SomethingMusic
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SomethingMusic
2mo ago
Something that bothers me about the whole mechanical keyboard market is that there really is no good way to test keyboard without spending the money. It's more than what I'm willing to spend by about $100, especially if I'm going to be leaving it in an office. I might bring my current keyboard into the office and keep the new keyboard at home.
SomethingMusic
2mo ago
I'm leaning toward Keychron myself, but almost everything I heard says they still require modding after work to make them really good. Maybe their higher end models are better out of box experiences.
SomethingMusic
2mo ago
I'm starting another office job which requires a reasonable amount of typing, so instead of using the work supplied keyboard which makes me want to throw it out the window, I'm interested in what input devices everyone uses. I find my YouTube and internet searches aren't definitive, and I really don't want to spend a grotesque amount of time and money on finding the right keyboard. My current criteria are:
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I prefer linear over tactile or clicky. I hate clicky the most.
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Full size is preferred. I use the num pad for work
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Hall effect is a plus
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Minimal out of box tinkering, even if it comes at some premium.
What keyboards are you using?
SomethingMusic
2mo ago
I'd watch that show.
SomethingMusic
2mo ago
The supreme court ruling made their job harder, but there's plenty of ways to get around AA directly. They just have a harder time sorting and categorizing student essays and using plausible deniability. They have to go by application address and correlated by essay instead of a box the applicant clicks.
SomethingMusic
2mo ago
I agree, Trump had a lot of attack vectors. Debates are stressful. If your body was in full adrenaline mode, it's hard to fully concentrate and really have the calm analytical mindset. As soon as Trump is in control he dominates, but Kamala really prepared well and was able to match Trump's energy, preventing from giving him time to calm down. Having to debate the moderator as well didn't help.
SomethingMusic
2mo ago
He's a very extroverted and present focused individual, I think he probably feels emotions and slights acutely which causes him to overreact when attacked. I would argue it is a strength in many situations, but a weakness in prepared debate prep, especially when the 'moderator' is actively causing a further hassle for him.
SomethingMusic
2mo ago
Kamala got under Trump's skin. Trump had good zingers but is forced to fight against Kamala and the 'host' at the same time. The mics are live and Kamala was talking over Trump when it was Trump's turn. He should have pointed out how Kamala claimed she was the 'president of democracy and not name calling' and proceeded to name call Trump.
Trump did one of the three things he needed to do in the debate: Kamala and Biden's weakness and failure on immigration.
The other things he needed to do is remind viewers how unpopular and useless she was as Vice President and how much we wasted government tax dollars on projects which yielded nothing. If he wasn't emotionally suckered into Kamala's attacks, he would easily dominate the debate.
Kamala is performing better than I thought. Trump is performing about par compared to his other debates.
I would prefer a Trump presidency vastly compared to a Kamala presidency.
Kamals' voice is not particularly pleasant to listen to.
SomethingMusic
2mo ago
Conflating Canton with Cleveland is a misnomer, Canton is about an hour drive away and doesn't share any local government services with Cleveland . The likelihood of any significant cross pollination between impoverished Clevelanders and Cantoners(?) is pretty minimal unless Cleveland is buying a one-way bus ticket for the mentally ill.
SomethingMusic
3mo ago
You know the media's successfully pigeonholed reality when no one is mentioning that Trump was shot at and very nearly killed at a rally. Don't you think that would negatively damage ones ability to rally?
SomethingMusic
3mo ago
The larger problem is that it'll be ineffective. As you said, it really isn't enough to defray costs. Every 1st world country is running into population replacement problem, but the larger problem is sticky wages, the lack of young men willing to be fathers, the lack of infrastructure in cities for children and families, and the widespread popularity of reproductive services. Current societal standards aren't supportive for children, and the increasing selfish nature of young generations is compounding the problem. At some point throwing money at the problem isn't effective, it is the culmination of many social issues compounding into the lack of family formation.
SomethingMusic
3mo ago
Ahh ,my bad. Still pretty accurate and funny in a dark humor way.
SomethingMusic
3mo ago
SomethingMusic
3mo ago
Cash tips are generally not taxed, it's literally one of the reasons why I tip servers cash when I think the did a good job. Automated tips are taxed though, and they should because waiters can make 6 figures at a good restaurant. There's a reason why pretty much every wait staff prefers tipping over regular wages.
SomethingMusic
3mo ago
I hate 4chan but I can't stop going on it, like a bad pimple you want to pop or an awful car crash you can't look away from. Can anyone recommend me site add ons or website blocks on phones that aren't easy to circumnavigate once installed?
SomethingMusic
3mo ago
I'm still quite sad about what happened to JP. Benzos, and getting off Benzos, definitely did a number on him. His podcast isn't that bad, but dunno what's going on with his Twitter. Canada also did him really dirty and put a huge chip on his shoulder.
SomethingMusic
3mo ago
DC has the assistance of endless Federal programs pumping the city because congresspeople don't want to live in a dump. I haven't been to DC in years, but as a child I loved visiting there. At some point in adulthood I want to do a big museum tour, but I don't know when that will happen.
SomethingMusic
3mo ago
You don't need to write comments, you just need to vote. When China brainwashed American POWs in Korea, they never told them what to say. They simply rewarded them for saying the right things. The Americans invented the Communist propaganda themselves. Training people on Reddit using updoots would be the simplest thing in the world.
That actually explains modern "journalism" frighteningly well. Use capitalist incentives against your opponents by signal boosting and paying the absolute worst journalists (see the top level post below) the most money to generate the most divisive shlock.
SomethingMusic
3mo ago
SomethingMusic
3mo ago
My galaxy brained take - political parties are using AI to astroturf online spaces in coordination of superusers to dominate election discussion. Can humans really argue with AI who can output an infinite amount of shlock? AI will (or should) be this year's Cambridge Analytica. I think Republicans/Trump may be too slow to adapt with how AI transformed the internet to really understand what they're against.
After the election, party-aligned AI models will come under scrutiny and be regulated to only whomever is in control.
SomethingMusic
3mo ago
I agree that the dynamics were there before Trump, but Trump truly embodied them and brought them to the forefront of American culture war battlegrounds that wasn't as present during the Obama era.
SomethingMusic
3mo ago
I agree that there needs to be a substance for a top-level comment with a more thorough explanation of the users thesis, but I don't see how this isn't speaking plainly.
SomethingMusic
3mo ago
I believe the polling is accurate. President Trump is uniquely polarizing and is considered the catalyst that got us into the culture war dynamics of the past 8+ years. The central organization points of the 2016 Trump campaign have been banned and ostracized from the internet beyond Truth social, who supposedly has 2 million users and 600k active users (I never tried it, and it seems a pale comparison to twitter or other platforms. Even Gab supposedly has more registered and active users and I haven't tried their site since 2017 at the latest). The assassination was great PR for Trump but also obviously psychologically damaged Trump, who seems a lot more cautious of making public appearances which has been historically his greatest strength. Vice President Kamala's coordination with establishment and new corporate medias has allowed them to block out Republican messaging and boost her "Vibes based" messaging.
This is most represented by her website. Her website is devoid of everything a normal presidential run consists of. Whay are her policy positions? Interviews? Pressers? Tours? Kamala's history as a political radical has been washed from the internet. When is her last TV interview? Presser? Zoom rally? The silence has to be deliberate; anyone position she holds, or historically held, has been scoured from search engines.
President Trump needs more eyes on him for him to sway voters. Vice President Kamala needs the opposite.
SomethingMusic
3mo ago
I think there's a difference of presenting something untrue as fact and questioning someone's willingness to rebrand themselves the instant the winds change. If you interpret "Is she black" as a racial statement rather one of cultural alignment than that's your movie screen. "Is she black" is a relevant question to Black America - is she truly someone who aligns herself to the plights of impoverished Black Americans, or is she conveniently emphasizing her Blackness as a way to procure votes? It's mudslinging, sure, but also has an element of truth asking people to analyze her character beyond simple racial solidarity.
It is the Democrats who dragged Trump through the mud with legitimately false claims such as the Steele Dossier. I find Trump's 'lies', 'hyperbole', or 'political mudslinging' positively refreshing compared to the gaslighting Democrats have shown themselves willing to do on an international level for the past 8 years.
I'm surprised the number of responses that recommended split keyboards. Maybe I should look into those more closely.
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