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Off Topic / Re: What's Bothering You? (The thread about what is bothering you.)
« Last post by noisyturtle on Sun, 06 July 2025, 20:48:41 »
My great shame is I have never been able to learn how to use chopsticks. It is so extremely frustrating to me, the entire rest of the World can easily figure it out naturally, but my stupid invalid hands just cannot do it. I've probably tried to learn 100s of times, and it just does not make any sense to me how people close and have control over the top stick. Plus they give me terrible hand cramps in seconds of holding them.
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Off Topic / Re: dey'gon'git'Drumph'dis'tine'o'no?
« Last post by kurplop on Sun, 06 July 2025, 20:48:35 »
Trump has already signed a disaster declaration. I don’t know what else he can do until the rains subside. His past actions in states hit by catastrophes has been to get in as soon as possible. Of course then people accuse him of grandstanding.
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Interest Checks / Re: [IC] MW Dim Sum | GB EXTENDED 16 JUNE 2025
« Last post by nessasaurus on Sun, 06 July 2025, 20:19:27 »
UPDATE 7/6/25

Hi everyone, sorry for the lack of updates recently. I've been super busy the past two months and some of the vendors unfortunately took a lot longer than anticipated to submit final order quantities. Also, the GB thread that I have now attempted to upload three times never got approved on Geekhack so I'll just be sharing updates here :/ I'm hoping to finalize numbers with MW this coming week now that I've settled down in my new place and I'll keep everyone posted! Thanks for your patience thus far if you've purchased a set :)
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Off Topic / Re: dey'gon'git'Drumph'dis'tine'o'no?
« Last post by fohat.digs on Sun, 06 July 2025, 20:06:12 »
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/7/6/2331945/-So-Texas-is-a-Sh-tHole-state-that-s-incapable-of-Emergency-Management

And that golf ratio has always been pretty consistent.

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Other Geeky Stuff / What is your optimal monitor size?
« Last post by noisyturtle on Sun, 06 July 2025, 19:02:25 »
I've currently got a 27" for my main screen and lately I feel like it is slightly too small.
I'm not sure if 32" would even be that much of a size difference, but at the same time I am worried about desk footprint and anything in the 40" range seens like it might be too big at an arms length away from your face.

What is your optimal size and distance/setup?
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Off Topic / Re: dey'gon'git'Drumph'dis'tine'o'no?
« Last post by noisyturtle on Sun, 06 July 2025, 18:34:39 »
A national tragedy and state of emergency in Texas with 66+ dead, homes destroyed, 22 school children washed away, and still nearly 30 more missing.

What does Trump do? He goes golfing.

Out of 167 days in office, Trump has spent 38 days golfing. That is nearly 25% of his serving time. Costing the American taxpayers apprx. $30million so far.
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Off Topic / Re: The 2025 Republican Wealth Bill is Much Worse Than 2017
« Last post by tp4tissue on Sun, 06 July 2025, 17:28:11 »
Quote from: fohat.digs on Sun, 06 July 2025, 17:23:33
Quote from: Rob27shred on Sun, 06 July 2025, 16:22:11
It's just something I couldn't knowingly do with the state of affairs in the world. especially now

This is something that breaks my heart anew every time I hear it, which has been for years and at a constantly increasing rate.

From my perspective, it is exactly the type of people who say that who would probably make the best parents - people who would raise thinking caring children who would endeavor to keep our world from destroying itself.


Only a very small percentage of humans are even intelligent, and they can only achieve a high-level of empathy GIVEN enormous energy surplus traded towards exposure to education, ontop of serendipitous connection to positive ecological training.

This is likely NOT in the cards for the future.  We're headed into gigafamines, peasantry, hoarding of salt, and a nu(lr wasteland from melted down fuel pools.

All of this is 100% locked in, because the energy economy is contracting rapidly.

People in America tends to think, when is the "collapse" going to happen "TO ME."  When it's already happened to many other countries, Much of Africa, Large swaths of India/ Middle east.

We're knee-deep in collapse.


Look at what the average human is exposed to through Capitalism,  make money, so you can buy skins, and the person with the most skins is considered the winner, of what, of having the most skins.

This is fundamentally the entirety of our culture, house-> bigger house (the skin), clothing-> more clothing (skins), food-> rare food (skins).


The vast majority of humans, perhaps, we can say they're intelligent, but they are certainly NOT WISE.  They are basic as hell, and follow a set of simple instincts.  Buy skins, attract mate, mate, die.

We were never designed to think in 100-1000 year terms.

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Off Topic / Re: The 2025 Republican Wealth Bill is Much Worse Than 2017
« Last post by fohat.digs on Sun, 06 July 2025, 17:23:33 »
Quote from: Rob27shred on Sun, 06 July 2025, 16:22:11
It's just something I couldn't knowingly do with the state of affairs in the world. especially now

This is something that breaks my heart anew every time I hear it, which has been for years and at a constantly increasing rate.

From my perspective, it is exactly the type of people who say that who would probably make the best parents - people who would raise thinking caring children who would endeavor to keep our world from destroying itself.
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Off Topic / Re: The 2025 Republican Wealth Bill is Much Worse Than 2017
« Last post by Rob27shred on Sun, 06 July 2025, 16:22:11 »
Quote from: fohat.digs on Sun, 06 July 2025, 11:42:42
Quote from: Rob27shred on Sun, 06 July 2025, 10:30:21
for me to ever want to have kids & sentence my lineage to what may be

My kids are the greatest part of my life and I could hardly imagine them not existing. We (too) often talk about the state of the world and the future, yet they (unlike many members of younger generations) don't "blame" those of us who came before, ie the last few hundreds of generations of their ancestors - but most especially their parents - for the accumulating cataclysm of **** that is crashing down around us.

They accept that everyone has to play the cards that they are dealt, and that there is more beauty and awesomeness in the world than anyone can experience in a lifetime - so it is up to them to seek out beauty and inspiration rather than wallow in self-pity.

I have asked them, very specifically, "Do you think that we did the right thing in bringing you into the world?" and they were very enthusiastically glad to exist, even though they have certainly had their low places.

 
Quote from: Rob27shred on Sun, 06 July 2025, 10:46:07
I went to school with a kid who's dad was the head coach of our HS football team.


It is quite amusing but sad for me to listen to the kerfuffle of Drumpf's war, absolute obsession of fury, against Harvard University (specifically), with hardly any of the news outlets providing the simple background.

Harvard turned Baron Trump down for admission - this is all just a ludicrous temper tantrum for revenge.

On your first point, I am very glad to hear you & your kids think of it that way. You're not wrong, just to me I feel like we might see the break of our current civilization in our lifetime let alone our children's. After having a pregnancy scare with an ex GF years ago I came to the conclusion kids are not something I want to actively pursue after having a very long think about things. If it were to happen I'd for sure love them & care for them the best I could, also I'm sure I'd be very happy & proud of having them in my life. It's just something I couldn't knowingly do with the state of affairs in the world. especially now compared to then. On your second point I agree 100% it's the anthropomorphic orange's way of revenge since they turned him down. I really don't think that thing has any boundaries & scares the living **** out of me. You can tell he's just itching to spark off some crazy war so he play with the shiny toys before he misses that opportunity. At least that's how I think he is thinking about the military. 
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Off Topic / Re: The 2025 Republican Wealth Bill is Much Worse Than 2017
« Last post by fohat.digs on Sun, 06 July 2025, 13:54:33 »
Quote from: Leslieann on Sun, 06 July 2025, 13:21:12
they know these kids applied to almost every big league school

entitled people screaming

How many other schools did Baron apply to?

My guess that both sides were all in on the Kabuki theater.

Drumph was in it exclusively for the bragging rights (although I think that Baron might have gone there just for the raw "prestige" of it).

My guess is that Harvard admissions might have wanted to "thumb its nose" at that repugnant buffoon.
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