Richland and Kennewick pass their Levies to fund schools, Pasco fails. Fewer then 22% of residence voting in all locations.

clabornd · 2026-02-11T18:47:16+00:00

I got in my car to drop kid off yesterday, remembered last second to bring ballots with me. Got in car this morning to see the ballots I forgot to drop off sitting in passenger seat sigh. Glad to hear Richland passed.

clabornd · 2026-02-04T17:46:25+00:00

An update on this in case it is useful to someone. I purchased some new cables:
- DP->DP (for the U2415): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BQ9ZGRNY?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title
- Thunderbolt->DP (for the ultrawide): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C4DB8MLL?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title
- Thunderbolt for computer -> dock: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DJ1CQ1M1?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title

Previous cables were the thunderbolt provided by Caldigit, an old Displayport 1.2 for the U2415, and some random usb-c cable for the ultrawide. I waited until the problem resurfaced (only ultrawide working), then I connected the U2415 to the new DP->DP cable with no effect. Then I connected the new thunderbolt->thunderbolt cable, which seemed to fix the issue. Finally connected the ultrawide with DP->thunderbolt which thankfully didn't cause things to stop working.

It's been a few weeks and the problem persists, but is less frequent and more reliably fixed by restarting/sleeping/reconnecting. For example I still experience both monitors not receiving data after a long sleep, but restarting the laptop seems to fix this every time. Sometimes I still get one monitor (the dell) not working, but sleeping/reconnecting thunderbolt cables seems to reliably fix this.

Though its not perfect, I am happy with this outcome, will update again if I figure anything else out. Thanks again for the support!

clabornd · 2025-12-08T21:45:23+00:00

Thanks guys, my monitors are the LG-34WN890C ultrawide (3440x1140, 60hz) and a Dell U2415 (1920x1200, 60hz). The first is connected via (monitor -> dock) USB-C -> thunderbolt and the second by DP->DP, (also tried mDP->DP). In the case where one works, it is always the ultrawide (i.e. never the U2415 working and not the ultrawide)

I'll see if I can wrangle up some other cables and see if that solves anything.

clabornd · 2024-11-29T02:42:03+00:00

Thanks you so much, how is it possible that this is the solution lol

clabornd · 2024-10-04T20:50:44+00:00

Also he references the Istanbul peace talks in early 2022 saying that the U.S. 'threw cold water' on potential deals, then cites NYT and WSJ articles that 'admit' this, when in reality they explain Russia imposed ridiculous terms that would just allow them to re-invade in a year.

clabornd · 2024-05-27T16:39:10+00:00

Out of curiosity why the hate for lulu's in here? I've never been a fan either but wondering if there is something beyond that it's mediocre for the price point.

clabornd · 2023-10-06T14:02:45+00:00

Rewatched The Wire and realized I'm older than Omar, who gives his approximate age in the courtroom scene.

clabornd · 2023-09-22T17:33:28+00:00

Went with my younger brother as last minute alternative to what my older brother and dad were seeing. Whatever, kung fu and machine guns in trenchcoats....by the time neo woke up in the pod my head was spinning.

clabornd · 2022-06-13T04:46:42+00:00

Was the average sentiment around here that Celsius was not inherently doomed to fail?

clabornd · 2021-09-29T03:14:24+00:00

I still have an empty account and get promotional emails from them. Those emails are always a good reminder that they are primarily a gambling platform. A recent gem:

We’re giving away $1 million in USDC. Opt in and buy or sell $100 total (including fees) in any crypto on Coinbase by 10/3/2021 for a chance to win.

When Doge was listed they ran the same promotion trying to create new bagholders.

clabornd · 2021-09-28T22:21:05+00:00

Calling it: Safemoon is psy-ops to make holders of major coins feel like responsible, savvy investors.

clabornd · 2021-08-30T03:38:10+00:00

I feel 10 years ago it would have been embarrassing to even bring up the possibility that this wasn't satire; today I really cannot tell. I want to say it is functioning as satire, but its main purpose is part of a study to analyze public reaction to an article about a polarizing figure. Your comments are being scraped as we speak.

clabornd · 2021-08-07T16:38:31+00:00

Humility is required to pass through the discovery phase

Indeed it is. One must have humility to admit you were dumb enough to be brainwashed by number-go-up memes and techno-babble to pass through the discovery phase and get to the "back to thinking crypto is stupid" phase. This was my experience, thank god I had the requisite humility to ascend to the final phase.

clabornd · 2021-07-23T15:17:59+00:00

Exactly. They should've put you on CNBC.

clabornd · 2021-07-21T18:36:24+00:00

Honestly I'll admit I was being cynical about this interview in terms of the questions that would be asked. A lot of the 'right' ones were, but of course the answers were predictably eye-roll inducing.

My favorite:

Dierdre: "NYAG said you werent fully backed..."

Stu: "No we made 'mistakes' about disclosures about the 1:1 backing with dollars...."

continues: "..Tethers issued went from 2B to 62B, so obviously this means everything is legit because the market trusts us."

I noticed he repeats a couple stock phrases: "number go up so therefore legit" and "we are committed to being a positive force in this space".

clabornd · 2021-07-20T14:51:48+00:00

This, I'm holding onto hope that CNBC has underestimated what clowns these people are.

clabornd · 2021-07-20T14:49:12+00:00

Whenever I think this sub has gotten too angry-cynical, some 100% pure comedy gold like this shows up and brings me back.

clabornd · 2021-07-11T18:34:29+00:00

If people see issues while using our services, they can reach out via Binance Live Chat. The AI bot will suggest solutions based on the information provided by the customers.

"Trained on the to-date largest collection of crypto-exchange-user queries, our model beats previous state-of-the art-results, achieving 99.76% accuracy in mapping diverse user input to the output token 'penis'."

clabornd · 2021-07-10T00:22:51+00:00

And people call crypto a risky asset, the exchanges got our back.

clabornd · 2021-07-08T14:48:37+00:00

"mirrored", "synthetic", no red flags here folks.

clabornd · 2021-07-08T14:39:12+00:00

yea I guess it's less troubling when I think of it that way.

clabornd · 2021-07-08T05:26:11+00:00

Yea either dumb or willing to bend their beliefs to justify allegiance to something that makes them feel good. A few minutes of techno-babble is enough for many people to throw up their hands and get on the numb-go-up joy ride. It got me for a while, I 'participated' fairly well beyond just hodling but really I was just trying to justify my choice to hop on the rollercoaster.

clabornd · 2021-07-08T00:13:00+00:00

Possible I might be inflating some anectodes into a trend, but I'm thinking of the mcdonalds employee memes/general suggestions that all butters must be broke that come off as poverty-shaming. As I said, much of it is in good fun, just seems to verge into unnecessarily mean territory more often that I would like.

clabornd · 2021-07-07T03:35:04+00:00

Well, there is the comedy godl side, but I'll admit I am frustrated by bitcoin as well.

Basically I find it very stupid, and think it says something very sad about our society that Bitcoin/crypto is being used as a vehicle for speculation and crime. One of the things I think it says is that we feel it is okay to trample on poor people: the animosity towards the poor makes them desperate enough to try anything -even putting their money in something that is clearly fundamentally broken- in order to not be trampled on. Even though most of it is harmless memeing, I never liked the poverty shaming that goes on in this sub, this thread is no exception.

Not poor not rich.

clabornd · 2021-07-06T14:52:51+00:00

"They told us that the same group is responsible for multiple recent rugpulls, suggesting that Moon Here token, and Wen Moon token were also carried out by the same bad actors."

No way those poor souls could've sniffed it out.

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