“I am not that short! I.am.not!”

Plants mostly get the stuff to grow from the air (by fixing carbon.)

Just saying. Some priest figured that out a while ago. Heh.

I’d suggest that paul is in fact a bit of a goofball.

So being cute is not “all”. He’s multidimensional!

Well… membrane kbs suck. Once you’re into mechanical, yeah it’s a question of preference and familiarity.

Finding what works for you is part of the fun, though.

Trump is allowed to lie. Leaker is not allowed to leak trump’s shit.

This is why experienced vets invented “interns”

“and eating your seeds.”

“oh fuck you!”

So, I’m going to preface this with noting that familiarity is the single largest factor for typing speed- at least when it comes to key board types. And a lot of it could also be a matter of confidence, as well.

In any case, the prevailing understanding is that mechanical keys are faster than membrane keys because of how they work. membrane keyboards are basically what you have on your microwave- a circuit board or some substrate with part of a curcuit, and a polymer membrane that has the other side of that circuit. You complete the circuit by squashing down on a blister in that membrane, and it registers a key press. Chiclet keys on most laptops are the exact same, except for the key pad you see riding on top of the blister.

Mechanical keyboards, on the other hand, are spring loaded, and the key press is registered somewhere between the top and bottom of the key’s motion. exactly where depends on the switch, mind. The OG mechanical keyboards from way back in the day, were all clicky- the point of the click mechanism is that it would tell you when the key press was registered. You could hear and feel it as you pressed down and you could let without fully pressing the key down.

This greatly reduced the fatigue a typist would feel, letting them type more. it also improved typing speed. (this was, in point of fact compared to typewriters, at the time. but it’s still true compared to chiclet keyboards.)

fast forward to the modern era with gaming keyboards going back to highly customizable switches. Linear switches (like Cherry MX Reds, have a progressive resistance to the key press. The further you push it down… the stronger the spring pushes back. There’s no tactile mechanism- clicky-clacky or just ‘tactile’ clicky without the klacky.

while people can feel the point where the press is registered, that is not me, so I wind up bottoming out each key stroke- which again slows me down and causes more fatigue to build up.

As a side note, this is also good for gaming because in some games, you can ride the key on either side of the point it registers and squeak out a lot of rapid presses, which is harder to do with a click spring up in there.

Things like the cherry MX browns, that are tactile without being super loud about it, are better, but I still type faster on the full clicky-keys. (kahlil whites, IIRC.)

Part of me wonders about hall effect keyboards, but I can’t be bothered to spend that much money just yet.

The tactile feedback of the clickly-clacky keys lets me type faster. on the other end of the spectrum, the tactile feed back is lower, but they’re less annoying.

the beauty is you can find whatever works best for you.

It’s also a security feature, that lets me know when I need to break someone’s fingers for daring to use my keyboard. (In my defense, the last time that was really an issue, the asshole wasn’t supposed to be in my office, and he was eating wings at the time.)

Clicks keys are supposed to be noisy.

Speaking for all middle managers… NOOoo… just give us cat photos.

I could be wrong… I’m not a doctor…

But if your heart is making that kind of sound, you might want to see a doctor.

If I were your boss,

Id say, “this is fair. Just get your stuff done as soon as you can, and in the meantime… I’m gonna need a kitty live stream.”

be sure to give Bitty a boop for me! (and the scritches she loves.)

now THAT.

that is a mandate. and a lanslide. and, uh, every other euphemism trumpieddump likes to use.

it was worth the time to comment and bitch about wasting my time.

the headline was clickbait.

since you’re also apparently "too lazy to check linked sources:…

here’s the screenshot of the politico article I linked:

an article that’s about Kegseth’s signal leaks regarding the attacks against the Houthis that absolutely did contain classified information

So you can argue that it should be that way all you want, but politico is the one you need to be arguing with. have fun with that.

You can see it under his greatcoat, at the center of his chest. Looks like a skinny leather belt. or whenever he’s not wearing body armor.

Here’s a picture with him not in the jacket, with the baldric between the red arrows, going from his epaulet loops to the opposite side, towards his belt.

Originally baldrics were worn to support the weight of swords or big ass daggers (the Roman legionaries had them for the gladius for example.)

Then as we switched to firearms, they were used for their weight- until we found better ways for more casual carry.

If this is anything like Jonathan Ross, they’re already being sheltered out of state, in a state that won’t extradite them back to Minnesota, while also refusing to provide any of the evidence they stole from the crime scene.