Since it’s a Russian ship, I’d like to point out that that is very typical.

Root cause analysis determined that the reason for the incident was that it was a ship built in Russia.

And the USA into Iran.

Woke is a brilliant and evil political manipulation tool. As a conservative politician, you never have to state a position on any topic anymore. You just say you’re against all the woke stuff and your captive idiots just assume you agree with them. They hear exactly what they want to hear.

The unemployed auto sector worker believes “woke” means Chinese EVs.

The bigots believe “woke” means allowing gay people to exist.

The wealthy believe “woke” means making rich people like them actually pay taxes.

It’s a shortcut around actually saying anything of substance. You can get two people whose agendas are completely opposed to both believe that you are on their side because they both accept that “woke” means the thing they hate. And since you just said that you hate “woke”, then you hate the same thing they do so they will support you through anything now.

“Inspired by” = ripped off

A corrupt Duterte? I’m shocked!

If you count all the aggressive pop ups and prompts and notifications and other bullshit that you can’t turn off any time you try to just use your own fucking computer… 10 minutes from power button to game launch. Linux? Less than 2.

Everything.

Yes, that’s correct. If you cherrypick data and extrapolate your preferred assumptions about it you can make it say the thing you want.

I just clicked the first installer script in Lutris and two minutes later was playing.

Yep. Anything that needs to connect to the internet to function is never entering my home.

Who fucking cares at this point? No deal with that moron is worth anything. Give him nothing. Because he’s going to slap whatever imaginary bullshit on whomever he pleases no matter what they do. Let his stupid threats be what they are - a syphyllitic old man pissing into the wind.

Who cares if a MSRP$199 motherboard now costs $239 instead of the $249 it did last month? RAM is still thousands of dollars. GPUs are still thousands of dollars.

There is no point trying to build a PC anymore. Run what you have until the industry collapses, and only spend any money on indie games. The industry has chosen to fuck you over completely. Never forget that.

When this is all over Iran is going to have way more, and way more formalized, control over that strait than it ever did before this Epstein-distraction war ever started.

The USA is really good at losing wars, but this loss is going to be epic.

And you can flash 3rd party firmware too.

The opportunity for future enshitification is the main reason I’ll never connect mine to the internet. It’s a great printer, but I don’t trust any tech companies for basically the reasons you described.

True. They’ve managed to out-spend the entire rest of the world militarily while not fighting any “wars” and still lose at every sneaky evil thing they send their military to do, despite murdering 60+ innocent civilians for every soldier they lose.

So maxed out spending, 60:1 K/D ratio, no wars, still lost every fight.

My buddy has a Bamboo. It’s pretty good. My Snapmaker U1 is way better, and is actually open.

Just like every other war the USA has been involved in for the past 80 years.

Not to mention they are for sure going to finish making their nukes now.