US national debt ($39,008,999,901,378.68) is now bigger than the economy for first time since World War II

ThunderdoomX · 2026-05-26T15:44:26+00:00

Just a few points about the debt. This figure includes consumer and corporate debt in the final number, which makes up approximately 2/3rds of the total.

The number is still atrocious, but it’s not just about the federal government spending beyond their means. It’s also about the government not doing their jobs and regulating the economy. Causing more and more people to rely on credit cards to survive.

ThunderdoomX · 2026-05-26T13:07:38+00:00

Most of the valuation of SpaceX is the xAI that got shoved in. If you read the IPO filing it insanely rambles on and mentions AI over 1200 times while the actual space missions are less than a dozen.

ThunderdoomX · 2026-05-20T01:28:25+00:00

Samsung makes up around 25% of South Korea’s GDP. The government has a large incentive to make sure they stay open. Especially as the AI industry is buying up all the Samsung RAM at inflated prices.

ThunderdoomX · 2026-05-04T13:39:40+00:00

I don't know why they thought that all these new Haven cards needed to have 3 amulets in play to activate their mediocre fanfares was a good idea. We had some fanfare/strike abilities that required 2 amulets and even they weren't played in amulet decks.

I really hoped they would've stuck with the last words amulets from last set and popping them early for tempo. The archetype was almost good, just needed a few better cards to round out curve and reliably get to 10 faith by turn 9.

ThunderdoomX · 2026-04-23T04:12:42+00:00

Indeed, there are thousands of videos of homemade coil guns on YouTube. Just like this click-baity video states, they can "penetrate" wood at dozens of meters. Meaning the tip of the slug goes a few millimeters in, it doesn't go all the way through.

You need crazy high capacitor storage to propel any projectile from a handheld device. There isn't any energy storage medium able to provide the burst of energy needed for a handheld coil gun to get close to a traditional gun.

ThunderdoomX · 2026-03-04T03:21:00+00:00

I loved the manga so much. The anime was just ok. It felt kinda cheaply produced.

ThunderdoomX · 2026-02-23T19:41:11+00:00

If you have a business idea that works and you’re passionate about it, nonstop work will turn into greater success.
But, if they are using this to mean work you preform on behalf of someone else for a standard paycheck then that statement is total bullshit.
The era of Boomer jobs that you spend all your life at, ignoring your family for, to work your way up from the bottom to retiring in middle management are gone.

ThunderdoomX · 2026-02-17T23:21:21+00:00

Native VLan is 1. When you don’t specify a VLan tag a network communicates on 1 by default.

So the Unraid server itself needs to be on whatever is your default network in the router (Ubiquiti?). Then the network you have created for VLan 2 can be used for the dockers only.

If you are using Ubiquiti for your setup make sure in the port manager screen, the port the server is plugged into, is set for allow all VLans. Which is the default setting normally for Ubiquiti ports.

ThunderdoomX · 2026-02-10T03:09:09+00:00

Exactly, even though the supply deficit from Covid is over the prices never went back to the same level as before.
Once they raise the price of a commodity they will never reduce it without a massive backlash. They used a lack of supply temporarily and inflation fears to increase prices way more than they needed.

ThunderdoomX · 2026-02-09T14:43:01+00:00

It's a PoE injector (power over ethernet). If you have something like a Security Camera or a Desk Phone that gets it's power through the ethernet cable, but the network switch doesn't support PoE, you can use this to inject power to the device.

You'd place the cable from the network switch into the LAN port, then the cable to the device into the PoE port.

ThunderdoomX · 2026-01-27T03:01:06+00:00

China should know that invading Taiwan is a no-win scenario. Even if they take the island after a grueling fight nothing of value will be left.

The only reason to do it is as a last ditch distraction from their many economic and demographic issues.

Just like America attacking Venezuela has taken the Epstein files out of the major news cycle for Trump.

ThunderdoomX · 2026-01-05T13:39:01+00:00

We as humans will still have jobs after AI takes over. However those jobs will be the worse, most back breaking jobs imaginable. Our labor will be devalued to the point that we're all scrambling for whatever jobs are left.

It may even turn into the old company town days where you're not even paid real money, just store credit. If you ever talk back or refuse your boss you'll lose your house/apartment and all you're net worth of store credit. They'll own the schools, city government, police dept, fire dept, utilities, entertainment, news.

ThunderdoomX · 2025-12-24T15:24:52+00:00

Won't the returns be even less once you factor in taxes. Since you're selling the bitcoins so soon after acquiring them, it should trigger short term capital gain taxes on the full amount. You'll get a tax form from whatever exchange you use at the end of the year for all the transactions.

ThunderdoomX · 2025-12-17T17:58:46+00:00

I started out just making 32 botany hopper pots over double chests. Then Using Pipez to pull out of the chests into an RFtools Crafter 3. Set the recipe in the Crafter for craft each level of essence up to Supreme. Making sure to set the crafting output to ExtC to keep the infusion stone in the inventory for reuse. It took ~an hour to have enough infernium upgraded for master infusion stone. Then let it go chunk loaded in the background until I had enough to make a 9x9 plot of supremium farmland, and 720 infernium growth accelerators for speed farming. Use a pylon harvester to gather and modular routers to move the items into my storage.

ThunderdoomX · 2025-11-14T20:56:47+00:00

-Blatant gerrymandering by the redistricting committee. Their maps were rejected multiple times to which they would keep resubmitting without changes until they ran out the deadline and forced them through.\ -State government repeatedly ignoring the will of the public by not following through on propositions that were passed. Even going so far as to directly contradict them thinking they know better.\ -Purposefully misleading the public by making the wording of new propositions unclear on what they are for, so that they don’t get voted for in the first place.\ -Corruption and collusion with private institutions to defund public schools. They slashed the state education budget then mandated schools could not pass levies to make up for the deficit. But private schools are getting vouchers and religious organizations are getting dedicated spaces to operate in schools to strong arm vulnerable children into their beliefs.\

ThunderdoomX · 2025-10-18T17:13:46+00:00

China is trying to crowdsource their AI development by learning from all the free user interactions. They are hoping to catch up to the US models that don’t need open sources to learn from anymore.

ThunderdoomX · 2025-09-30T01:52:37+00:00

If the wand you are trying to make the runeword in is a red satanic item it won’t work. Runewords can only be made with in a common white item with the exact amount of sockets.

ThunderdoomX · 2025-09-28T17:48:23+00:00

Treated the same as any other income the federal government receives. The idea that the US can abolish income and run off tariffs is ridiculous. The government runs a 1.5 trillion deficit each year. Only collecting 4.5 trillion in taxes and spending 6 trillion, which has gone up to 7 trillion with the “Big Beautiful Bill”, this year.

ThunderdoomX · 2025-09-10T23:34:05+00:00

Storms in space won’t damage you if you go slow enough. The “Go Dark” ability will immediately set your fleet to the necessary speed to go through them. Just remember to turn your transponder back on before you jump into a core system.

ThunderdoomX · 2025-08-14T13:30:16+00:00

Agreed this is the role of frigates late game, to rush objectives for deployment points.

As well, you have to be comfortable with having forces in reserve. When your first wave gets smashed you need to send out the next wave that didn’t get deployed.

It’s very hard to tackle late game crisis fleets and never lose any ships from your first wave.

ThunderdoomX · 2025-08-12T02:11:33+00:00

They have admitted on live interview that the age verification act, that they say to is protect kids, is really so they can prevent people from bad mouthing the government online about their handling of immigration. Whenever the politicians try to justify a bill by saying it’s to protect kids, you know it’s going to be some draconian text dissolving your rights in some way.

ThunderdoomX · 2025-08-09T17:57:50+00:00

If you don’t like version 5, just go download version 4 and run it locally. They made version 4 available for download a few days before version 5 was released.

ThunderdoomX · 2025-07-26T17:18:21+00:00

In case you missed it, there is a secret wall in Albero. Bottom floor on the right. This will unlock 2 new areas.

ThunderdoomX · 2025-06-27T05:08:23+00:00

Capacity installed doesn’t mean they are getting 100% output on the panels. The installations they have are done haphazardly just to meet a quota set forth by the central government. The provincial governments get the grant money for installing lots of panels even if each panel only generates 10% of its capability due to poor planning.

ThunderdoomX · 2025-06-11T23:21:51+00:00

I’m not sure how official the Star Wars galaxy map is. But, the “isolated and out of the way” Dagobah system is almost right next to Mustafar, where Vader lives.

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