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Off Topic / Re: The 2025 Republican Wealth Bill is Much Worse Than 2017
« Last post by Rob27shred on Sat, 05 July 2025, 10:21:45 »
Crossing ecological boundaries isn't Instant-Death.

It's a growing agony when the system we're used to falls apart.

Energy prices will be between 6-10x what it is now.  The entirety of the current accounting system which counts land assets will fail.

Most of us will live like peasants. The middle class will be desolved.

Air conditioners will exist, but the vaste majority will not be able to afford running them.

This is not dramatic, this is within a 30 year projection.  The EROI of oil which underpins modern society has reduced rapidly. 2.5x the wells, but our production rate is still falling.



We are very near the end.


That's my point exactly WE are at risk, not the planet or life itself.
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Off Topic / Re: The 2025 Republican Wealth Bill is Much Worse Than 2017
« Last post by fohat.digs on Sat, 05 July 2025, 10:14:59 »

the system we're used to falls apart.


This is the crux of the matter.

A meter of sea level rise will severely disrupt modern civilization as we know it. A few degrees of warming will turn vast swaths of farm land into desert.

Our planet will have a very difficult task supporting 8 billion people.

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Off Topic / Re: This year may be biblical
« Last post by fohat.digs on Sat, 05 July 2025, 10:07:59 »

Texas flood.


The river rose 26 feet in 45 minutes. Whoa! Hard to even imagine.

Having experienced a couple of flood events firsthand in my lifetime, and evaluating the aftermath of a flood in my stint with FEMA, I have made it a policy to always live on a hill.
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Off Topic / Re: The 2025 Republican Wealth Bill is Much Worse Than 2017
« Last post by tp4tissue on Sat, 05 July 2025, 09:57:36 »
Crossing ecological boundaries isn't Instant-Death.

It's a growing agony when the system we're used to falls apart.

Energy prices will be between 6-10x what it is now.  The entirety of the current accounting system which counts land assets will fail.

Most of us will live like peasants. The middle class will be desolved.

Air conditioners will exist, but the vaste majority will not be able to afford running them.

This is not dramatic, this is within a 30 year projection.  The EROI of oil which underpins modern society has reduced rapidly. 2.5x the wells, but our production rate is still falling.



We are very near the end.
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Off Topic / Re: The 2025 Republican Wealth Bill is Much Worse Than 2017
« Last post by Rob27shred on Sat, 05 July 2025, 09:50:32 »
They're not thinking. But thinking isn't the problem.

They have a set of requirements as figureheads of "a system" of encumbrance.

The system "rewards" growth,  is "blind" to energy costs, and completely disregard "ecological damage", which by definition is uncounted and therefore invisible to "the economy".


There is only 1 outcome to this system, As is.

A living tree
A living whale
Clean Air

None of these things are priced for.  So we live now at the tail end of a dead planet, a dead ocean, and unbreathable pollution.


You really got a flair for the dramatic you know that TP... Honestly you are dead wrong here, sure we're definitely not doing our due diligence as humans to protect Earth but think about all the planet & life has survived before we were even close to evolving. If they can survive massive meteoroid impacts, flood basalts, the complete chemical remake of the atmosphere, etc. I think it'll do just fine with whatever we can throw at it. The planet & life itself will be around long after we've wiped ourselves out. I am not condoning the damage we have done to the planet & it's ecosystems that are currently around, but I am pointing out the fact that you are grossly overstating what the fall out of humans on this planet will be. At this point we really don't know how much or how little of climate change is due to our activities, we just know we're contributing to the changes we are seeing. Let's not forget even right now we're still technically at the end of the last ice age & Earth has been historically way hotter than it is right now, that the oxygen we breathe was an extinction level event for most life on the planet when it was made by the first life that used photosynthesis, etc. I honestly doubt we could do enough damage before wiping ourselves out to effect the planet & life on it for more than a few hundred years.
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Off Topic / Re: The 2025 Republican Wealth Bill is Much Worse Than 2017
« Last post by tp4tissue on Sat, 05 July 2025, 09:04:16 »
They're not thinking. But thinking isn't the problem.

They have a set of requirements as figureheads of "a system" of encumbrance.

The system "rewards" growth,  is "blind" to energy costs, and completely disregard "ecological damage", which by definition is uncounted and therefore invisible to "the economy".


There is only 1 outcome to this system, As is.

A living tree
A living whale
Clean Air

None of these things are priced for.  So we live now at the tail end of a dead planet, a dead ocean, and unbreathable pollution.
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Off Topic / Re: The 2025 Republican Wealth Bill is Much Worse Than 2017
« Last post by Rob27shred on Sat, 05 July 2025, 08:36:10 »
Whoops my pressed the wrong thing on my phone & accidently quoted myself...
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Off Topic / Re: The 2025 Republican Wealth Bill is Much Worse Than 2017
« Last post by Rob27shred on Sat, 05 July 2025, 08:35:40 »
Doomsday bunkers don't work.

The problem is the "Wealthy" aren't much smart than the average.  They're only slightly smarter, + the luck in their corner.



Even with that luck, our species cognition is 5-10 years. No one has a 100 year plan, and yet all the problems humanity faces require 100-1000 year solutions.

It takes 10,000 years to reverse 4m of sea level rise, AT, PRE-Industrial Co2 levels.


That is to say, it's pretty much over.


Wasn't arguing that they'll work or are the play to save themselves, just saying what the uber wealthy are probably thinking.
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Well I've got a Leopold FC660C with the standard keycap color (beige/grey?) and I've got two full sized Realforce boards, one in the older (104UWS), larger frame (variable silenced switches) and one that's the newer, slightly more compact format (55g non-silenced) that I'd sell if they appeal at all to you.  Just let me know and I'll post pics.
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Keyboards / Re: Vintage keyboard- not working
« Last post by fohat.digs on Sat, 05 July 2025, 07:59:45 »

Unfortunately, I get a message "Forbidden" when I try to post an image.


This has been going on for a month or more. Really sucks.

Dell AT101 is a good solid keyboard. I have transplanted better switches into them and been very pleased.

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