Yeah… my last serious rebuild was in mid/late 2020, and I definitely overdid it with a 5950x. But the good news is that I feel relatively future proofed. And I found a deal (read: found being sold at MSRP) a 9070XT several months ago that I replaced my 3080FE with (mainly because I’m shifting to Linux gaming and AMD makes that easier with the drivers). I’m gonna ride this out for a few more years. And I’m gonna pray that none of my RAM decides to shit the bed 😬
You underestimate how rabidly some people are committed to that movement’s heinous dogma
He’ll absolutely find a way to fuck it up into some sort of humanitarian catastrophe, make money off of it, and push the average opinion that Iranian people have of America even lower.
Jesus christ can we please stop trying to automate art and content creation
stand back and stand by
Seriously - I never understood why it got so popular, especially considering performance and hardware issues it had (remember when it was actually bricking components in people’s machines for a while after it was released?)
I don’t understand how people can be so comically naive that they think literally anyone in ICE is going to be stopped or significantly delayed by silly little abstract things like “laws” and “conventions” and “case precedent” and “the bill of rights”. They openly do not give a shit. They consider themselves outside of and above the law. ICE is inarguably a fascist paramilitary group now.
It’s ok, Collins is gonna let us know that Noem learned her lesson, and so there’s obviously nothing to worry about anymore
That was very fucking serious, but cancelling federal legislative elections is absolutely a very fucking serious escalation in a different axis.
If we do end up annexing Greenland, I expect those fully automated motorized goalposts will be moving at great speed before the effort even kicks off.
The actual point of DOGE was to just backdoor and/or datadump as many government databases as possible and give them to Palantir. That’s it. That was the entire point. Everything else was simply theatrics.
I’m absolutely struggling with a sense of professional ennui as well. I feel simultaneously furious and horrified that so many engineers have so wantonly discarded any real ethical considerations from how they conduct themselves and what work they do. And I know why, too: because for the most part, it’s just become a constant rat-race to stay ahead of layoff waves. And the roof cause of that is the profit über alles mentality, exacerbated by fucking finance and business types running everything under the sun these days, and those people answer to VC and PE for the most part.
I don’t have a constructive answer for you. In fact, if you figure one out, let me know.
Tbh I’m a bit surprised he didn’t try this at some point last year
This is both frustratingly symbolic and meaningfully symbolic. More would be better. But even a single soldier is a serious and important symbol of commitment and literal “skin in the game”.
It is so unbelievably comically ironic
In terms of escalation with Europe: next would be any European territory in the Caribbean / Gulf of Mexico (e.g. BVI’s; side note: no fucking way will I ever use the regime’s idiotic rename of that body of water), then any European holdings in South America (e.g. French Guiana), then straight up annexation of countries in central/South America. Then probably an attempt to sweep up any other extraterritorial European enclaves in other areas (Canary Islands? The Azores? Who knows?).
This is what “sphere of influence” politics means. This is the new reality.
Computer, end program.
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Computer, door.
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Fuck.
Fuck you, Newsom. Eat shit. You’re not the caliber of politician we need or want, and you never were.
Tbh the governor should deploy the MN national guard to discourage ICE from existing in the state
Threatening to straight up annex Greenland is also a nuclear option. I fail to see how halting trade is an escalation in this context.
The regime has already openly stated, repeatedly, to any media that will listen, and in significant (if somewhat contradictory and nonsensical) detail that they consider Europe an adversary. Get your political leaders to stop pussyfooting around and take the situation fucking seriously. The best time to have started that was a literal decade ago, the first time he took a spin. The second best time to start that is right fucking now.