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Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock

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Post by erxam »

smackeyacky wrote: post #204
rootusrootus wrote: post #149

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I will dare to admit aloud that I think maybe the founders were making a rational choice when they decided that only certain citizens would have the right to vote. As awful as that sounds, there are halfway decent arguments in favor. Maybe not just restricting to white wealthy landowners, but sometimes I do wonder if we would benefit from a filter that adequately screens for people 1) with real skin in the game and 2…

The answer isn’t less voters, it’s more. Australia’s compulsory voting system has successfully taken the edge off extremist ideology.

Not quite sure this works out as nicely as that. Argentina has both compulsory voting and a legal voting age of 16 and it managed to produce Javier Milei (who makes Trump look like Kissinger).

What's the best way to have a sane system? I'm not sure. I personally lost all faith in democracy.

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Post by amatecha »

FreezingKeeper wrote: post #220
Joel_Mckay wrote: post #210

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The simple line-conditioners were surprisingly effective, and are a fraction of the cost of lab/medical grade galvanic isolation ferroresonant transformers. =3

What’s with the ‘cock and balls’ emoticon?

welcome to the internet, sometimes people make smiley faces :)

Re: Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock

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Post by erxam »

rootusrootus wrote: post #149
karmakurtisaani wrote: post #104

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Even the nation's #1 dingleberry Joe Rogan is now turning against Trump. Would be a great time for folks to start admitting they fell for it again.

I will dare to admit aloud that I think maybe the founders were making a rational choice when they decided that only certain citizens would have the right to vote. As awful as that sounds, there are halfway decent arguments in favor. Maybe not just restricting to white wealthy landowners, but sometimes I do wonder if we would benefit from a filter that adequately screens for people 1) with real skin in the game and 2…

The problem is what to do with those people who can't vote. At worst, they'll rise up in arms and create an ever bigger mess.

If you're not into social and demographic engineering, then you're going to face a real problem.

My solution would be to get it over with and shoot everyone who disagrees with the system I'm trying to build. It sounds childish but it does actually genuinely work. It has been put in practice in so many places it's easy to lose count.

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Post by remus »

SlightlyLeftPad wrote: post #160
randerson wrote: post #150

I've developed a new fear of my 2025 desktop PC being damaged by a power surge or something, because it would cost at least $2K more to replace than I paid for it, assuming I can even find parts now. Compared to the rest of my adult life when I used to secretly pray for something to fail so I would have a reason to upgrade.

Silver lining: literally all Macs are a total steal right now.

I mean they're still expensive, they just seem relatively good value because everything else has gotten more expensive.

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Post by Joel_Mckay »

FreezingKeeper wrote: post #220
Joel_Mckay wrote: post #210

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The simple line-conditioners were surprisingly effective, and are a fraction of the cost of lab/medical grade galvanic isolation ferroresonant transformers. =3

What’s with the ‘cock and balls’ emoticon?

Don't worry about it =3

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Post by ceejayoz »

jason_s wrote: post #198
hrmtst93837 wrote: post #118

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after what kind of shutdown?

If the helium gets warm, you have to vent it outside before it goes kaboom from the pressure.

https://radiology.ucsf.edu/patient-care/patient-safety/mri-s...

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Post by renewiltord »

nDRDY wrote: post #97

Somewhat tangential question - for the "Just Stop Oil" folks - is it the extraction of oil that is the problem, or the burning of it? If the former, then we have an opportunity to investigate more renewable sources.

Well primarily the goal is to ensure that we don't build any homes for people or any clean energy. There's a reason a group of people funded by an oil heir are anti-nuclear.
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