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    The Communication Cube

    I'm amazed how many people seem to take every opportunity to veer into trump rants. Co-workers, my uncle, several members of this forum. But no one ever seems to mention the what I consider to be his single most sickening act.
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    MiSTer Project - Open Source Multi-Emulator on FPGA

    I've been using my MiSTer pi with genMIDI recently, a midi interface to the genesis synthesizer. I always loved the sound of megadrives. Funky.
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    What have you bought recently?

    I guess MSG
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    Hardware Released some magic Pyra smoke - can't charge anymore

    I'm sorry to hear this. I know how you feel. If there were another way to charge it quickly would you be back in action? Seems like a purely damaged usb port, lucky in a way, except SOC's aren't really serviceable afaik, so you might need a new mainboard.
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    The Communication Cube

    The Chinese education system is awful. They figured out how to game particular aspects - standardized tests - by forcing their children to sacrifice their youths rote memorizing. Parents take pride in how little sleep their children get. It's sick. All because the government encourages it...
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    The Communication Cube

    https://www.economist.com/united-states/2025/04/03/is-it-ever-right-to-pay-disabled-workers-pennies-per-hour
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    The Communication Cube

    Flight to the bottom. Apple is moving factories to India. China wants to move away from manufacturing to eg financial services and bleeding edge tech, at least that is what I am told. Good luck. And now USA is re-shoring and tech innovation is ludicrously capital intensive (AI, robotics...
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    The Communication Cube

    Actually it's even worse than that. 80% of my team is in China. We are software engineers. China is undercutting us on skilled labour / good jobs, not just manufacturing.
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    The Communication Cube

    Exactly. We need to protect jobs for low IQ people, such as manufacturing. But no, we sold our industries to the east and now even high IQ people can only get crap jobs and are poor.
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    The Communication Cube

    Actually we have a severe shortage of carers for the elderly. You guys don't want help the elderly? And you expect the government to give you money so you can ignore them?
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    What are you playing this weekend/these days?

    This morning I played Metal Gear Solid 2 Manhattan Tanker Incident mini game. It's insanely great. Took about 2 hours. So clever, campy and perverted with many plot twists. A masterpiece. Kojima Hideo is God. Perfect Saturday morning.
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    The Communication Cube

    I don't understand this statement. What I'm saying is governments should balance things so even the laziest people can find a job they don't mind doing. Globalization has made job markets less diverse and tariffs bring it the other direction, is the theory. Higher prices for goods and being...
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    The Communication Cube

    I'm not talking about the future. In Switzerland you can live comfortably as a graphic designer, bus driver, baker, architect, etc. In England you're in poverty. But yes, in the future it would be nice if there were bullshit jobs for everyone, to get you out of bed and contribute a bit to...
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