I just want to grill.
Alrighty, let’ see what derp we can come up with today. The headlines have been pretty damned tedious and monotonous.
Now the Boogaloo Bois have been accused of cultural appropriation.
I’m sure this is just posturing.
Just wait until the coconut monkeys get loose.
Joe’s just trying to lower health care costs by getting rid of people with the ‘beetus.
Probably not a lot of meat on those bones.
Okay, I laid a challenge at the feet of Riven. She had to find a song written within the last five years that I thought was worth a shit. It took several tries, but she found a track off the album she posted from yesterday that twangs the right strings for a reflective Saturday evening.
Boogaloo Bois are just an idea.
And Hawaiians culturally appropriated the aloha shirts from Japanese migrants that made them from old kimonos.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again.
Appropriation is taking something that is yours away from you so that you no longer have it, I.e. theft.
Imitation is a form of compliment and is normal, healthy cultural diffusion. Humans have been doing it for millennia to the great benefit of the species.
I appropriated a human egg.
I’m really entertained when people talk about Americans appropriating any food that includes ingredients that originated here (tomatoes, peppers, corn, etc.).
You paleface steal from Injun.
I’m not sure they really want to play the appropriation game.
Hell, Antifa appropriated an entire black movement this summer so they could push their straight up marxism.
Imitation and appropriation is how innovation happens.
That’s exactly why they’re opposed to it.
Humans ape humans.
What do you mean I can’t be fat and healthy?
/waits for summer to get a 60 mile bike ride in
I’ve been working on a 200 km gravel route for this year’s Dirty Kanzelled assuming Dirty Kanza gets cancelled again this year. Unfortunately a lot of the gravel roads around here are off limits whether on private land or on public land that isn’t accessable to the public. I’ve been doing reconnaissance on access and how steep the hills are.
The problem for me is my long distance destinations all wound up going under this year. Hopefully at least the public restrooms and water fountains will be turned back on this year.
I know Biden has to dole out leftie candy to all the donors and influencers who got him in office, but this foreign policy track is going to be disastrous.
Even Robert Gates said (in his memoir about serving under Bush and Obama) that Biden had been wrong about every major foreign policy position for four decades.
Interestingly, Gates’ book portrayed Biden as being uncharacteristically involved in White House decisions for a Vice President. There were a number of occasions when Obama just let Hillary and Biden argue it out in front of him before he made a major decision.
I wonder why no reported or debate moderator asked Biden why he advised against the strike against Osama Bin Laden once he’d been located in Pakistan?
Hahahahaahahahaha!
Just kidding. I don’t wonder that at all. My stars, what a laugh!
Biden family business dealings with Al Qaeda? Stranger things…
Meh, I gotta say……I am with Joe on that one. I would have tasked the 509th with that one. Walk JDAMs over the compound until theres nothing left but craters and ash.
It’s not like they brought him back for trial, or had his body eaten by Texas hogs on camera. They shot him and made him fish food inside of 24 hours. If that was the plan all along, theres no point risking the cream of JSOC.
This is how I prefer to do my job.
In this case, I would probably decide to do something that neither of them were arguing for.
Don’t make me choose between the White woman and the Black man.
For those who haven’t saved the link yet, here’s the link for the Zoom/Happy Hour/community builder. I’ll be kicking it off at 20:00 Eastern.
I’ll be there.
And since I haven’t hit my booze limit for the week, I’ll be drinking tonight.
What is this booze limit you speak of?
I’m cutting back to get my weight under control. So far, it is working.
Can’t you cut down on something less important? Food?
I have cut back on food.
Metoo. The old metabolism isn’t what it used to be.
Humans are 90% water, or whatever. So cut back on water.
Passcode?
You shouldn’t need one if you use the link, but if it’s prompting:
Meeting ID: 811 9759 2540
Passcode: 870861
let’ see what derp we can come up with today
Speaking of shared conceptual frameworks…
Last evening, in the course of a conversation with some people I know, but not especially well, I uttered the phrase, “There is no such thing as Peak Derp.”
“Derp? Was ist das Derp?” they queried. They were completely flummoxed, and I had to explain it to them as, “Intelligence is finite. Stupidity is limitless.” I don’t think they even really got it then. I rest my case, Your Honor.
mmmmmmm… weiners.
Uhhmm the preferred term is “tube steaks”.
“You have everyone from neo-Nazis and white nationalists to libertarians,” said Cassie Miller, a senior research analyst at the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups in the U.S. “And while ideologically there might be some differentiation among people who identify with the movement, what unites them is their interest in having complete access to firearms and the belief that the country is heading towards a civil war.”
Radical anti-government white power crackpots from A to B.
“access to”
Isn’t that the same term they’ve been usurping to mean “provided free of charge and on demand by central government”?
Nuh uh. These folks buy their own firearms, ma’am.
Remind me which of us is threatening to disarm, incarcerate, or kill people over words.
Are they finally ready to stop lying and say out loud “yes, we’re going to take your guns away”?
Beto jumped the gun?
He certainly went off half cocked.
That couldn’t have anything to do with you lefties going scorched earth on everyone who has the gaul to disagree with you? You know, stuff like banning conservative speech on social media the very evening you learned Democrats controlled all of Congress, disappearing an entire platform under clearly fabricated pretenses, and completely mischaracterizing a group of disaffected hooligans taking selfies in the capitol as a domestic terrorist paramilitary group with death squads, while promising a war on “domestic terror”. That’s not part of your equation?
Because it’s sure as fuck part of mine.
Imitation and appropriation is how innovation happens.
That’s enough outta you, weirdo.
According to sources, five million Americans dealt with dementia in 2014.
In 2021, every American’s dealing with dementia, and it’s in the Oval Office.
“Dealt with”? Like Old Yeller?
In Biden’s case, I wish.
Nothing wrong with going to live on the farm. It’s much more humane than playacting that a frightened, confused geriatric is leader of the free world.
He’s my president, Ma. I’ll deal with him.
The Being There Presidency.
At least in body if no in mind.
That’s the joke, my friend. Referencing the old Peter Sellers movie where the simple-minded Chance the Gardener becomes Chauncey Gardner and basically gets thrust into the role of financial expert and takes over a major corporation while having no idea what the fuck is really going on around him.
“I like to watch.”
*middle-aged harlot swoons*
It’s been a while since I watched it. Didn’t he become president?
It’s been at least five years myself. I believe he peaked at the top of multinational conglomerate largely due to the faith of a (ironically enough) very successful old coot who may have lost it near the end and found a deeper meaning in Chance’s misunderstanding babble.
Apparently this was in some weird cartoon that fat smurfgender weabs enjoy. I think it’s kind of catchy and stands up by itself as a perfectly mediocre pop tune. Thanks, Japanese lady.
Miller added that she doesn’t believe “they’re really thinking about the meaning of the symbols that they’re using.”
Funny. I don’t believe you are thinking.
The bill allows coast guard personnel to demolish other countries’ structures built on Chinese-claimed reefs and to board and inspect foreign vessels in waters claimed by China.
I’m going to go out on a limb here and predict this will not end well.
To determine if they were getting enough exercise, researchers used World Health Organization guidelines of 150 minutes per week of walking or at least 75 minutes per week of more vigorous activities like jogging.
That’s not a lot of time. And where’s the weight lifting?
Local vets were even forced to sterilise some the monkeys to try and keep their numbers down, with police admitting they were powerless to do anything.
Cops unwilling to shoot critters? WTF?
White House chief of staff Ron Klain sent out a memo on Wednesday that directed agencies to freeze all of Trump’s last-minute or “midnight regulations.” The action to freeze Trump’s last regulations will “give the incoming Administration an opportunity to review any regulations that the Trump Administration tried to finalize in its last days,” according to the Biden administration.
“Opportunity to review”. Just say “strangle in the crib”. It’s much more honest.
Lorenze said in the beginning she believed Hammer’s “weird requests were normal.” She now says she’s realized BDSM acts can create a “smokescreen for men.”
“Weird requests were normal”? WTF? Yeah, there are abusers that use BDSM as a cover. My “WTF?” is me reading about is shit described in this article that if it happened as described should have sent her running away immediately. What is wrong with her that she didn’t run away immediately?
The music choice is good. That’s the same band Riven linked to the other night?
Yes. Same album she linked from yesterday afternoon.
I’ll have to buy it. It’s good.
The reason President Pudding Head wants insulin to be more expensive is simple: Corn Pop was diabetic.
Nuh uh, health is whatever you want to call it
Dr. Spaceman agrees.
Fat is beautiful. Name something you can’t do…. jumping jacks, run a mile, live past forty two. – Tom McDonald “People so Stupid. “
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I6FmwBPDT-w
For real, is that Lauren Southern?
No that’s the rapper’s sister from what I understand.
No, it isn’t.
Caption?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EsbO2alXcAADp60?format=jpg&name=medium
What is that supposed to mean?
MMF threesome?
Two dicks, one chick.
Yeah, I have no idea what it has to do with Wuhan Flu protocols either.
Men AND women without hats.
Duck duck goose?
Nice.
Pictured: The underside of the Three Shells
“Wear a skirt while giving your man head. It’s classier that way.”
Gender is just a construct, but houses are where all the wuflu get’s traded. 2/3rds of which is transmitted by men, those sexist bastards!
“”Trump signed off on the “Access to Affordable Life-Saving Medications” rule on Dec. 23, 2020. The rule was to enable “improved access to these life-saving medications by low-income individuals who do not have access to affordable insulin and injectable epinephrine due to either lack of insurance or high cost sharing requirements.””
The patent system is broken. Both insulin and epinephrine are naturally occurring.
Not in me or SF.
Usually, the patents are on techniques for isolating the molecule
I don’t think that’s the case here. It’s also a matter of getting FDA approval for every little thing.
. (https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/why_people_with_diabetes_cant_buy_generic_insulin)
I don’t get to dig into the life sciences side of my profession very often, so i started reading. If the bolded part is true, then the patents are just a red herring. Nothing IP related is keeping anybody from manufacturing the 1923 version (or the 1993 version or the 2000 version) of insulin and selling it at cost. However, the improvements patented in 2001 or later are protected.
The question is “what is the actual hurdle here?” As you allude to, I’m guessing that a company set up to manufacture insulin at a low margin using the state of the art ca. 2000 would be torn to shreds by the FDA.
FEE did a much better job fleshing it out than I ever could: https://fee.org/articles/why-we-don-t-have-generic-insulin/
Wow, we have nothing similar on the tech side of patents. This is wild: https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/how-biosimilars-are-approved-and-13217/
Thanks, I’ll read that later.
Did a “Chinese Xenophobia” image search and all I got were pics of xenophobia against Chinese people.
The Cingy Lingys accusing people of Xenophobia again? Shut up you slant eyed yeller skins!
Uighur’s hardest hit.
Did you type in it English or Japanese?
English. Just tried 外国人排斥中国 and all I’m seeing are images of Chinese people protesting that Japanese are using the virus to be bigoted against Chinese.
Do the Japanese need a reason to be bigoted?
BTW: Do the Japanese used simplified kanji?
Not like the Chinese do.
“Now the Boogaloo Bois have been accused of cultural appropriation.”
Things have go to change. They have to! Is it time for the next Krakatoa? Or do we really need a giant meteor just to make sure? If we allow humans to become any dumber, we are doomed for real this time and there will be no coming back this time.
I’m stumping for a new Oxygen Catastrophe. One where it all suddenly disappears.
Plants will produce more from the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Unless the climate change nuts get their way. Yeah we’re doomed.
Solar flare. I will miss chatting with y’all, and the free porn, but not twitter, facebook, etc.
Crack’d Egg in Allegheny County, PA gets evidentiary hearing
An Allegheny County judge on Friday ordered an evidentiary hearing in the county health department’s request for an immediate injunction against a Brentwood restaurant continuing to operate despite closure orders issued more than five months ago.
Attorneys for the Allegheny County Health Department asked Judge John McVay to enforce an Aug. 11 closure order against the Crack’d Egg – an order issued for the restaurant’s repeated flouting of covid-19 mitigation measures in place since early last year.
Owner Kimberly Waigand has refused to comply, saying previously she will “fight back the tyranny.”
Now we know where Biden has to send all those guards he has holed up in DC.
Looks like another beer brand may be in trouble due to the can shortage.
Who could possibly have foreseen that centrally planning the economy could go awry?
I’m sad. My first legal beer purchase was a six pack of Oly.
Just another factory lager – but still.
When the famine hits, us fat people will be the last people standing.
Enjoy your skinny jeans while you can.
Nobody loves a fat man except his grocer and his tailor.
They have done a few studies of shipwrecks where a few (initial) survivors cling to a life preserver in cold water awaiting rescue. They let go one by one.
In all cases, the ones who remain to be rescued are the overweight women.
I found that to be an extremely odd thing to study. However, I am well padded to make it through a harsh winter.
So I got that going for me. Which is nice.
That’s why Kate Winslet was in Titanic. If it was Keira Knightley, she would have died.
Talk about mud flaps, my girl’s got ’em
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qDgCmzh5ao
Jokes on you. I’ll be hunting the fastest of you lot for homemade jerky.
I have plenty of 308 Win. You can try.
Ha! Fair enough. I forgot that I was a terrible, terrible shot. Here’s hoping you used up all your ammo on all the other skinny, roving cannibals before we cross paths. 😉
Your mom gave birth to a domestic terrorist.
She will have after the redefinition.
This is lovely.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JQFoKIoFas
“Microsoft Files Patent to Create Chatbots That Imitate Dead People
Microsoft has filed a patent that would allow the company to digitally revive deceased loved ones as chatbots, using the individual’s personal information.
The Independent reports that the tech giant has raised the possibility of creating an AI-based chatbot that would be built upon the profile of a person, which includes their “images, voice data, social media posts, electronic messages,” among other types of personal information. It’s understood that the chatbot would then be able to simulate human conversation through voice commands and/or text chats.
However, Microsoft has taken the concept a step further by suggesting that a 2D or 3D model of a specific person could potentially be created, using “images and depth information, or video data” of an individual in order to build a chatbot that has the same characteristics and behaviour based on the digital output of a specific person.”
https://www.ign.com/articles/microsoft-chatbot-patent-imitate-dead-people-ai
Now do this as a sexbot.
Does it necessarily have to be a loved one? Or deceased? Can I get the emulation of the Japanese chick I had a crush on back in high school?
“Probably not a lot of meat on those bones.”
Spare ribs.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EsI7rA5XMPM1VBM.jpg
Truly an expert on culture and geography.
JFC.
How do these people remember to breath?
It’s clear they’re starting to forget, because no oxygen is getting to their brains anymore.
There’s no way that’s not a troll account.
How can you tell the difference?
Masturbated in a non-sexual way. I bet Xe is fun at parties.
You can’t. I’ve just decided that the stupider it is, the more likely it’s real.
Not to defend the stupidity, but I don’t think xe was making a statement about geography, rather that sushi has been “colonized” like Mexican food.
See the Flamin’ Cheetos rolls sign from the other day.
Mexican food wouldn’t exist if they weren’t colonized by the Spanish. But I don’t think anyone ever colonized Japan
I kinda feel like the Japanese did that themselves, but apparently we’re not allowed to pare down ethnic differentiation that much because it’d be inconvenient for the racialists.
‘The bill allows coast guard personnel to demolish other countries’ structures built on Chinese-claimed reefs and to board and inspect foreign vessels in waters claimed by China.
The bill also empowers the coastguard to create temporary exclusion zones “as needed” to stop other vessels and personnel from entering.
Responding to concerns, Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said on Friday that the law is in line with international practices.’
Heh, looks like the CCP is tightening the screws on Taiwan again. Just another step towards the impending invasion. I’m sure President Harris will have strong words of condemnation afterwards.
They should just claim the Pacific Ocean now, since Biden wouldn’t do anything, probably say it’s good for trade.
I imagine she’ll be upset that she’s only getting 78% of what Biden was getting from the Chinese.
[golf clap]
I think around 90% of the people I followed on Twitter have been banned by now.
I saw a post somewhere a while back, claiming that 90% of all posts on Twitter are by 10% of the same users, all Twitter employees. I have to think all of them are CCP members.
On most platforms the majority of posts are from a minority of users. Lots of people lurk or rarely post.
Yusef… everything alright?
Have a good one my friends, Im out,
Goodbye,
Things OK?
No, not at all, good job, full mental collapse/ breakdown,
Sorry.
You have friends here if you need help or someone to talk to.
Dude, I feel you. I think we share a similar lifestyle and personality traits. Also, I can’t think of a single person here who’s had a shittier year than you. I totally get the urge to end the pain, believe me. That being said, when all seems lost, just be aware that there are people here who understand and care. This place probably helped stabilize myself before things got messy on at least two occasions. You are valued here, if nowhere else.
Stay.
Bob, we love you…don’t go away for too long.
There are no goodbyes, you must not leave, just check out. It’s our very own Hotel California.
OK.
If I were to build/buy a gaming PC, what should I be looking for?
A new hobby?
Yeah… I probably won’t be working for a while.
I actually have room for time consuming hobbies now. Just got my first batch of rocks going in the rock polisher an hour ago. Beat Angry Birds VR from start to finish.
I’ll dedicate a fair portion of my time to self-betterment, but I also need some mindless activities.
I have to find my rock polisher. I love that. Then I make wire-wrapped pendants and such from them.
This one came with a few of those.
National Geographic for kids. But that’s just the recommended age.
One thing I decided on: a lot of the rocks were found by my kids on various hikes. I want the rocks to still resemble the original when they’re finished, so I’m forgoing the step with the coarse grit. If I wanted river rocks, I would have picked out river rocks.
I prefer the Antec cases with the power supply mounted on the bottom, as well as the Antec modular power supplies. Makes it easier to mount things, puts the heaviest weight at the bottom, the cases have good airflow, and the modular power supply means you can minimize needless cables in the case.
I think I have a dual xeon CPU server in the closet somewhere that’s in an Antec case. I can’t remember if I like it or not.
At least four months of this.
Fucking bitcoin miner jackasses.
Those are obsolete after 4 months?
No, he means not available because of bitcoin miners.
You can find some last-gen cards which are hundreds of dollars over retail. Even 1080s are selling above where they retailed fourish years ago. Same for the current-gen AMD cards and processors, nothing to be found unless you want to pay through the nose. Here’s a 3090 for the price of a high-end PC in its entirety, a thousand bucks over retail.
I started looking at parts when Turing debuted over two years ago. I was ready to pull the trigger on a 2080ti when I started hearing rumors about Ampere right around the corner. Turns out it’d be over a year before it came out. I’m still rolling with a 970 from 2016, so I wasn’t too bothered. But I was excited about finally dropping serious dough on a serious gaming rig. And now it’s just limbo waiting for inventory.
GPU mining isn’t really going to net you any Bitcoin these days. Pretty much never gonna pay off.
Bitcoin got kleenexed. I think Ethereum is the new hotness.
Same for ethereum.
You could maybe mine some lesser crypto with gpu mining but… I think the prices are likely just due to real scarcity and ordinary gaming demand.
Yeah, I know, yet people are still stupid enough to buy up all the high end GPUs.
Nvidia are making out like bandits, getting all their real customers all pissed off, again.
Get on Amazon or Newegg and buy stuff. the GPU is always the most important thing. The monitor second, that’s where all you money is going.
Always build your own, never buy pre-built, unless you are just rolling in money to pay for probably some of the hardware being inferior, like the MB.
I don’t have a budget in mind, but I do like to get a good value.
Build it yourself, it is not hard in any way. You almost cannot do it wrong. An hour of youtube or less and you’re an expert.
I recommend Nvidia myself, but it’s a big more expensive. For a reason in my opinion.
I’d recommend going with at least a 2080 GPU. You’ll be able to run almost anything at max settings, and if you go higher than that it starts getting really expensive.
I’d go with an i9 at least 8 core processor, those are getting fairly inexpensive now.
Go with at least 16G of ram.
I like the ASUS motherboards, but Gigabyte are good too, several others that are cheaper.
Go with a good monitor and Gsync helps a lot. I went with a 3440×1440 34″ monitor and I wouldn’t go back to 1080 or smaller. But that may be a matter of personal taste.
Won’t take you long to price it out. Also, get a good SSD, at least one TB, those are a lot cheaper these days also. Do NOT buy a mechanical, drive, they’re too slow for gaming and they break too.
Like I said, most of your money is going for the video card an monitor.
I already have a pretty awesome monitor. Costco’s finest.
Seeing as how I haven’t had a windows computer in my house for 15 years, I’m going to have to make this an all-purpose machine too.
My work PC and general everything PC is also my gaming PC. If you’ve built yourself a good gaming PC, it will handle anything else you throw at it.
“I’d recommend going with at least a 2080 GPU.”
Also, I wouldn’t go older than that because with the RTX cards, you get HDR and ray tracing and other new Nvidia tech.
Which games would actually require the most cutting edge GPU?
All of the newer AA games. AC Valhalla ( which is the best game of 2020, hands down), the game is absolutely gorgeous, and Cyberpunk 2077, which actually requires you to steal a NASA supercomputer to get decent framerates at 4K. Or you could get a 3090, if you could buy one, and that costs about the same as a NASA supercomputer.
If you’re not going to play the most graphically intense games, you do not need a high end gaming PC. You already have a new Xbox.
Very few require it. But the better video cards provide longevity to the gaming machine. My last machine had a five year old card, and was still playing modern games (just not at max settings).
Not quite 4k, but here’s the monitor I wanted to buy. Waiting for now.
Yeah, a 3090 with 24GB of vram is going to do you good for quite some time. If you want to pay $1500+ for a GPU and you can actually get one.
This is what I have. It might not be ideal for gaming; I’m using it for work.
https://www.costco.com/samsung-32%22-class-uhd-thunderbolt-borderless-monitor.product.100697481.html
It’s awesome for what it does, though. Thunderbolt w/ethernet, so when I plug it into my MacBook, I get network, video, and power all from a single cable.
when I plug it into my MacBook, I get network, video, and power all from a single cable.
If this had been available a few years ago, I would have skipped the 27″ iMac (I have a MacBook too).
About the same weight as the iMac, so my monitor arm would handle it…
Correction, the iMac is 7 lbs heavier, so it’d be no problem.
4k at 60hz shouldn’t be too big a stretch. Except for CP2077, but there are graphics optimization guides that show you what to turn off to get it up. (giggity)
If you really have no budget, you could go dual-SLI 3090s for the handful of games that support it. What’s four grand between cards?
That will do fine for you, Playa. Unless you want really high framerates. Then you’ll need a gaming monitor with at least 100hz. Only if you play action games will you need that. So for games like Valhalla and Cyberpunk, FPS higher than 60 FPS is great, but not necessary unless you are really hardcore about smooth gameplay.
“Not quite 4k, but here’s the monitor I wanted to buy. Waiting for now.”
I have the 34″ Alienware 3440×1440 Gsync 120hz gaming monitor and it’s great. You’re going to love that.
Forget CP2077, though. Witcher 3 is getting a graphics overhaul and RT support. I don’t care how much CP2077 lets you sculpt your genitals, W3 is GOAT.
There is no way CP 2077 or any Witcher 3 mod is going to touch AC Valahlla visual wise, not even close.
The thing about CP 2077 is that it took 8 fucking years in development. 8 fucking years. The graphics are deceptive, because the detail up close can be pretty amazing, but the overall environment is, sorry, very 2012. Valhalla just blows it away graphically. Maybe because they started with a newer engine and finished the game in a year or less.
So, CS, when you get that new monitor, you will want to experience Valhalla on that, it’s fucking EYE CANDY. The environments are amaze ballz. Sometimes when I’m sneaking around in a new wilderness area, I’ll totally forget what I’m doing because I’m just looking around and then get ambushed by a pack of wolves, lol.
I guess that’s why Bethesda won’t ever revamp their engine.
If I ever get to play it. I’m in for the 3090. It’s stupid price for performance, but fuck, I didn’t forgo having kids or a nice car or my own home just to play on a subpar PC.
Huh. Just got an email.
Apparently, I’m off the waitlist and the proud owner of a new Xbox X. Was not expecting that.
You may not need a gaming PC. Granted, a PC will be superior, but the new gen consoles should hold up pretty well for a couple of years. I’ve even thought about buying one because I just bought a new Sony Bravia 75″ 4K TV. I was thinking the PS5 though, because of the exclusive Sony games.
I’ve been looking, but the PS5 has been much harder to get.
You pretty much have to use a bot service to get one, but the bot co-ops are designed to get as many as possible, and I only want one. And, I don’t want a PS5 badly enough to entrust these people with my money.
I’ll wait. This last time I bought a new GPU and had to pay Amazon’s scalped prices, I swore it was the last time, and it will be.
If I were to build/buy a gaming PC, what should I be looking for?
I predict this will result in a longer thread than deep-dish vs. real pizza.
Longer and less comprehensible.
All you have to know is Ryzen and Zen 3, but not Zen 4, that’s a ways off yet, and Rocket Lake is coming out next month, the top-end CPU is two cores short of the old i9 standby but it clocks better, supposedly, and it’s PCIE-4 compatible, plus 3200 memory clock, and you know what that means. But where it starts to get confusing is comparing the all-AMD rigs with SAM support and how that compares to Nvidia DLSS, not to mention ray-tracing and whether the Radeon cards will have an answer to all that, if it’s even worth the FPS hit.
And a good m.2 stick might become a necessity if the same technique that the PS5 introduced for maximizing bandwidth between CPU and storage are implemented in DX12.
And Lovelace and Hopper and Alder Lake and 5nm and TSMC and Sabrent Rocket NVME
I’m off to work kids.
Arbeit macht frei !
/shakes peen @ ZoomCall
We’ll be thinking about you while enjoying tall cans, bro!
Kind of a shit joke Tres.
If you’re a connoisseur of Toxic Masculinity, I recommend Yellowstone. When Kevin Costner is the 3rd or 4th most badass character on the show, its Very Problematic.
I’m totes addicted to toxic masculinity. Yellowstone? How have I not seen this?
The screenwriter/main creative guy/showrunner is the same guy that wrote Sicario and Hell or High Water, which are also high in Toxic Masculinity. Be warned.
Warning noted, going to find these on Netflix or Amazon…
‘If you’re a connoisseur of Toxic Masculinity’…:
https://youtu.be/pU-kFUJoJEU
This motherfucker right here. I weep inside when I think about how soft I am in comparison to Thomas Cochrane.
This lady has a pair.
183 mph on a bicycle.
https://youtu.be/CoUmgMhn2iY
Yeah, that’s nuts – margin for error is less than razor thin.
That said, getting towed to speed then drafting behind something much faster is not what I think of when you read “cyclist hits 183 mph”
Yeah, there’s no way a person could push that much air.
I’ve gone about 60 downhill on a bike and was scared AF. I’ve gone 140 in a car on a smooth straight road in a car and was not very comfortable.
I can’t imagine doing what she did.
You put it down on your side, how long do those pads resist? My brake pads needed replacing five years ago… I’ve owned the car for four. And they work fine, even if they’re a little whiny.
I guess what I’m saying is, cycling is dumb and cyclists are delusional.
Yeah, I did 135 on a motorcycle once and that was no joke. Fence posts looked like a wall.
Did the telephone poles look like a picket fence?
Hey, no wonder that metaphor popped into my head.
We see these guys riding bikes on the interstate all of the time weaving in and out of traffic, and I don’t know how fast they are going, but they are zipping past cars doing at least 90mph like they are not moving.
It looks like she was released at about 130 and accelerated to 183.
The bike has a double reduction gear. Each revolution of the pedals makes the bike go 137 feet. You can’t even pedal it until it’s going over 100 mph.
Still have to pedal to stay in the draft.
That, and the possibility of sudden, gruesome death makes it a noteworthy achievement.
Yeah, let’s see her do it going down a really steep mountain on a bike.
That’s not safe at all.
I’ve hit 45 before and I never want to do that again.
No effing way.
They really are just guessing, aren’t they?
https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2021/01/23/the-cdc-quietly-made-two-big-changes-on-covid-19-vaccine-guidance-wheres-the-data/
“Science is what we say it is.”
That appears to be about right.
/Looks at article title
/Looks at accompanying pic
Like this place wasn’t enough of a sausage fest already.
Wurst. Article. Ever.
Got bored so went looking for new shows. Found The Watch. Weird fantasy-esque BBC America show. Entertaining enough for me.
Are white men the root of all evil or do they actually tell a story?
Its devoid of that and they disguise transgender as bearded ladies.
The bearded lady
Unless you want to start destroying your shit, do not watch Manhunt Deadly Games on Netflix.
It’s 8 episodes of fedgov ass in an orgy of “MILITIA!!”. That said, the ATF investigator provides an perspective I wasn’t sure would be allowed any longer.
Lost the link to the chat. Good night my sweet Glibs.
So did everyone else. 😉
https://mobile.twitter.com/MattWhoTweets/status/1353241171825291265
Speed bumps.
That’s so sad!
Idiots.
https://mobile.twitter.com/zerosum24/status/1353184119325421569
Don’t play in the street.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/new-brunswick-mini-zambonbi-1.5885405
Awesome.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s5GCdfim2OQ
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*crickets*
*frogs*
Mornin
suh’ fam ?
It’s cold out. ?
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/amazon-presses-for-in-person-voting-for-unionization-election-in-the-midst-of-a-pandemic/
Huh. Now mail in isn’t so popular…
I have no sympathy for Amazon. I hope they unionize the shit out of off them.
I dislike unions more than I dislike Bezos, but not by much more.
There is no upside for prices or service if the union wins.
Provide opportunity for competition to arise
Quite the optimist, you are.
Forbes doing the hard hitting investigative journalism
https://www.forbes.com/sites/quickerbettertech/2021/01/24/turning-off-your-camera-in-video-calls-could-cut-carbon-emissions-by-96and-other-small-business-tech-news/?sh=38a8f74d2b78
Global warming is caused by cam whores?
Pro mask wearing commercials really get my dander up.
“It shows you care about the health of others.”
Really, I don’t.