Same, fam. Same.

God I fucking hope he’s not going to be anointed as the Democratic nominee.

He’s totally going to be anointed as the Democratic nominee.

One one hand: wow wtf

On the other hand: I’m mildly surprised that he’s now both understanding and admitting that PR is part of the US.

No, I get it. This is how it needs to be played. I consider myself an outlier in that I know and care about all the insane geopolitical shit we’re doing now (in addition to the domestic situation), but there are a fuckload of complacent and/or bigoted assholes here. And the only way to shake them out of their complacency is pain and discomfort, economic or otherwise. So, genuinely, have at it. I know this is what the situation requires, and I for one really do not hold it against you. Our government is forcing your hand.

Commonwealth of Independent States. It’s basically Wish.com EU, but Russia-centric and with them calling all the shots.

God I fuckin hate orangeboi.

For what it is worth, as an American, I consider this development to be a fucking embarrassment.

This is a big part of it, imo. They kissed the ring.

The other part of it is that, per the article, this is an “AI” pivot. This is not them making more consumer-oriented GPUs. Which is frustrating, because they absolutely could be a viable competitor in low-mid tier if they wanted to. But “AI” is (for now) much more lucrative. We’ll see how long that lasts.

Yeah - I tend to downvote stuff that’s aggressively dogmatic, especially if the user is being a combative asshole about it, but simply offering an alternative hypothesis is, in my book, not grounds for getting ratioed.

It’s frustrating to see @lauseta@piefed.social getting that treatment. It discourages open discussion and makes this place more of an echo chamber, which is absolutely a bad thing.

FWIW, I don’t like that you’re getting downvoted swamped either; you’re simply expressing a hypothesis for discussion, which is why many of us post here.

I would like to point out that in the excerpt you quoted from me, “at this point” is doing a lot of heavy lifting. I expect we will learn more things about more players in this whole clusterfuck saga in the coming months and years. And it is very important to point out that Russia did run a ton of influence and cyberattack operations in support of the orange campaign all the back from 2015-16, and hasn’t really stopped. And that the lineage of the FSB and the parallel tactics to the KGB that I’m sure they quietly employ should not be trivially dismissed, even if there’s no overt evidence of it at the moment.

That’s the thing with “great power” geopolitics, both now and in the Cold War - there’s an absolute fuck load going on behind the scenes that the vast majority of us are generally not privy to until (at least) well after the fact

I would really not be surprised to eventually learn that he was working with both Mossad and the FSB. Enticing politicians and public figures into extremely fucked up compromising positions was a bread-and-butter tactic of the KGB during the Cold War that they commonly used to try to get leverage on people. The FSB is just rebranded KGB under the Russian Federation instead of the Soviet Union.

That said: at this point, from the data released thus far, it does largely appear to be Mossad-driven. But time will tell the full story. Hopefully.

Ew :|

That’s what I meant re: megatrons (the giant video replay screens they have in a lot of big sports arenas)

Fair lol

It’s a big club and you ain’t in it. And evidently the club is also for fuckin’ (as a verb, not an adjective) kids.

The only market for 8k is movie theaters and megatrons. It’s absolutely not necessary to have it in your tv in your house. And it’s also insanely expensive to get the proper hardware to drive it at full resolution.

That could honestly never be mistaken for a maga hat

Yeah so that’s essentially a slam-dunk for wrongful termination

Skill glad I switched to Linux gaming lol

Sorry, best I can do is make it take 45s to load the fucking landing page, and make search so baroque that it pisses off seasoned DBAs