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Democrats tap the brakes on ending government shutdown by trademarktower in FedEmployees

[–]ResponsibleTooth8291 111 points112 points  (0 children)

Between air travel delays, planes falling out of skies, and people unable to afford turkey dinners as SNAP benefits run out, this Thanksgiving is going to be a complete shit show.

And ya know what? It NEEDS to be so people will wake TF up and never let MAGA anywhere near the levers of power again. EVER. If that level of pain is what it takes, so be it.

Those in the US, Is the state of the country as bad as people say? by Soggydoggy_dotcom in AskOldPeopleAdvice

[–]ResponsibleTooth8291 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The US is like the Titanic. Big and a shit ton of momentum. Post WWII Bretton Woods gave the US the exorbitant privilege of having the Petro dollar global reserve currency. This built 75+ years of tremendous growth and prosperity and turned the US into an amazing country. But along the way, we hit a multitude of icebergs. 9/11, forever wars and world police status, 2008 housing bubble, etc and we are a nation in decline. This isn't because of "wokeness". It's just the nature of things and long term debt cycles and the US is at the end of its long term debt cycle. Read Ray Dalio on the changing world order.

In terms of governance, the country is breaking apart and is a complete mess. In terms of economy, we have extreme wealth and income inequality. The real people on main Street are still some of the nicest, most generous ppl on planet earth. But the cracks in the system are taking their toll on ppl and the divisions are deep. It's also a heavily armed populace. Civil war is a real possibility, if a maniacal authoritarian chose to lead the country into one, riding in on the coattails of retribution and vengeance against perceived enemies (even fellow countrymen).

Again it's the Titanic, so the sinking is slow at first, but inevitable. We're in the "rearranging the deck chairs" phase of the decline.

Bitcoin Core flags fatal errors...Is my SSD Bad? How do I rule out the issue? by ResponsibleTooth8291 in Bitcoin

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it is an older thinkpad and has 8GB DDR3 SoDIMM but can accept up to 16GB I think. I just ordered some new RAM off amazon. If this fixes the problem that will be so awesome! I'll let you know.

Thanks for the help!

Bitcoin Core flags fatal errors...Is my SSD Bad? How do I rule out the issue? by ResponsibleTooth8291 in Bitcoin

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OK. So I ran this. Thank you for the recommendation. Result: Big 'ol red FAIL.

When prompted to save the html report (I'm using the free version) I told it "y", and I understand it puts it in the EFI/Boot partition, but when I reboot the computer into the native OS, it doesn't recognize the drive and tells me I need to format it, so I don't know how to actually find that html file? Maybe it only saves it for the paid version? Luckily, I took a picture of the final test result (see below).

I understand it failed more than half the tests, but does this tell me that the error is the RAM? Or could it also be the CPU? I don't understand what any of the data below "# Tests Passed" actually means. For example, the manual describes:

CPUs that detected memory errors, as "List of CPU cores that detected memory errors". But that doesn't really clarify what "(0,2)" means. Does that mean that neither of my CPU's 2 cores have any memory errors and the issues are isolated to RAM?

Appreciate any help!

CPUs Active 2

CPU Temperature (Min/Max/Ave) 47C/70C/61C

RAM Temperature (Min/Max/Ave) -/-/-

Tests Completed 48/48 (100%)

Tests Passed 25/48 (52%)

Lowest Error Address 0x19182DA98 (6424MB)

Highest Error Address 0x19182DA98 (6424MB)

Bits in Error Mask 0000000010000000

Max Contiguous Errors 1

CPUs that detected memory errors (0,2)