmine once a week. It's going pretty well. Jasmine is a great girl and I enjoy my time with her. I feel that she is falling in love with me though. I like her, but I don't get that electric feeling with her. She sends me texts and says things that kinda hint that she is falling in love with me, and I just don't know what to say. I would like things to stay at an intimate friends level, but I feel like she wants something more. I don't think I can offer that.

It's also not fair to my wife if I'm going on multiple dates per week. I've been trying to keep it to one date night per week. That means that to see Annie, I need to give up my date night with Jasmine, which will probably disappoint her and make me feel guilty.

I really want to kiss Annie though and have wanted to for over a year. I don't want to let this chance slip by. I'm just not sure how to tell Jasmine that I won't be able to see her next week...

Yet another aristarchus submission has met it's appointed fate. Nothing surprising, but, there was a non-blank rationale field, highly unusual!

We're sorry, your submission "This online comic shows how pick-up artists morphed into the alt-right" was declined for the following reason:
All hail the Supreme Gentleman! -takyon

The editors felt it inappropriate for them to correct the issue themselves. Please feel free to correct the issue yourself and resubmit.

Of course, I think the entire point was that these are no Gentleman, and the Red Pillars need to get themselves over to The Art of Manliness website. And apparenty, this includes one of our more prolific editors? Cause for pause, Soylentils! What are we part of, here!

President Trump Directed His Attorney Michael Cohen To Lie To Congress About The Moscow Tower Project

President Donald Trump directed his longtime attorney Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about negotiations to build a Trump Tower in Moscow, according to two federal law enforcement officials involved in an investigation of the matter.

Trump also supported a plan, set up by Cohen, to visit Russia during the presidential campaign, in order to personally meet President Vladimir Putin and jump-start the tower negotiations. “Make it happen,” the sources said Trump told Cohen.

The special counsel’s office learned about Trump’s directive for Cohen to lie to Congress through interviews with multiple witnesses from the Trump Organization and internal company emails, text messages, and a cache of other documents. Cohen then acknowledged those instructions during his interviews with that office.

If that's all true, then:

Presidential historian: First impeachment article against Nixon was ‘obstruction by directing others to lie’

Presidential historian Jon Meacham on Friday resurfaced the first article of impeachment brought against former President Nixon in a discussion following a bombshell report that President Trump directed his former longtime lawyer Michael Cohen to lie to Congress.

“The first article of impeachment against Nixon was just this: obstruction by directing others to lie,” Meacham tweeted early Friday morning. “This is not hysteria or hyperventilating. It’s history.”

As Coast Guard paychecks went undelivered Tuesday as the result of an ongoing partial government shutdown, the service's top officer urged its members to stay the course.

In a public letter published Tuesday afternoon on his social media pages, Adm. Karl Schultz said the day's missed paycheck, to his knowledge, marked the first time in the history of the nation "that service members in a U.S. Armed Force have not been paid during a lapse in government appropriations."

The Coast Guard, the only military service to fall under the Department of Homeland Security, is also the only service with payroll affected by the shutdown, which began Dec. 22. The Coast Guard was able to issue final paychecks for the year, but will be unable to distribute further pay until a budget deal is reached or another appropriation agreement is made.

In all, some 55,000 Coast Guard active-duty, reserve and civilian members are going without pay; the number includes 42,000 active-duty service members.

Coast Guard civilians have been on furlough or working without pay since the shutdown began.

For the First Time in History, a US Military Service Is Working Without Pay

Think I got a taste of why people disdain Reddit.

Yesterday, a moderator for r/programminglanguages took offense to my message and banned me from that particular subreddit. Claimed that a private message I sent was insulting to the entire community, I had a bad attitude, blah, blah. No warning, no 3 strikes, no consensus with other moderators or anyone else, just that moderator's sole judgment, and apparently it's a permanent ban, not timed. Reddit's new interface does a poor job of informing banned users that they are banned. To check, have to try to post and see if it is rejected.

It occurred to me that I could simply make another account. But Reddit threatens extreme reprisal for doing that, as in, they will delete all your accounts if they detect that you are working around a ban in that fashion.

I have never been more than a very occasional user of Reddit. I don't know the ropes there too well. From what I read, bans happen all the time, and it is a bit random. Eh, Reddit is too harsh and absolute. Lousy system. One mistake and ZAP! Account gone. (Say it like "Caribou gone.") I suspect the harshness is one factor that results in all around lower quality discussions, and I have heard complaints along those lines about Reddit. Much, much rather hang out here on SoylentNews than chance the whims of such all powerful, capricious individuals.

Hey Guys,

I've got a bit of a problem I'm working on. It seemed like an easy problem, but I'm running into lots of issues. If anyone has any tips, I would appreciate it!

So I have lots (just over a hundred) of SQL express instances running on essentially POSes. When a transaction is made, an entry is made to a table. At the end of the day, the application also updates a couple other tables with a bulk insert.

I want to replicate all that data back home so it's all in one place to query (SQL Standard). As near real time as possible/reasonable.

My plan was to setup merged replication with the central server the publisher and the site the subscriber. That mostly worked (with some tweaking), but bulk inserts do not fire triggers, so those entries do not replicate. I could setup a separate job to update the bulk inserts to fire the triggers, but that's pretty hacky and not ideal.

Is there a better way to do what I'm trying to do? Some SSIS package that will be annoying to maintain (although I'm worried these subscriptions will be annoying too)? Log shipping?

I feel like this should be a pretty common problem, but I can't find anything. Am I going about this completely wrong?

Lawyers for Trump’s disgraced former campaign chairman, who was convicted of tax and bank fraud last year, submitted a filing in Washington, D.C., federal court responding to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s assertion that Manafort had lied to Mueller’s office and so violated his plea agreement. Manafort’s lawyers pushed back on that claim by saying that he had extensively cooperated with Mueller, meeting with the government lawyers and investigators a dozen times and twice testifying before a grand jury.

But Manafort’s team screwed up.

They tried to redact four different passages in their filing, but failed to do so properly, leaving the redacted text in plain sight. For instance, Manafort’s lawyers responded to Mueller’s allegation that Manafort lied to the government about his interactions with a man named Konstantin Kilimnik, who was Manafort’s right-hand man during his time as a powerful political consultant in Ukraine. What’s more noteworthy is that Kilimnik has alleged connections to Russian intelligence.

What the redacted text says is that Manafort allegedly misled Mueller about meeting with Kilimnik during the 2016 presidential campaign and discussing a “Ukraine peace plan” with Kilimnik “on more than one occasion.” Another improperly redacted section revealed that Mueller has alleged that Manafort “lied about sharing polling data with Mr. Kilimnik related to the 2016 presidential campaign.”

Paul Manafort’s Lawyers Appear to Accidentally Blow the Door Open on Collusion

Oops! Not a mistake I would expect out of "the best people!"

Fox News' Shep Smith and Andrew Napolitano now see proof of 'collusion' between Trump's team and Russia

"This shows that Bob Mueller can demonstrate to a court, without the testimony of Paul Manafort, that the campaign had a connection to Russian intelligence and the connection involved information going from the campaign to the Russians," Napolitano said. "The question is, was this in return for a promise of something from the Russians, and did the candidate, now the president, know about it?” That would be "a conspiracy," he added, regardless of whether the Trump campaign actually got anything of value from the Russians.