riskable

I think it's part of a, "stabilizer diet"

I highly recommend not eating your keyboard. The most commonly-used macros probably taste like finger cheese.

Forget small phones... I want bigger phones! Why do we keep making phones that appear to be made to appease people with small pockets‽

Bigger screens are better! Give me a great big tri-fold phone with a week-long battery (as long as it's under 10lbs it won't be a problem!). Actually, fuck that: Where are our backpack phones? We used to have them in WW2 and now we have the technology to make them even better!

I want the power to unfurl my monster phone to turn it into a portable 3-monitor gaming rig. Make it run regular Linux too so I can actually automate things and decide where I want to store my stuff (not in Google or Apple's clouds!).

Actually, the remedy Social Security needs is to remove the income cap. Elon Musk pays just as much into social security as I do: ~$10,900

It's because there's a cap: $176,100. Once you earn that much in income you don't have to pay into social security anymore! It's ridiculous!

Basically, the richer you are, the less you're paying into social security as a percentage of your income. It's the opposite of progressive (just like HSAs).

Remove the cap and people like Musk will be paying millions into Social Security every year. It'll make it solvent again in no time at all.

I do believe the requirement is that you just need to be specific. Republicans generally suck all around right now so that's a valid statement.

However, if you're going to complain about Democrats you need to say something like, "the leadership sucks" or, "there's too many rich people influencing the party!"

That's been my experience so far 🤷

It's a lot simpler than that: Texas has a HUGE oil and natural gas industry lobby that views wind and solar as existential threats.

Oil & gas is mostly consolidated and lobbies under just a few really powerful firms. Wind and solar don't have a lobbying arm with that kind of power. It's too dispersed with too many disperate entities that don't view themselves as being on the same team.

It's just another way that money in politics corrupts everything. Even though there's more players in the solar and wind markets the oil & gas industry has a lot more money to throw around at lobbying.

Go with a Nintendo Switch controller that works with PC like:

https://a.co/d/6cxE7qn (~$20)

There's dozens and dozens of them and I've never had a problem with any of them. They all seem to just "magically work".

The most confusing thing is USB C since it can be both an input and an output simultaneously. For both data and power.

Example: You can have a USB C hub that accepts a USB C Power Delivery input (say, 120W) that also powers the device it's plugged into and simultaneously acts as a Power Delivery device to any USB C PD-accepting devices plugged into the hub.

Each port will usually have a power limit. For example, one port (the one meant to plug into a PC/laptop) may be limited to provide 100W while the others can each supply 20W but only if they are not used to provide power to another port at the same time.

So you could have a 100W port and say, two 20W ports but if you plug in a 20W PD device into one of those 20W ports you won't be able to use the other port for 20W.

...but that's just the start of the complexity! Your USB C hub could also support various extensions to USB C like 4k Display support. But usually only one of the ports will support connecting a display. Furthermore, for that to work you need the PC-connecting port to be plugged into a USB C port on the PC that also supports that extension.

So you could buy a really fancy USB C hub but find out that because your PC's USB C port doesn't work with displays. Or that the hub only supplies PD power to the PC-connected port but not the other ports (which is fucking annoying... That happened to me).

...but wait, there's more! Some USB hubs (not just C) support all kinds of things like serial ports, Ethernet, sound inputs/outputs, and stranger things. Some hubs on the market will ship with a power supply that doesn't actually provide enough juice to power all those built-in peripherals at once! So even though the hardware supports it, you may still need to buy a 3rd party power supply that can supply say, 150W of power.

I'm waiting for the day when we get USB C hubs with Power-over-Ethernet support. That's going to be the next level of crazy.

S-class communities are elite!

I'm sure it's got sodium and nitrogen in it 🤷

"You know what this dish is missing? The taste of expired beer that was collected, dripping from a dumpster behind a seafood restaurant."