The Panama canal has had to slash the number of ships going through it.

One of the things that really pisses me off about the older generation is they spent their entire lives telling experts to go fuck themselves about climate change because reasons and they got all the benefits of living before the shit hit the fan and now they're going to kick the bucket and leave the rest of us holding that bag.

They got to enjoy the benefits of the new deal and the Great society and all that socialism while rapidly expanding without considering the consequences and if you point this out they get pissy and bitchy and start pretending that they had it harder than kids today even though 30 minutes on Google would prove that wrong. Hell fuck 30 minutes 30 seconds.

It's classic I got mine fuck you pulling the ladder up behind them. And their final fuck you is the end of democracy. What a bunch of fucking Jokers and assholes.

And if you think your grandpa wasn't one of them remember the Reagan democrats.

But you'll say anything to vote for a pedophile. The question is why?

All I'm saying is I think you would be very upset if certain authorities got a hold of certain digital media in your possession...

The problem is once you accumulate that much money you have a ton of power. The only way to do away with too big to fail companies is to do away with billionaires and trillionaires.

And you cannot get the public at large to understand that just because you aren't going to let Elon Musk have a trillion dollars doesn't mean you're going to steal their house and give it to one of "those" people (insert whichever those people you prefer here).

Seriously I cannot get people to understand that just because Elon Musk can't have a trillion dollars doesn't mean you can't have a toothbrush. I think the problem is that people have a hard time understanding the difference between the couple million dollars they have saved for retirement and the trillion dollars of power that Elon Musk commands that lets him casually drop a quarter billion dollars on the midterm elections...

If it's one thing I've learned in the last few years though it's Americans hate nuance. Even if the nuances slapping them upside the forehead.

Because bringing them into the country lowers the local pay rate. Supply and demand works both ways.

The proper way to do this is to implement socialism so that the economic benefits they're bringing to the country are shared by everyone and no one is Left behind. Also you do away with billionaires because that's too much power for any one individual to have. Basically you can have as much money as you want but when it's not money anymore when it's power we take it away from you that's the line.

We aren't going to do that because that is way too complex and nuanced for most Americans to grasp and half the people on this forum are freaking out with me just suggesting it.

So what we probably need to do is a 10 or 20 year moratorium on new immigration of any kind because that's a dead simple solution that the sort of person who calls themselves a swing voter can comprehend.

It would also cause a massive Japan style permanent recession for exactly the same reason but it would also mean we have some social stability which is what we need right now. Basically we are going to intentionally impoverish ourselves as a nation because we aren't big-brained enough to actually think our way out of this problem.

Like the old Winston Churchill quote, you can always count on America to do the right thing after they've tried absolutely everything else.

So now we've got to go try everything else before we can actually do the right thing. Or like I mentioned on another thread we can build death camps. But nobody likes to hear about that either. They like to pretend it can't happen here. If only there was a saying about that...

Get rid of the pedophile in the white house and my mental health would improve substantially. Get rid of the weird creepy couch fucker too and that sell out mother fucker running the House of Representatives and keep going down until we hit a Democrat to take over the White House and then maybe impeach six supreme Court justices and I think then I could stop Doom scrolling.

But we're not going to do any of that. If I'm really lucky the Republicans will lose the House of Representatives and the Democrats will slow down the damage until 2028 and voters will somehow both be allowed to vote and can stop freaking out about trans girls long enough to not let fascists take over the country and then maybe just maybe I can die in peace.

Because right now dying in peace is the American dream. It's all the trillionaires left us. Well that and raging against trans girls and complaining about ethics and games journalism. Of course in a few years we won't have video games because memory will be too expensive but whatever.

It also has several loopholes.

On the other hand it's kind of infuriating to have the insufferable left telling me that I should be okay with limitless cheap labor flooding my job market because line go up. It is funny to watch the left wing tell me that I should be cool with all this competition for jobs because it helps the overall economy. In any other context the left wing understands that's just the old line go up, rising tide lifts all boats bullshit that we've long since disproven. But the left wing is terrified of being called racist so they can't have an honest discussion about immigration.

I think the only solution right now though would be a complete total moratorium on immigration which would drive the economy into a deep recession but it would also result in jobs for people who don't have them.

The actual solution is to implement market reforms and socialism so that the wealth generated by immigrants gets distributed to everyone but fuck we're not going to do that so the only viable option I can see is either a moratorium while we try to get our shit together or we just start doing what people do when there isn't enough jobs and enough food to go around, we build death camps and just start randomly stuffing people into them.

Keep in mind it's utterly and completely random who gets sent to the camps. Could be brown people could be the Jews could be Italians or the Irish. When you allow all of civilization to collapse for incredibly stupid reasons and the guillotine starts coming down we learned from the French revolution that it's just a bloodbath for everybody involved.

I wish I could think of a solution but the American left wing has become completely fucking useless. They have allowed their deep bitter hate of young men and Centrist voters to basically prevent them from thinking about any useful new tactical solutions. So all they've got is tactics from the 1960s that the fascists adapted to in the 1970s.

Realistically I don't think we're going to do a moratorium on immigration like I suggested above and we're not going to do socialism either so I think in a decade or two if not sooner we're going to have death camps. Trump already tried to build one in Florida but he was so incompetent he couldn't pull it off. Remember death camps don't start as death camps they start as immigration camps and then they become work camps and then they become forced to labor camps and then we stop feeding the people in the camps and then when they can't work anymore because they are severely malnutritioned then they become death camps.

I wish I could figure out how to stop that but people are so fucking insufferable and stupid I don't see how we break the cycle. I'm open to suggestions though. But I'm hoping I die before the worst of it and I wish I hadn't brought a kid into the world. Hopefully they have enough education they can flee the country when the time comes

The main value of bringing h-1bs is that you can crash the education system. Prior to the year 2000 colleges were heavily subsidized. If you want to college before 2001 the government basically paid for your tuition. That's why it was so cheap. The problem is they didn't write you a check and make you walk that check down to the accountant's office and they should have. Instead they just gave the money to the colleges and the colleges past the savings directly on to you.

In the year 2001 or so Bush Jr began slashing that funding and all the state legislatures were slashing their funding. I was there when it was happening and I remember reading in the school newspaper about how in a decade or so tuition would increase by a factor of 10 which was spot on because of course it was it was calculated by economists and it wasn't a hard calculation.

When does subsidies got cut they were turned into tax cuts for billionaires and you got an itty bitty teeny tiny 10 or 15 dollar a month tax cut while the billionaires got well, billions.

It reminds me of an old married with children bit where Al Bundy have been saving for a sports car his whole life by taking cash and burying it in his backyard in a shoe box. His wife Peggy found out about the shoe box years ago and took most of the money. Al asked her what she did with all that money, it would have been thousands of dollars in early 1990s money and a fortune to a broke family like them.

So Peggy tells him that whenever he asked for something they couldn't afford like orange juice she would dig up the box and take some money for it for him.. and take some money for herself. So orange juice for Daddy and a fur coat for Mommy. She had several examples where she bought some simple necessity for the family and then some extravagant luxury for herself.

Peggy in this scenario is the billionaire. The billionaire takes a huge tax cut for themselves when you ask for a small tax cut for yourself. Meanwhile you lose access to education and so do your kids. Of course the old farts here already got their college tuition subsidized and as always I got mine fuck you.

They couldn't have taken away our children's access to higher education without A endless supply of already trained labor from overseas. And on top of that flooding the job market with cheap labor is always priceless.

Oh and there's several loopholes to get around paying the fee anyway if you're friendly with Trump but that's the kind of corruption that's par for the course right now.

Donald Trump and the supreme Court are on track to shut down mail in voting and I know a bunch of idiots here think that's fucking awesome. Because they don't like the sort of people who use mail-in voting.

I wish people that dumb weren't so fucking stupid though. Like I can't get them to understand that when Donald Trump doesn't have to worry about me voting against him he doesn't have to worry about you voting for him because if you decide to start voting against Trump you join me in my camp and guess what I'm not allowed to vote anymore and therefore neither are you.

If you stop your opposition from voting then the other side has absolutely no reason to cater to your desires or your needs. Now if your opposition are blindingly stupid morons who make their voting decisions based on women's sports and ethics and games journalism rather than whether or not they can keep a roof over their heads and yeah it's okay to stop those morons I guess but really what you need to do is make them smarter because taking away people's right to vote is a nuclear option and dropping nuclear bombs is generally a bad thing.

But Christ this is all just too complicated for Americans to understand so our empire is going to collapse and we're all going to be completely fucked eight ways from Sunday by trillionaires and I don't think there's anything we can do to stop it anymore.

You're not giving them to robots, you're giving them to the OWNERS of the robots.

And nobody is going to ask you or me. They're just gonna do it. And half the country is too busy worrying about trans girls in sports to stop it, it whatever moral panic comes next after that. Maybe violent video games again.

Why would they give a warning? The result will be increased security at more valuable targets.

Most likely some bored kid who doesn't have any geo-political motivation.

Thanks, but unfortunately some of the information there is wrong or misleading. For example, what they call a "GPS module" is actually just an active antenna, basically a GNSS antenna with a built in LNA.

The bigger issue is that there are a lot of modules that we don't know the contents of. For example, the NimbeLink Skywire LTE modem contains a Sierra Wireless modem, which itself is made from parts from another company. Maybe Chinese, maybe not. Incidentally, the GNSS receiver is likely in there too. Combined cellular, WiFi, Bluetooth, and GNSS modules are quite common.

There doesn't need to be a standard, they can just use USB vendor defined endpoints, or a USB HID vendor defined report. Then the standard WinUSB and HID APIs work, and no driver is required. Plug it in, Windows recognizes it and attaches the appropriate generic USB driver, and the RGB control software sends whatever data is likes.

Lots of USB devices use RGB, such a mice and keyboards. For the RGB the early implementations were using microcontrollers, which often have USB built in.

If you would stop being such a dumb mother fucker and stop voting for pedophiles because trans girls make you feel icky and give you a boner at the same time then we could fix all this shit.

There is absolutely no reason why everything can't be fine but guys like you are so fucking stupid you think you're part of the in group and that when the shit hits the fan Trump has your back. He hates you. You disgust him. When you showed up on January 6th to make him King he was pissed off how low class and how much of a bunch of losers you are.

The point of my rant which is way the fuck over your head is that if assholes like you would get out of the way people like me who aren't idiots could fix all this shit in a couple of decades tops. No poverty no war no starvation no hungry kids and the only thing we have to trade for it is you would have to be nice to trans girls and blacks or whatever group you don't like and you wouldn't be able to worship Elon Musk and pretend he actually did anything useful instead of just stealing all my taxpayer money and my 401k.

The real problem here is you have extremely low self esteem and you take that out on the rest of us. It's amazing that a bunch of losers with low self-esteem or basically going to end the human race for the stupidest fucking way possible in the stupidest timeline possible.

It was political correctness when I was a lad, then it was sjw and now it's woke. I think woke is running its course and being replaced by dei. But there is room enough in the right wing's head for both since God knows there's nothing else in there.

What's going to be fun is in 2032 when Trump's going into his fourth term and all these old fucking farts who sold us out so they could freak out about trans girls in sports and drag queens reading books lose $500 a month of social security money and become homeless.

I know they will just blame Joe Biden but at this point I'm not waiting for them to wake up anymore I just want them to fuck off. The problem is they didn't die fast enough they were able to destroy our democracy. A couple of drugs basically kept old people alive for too long and they're mean and they're nasty because even though they're alive they aren't any smarter if anything they're dumber because of age-related cognitive decline and as you get old you hurt a lot so you get angry and frustrated and you want to take your frustrations out on the people you see the most which is for these baby boomer trash usually some minority or another who had nothing to do with their current predicaments.

Basically what I'm saying is old people suck. We know old people suck. Traditionally not a lot of people made it to the point where they were old enough to suck that much. But now that we're keeping these fuckers alive this long they can really really fuck up everything with their incredible stupidity. I mean you're dealing with people who write it a fourth grade level when they were at their peak and now they've had decades of age related cognitive decline and they're still out there and mother fucking they vote.

Initially I thought it was just the older Gen x that doomed us but I gather that when the numbers were actually fully tallied about 70% of baby boomers voted for Trump. And the Reagan democrats can fuck right off. The I got mine fuck you crowd they are just nicer about it.

Not that the American left is making me terribly happy. They're so fucking useless. I mean I guess being useless is better than doing damage but still...

The best solution would have been for hardware vendors to stop using SMBUS and switch to USB. No driver needed.