What’s to stop them from just going a generation back and using DDR4 instead of DDR5.

There is no one who can convince me that it makes any noticeable difference anyway. When I was putting together a new/used desktop I specifically looked for DDR4 for precisely that reason and I would take any bet that a performance hit would be measured in numbers too small for any user to even notice.

Constantly needing newer hardware with only fractional improvements is the biggest scam in tech. They took their lesson from Apple and Samsung.

silly 4th grader

Silly would have been the nice way to put it. I fully admit that I was a absolute ass-hole child.

Your country is being run by a man who behaves like I behaved in fourth grade when I didn’t want to admit I hadn’t done my homework and just compounded lie upon lie upon lie hoping to outlast the teachers somehow.

For the record, I was a total shit-head in fourth grade. I was ducking and weaving, adding more lies to the narrative (even going as far as blaming my sister for stealing it, and STILL not backing down when they brought her in to call my bluff). Somehow, my idiot brain just thought that if I kept spinning out more and more convoluted webs of bullshit, it would eventually hit the magical “they believe me” mark.

Here’s the thing though…I was in FOURTH GRADE and I GREW OUT OF IT! What the fuck is Trump’s excuse?

Is this actually a legitimate question they’re asking?

It’s the most obvious answer on earth. The people making the laws don’t work for the voters anymore. They vote for the donors.

Arrest a bunch of random people with great fanfare in order to preserve the optics of his claim. Then quietly release them with no media attention because there’s obviously no evidence because it’s all clearly covering up for incompetence.

Here’s where that’s troubling…

It’s a very small step between releasing them and making them disappear so that they don’t talk to the media afterwards

This is what happens when you have one side that sits back and plays some machiavellian chess, and another side that shits on a checker board and makes everyone roll around in it.

China is far from an honest actor, so don’t think I’m saying this as a compliment. But China knows when to shut up, sit back, and let the other guy fuck themselves over.

Serious question? Has there been any study into why the stats are higher there?

I’d be tempted to say it’s because giant trucks that cowboys tend to prefer have both a) lower pedestrian visibility, and b) higher mass, leading to greater damage in a collision with something soft and fleshy like a human.

However…I’m the first person to admit that correlation is not causation. Was just wondering if studies have been done.

oxygen and air’s revival

You need to keep in mind that we are part of a niche community (Fediverse), where most of the people (I’m betting) run linux and are pretty old-school in their FOSS and design mentalities. Any excitement that exists here is going to be skewed by confirmation bias in a network where everyone basically thinks the same.

Speak for yourself.

So powerful they couldn’t even handle fucking IRAN…

All they managed to do was prove that, much like Russia, they are completely unprepared for the type of asymmetric warfare taking place in the modern world. Numbers don’t mean shit anymore. They only lost 12 soldiers and STILL lost. it’s a new world. Has been for a long time. America still thinks troop numbers and money spent actually matter.

How about instead of being baffled you just go ASK the people who voted against it why? It’s not like it’s a secret ballot or anything…

The real worldwide depression is the fact that this fucker hasn’t died yet.

Over-confidence. He thinks is being told that Israel doesn’t have the guts to actually release the files because they need America more than America needs them, or some shit like that. He’s being told that he’s too big to fail.

I agree whole-heartedly about he separations necessary. But (to me) it all starts by getting power back in the hands of the people on the street, rather than the rich assholes and CEOs. Citizen councils at least take that first step.

In my world, the council reps are like jury duty.

Elections proceed as normal for the Congressman/Senator/Member of Parliament, or whatever it is that is being elected. In that person’s riding/constituency.

7 Averge, working class citizens are drawn randomly from his/her constituency for a 1-year term with the mandate being that, once a month, that representative has to present himself in front of that panel to defend their voting record, their expenditures, and their conduct.

Declutter what is unnecessary. Ditch the senate. In Canada it’s an appointed useless position used for Cronyism, While in the states it’s nonfunctional for it’s supposed purpose (being a check and balance for the congress). With the representative now being directly answerable monthly to the people in their own constituency, the Senate is rendered moot.

I think every single elected representative needs to be under the direct scrutiny of a panel of seven people from their own constituency, made up of ordinary citizens from all walks of life. This panel has the mandate to scrutinize every expense, investigate every “donation”, question every vote that representative has made in the house/senate/etc… and ask “Does this representative continue to work for our district’s interest?”

If the answer ever becomes no, they have the authority to oust him immediately and have a recall election.

And yes, I’m fully aware that this was the original Marxist ideal of the concept of the Soviet before Stalinism purged that all away and went full authoritarian.

No. Not wrong. But like everything else in this propogandized polarised world, I generally believe nothing is either as bad or as good as the loudest voices like to pretend.

Cyber risks aren’t unimportant, of course, but our risks from China are certainly no worse or better than the Cyber risks from the American government or even our own.

In a statement, Canada’s big three automakers — Ford, General Motors and Stellantis — said the entry of these EVs “undermines” the domestic auto industry and opens Canadians up to “cyber risks.”

A hard cap of 49,000 Chinese E.V.s (roughly 3 percent of the market) doesn’t undermine the Canadian manufacturers, it just forces them to actually fucking do somehing to make their own EVs more appealing.

Trans women are women, so what’s the writer’s point here? That it’s somehow gay to watch trans porn?

I’m the first person to say I don’t understand how the nuances of sexuality work. If I had to make a guess, I’d say that humans aren’t actually attracted to “Male” or “Female”, so much as they are attracted to “Masculine” and “Feminine”. regardless of the relative body parts that may or may not be under their clothes.

It says nothing at all about their sexuality, because it’s nobody’s business but their own.

He shits the bed and wants credit for putting the sheets in the wash

I’m stealing that metaphor. Yoink.