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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, 12:02:25 »
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.

Of course, THEY'RE glad, this is the absolute BEST TIME to be alive, especially in America.

With very little actual labor,  we get to eat food, and heck go on vacation 2 weeks a year.  Oh you can splitter splatter on a keyboard and money just comes out?, whaaaaa....   Ask anyone in the last 10,000 years, how many people were able to not break a literal sweat and get "fed" by society.

There is no doubt this IS the best time to be alive. 

Tp4's point is, this time is very short.  And it's about to end CATASTROPHICALLY.


Below is world energy use, Peak oil is around 2018, we're past it.  The yellow line is the rough expectation.

The Graph Left bottom is your typical mining depletion graph, and the bottom right is the exponential increase in COST, you go from cheap easily mine-able material, to increasingly more and more difficult to amortize plays.

We've exhausted all of the easy to get oil, we're down to the last drop of economically feasible (EROI) of oil. This is also the case with MANY critical minerals.

That is to say, what's happening, is that, EVEN IF there is more stuff in the ground, it's NOT in a condition (low concentration) that it would be POSITIVE economically to GET IT.

For example, we used to be able to find giant Nuggets of Copper just like nuggets of GOLD,  NOW, we have to grind up entire mountains of copper ore, to get copper.

You would spend MORE ENERGY to get the difficult-Oil than that oil is worth.  The knock on effect of energy pricing across ALL markets is Armageddon relative to what a person might expect "Life To Be Like."


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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, 11:46:21 »
"The crypto industry and Donald Trump are one House vote away from pulling off the biggest financial grift in a generation. After ramming the so-called GENIUS Act through the Senate, crypto billionaires are pressuring Congress to pass it before anyone realizes what it really does by legalizing stablecoins with virtually no safeguards and paving the way for Trump to profit directly from a private currency that bears his name.

The GENIUS Act is crypto industry propaganda wrapped in a bill. It’s been crafted, not to protect consumers or modernize finance, but to help Donald Trump and his billionaire backers rig the system in their favor. This is corruption plain and simple, written in legalese to fool the public and enrich the powerful.

And while the public is still trying to figure out what “stablecoin” even means, House Republicans are lining up a second bill, the deceitfully named CLARITY Act, that would actually make crypto regulation less clear. This bill includes exemptions that could lead to another FTX-style collapse, threaten national security, and enshrine Trump’s crypto con into law.
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- Patrick Woodhall 2025-07-05
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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, 11:42:42 »
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.

 
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.


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Interest Checks / Re: [IC] Molly60
« Last post by vhaarr on Sun, 06 July 2025, 11:31:43 »
Who are you?

How do you know nlandkeys or Aregs?

How did you get the CAD files for these designs?

Who is the primary vendor?
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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, 10:46:07 »
LLann is talking about academic performance, while it is correlated with Intelligence, test beating can be trained, so it's not universally indicative of high intelligence.

I'm saying they have a leg up by being able to afford better schools and network with other wealthy which makes them seem smarter. For example, who's smarter, the Harvard grad or the community college grad? Is the Harvard grad smarter or did they just have the money and connections to get in?

I've met enough multi-millionaires and seen enough B.S. from these billionaires to know they aren't smarter, they simply have money and connections. In fact quite a few I've met were actually not smart at all.

This I'll 100% agree with as we've all seen it first hand whether we realize it or not. Actual intelligence is pretty low on the list of things needed to find your way to wealth, while your lot in life & who you are connected to are the top two things that will designate your chances of accumulating wealth. I'll make a simple analogy we should all be able to relate too. I went to school with a kid who's dad was the head coach of our HS football team. Even though we had plenty of players who were not only physical better, but smarter than him, he always got the starting spot in whatever position he wanted while playing under his dad. He also got a full ride scholarship to college even though his football skills did not translate to the collegiate level (dude never even started a game in his 4 years) thanks to his dad's connections. Then from there was able to float his way into a decently high paying white collar job despite being dumb as a rock & possessing the bare minimum of skills/knowledge for the job he took. That's the world we live in, actual intelligence & skill does not help you whatsoever when you have nepotism running so rampant. In fact it's probably one of the biggest reason the US's standing in the world has & continues to slip farther away from being the world leaders we once were.
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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, 10:30:21 »
You go to the bank, you borrow money.

Bank notes your asset, and the liability of that asset.  THAT is money, instant money out of thin air.

This is how all central banks bring money from Non-existent to Existent.


That is to say, money is entirely fake. There is no true store of value whatsoever.  Neither is Gold a store of value, Gold/Silver is more/less like the original Bitcoin.


That's just the accounting, and political/power structure of our system, it's a ledger, NOTHING MORE. 


We are SPENDING -Finite-Energy-,  the Fatty Black Oil/Coal/Gas mother-nature LEFT for us, the inheritance, we can't make more, Renewables are greenwashing, they are NOT renewable, and they only make electricity, which can not replace the role of oil/gas/coal in the existing economic tech tree, the example given prior, asphalt/concrete/all plastics, you need fossil fuel to make..


What that ledger accounts for, the other side, is the REAL WORLD.  For the ledger to be net positive, we have to DO STUFF in the real world.

ALL STUFF that humans do, at the moment, is consumptive, Energy Intensive, and the majority of which, WASTEFUL.


Driving a 4000lb steel box around, just to move 1.5 person because they're too fat/lazy to walk is absolutely RIDICULOUS, and that model, is what every human being aspires to "DO" with "MONEY".


It's a hopeless and DIRE situation. 


TP tends to forget one thing, he's partaking in all he speaks against. While I don't completely disagree with your take on it I'll at least admit while the system is broken it is a system that we can (for now, probably not much longer) live in comfortably. While we may have not created these problems every single one of us are complicit with them, so not trying to be a ****, but you're points come off to me as "the pot calling the kettle black" especially considering your favorite place to air your grievances are an online forum. Can't get much more wasteful with energy than using it to yell into the void IMHO. Also I think you are greatly underestimating humans ingenuity. Sure we're definitely gonna ruin the planet for ourselves (again I argue that the earth & life on it will just be fine regardless of what we do), but there is also the very slight possibility we do find our way into space proper & find alternative ways to feed our need for energy. Lets not forget all matter is energy & that energy can be unlocked (see nuclear weapons). So unlike you I do see some kernels of hope in the wasteland we've been creating. Granted not enough of them for me to ever want to have kids & sentence my lineage to what may be if we don't get our **** together, but if I can still see ways out our situation I'm sure the brightest minds can see that many more. Ultimately though those decisions have been ripped from the hands of mankind as a whole & put into the hands of the worst of us. That is the main reason I have little hope for a prosperous future, as history has shown time & time again that those in power will always choose what is best for them in that moment, not what is best for humanity as whole & going forward, let alone taking the earth & it's ecosystems into consideration. You gotta learn to look at the whole picture TP, not just focus in on the worst of it.
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Interest Checks / Re: [IC] Molly60
« Last post by Marina Liu on Sun, 06 July 2025, 10:20:06 »
what's the relation of this project to the Molly60 by Aregs Keyboard[https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=120432.0]? at first i thought this was an r2 or maybe a shared design, at least in the top of the keyboard... but i can't find a formal connection between the designs nor runners... please excuse my ignorance if i'm missing something here.
Thanks for your question, there are some differences on the structures between V1 and V2.
V1 : top case+ bottom case, spray painted, gas structure.
V2:  O-ring structure
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Off Topic / Re: The 2025 Republican Wealth Bill is Much Worse Than 2017
« Last post by Leslieann on Sun, 06 July 2025, 10:05:55 »
LLann is talking about academic performance, while it is correlated with Intelligence, test beating can be trained, so it's not universally indicative of high intelligence.

I'm saying they have a leg up by being able to afford better schools and network with other wealthy which makes them seem smarter. For example, who's smarter, the Harvard grad or the community college grad? Is the Harvard grad smarter or did they just have the money and connections to get in?

I've met enough multi-millionaires and seen enough B.S. from these billionaires to know they aren't smarter, they simply have money and connections. In fact quite a few I've met were actually not smart at all.
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Interest Checks / Re: [IC] Syrin TKL - An HHKB TKL?
« Last post by ClickClack.io on Sun, 06 July 2025, 08:43:32 »
The solder PCB looks like it doesn't support the HHKB (right winkey missing), is that an error or is HHKB only hotswap? That would suck since split right shift is solder only on your design.
Also would love to see 6u spacebar for true HHKB.

The solder image has been updated to reflect the correct layout!
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