If I were running Medica, I would retire and bribe my way into witness protection.

Or maybe I would Scrooge / Grinch Christmas morning my ass as hard as possible.

There’s a lot more people hurting out there. We need to do a lot better. Specifically, billionares and private oligopoly CEOs need to do a lot better. Past generations understood that. This guy paid with his life for not understanding it.

I hate victim blaming, but I can’t honestly call this asshole the victim in all this. The victims were a bunch of kids and parents and siblings whose names we will never hear in the news.

“fuck it. We tried. Oh well.”

Yep. And while I’m personally convinced the US was actually doing fine on “who counts the votes”, the “who gets to vote” part has been rigged for quite a long time. Arguably from the very beginning.

This is perfect. We need to choose increasingly lower pixel shocked Pikachu for this kind of news, until it’s just a vague yellow splat with red highlights and everyone still knows what it means.

Nippon Steel says they would keep older (unionized) facilities in Pennsylvania open. Union leadership has said that they don’t believe them.

That promise plus $9 is absolutely worth the price of a coffee. Unless the price of coffee already went up again, then maybe not.

Yeah. “We found a union member completely unaware that they’re absolutely statistically guaranteed to be fucked by this merger, who is also shocked that Trump doesn’t give a shit what any union member thinks.”

I know someone mourning the death of their younger brother to COVID who still voted for Trump.

The dude literally helped kill their younger brother, through his “leadership”, but they don’t see it that way.

Lest we forget Reddit “finding” the Boston Marathon bomber.

Lol. If I had any leads on this, I didn’t see shit.

I, personally, wouldn’t voluntarily lift a finger to save or find justice for anyone currently in power in US healthcare.

US Healthcare company CEOs are a sociopathic pox on mankind. While I respect the rule of law, that’s all they’ll ever get from me. I don’t prevent people from swatting mosquitoes either.

Per one article, “A motive for the shooting is unclear, and police haven’t announced one.”

Seriously? We’re really gonna pretend not to be completely 100% aware of the likely motive?

I look forward to the police investigating every single family hurt by this bastard’s policies. I’m sure they’ll get to the bottom of it right before the heat death of the universe.

Yeah. That would be a shame, in that we missed every chance to be collectively better, before reaching that point.

Plus, I expect to feel bad about the whole situation while I render my “not guilty” jury verdict in the potentially many court cases to come.

Assuming that any onlooker saw anything, that is…

Yeah. I probably will too.

Uh…“from scratch”? No thanks. I’m a big fan of GCC, and don’t intend to learn to code without it.

Star Trek: The Next Generation, for Sega Genesis certainly fit this criteria.

I’m sticking with popular layouts, so far. That way I can get a pre-printed board, standard size keys, and a pre-printed case.

I’m not familiar enough with the keyboard you’re trying to replicate to say whether an existing popular design can be adapted.

(Edit: Searching up images of the board, I suspect you can achieve your vision for a flattened version by adapting existing popular recipes and using standard sized key caps.)

As long as the keys aren’t wild shapes, you’re probably fine. If you need special shapes and sizes, you may be able to order something close enough from a hobbyist with a 3d printer. There seems to be a good number of folks out there supporting us newbies for relatively cheap.

I know some folks go as far as getting their own board printed, and 3d printing custom key shapes.

I’m still working on my first custom board, myself, and decided to stick with a popular PCB.

Yeah. If Satisfactory every gets SteamDeck verified, I may never play anything else again.

Lol. I assumed they were shopping around for a burned out hard drinking senior developmer - one ready to walk away from computers entirely.

Price doesn’t seem to be too much of an issue, if you can find someone making the board layout that you want.

Like any hobby, you can spend as much as you want.

But I think your budget should be very doable if you’re willing to go your own soldering.

I love the idea that our first message to aliens might be “FRESH WATER ONLY. NO WASTE.”

I’m missing a lot of these things, but I’ve decided that my logical next step is to bootstrap Spain’s and Mexico’s space programs. (This is sarcasm. I have a snowballs chance in hell of going to space, and I’m okay with that.)

I’m a Google Beta.

I am effectively immortal, but I will probably someday disappear without notice.