Vulkan isn’t magic, its power comes from the flexibility it gives developers in its API. If developers are using DirectX, especially older versions, then they’re not utilizing that flexibility.

If DirectX code performs better through a Vulkan translation layer than on Windows, it means the driver implementations or OS bloat are what’s causing it.

With your theory, you could run a DirectX to Vulkan translation layer on Windows and also get increased performance. Which may be true, but once again points the finger at bad drivers.

similarly when there’s some simple arithmetic I can’t mentally calculate I use a cloud based coal powered statistical word generator because I don’t realize that there are existing dedicated tools for the job and it’s easier for me to defecate my stream of consciousness into a chat window than to take my eyes off vertical infinite scrolling video long enough to take basic troubleshooting steps

yes we should be doing more to reduce driving, it’s relatively unsafe and I’m sick of our lived environments being designed for cars and not people.

I’m pretty anti capitalist and wish the whole system would fuck off but they’re not suing because of the lack of performance of their investment, they’re alleging that United didn’t give necessary information to investors

damn I wonder which white guy discovered those features in the Mongol population, crazy that they all missed them

Fact: most fictional media takes place on earth. They clearly mean the lore will be shared.

whereas the government in USA is company owned

That makes it funnier if true, either the entitled fuck thought he could get in coming late or he got there early but was too much of a dweeb.

I’ll acknowledge my comment was rude, you are expressing humility now that wasn’t present in your original assertive message. You hopefully have a better understanding now.

This misinformation about national debt that you unintentionally spread is used by conservatives around the world to deny people services

Some people when faced with an overly simple explanation doubt their own understanding and try to see why experts and academics say otherwise.

Others assume they know better than the experts and everyone is an idiot but them.

Maybe you know a lot about a topic, and see others choose one of those paths when questioning your area of expertise.

Which kind of person do you want to be?

One thing we overlook in ideological debates is that most forms of socialism and communism would have no use for advertising and marketing. Imagine all this effort going to productive endeavors and having an IRL adblock.

May my last online purchase be a beret.

While this is true, it’s not difficult to verify. You can inspect the network traffic through your router from that device and see whether it’s communicating more often or with larger data packets while you’re talking near but not to it.

That could be obfuscated with a powerful enough device that’s able to maintain the user profile locally and by sending the full profile each time, or by trickling the information out bit by bit as part of a regular heartbeat traffic, but that would require more expensive hardware and would eat up a lot more bandwidth.

Not impossible, but not undetectable either. I’m willing to bet that studies have been done.

Skepticism is good but without thinking through it, experimenting, or doing research to back it up it’s just paranoia. Conversely you could say my trust that others would have looked into it is naive.

We could oblige and give them an end and the nothing that would finally satisfy them :)

Legal disclaimer: I mean butts

They still have people that can say no to them, their workers can quit, they need to deal with consumers boycotting their products.

Globally, China is rapidly catching up to and surpassing Americans in more and more industries, and they need to protect their status.

Nothing is enough for them.

Imagine being a rabid Democrat. All my reasonable homies hold their nose while voting blue

Sorry I’ve been imprecise again, I meant the root comment that’s from Lung.

Fair enough, I’m not going to do a background check on every poster but I see that I was lumping your response in with the originator of the thread and could have given yours a more charitable interpretation.

It’s not for “asking a question”

1. I suspect the professionals looking into this potential fraud are going to think of these things.
2. when and how hard you choose to play devil’s advocate says something about you.
3. whether well intentioned or not this is Musk apologia at best, and excuses/misinformation at worst. I think our Transport Minister does basic diligence before asking for an investigation and having the story in the media.

We’re all used to these “centrist” / “just asking questions” types and how they only crawl out of their holes to play devil’s advocate for fascists, it’s tired.

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Italian fascism, i.e. the iconic original fascism, absolutely had corporatism as part of its definition. To their credit, it involved not just business owners and employers but included employees at the table, which is better than American billionaire oligarchy.

It’s not the universal and core definition of fascism but that’s not what I said, it’s an alternate definition which has applied to historical fascist regimes. Fascism is a far right ideology. It’s not just classes and hierarchy or authoritarian government and nationalism, it’s a fuzzy intermingling of many of those things.

The “simple” part of the definition is that it’s a far-right authoritarian regime, which contradicts the oversimplification at the top of this thread.