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Off Topic / Re: Public Broadcasting R.I.P. in USA
« Last post by Leslieann on Fri, 18 July 2025, 11:13:26 »
PS - can somebody explain to me what the contemporary term "woke" means - in plain English?
Depends on who you're asking.

One group of people use it as a political dog whistle, it means anything they dislike or get told to dislike. This is why none of them can define it, it's not that they necessarily can't, it's just that if they do they expose who they really are. It's a way to express who they really are without saying who they really are.

The actual meaning refers to more or less watching your back because law enforcement has a (very) racial bias and doesn't really care who they pin a crime on.


BTW, this is why the solved murder rate percentage has actually gone down with the advent of DNA, fingerprints and other technology that should help law enforcement find the right person. It was not uncommon for the public and police to just blame a minority and off to jail someone went, more tech made them not just have to work harder to collect actual evidence but also absolved a lot of those falsely accused. When they claim law enforcement has gotten harder, yes it has, they now have actually do their job and try to find the right person. There is still a lot of innocent people in jail though either because they pre-date this tech or simply cannot afford to fight and prove their innocence so they take a plea deal.
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Off Topic / Re: Public Broadcasting R.I.P. in USA
« Last post by tp4tissue on Fri, 18 July 2025, 11:04:33 »
And that has What? to do with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting?


Your complaint is about the left vs right arm of a "core"  Bad Person.

It hardly matters which arm the person uses to COMMIT the unconscionable.

Big picture fohats,  big picture,  you're focused on what they want you to focus on, most of which is inconsequential. When, the Full-System has failed.
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Off Topic / Re: Public Broadcasting R.I.P. in USA
« Last post by fohat.digs on Fri, 18 July 2025, 10:07:52 »
And that has What? to do with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting?
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Interest Checks / Re: [IC] CK980C - An Homage to the FC980C
« Last post by upas on Fri, 18 July 2025, 09:44:38 »
I took some sound tests:

CK980C - Brass 1.2mm plate, Gasket Sandwich Mount, DynaCap parts and GMK
https://voca.ro/1fsW2UYpnhVK

CK980C - Brass 1.2mm plate, Top Mount, DynaCap parts and GMK
https://voca.ro/1jTxSYb4QFJG

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Off Topic / Re: Public Broadcasting R.I.P. in USA
« Last post by tp4tissue on Fri, 18 July 2025, 09:20:08 »
So you see, Democrats = Republicans.

Bernie Sanders, giving a speech against the gulf war to an entirely empty house of representatives.


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Off Topic / Public Broadcasting R.I.P. in USA
« Last post by fohat.digs on Fri, 18 July 2025, 08:33:45 »
After decades of trying, the Republicans have finally gotten one of their greatest wishes and cut off funding for public broadcasting in the US.

Non-commercial news, education, and culture simple did not fit into their scenario for what America should be.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Broadcasting_Act_of_1967



PS - can somebody explain to me what the contemporary term "woke" means - in plain English?
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Keyboards / Re: Are all HHKBs Topre?
« Last post by tp4tissue on Fri, 18 July 2025, 07:18:42 »
Also a lot of Topre enjoyers seek out vintage aged domes..

They're the same people who buy lifestyle brand speakers.

It would be too offensive to say they're morons, but their intelligence is at approximately the same lvl.
:p
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Off Topic / Re: Gaming PC Parts discussion thread.
« Last post by tp4tissue on Fri, 18 July 2025, 06:59:54 »


Razer blade 16,

This is the dumbest design ever. Absolutely disgusting.

There're reasons laptop keyboards have had tape under the keys to prevent the fan sucking air through it.

1, DUSTTTT,  now your keys will bind over time, because of dust and oily air ingress. Gamers also eat things like doritos and cheetos.

2,  Imagine pouring some liquid on the keyboard, Now the FAN will suck that cococolo throughout the motherboard. NICE..

Razer is fn stupid,  Seriously, they've gone full re****.

Worst lifestyle brand on the planet, the fact that they and the likes of Klipsch and Marshall (speakers) make any money is proof that Idiocracy is today the norm. Humanity is entirely hopeless.
 
5090 mobile GPU is $5000 for the same performance as a desktop 5070ti (non super).
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Interest Checks / Re: [IC] DCS Cream Cheese and Green R3
« Last post by Piperaceae on Fri, 18 July 2025, 06:42:18 »
I love the pursed Caps Lock keys. And I'm always glad to see UK ISO offered. I'd like to see at least terminal ISO (ISO Enter, 1.25u shift, less/greater and R3 pipeslash) in the base, so if the UK kit didn't meet MOQ, there'd at least be physical coverage available for ISO boards. And for folks who needed UK keys, the UK kit would be a little smaller/cheaper.

Another suggestion would be that you could force accents for the Esc and Enter keys in the 40s kit to reduce its size - forced 40s accents are pretty common.

For the 40s kitting, the 1.75u R4 Lock key is rarely used anymore, and could be cut; most recent 40s kits omit it. In its place, a R2 1.25u Backspace key would be handy, as would be a 1.5u Shift, since there aren't any of those included. And as someone else mentioned, 2x of each spacebar size in the 40s, since they're used in pairs.

Someone's already mentioned that all DCS bars are convex now. I think that's everything that stands out to me - looks good! GLWIC!
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Off Topic / Re: Gaming PC Parts discussion thread.
« Last post by tp4tissue on Fri, 18 July 2025, 06:29:26 »
Of course, just a month after building my computer, the 5070 TI I bought is $110 cheaper as of yesterday. And my CPU is about $20 cheaper now.

Consumer confidence is in the pewwps.
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