because individual resistors are incredibly cheap: you can buy a reel of 10,000 0402 size for about $3

@jpm I know that, I just didn't reason that JLC have fully done away with the small volume CM pattern of charging per-placement instead of just per-pin.

hm maybe that’s changed recently in the last couple of months?

@Runyan50 @oldguycrusty

You should really check in with Melinda Gates who got half is wealth in the divorce. She is doing great good!

@Runyan50 @oldguycrusty Curious here.
Your bio says you like science, how about history? I ask because in college I has an economics professor who really really was into economics. You know how some Christians have memorized the bible and can quote a verse for any situation? This guy would quote a historical situation for every economics complaint. It constantly amazed me but it really helped at perspective to the subject.
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@Runyan50 @oldguycrusty
The thing is, every imbalance you and I experience has been experienced multiple times in the past by multiple societies who tried various strategies for fixing it. By looking at those strategies and how they turned out, it helps you understand that money and "power" were at one time inseparable but that science of government was born out of splitting those two apart. From communism (COMPLETELY) apart, to various hybrids in between.
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@Runyan50 @oldguycrusty
It is, historically, not the billionaires that are the problem, some are good, some are bad, just like kings. It is shielding them from government oversight that leads to lots of abuse and inequities. Piketty talks a bit about this in his book. We have, pretty much from Reagan forward, failed to activate the regulation needed to manage the inequities.

Schönes Bild, aber echt krasser Kontrast zu dem Haus (und der Umgebung?) auf das es gemalt ist.
Wirkt fast fehlplatziert 🙈

Guten Morgen Ami ☕​🥐​😘​.

@Kuestentroete 😀 Mooiiiiiiiin ☕🥐🥐

Einen wunderschönen guten Morgen und einen angenehmen Start in den dreißigsten Donnerstag des Jahres.

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Ceterum censeo Alternativam pro Germania esse delendam!

@sahinmari Kaffee darfst Du. Schon mal positiv. Ich drücke wie wild die Daumen. Beide. 👍🏼👍🏼

Moin Ami! 🥐🥐☕☕🫶🐾🍀

guten morgen ami 😘. NUN café und SOFORT croissant . so soll es sein .

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Speaking about using privilege to support BIPOC, not taking over, amplifying, not being a source of toxicity, building community.

#AnswerTheCall2024 #USPol #Harris2024 #KamalaHarris2024

someone has to help them add PayPal and Apple Pay.

But what I want to know is when do The White Guys Answer The Call!????

@Geoffberner I’m sorry, who did I accuse? I made a blanket statement, and also was summing up someone who made a blanket statement. And we should all try to avoid purity politics. It’s nothing but distracting when it’s over trivial things. And it’s usually over trivial things.

@Geoffberner No.

An example is from tonight when a rando in my replies with a far-left but decided this is a good time to litigate the failures of the Obama administration, and got rather rude when I told them I wasn’t interested. I’d call that purity politics.

Bickering and excluding over trivial issues, getting distracted by things outside anyone’s control and holding that against people, divisive quibbles over this or that, not helpful. That has its time and place and lots of that stuff turns out to be important, and the hive mind shifts with those quibbles.

But now we have a chance to win real power, not just Dems but progressives and socialists, et al. We need to be focused on that. Once we have power, once the Overton Window has moved, then we can have those quibbles again, and it will mean something, because we’ll be able to put those decisions into effect.

what, in your mind is "purity politics"? Because centrists think it's wanting people to be able to go to the doctor for free.

@Geoffberner I’m not a centrist.

what I'm saying is, the term is a stick centrists beat the left with. It's not a real thing.