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And the market rout continues. Down and down she goes, where she stops nobody knows.

I'm already liberated from my 401K, IRAs, etc. Down over 30% since Trump took office. If this keeps up Trump will solve global warming. The breeze from all the stockbrokers jumping out the windows will cool the planet down. :ROFLMAO:

My brother redid the brake lines on two of his cars with stainless steel himself. He ordered stainless steel line and a flaring tool. Now he'll never have to worry about the brake lines rusting.

Bringing nukes into it is basically a mutually assured destruction scenario. Nobody wins. The USSR had a civil war which broke it up and nukes weren't used. If we can secure a peaceful splitting of the country in two or three pieces even better. They don't like us anyway, so why would they want...

Because it's harder to maintain control in a country where at least 60% don't want them in power. We're fast heading towards a civil war. Despite the bravado of Trump and his followers, they will come up on the losing side if that happens.

Here's my solution to the problem: 1) Denmark gives Greenland to the US subject to #2 to #4. 2) Trump and all his MAGA supporters are deported to Greenland and lose their US citizenship. 3) Trump can become King, Emperor, Fuhrer or whatever he cares to call himself of Greenland. 4) Greenland is...

All this is going exactly as I predicted. We're going to destroy the planet, make workers virtual slaves, treat women and girls like property, all so a few billionaires can become richer. We have to stop this by any means necessary.

I wonder if Trump or Musk even have a driver's license?

I wonder how this will play with Trump's base who thinks electric cars are the spawn of satan.

That's terrible. Also, anyone having work done on their home should be careful. I had my roof done in January. I was genuinely worried ICE would show up and cart the workers off right in the middle of the job. Being that I went with a big company, I'm sure they were all legal, but that won't...

I think that has to be a record of sorts. Even Hitler didn't lose his goodwill that fast. The fact so many people believed Trump's lies speaks to how bad our education system is. His base is going to be the ones suffering the most from his shortsighted policies. I'm going to be using the words...

I'm honestly hoping the EU declares war on us if we withdraw from NATO. It'll be worth it just to see the dumbfounded looks on his MAGA supporters. "But I thought he was going to bring peace." Last I checked the price of groceries is still high. But we're talking about making Gaza into a resort...

I haven't been following stuff lately but that sounds like a game changer. 16 cores, 40 CUs, AND 128GB of memory. I've been saying for a long time AMD should put dedicated memory on their APUs. I guess the chip would attempt to cache the most frequently used stuff in the on-chip RAM, and use...

Speaking of Lunar, he hasn't posted in a while. Do you know if he's OK?

I'd probably just ship my luggage to a UPS store near my final destination where they can hold it until I get there. All this lost luggage stuff honestly sounds like yet more reasons to just take Amtrak if I ever start traveling.

I second Mercutio's sentiments. :cry:

Cars in NYC generally always cause more problems than they solve, starting with finding where to park them. Lots of reasons why I never owned one, even though I have a driveway to park it.

Didn't you tell her driving in Manhattan is slower than walking? Real NYers never drive into Manhattan. Besides being the most congested place in the US by a large margin, it also has the greatest public transit system by far. The only parking in Manhattan is insanely expensive garages.

Can you still go to Canada without a passport these days? I only went there once, in 1973, to Montreal, with my parents and siblings. Actually that was the only time I was ever out of the country.

I'm aware the date of manufacture matters also. The 2.88 MB format didn't really catch on but I wonder if the early versions of those were also reliable, or if the bit density was just too high. The larger problem with floppies was that their mechanism for finding a track was purely mechanical...

My thought about USB drives failing is if your carry them around you build up static charge while walking, especially on a carpet. Touch the drive before discharging yourself and you may well cause it to fail. Probably the USB drives with metal cases would be much better protected. I actually...

To be fair most average people in the US can't ditch a personal vehicle because of development patterns and lack of public transit. Suburbia was arguably the biggest, most costly mistake of the 20th century which will take decades to fix. Of course these high profile people should ditch the...

Clean means when it's making energy it's not emitting pollution. Of course there's an energy cost to make anything, be it wind turbines, solar panels, batteries, EVs, etc. Overall though these things are far cleaner than burning fossil fuels. It's always better to repair than replace if...

China is making $10K EVs. If Trump removed the tariffs and allowed them to be imported they would sell like hotcakes. The major reason we're having trouble electrifying is our insistence on clinging to ridiculously sized vehicles which need 3 to 5 times the battery and electricity to go any...

Oil is yesterday's news. The country should be moving towards renewables. How did Trump's attempt to revive the coal industry in his first term go? Coal isn't economically viable any more. Oil won't be within a decade, either. Drilling new wells is a huge investment which oil companies won't...

The 1933 reference is more about how Hitler was able to become a dictator in a democracy than about what followed. We're already in the process of this happening less than two weeks into the new administration. If our checks and balances don't hold, Trump will likely be President for life. He...

Interesting stuff about XXY. There's also XYY. There's even XXX, and in this case it has nothing to do with porn. One common theme with MAGAs, and in general any type of authoritarian, is their black and white world view. Besides gender, truth is none of us fit neatly into any prepackaged...

I didn't know anyone was even still making single pane windows now, much less that a building owner would be dumb enough to install them. Really, that's Trump level stupidity. Now to mention I'm pretty sure it's illegal under the building codes virtually everywhere in the country. Nowadays 3...

Very nice picture! Regarding the windows, cellular shades (the double cell type) would help. Or if you don't care about light get 1" foam insulation board and put it in front of the window. Surprised new windows would be worse. Are there any air leaks? Sounds like it could be a botched...

Lots of parts of the south got more snow than NYC had. And there were blizzard warnings also. This is a first in my lifetime. Reminds me of the movie The Day After Tomorrow.

After hearing Trump's inauguration speech I was reminded of this: Grand Moff Tarkin : The Imperial Senate will no longer be of any concern to us. I've just received word that the Emperor has dissolved the council permanently. The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.

That basically means anyone roughly 80 or older stands a good chance of dying of natural causes. The rest of us will be killed off by disease, famine, natural disasters, war, etc. Pretty depressing. I hope we change course. Merc's post illustrates exactly the reason why tax laws should make...

This is semi-relevant to the discussion: https://www.yahoo.com/news/end-world-know-theorist-warns-150030341.html Forget 300 years. What we do in probably the next 10 or 20 will decide our fate on one of two paths. I strongly feel it'll either be Mad Max or Star Trek, without much in between...

Same thing with the ongoing hysteria about how dangerous the subway is. I took the subways to high school and college from 1977 through 1985. The earlier part of that period especially is when statistically subway crime reached all time highs not seen since. I sometimes passed through the Port...

Look. I respect that. My parents refused to leave NYC when things started going bad in the 1970s. They figured eventually it would turn around, which it did. Hopefully this too will pass. Before it does, I suspect Democrats are going to learn to love guns. Harsh language won't stop the Trump...

I guess I took the part of your post about divorce out of context. Glad she's never married. It's better if you both have a similar experience level in that area. And yes, the way things are going in the US, find a way to tie up up your affairs here, then run, don't walk, to Canada. If you can...

What I find interesting is prices for things like a PIC16F628A are way higher than microcontrollers presumably built on smaller nodes with much greater capabilities, like the PIC16F18046. 3.5kB program memory, 224 bytes RAM versus 28 kB program memory, 2kB RAM, plus a whole bunch of peripheral...

Wow, so she married really young by today's standards. I guess context is everything. I can understand a divorce if you're beaten or otherwise abused. Barring that, it tends to raise some questions. I've been alone all my adult life really, so I have to be OK with it at this point. Honest truth...

I don't mean the growing up baggage everyone has. I mean the kind they have just by virtue of having kids or being in many prior failed relationships, perhaps even prior failed marriages. If a person has kids from a prior partnership, you're going to be second fiddle to them. And I fully...

Japan is at the forefront of the aging crisis, with Italy not far behind. Both groups tend to live long to start with going by genetics. Add in medical science and they're living even longer. We're facing a shortage of both medical personnel and caretakers. Japan is actively working on robots to...

Going by that rule I'm good down to a 38 year old partner. I want younger for several reasons, including not having baggage like a prior marriage, or especially children.

In which direction? Is she the older one? We're you uncoupled just a few months ago? This happened pretty fast. I'm not one to pursue people myself. That could be both good and bad.

I'm surprised people still bring up age gaps these days. It's only a number. You and your partner are only one generation apart, same as your grandparents. It's different if you're maybe 40 or 50 years apart. At that point a young person could be faced being a caretaker for their aging partner...

Unfortunately, at least once my ribs fully heal, I'll be among the few who could probably get through basic training. At age 62. Ditto for my brother and sister. Besides who would mind our cats if we're gone, I wouldn't relish the idea of being part of an invasion force. The last honorable war...

Everyone in the US should be worried about a draft also if he plans to invade Canada and Panama as well. During WWII the draft age was expanded to include 45 to 64 year olds.

On the bright side the cards can double as space heaters in the winter.

Belated Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all! Glad to see 2024 go. Really shitty year for me and my siblings. Mom passing away, my bike accident, my brother's bike accident, my sister having back trouble, and then Trump being elected to put the final shit topping on an awful year.

Any reason you're not considering moving with her? Is there anything keeping you in Indiana? Of course, if hot weather isn't your thing then I get not wanting to move to Florida. That's a state you couldn't pay to move to.