u/CognitiveFogMachine

Those of you who are heavily invested in that one single ETF, does it bother you that this stock has 45% exposure to the US stock?

US is near $40T in debt, debt-to-GDP ratio is 132.5%, if you ignore the tech stocks from the S&P500, the American economy is already in recession. AI Datacenters are carrying an enormous amount of private debt. Also, the US is at war in Iran, burning through their treasury fast. Other countries are contemplating using different currencies to trade oil internationally and if they do, the value of the US dollar will plummet into the abyss and it is irreversible, and that irreversibility is what scares me the most.

I know that most of you will see this situation 'today' as an opportunity to buy more xeqt at a discount, and I totally get that... BUT this also means that you genuinely believe that the American economy will recover from this.

What makes you believe that the american economy will prevail and recover in the long term? What makes you believe that xeqt is still a good diversified stock to buy?

Interesting bit of history: Back when Spain was the economic superpower in the 16th century, nobody thought that their economy would fall, until it did. And they declared bankruptcy 9 times between 1557 and 1666. Never forget that no economic superpowers are immortal.

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u/CognitiveFogMachine — 10 days ago
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I've been bashing my head against the wall trying to figure out why my waveshare WM8960 audio hat immediately has no sound coming out of the speakers as soon as I mount my Waveshare General Driver for Robot. But I figured it out! It turns out that the servo driver board is literally grounding the GPIO 21 pin on purpose, by design, and I can't understand why they did that. I have been waiting for my support ticket with Waveshare for an answer for a week now.

Any idea if there's a legitimate reason for grounding that pin by design? I'm hoping it's just a silly design mistake from waveshare, because I really want to add a voice to my robot :-)

I am about to just cut off the GPIO21 pin from the top of my WM8960 audio board so that it doesn't reach and doesn't get grounded by this servo driver board. I just want to double check with the community before making this irreversable procedure (well, I can always re-solder a brand new 40 pin GPIO header on it, but it's a huge PITA to desolder the exising one)

Thanks!

Reference: 

https://www.waveshare.com/wiki/General_Driver_for_Robots

https://www.waveshare.com/wiki/WM8960_Audio_HAT

Schematics: 
https://files.waveshare.com/upload/3/37/General_Driver_for_Robots.pdf

https://files.waveshare.com/upload/f/fa/WM8960_Audio_HAT_Schematic.pdf

u/CognitiveFogMachine — 17 days ago