I think that Victor may not have English as his primary/first language, I am trying to use a simple comparison that is more likely to convey the general, fundamental concepts.

No.

Secure Boot is basically a ‘lock’, on the UEFI.

UEFI - Shim is basically a ‘lockpick’.

UEFI is the first step in your computer booting, turning on.

So, if Secure Boot is supposed to be a ‘lock’, that limits who can access the UEFI … but it turns out that there are many, old, UEFI - Shims, that defeat that ‘lock’… then Secure Boot is not a good ‘lock’.

I don’t mean to be rude but it seems like there might be a bit of language confusion going on here… In English, a ‘shim’ is a kind of crude/simple tool that can be used to break or bypass some actual physical locks.

So ‘UEFI-Shim’ basically means ‘a thing that breaks into your UEFI’.

Secure boot is supposed to be a lock.

Turns out there are 10 year old tricks that bypass that lock.

A lock that cannot deny access to people without proper key… is a bad lock.

Had to crank out a tribute to Lindsay.

Yes, I’m trying to be hyperbolically facetious, to illustrate that.

You are missing the point.

Sure, yeah, I agree: If looking the other way, covering things up, that certain individuals did is also criminal, then it follows that those people who covered things up should be jailed too.

… but this is so systemically pervasive that the system of law, and imprisonment, would have to convict and imprison a substantial portion… of itself.

It is not going to do that. The actual people this would involve, they realize that holding other, worse actors accountable, potentially means holding themselves accountable as well.

So, they don’t, and a norm of corruption, or maybe a partial and tiered legal system … is maintained.

You would, at best, need a massive, top down flushing out of the entire system, to do something like that… and even then, the guilty or potentially guilty members of the system will pull out every stop to stymie this.

Which of course presumes this is possible or likely to occur… not sure if you keep up with things, but the Republicans and Trump have explicitly stated multiple times they are going to rig and steal every election they can.

Or… you realize the system cannot fix itself in the way you seem to think that it can.

So something outside of it must ‘fix’ it, or at least pressure it.

Imprison them, eh?

And… who is going to… take them to jail?

Convict them, through their qualified immunity?

And run that jail they are sent to?

… you want the system to imprison itself?

Not gonna work.

You need to think outside of the system, to solve a problem the system exists to create.

Even worse!

Admitting that I was not always doing the most sensible thing, at all times! That I was actually doing really stupid things, for a long time!

I … I can’t make mistakes… no … reality is wrong!

ITT:

Win 10 user not realizing they are self-reporting how unenthusiastic / unimpressed they are by their OS, to the extent that they literally cannot even imagine being excited by any OS.

I make a comment saying the title here, like a week ago, and its controversial.

I say ‘if you don’t understand this that’s because you’re not familiar with current stats and papers’.

Look.

Everybody is scrambling to actually explain the causal mechanism(s).

… The observed effect though, is so broad and obvious and undeniable, that that’s why everyone is scrambling to try and explain it.

Personally, my inclination is that for-profit, advertisement-oriented social media apps are the ‘cigarettes’ of the digital age… because they are literally precision designed to hijack your attention, cause addiction via hijacking your dopamine/reward neurochemistry, prey on and exploit all your innate/subconscious insecurities, and they reward and amplify convenience, outrage and excess.

But that’s just a hypothesis. Again, what’s undeniable is that… we have, broadly, peaked.

Unless of course we can figure out how to reverse that, and then actually implement whatever needs to be done, to actually reverse it.

So here’s where it gets more nuts.

The ‘Discord Confession’, supposedly written by Tyler, on his computer, at home?

… He had been in Police custody for at least an hour or two, when that Discord message was sent.

(Timestamps, motherfucker, how do those work?)

He would have had to send that message while being actively detained and processed/interogated by the Police.

Obviously this is nigh impossible. The cops would have nearly certainly taken away Tyler’s phone and anything else, by that point, and he obviously eas not physically at his home at that time.

What isn’t impossible is that Twiggs sent the message from Tyler’s logged into computer/Discord account, at ‘their’ home.

Which would explain why Twiggs for some reason needs a deal that involves some degree of immunity for himself, in exchange for … apparently, his pre-recorded ‘witness testimony’ … and also apparently the deal involves Twiggs not being able to be cross examined by the defense council.

Now I cannot say this is all 100% correct or accurate… and my suggestion there is speculation… but to a huge degree, no one can tell wtf is actually ‘real’ about this case because prosecution seems to be doing basically everything they can to not actually hand over nearly anything during ‘discovery’… this is all fishy as a fucking fish market.

IIRC the movie uses sonar as an analogy, not the literal mechanism.

… the … analagous literal mechanism would now be how WiFi itself can be used to map environments and movement within them, kinda like sonar.

https://github.com/ruvnet/RuView

Which means the new paradigm will be ‘every piece of hardware is a supply chain attack.’

Did you know that the software suite, the client end of the system sold to both police and militaries, to feed them realtime ‘battlespace’ info…

You know its literally called GOTHAM, right?

Like, as in the system that Lucius Fox destroys, after Batman uses it, the single time, to find the Joker, because it is such an enormous moral atrocity?

… and I thought my jokes were bad.

Kash staring at a bottle

“Not today, Satan… not… welll…”

I mean I’ve not… seen or watched every guntuber, but uh, no, that theory is wrong.

You could see his nipples through his shirt.

He was not wearing plate armor.

If he was wearing magic flexi titanium armor under that shirt… well then the bullet would have had some kind of destructive effect on the shirt, where it would have bounced/richochet’d from.

It did not.

If he was wearing armor, and took a round to the upper chest, that ricocheted into his neck… he would have bruising at that part of his chest, potentially fractured ribs. Actually, definitely fractured ribs, for a 30-06.

By all information I’ve been able to find, nope, none of that was ever indicated either.

Also, if a 30-06 hit him in the chest, with him seated, and that plate fully bounced the round (into his neck, or anywhere else)?

He’d have been noticably kicked backward.

At 150 yards, a 30-06 will be travelling ~2400 ft/s.

A 150 - 180 grain round… ~1900 to ~2300 foot-pounds of force.

For a (perfectly armored) person standing upright, on concrete (friction coefficient of 0.5) that would kick you backward something like several inches to a foot.

It would be roughly comparable to taking a well executed mma/karate front kick, to the chest.

For a (perfectly armored) person sitting down, in a 4 legged chair? Who then immediately goes limp?

He’d likely have been hit with enough force that him and the chair would topple over backward or to the side… not the in place tensing and then slumping that was seen.

You could posit ceramic plates, that dissipate some of the energy by breaking, but then we just circle back to ‘you would have been very obviously able to see he was wearing that, and not able to see his nipples’.

Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard

Zuck: Just ask.

Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS

[Redacted Friend’s Name]: What? How’d you manage that one?

Zuck: People just submitted it.

Zuck: I don’t know why.

Zuck: They “trust me”

Zuck: Dumb fucks.

Don’t be a dumb fuck, do not trust Zuck.

In short, no, Candace is… mostly a crazy person who interprets dreams and the first thing that pops into her head as… God talking to her, or ‘showing’ her things.

So, the microphone thing is confusing, but thats mostly because … its small, and most video that captured it moving wasn’t high resolution.

Kirk was not shot by his own microphone. If he had been, there’d be burn marks and/or gunpowder or explosive residue on his shirt, where the lapel mic was, from it exploding/firing.

No such burn marks or residue exists, in any video or picture or report I’ve seen or read.

Also… yeah, it was daylight, and yeah, that ‘theory’ is that it could have been basically a very small caliber… but… you probably still would have been able to see a small, slight flash, from either a small bomb going off on his chest, or a tiny ‘gun’ firing… he was in relative shade, compared to most other people/things in most of the videos/pictures I’ve seen.

And nothing like that is even hinted at, in anything I’ve seen.

And no, Kirk was not wearing body armor. He was wearing a fairly light fabric, white Tshirt. You could see him nipping through it, in some pictures/video from the day. You cannot see nipple impressions through kevlar or plate armor.

He was though, actually wearing a lapel microphone, likely one that attaches to his shirt via a magnetic clip… the exterior lapel mic has another basically just magnet it snaps to, that goes on the inside of your shirt.

Here is a comparison shot, Kirk’s last day on the left, same or similar lapel mic on another day, another public speaking event:

Why did the mic go flying, when he got shot?

Well, here’s my ‘theory’:

Because he got shot, and that shot basically instantly severed his spinal cord. He was likely 90% brain dead before the blood geyser even erupted.

His entire body thus … basically had something comparable to a seizure, a significant, global convulsion…

His eyes go wide, he ‘tenses up’, into a sort of stereotypical ‘frightened’ or ‘startled’ pose…

… and then neuroelectric flatline, slumping, everything relaxes, every muscle group slowly lets go.

That sudden jerking or convulsion motion, resulting from his spinal cord being severed, is what I think caused the mic to move so abruptly.

Same as if you had been wearing a mic like that, affixed by an opposed, fairly weak magnet… and then suddenly spasmed with your entire body, with significant muscular force… or, maybe like going from a lazy standing stance to instantly switching to a perfect military ready ‘Attention!’ pose, something like that.

Why does the other side of his shirt, his left side, seem to ‘pinch’ and expand?

Well, If the lapel mic had a wire internally, inside his shirt, going to a spot at his waist, his belt line, where you could plug it into a walky-talky type device, so that it could then be patched into the PA system, in the event the primary microphone died…

If that wire was on the inside of his shirt, and that wire was taped to other parts of the inside of shirt, or maybe just to his body… the body tenses, the label mic gets disconnected from its internal base, thats like a system of ropes and hooks and pulleys where you just cut the load off of one part of it, and now the system rebalances, with the ‘rope’ snapping around a bit.

The wire, analagously the ‘rope’, whips around in such a way that we get a few frames where the cumulative effect of all the physics at play here, causes the ‘pinching’ expansion of the shirt, momentarily.

What do you mean?

No detail will remain undiscovered under the watchful gaze of Director Patel!

Here he is, cracking another case wide open!

I’m sure he’ll get to the bottom of this one as well.

(I’m sorry but I just imagine the uh, frantic close in pan from like Kill Bill, with the warning siren-esque sound effect… goddamnit, you don’t even need to be clever to make fun of this corrupt doofus)

This has never made sense to me:

The picture they showed off of the ‘rifle recovered in the woods’ is… fully assembled, and in a cardboard box.

But they also reported that the weapon was wrapped up in a towel or cloth or something.

But but … the government story is that Robinson had a half dissambled rifle partially in his backpack, partially in his pant leg… he walks it to the roof with an odd walking cadence, assembles it, fires it, disassembles it, jumps off the roof, flees the scene…

Why the fuck would you then reassemble the weapon?

Where did this cardboard box come from?

And yes, the bullet this weapon fires cannot be the bullet that made the injuries Kirk sustained.

The shooting position that Robinson was supposedly at? That weapon? That range?

Its a 30-06. A straight on shot from the front, from that range, to Kirk’s lower neck/upper shoulder area, would have blown a chunk of flesh roughly the size of an orange out of Kirk. The bullet would have kept travelling through Kirk, and potentially injured people standing behind him, it would have made an impact mark on the building/ground behind him. There would have been blood and viscera from Kirk thrown behind him, creating a splatter pattern.

Instead, we get Kirk having the neck geyser in the front, no visible exit wound or blood on the back of his neck.

Instead, we get a statement from a doctor saying that his shoulder/clavicle bones caught the bullet, and that that is a miracle and Kirk has superhuman bone density, that this superhuman bone density saved other people from the scenario I described above.

https://nypost.com/2025/09/21/us-news/charlie-kirk-surgeon-reveals-miracle-factor-that-likely-prevented-more-from-being-hurt/

https://thedailydots.substack.com/p/the-bullet-that-stopped-medical-science

This is… how do you say … horseshit.

… Kirk does not / did not have superhuman bone density… that bullet / fragments recovered inside of in him is not a 30-06, or even fragments of a 30-06.

Now I don’t know who the fuck actually did shoot Kirk, but it wasn’t Robinson, even if he had been there, with that 30-06 firearm, at that time, from that shooting position.

Robinson is almost certainly fucked in that he does seem to have been there, with the intention to take the shot, with a 30-06. But he cannot have been the one that pulled the trigger that fired the bullet that ended Kirk.

I can say though, that a 5.56 fired from Kirk’s right, above him, that entered into his head/neck roughly under his right ear, that then wormed its way through/around the bulk of his neck vertebrae, that as it is slowing down, severs the left carotid internally, that then comes to a stop in his left shoulder/clavicle bones…

Well that does match with everything about the scene and the videos/photos of Kirk’s death.