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Cake day: June 8th, 2023

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  • Slow walking compliance is normal. It keeps assets liquid and processes & people in place as long as possible before making changes. It also prevents the cost of changing back and forth if a new rule is struck down before its final date.

    What will happen often is that a compliant procedure will be developed as soon as possible, but no changes will be made until absolutely necessary. That gives the organization maximum time to figure out other routes of compliance, fight the rule and continue at pace before they change.





  • I gave a quick overview in another post, but in case you’d like some guidance unique to your repair, post pictures with the legs of the port and the spot it goes in with good enough focus and zoom that I can see the traces and pads and legs.

    I do this kind of repair work every day, if everything is in good shape it’s no problem but if you have a damaged port or ripped pads/traces then you’ll need to change tack a little.


  • You’re gonna need a hot air station. If it’s actually usb3 and not just usb in a c sized connector then you usually wont be able to do it with just an iron.

    The process is:

    Clean the site and all through holes (they won’t be for usb pins but instead for physical connection). Use flux.

    Reapply solder to all surface mount pads.

    Preheat the area.

    Apply flux.

    Manipulate the new port into place. If you can, tack it down at a few spots.

    Reflow all the pins. Use flux.

    Have you confirmed that the port itself isn’t damaged? The pads it connects to?









  • That’s not illegal.

    The crime is not reporting it.

    It’s reported on a filing. Sometimes electronic but paperwork in spirit.

    If the “problem” in your words is the crime, then the problem is paperwork.

    The crimes are falsifying business records, not paying hush money.

    The hush money was paid by trumps attorney who was then reimbursed with campaign funds. The crime is not paying hush money, the crime is covering it up.

    As I said before, I don’t think it’s a very good idea to try to beat trump over the head with the convictions. At best you appeal to reactionary voters who have regressive ideas about crime and justice and at worst you have to reply to questions like “it’s legal to pay hush money out of campaign funds?”



  • I honestly think it’s more likely that like almost every business, nonprofit and other organization I’ve had any experience with, trump doesn’t have a “proactive” filing regimen.

    An old ass accountant I used to work with explained why it’s like this: why give them something to beat you over the head with? Just know the requirements, know the punishment and give the least amount of information you possibly can until compelled.

    Of course, larger, richer groups are more able to take that strategy, but that’s a systemic problem.

    But it doesn’t matter for the purposes of the crimes in question if it was an “innocent” mistake or purposeful omission.

    I think it’s pretty disingenuous for the democrat message to be an attack on trump for simply having been convicted because democrats are at the same time trying to catch lefty and otherwise third party voters who see that criminal justice system as having serious fundamental flaws.

    I think getting bogged down in the details of trumps convictions isn’t helpful to the democrats either because explaining them to people makes trump relatable. Nothing he actually did with money was a crime. It was not filing paperwork that was the crime.

    The whole thing becomes more akin to having to pay a ticket for a taillight you got fixed because you didn’t bring the receipts to court.

    “Your honor, the taillight in question is new, intact and installed on my car”

    “Your car isn’t in my courtroom”

    “It’s in the parking lot 80 feet to the west of your courtroom. I have a picture of it right here.”

    “I will only admit a receipt”

    Tbh the conviction rhetoric only appeals to reactionary right wing voters who want to punish people with records or makes him incredibly relatable to normal people.

    If anything it seems like a hedge to move towards the right.


  • It’s really funny seeing ppl make the surprised pikachu face about fetterman.

    I don’t agree with his reasoning, but I do agree with his assessment that it’s a mistake to push the felon message so hard with trump.

    If simply being convicted of a crime makes you a person not worthy of serious consideration in the political sphere, is that implicit endorsement of the legal system? Seems pretty conservative if you ask me.

    Even if a person was to believe that our legal system is infallible and that there’s nothing wrong with weaponizing its decisions against one’s enemies, doesn’t bringing up the felony convictions beg the question of what they’re for? That hasn’t been a powerful message for democrats.

    I have no love for trump, democrats seem to be messing up here though.