bradorsomething
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- Comment on What D&D alignment would my character(s) be? 2 days ago:
Dominique is showing signs of borderline personality disorder.
- Comment on Ender 3 V2 Causing Circuit Breaker to Trip (Even when PSU is flipped off!) 2 days ago:
No, large inductive loads can cause a trip. The sensor is only measuring 0.006A missing between the hot and neutral, windings can delay the neutral output.
- Comment on What D&D alignment would my character(s) be? 2 days ago:
Lawful evil or chaotic evil, depending on if that behavior is allowed in that society.
- Comment on How does the Chinese government even work 2 days ago:
Imagine China as a company. There is a board of directors, and Xi is the head of that board. The board runs a lot of lower ranking boards that control all the aspects of government operation.
Have a problem with your plumbing? Go to your local province or city board. A whole region experiencing drought? The regional board has an action plan that they impose on the local boards to implement with government regional help. Xi is responsible for steering the overarching policy of China moving forward as a country. His role is to say “make China control the South China Sea and receive deference from those countries” to the military, and then it’s there problem to figure out how to harass shipping.
You get promoted to higher boards for good work, and the board votes for its leader. Read Xi’s promotion history. I would die after that many years of office politics, myself.
- Comment on how do school shooters know how to use guns? 2 days ago:
Glad to hear you doing this. My daughter refuses to learn, but I keep telling her it’s so when the dumb boy pulls out a gun at a party, she can ask to see it, and clear the chamber, take the clip, safe it, and hand it (minus the clip) back.
- Comment on Do you think conservative feel the same need to burn it all down as everyone else felt when trump won again? 2 days ago:
Republicans aren’t conservatives since the tea party.
- Comment on The McDonald's employee who called on Luigi has never received their "reward", folks chasing the 100k for Kirk may not either... 6 days ago:
The method that totally wouldn’t have been used was to have a foreign ally in Five Eyes track all cell phones and correlate the information with security cameras. Then they share the intelligence with the US. Technically on the edge of legal but they know the shit storm if americans generally knew how surveilled they are.
- Comment on Choosing my first printer is driving me mad. 1 week ago:
Brother’s laser. They’re trying to enshittify them but they started really good
- Comment on Epstein puts my morality into perspective 1 month ago:
Her father’s funeral was attended by multiple former Mossad chiefs. It’s believed he gave israel the bomb.
I’d definitely look in that direction.
- Comment on Who's the most ridiculed POTUS of history? 2 months ago:
You can see it in his eyes as he’s about to say it… both the inevitable use on the Daily Show and the desire to strangle his speechwriter.
- Comment on YSK: Do you have documents to prove you are a US citizen? If not, here's how 2 months ago:
Also only good for ground travel. But you have to go through the same process as a passport, so they’re usually an add on to the passport.
- Comment on My world is so much better because of immigrants 2 months ago:
I’m only in mid-six figures and I’ll admit I benefit and the poor suffer. If there was no immigrant labor general goods would cost more, and I’d feel the drag paying more for what is cheaper… like I will soon when we’re all competing with dollars for a share if smaller harvests. I predict we’ll feel it hard around thanksgiving.
The only solutions locally are discovery of more economic ways to produce, or importing from cheaper parts of the world. We’ve been covering our eyes on where the chicken comes from for years, and we’re going to learn a hard lesson by going cold turkey.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
More of a slow collapse than a crash. Ever seen a dilapidated house on a country road, parts of the roof caving in, paint chipped, vines covering the yard? We’re working on being that house by slowly letting social and physical infrastructure in the US collapse over time.
- Comment on Everybody talks about beliefs like they're this big important thing. 2 months ago:
The difference between a belief and a theory is no one was ever burned at the stake disagreeing about a theory.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
20 is nice in freshly washed sheets.
- Comment on I got herpes. What can I expect? 2 months ago:
I had a friend go through this; first of all, sorry that happened to you. My understanding is that if you take your anti-virals you’ll have a pretty normal life. The concept of sex is dicey, I understand when you’re not flaring up the risk is small, but it’s still there. They have a normal relationship but avoid sex in flare ups. Be sure to talk to your partners in advance!
- Comment on How do I start a crypto wallet 2 months ago:
Crypto is shit beta now, you trade it like that. The liquidity pool is too small to handle large entry/exit.
Although I agree this is like going to vegas for him.
- Comment on Why do fancy cars look fancy and cheap cars don't? Can't you just slap a Lamborghini-style chassis onto a lawnmower engine if you want? 3 months ago:
I never want to look like something a cop will pay attention to. Better high performance in a boring sedan shell.
- Comment on Australian reporter covering Los Angeles immigration protests hit by rubber bullet on live TV 3 months ago:
Australia please send peacekeeping troops.
Just make sure you go out in 2’s because of ICE
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
In the market we call her “Nance in Advance.”
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
The most important part of it is “is there anything you’d like to admit, before we take the test?”
- Comment on YSK: Two oil brothers, Charles Koch and David Koch, attempted to purchase the entire United States Congress 3 months ago:
I believe that was a stretch goal… the common story has always been that they wanted to take over redistricting after the census, which they really did knock out of the park, catching dems flat-footed.
- Comment on ‘My Property Tax Went From $15K to a Life-Altering $91K a Year’ 3 months ago:
Probably should add 3 hurricane clips, because it’s florida.
- Comment on i truly believe that there's an open war between Humanity vs. Advertisers and their allies. 4 months ago:
I would also like to know who else is in their shower.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Trading stops at the end of day, for accounting purpose. Some traders can still access over-the-counter trades but they are not required to be reported (if I remember correctly) until sometime in the morning of the market they’re made in. You will see some price movement when London and the DAX open.
Watch futures for a good price estimate. ES for SPY and NQ for Nasdaq.
- Comment on The kerning on the pope’s tomb is a travesty 4 months ago:
Keming looks fine to me.
- Comment on How Will We Know If The Trump Tariffs Were A Good Idea? 4 months ago:
This guy does defense economics but he did a good piece on the tariffs: m.youtube.com/watch?v=nVZ1lcw2bVU
- Comment on How Will We Know If The Trump Tariffs Were A Good Idea? 4 months ago:
I have two smaller businesses, and I’ve both laid off due to expected decrease in business and bought supplies ahead due to expected shortages.
You’re good putting together that you wouldn’t build a factory right now because uncertainty doesn’t let you predict returns. Not only can you not predict the next president and their tariff policy, I wouldn’t say you can predict trump’s actions tomorrow. I heard an interview John Bolton did today, and he said something along the lines that “trump doesn’t think, he reacts.” Tariffs could be zero or 500% next month or next year or tomorrow. The safe move is to wait and see - and while everyone waits and sees, only small-scale production will start, definitely not enough to sustain demand.
Honestly, if I had the money to build a factory right now, I’d park it and wait to buy one from a company that fails in all this. It would save so much money.
- Comment on The Brits had an anthem ready for when Margaret Thatcher died. Americans should also be prepared. 4 months ago:
We could always adopt “Lizzie’s in a box”
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 4 months ago:
Assuming I’m snapped back to the same part of the earth, climate-wise that’s ideal in the US PNW coming out of spring. Plenty of berries and food to forage, and I’ll probably impress the natives with my watch and well made clothes. I can probably get the native tribes to metals, and gain acceptance with my magic hand tool that will briefly shine light at night for a few weeks. I don’t know offhand where copper would be, but I know gold is in the streams, and I know how to placer mine, so I can get some electricity going with that and magnetized rocks from lava flows.
I think first contact would be the key.