And if you tie that bread on the back of a cat, you can get perpetual motion!

I'm not certain how many of us actually care about benchmarks, whether that conspiracy is true or not.

My wants are a computer that works quickly with every program designed for it. Give me a reason to prefer benchmarks over boots on the ground performance.

Race is the ultimate social construct. If anyone judge any human on the melanin content of their skin, or their location of origin, they are textbook racist. This is not to imply that there are not a lot of racists out there who do just that. So yes, MLK was correct in that respect.

I've used Photoshop and the creative suite many year - Photoshop when it was only Photoshop No number or CS product.

So here's the skinny. I updated to a Mac Mini from an intel mac. First time I logged into the CS, it told me it was updating my sub for the M4. The results were so much faster that I was shocked. It's a guess since I don't have the intel mac, but at least 10X. So while Adobe might have been pissed at Jobs, they know where their bread is buttered.

The Dixiecrats. Very racist, and were not going to vote Republican because Abe Lincoln. Then along came the Kennedy's with that desegregation and equal rights stuff. So the Dixiecrats shifted to a political party that aligned with their beliefs on race.

Ironically, many of the people who claim that Democrats are all racist align with the Republican party's outlook on race. So seem to claim that teh modern Republican party is actually Democrats Ironically, many of the peopl

Like the users in my class who just switched to linux?

This all sounds like some political hack yelling "Fake News!

Sorry, things don' run very well on AMD or X86 in W11 either

Never been in court?

It will be brought up that Meta removed anything that was related to litigation against Meta. Even if the Judge suppresses it, jurors can remember it.

Yup, the game was made impose to play, so the only winning move was to not play.

If I might note, men have created problems, and so have women. On the face of this it should be a given. While it is illogical to say that men have created all of the problems, and women have never created problems, that is where we are.

And a lot of the more zealous women are amping it up. I've seen posts lambasting today's men for some injustice against women in Ancient Rome, and other unforgivable crimes going back many hundreds of years or more. The reason of course is the zealots have to keep the hatred flowing. The "It's all men until it is no men" movement is pure unadulterated hatred, making all men universally responsible for any crime committed against any woman. Statistically impossible, therefore an unfixable situation. And oddly enough, the converse is not true, because the modern narrative is women have no personal problems other than those caused by men. That they are for all intents and purposes perfect, even if not explicitly stated. That is illogical and irrational.

There are good men, and there are bad men, it would be naive to believe otherwise. But we have to recognize the difference between good and bad.

And here is the paradox. In a world where women believe that all men are criminals, it is considered a male loneliness epidemic when men start to think that any woman can end his career, his marriage, and his social standing, and avoid those who have a very powerful tool designed to destroy him. Wrong, simple risk/reward analysis.

Obviously there are wonderful women out there, but the only way for a man to find out is if he puts himself in a position to be destroyed. And men are mentally built to accept singlehood, especially when they hit their thirties and start to think with their brain. So risk/reward is the analysis, and remaining single and avoiding interactions are the guides. And of course most women do not like that, but it is a survival skill for men.

Is there hope? Maybe. In recent times, I've seen the scowls of women replaced with "Hello" and often flirty smiles. Now it is possible that this is just another fad, the "Older guy" thing I've heard about. I've got the gray at the temples, pretty well built, dress well, and carry myself well. And really, it is kind of nice. No one is trying to screw anyone, just human interaction.

Another illustrative thing is that I buy my wife flowers regularly every week. I used to get smirks from women, like "What did you do you have to apologize for asshole?" but today, wistful and sad looks, like "I wish someone would buy flowers for me.." especially from young ladies. But many older women as well.

Maybe, just maybe, an increasing number of women are coming to the realization that they've been following ideological zealots, who will lead them down a path of inculcated hatred, permanent singlehood. and end up alone. Women are not stupid. They don't often do risk/reward analysis, but they are generally pretty good at cause and effect analysis.

The zealots won't go away of course, but they might be relegated as a cautionary tale, a good place for them.

All very good and 100 percent accurate points. And none of this is fixable by men, other than passive avoidance, which is an unnatural situation. I've been told that I hate women just for recounting an experience.

And that's where we are. In a world where polite discussion is not permitted, where any disagreement ends up with pronouncements that you hate women, only women can fix any of this. Men are further castigated if they try.

Today, men are up against "https://everydayfeminism.com/2016/10/yes-actually-it-is-all-men/ https://holgerschueler.medium.....

Because womanism has morphed into demands that until no woman ever has any crime committed against them, then every man on the planet is guilty of all crimes against women.

And to think that disagreeing with that bit of utter, clearly stated hatred of every man on the planet will be written off as "misogyny

That is what womanism has morphed into. Pre-judgement that you are a rapist, and that you have personally committed all of the crimes ever committed against any and all women.

This attitude is red fuming nitric acid level corrosive and toxic. The ultimate expression of fear culture. And it is very damaging to young women.

They have been taught they are the designated victim, that all men want to sexually savage them, keep them from education and careers, and there are no exceptions.

Yet this is confusing. Men have stopped interacting almost altogether, are stepping away from college, and are now less educated.

In business world, men largely avoid traveling with women co-workers, and when they do, take different flights, stay in different hotels, rent different cars, and eat meals separately.

Do we even think for a minute that this is natural? Do we think women like this at all?

Do we understand why men have reluctantly accepted and adapted to the sexual apartheid state that seems to be the only possible reaction to the pre-judgement of 100 percent of us being hell bent on hurting women. That making a woman uncomfortable is a crime?

But back to the women. A women growing up with the present narrative is still sexually attracted to men, would still like a romantic partner, would still like protection against the less civilized among us.

But she lowkey hates men, as she has been taught to do, and men now largely ignore her, and stay distant. But men she sees seem to be having fun, joking around, talking about things in their lives, then go quiet when she comes near.

Welcome to the harvest of late state feminism. Which might be called Dictatorship of the designated victims. Very very confusing for her. I get Cleary act notices, a requirement that any and all "sexcrime" be reported to people like me. When it started there were notices fairly regulaly, now it is maybe one a year or less.

Allow me to ask where I ever typed quota. If you need reminded of what I actually typed, it was "The goal was at least 50/50 mix" Goals are not quotas.

I don't have any idea how I can prove what the equity policy, was from that time, only it was a university environment, and there was a strong push to have a 50/50 mix. You can either believe or not believe, in which case you can just call me a liar who hates women as well. Who enforced it? And you know that there were well-qualified men who were turned down because they were men? I call BS.

Then men avoiding women in the workplace not entering into relationships, and not having children is a very good solution to how terrible men are. If no woman is ever made uncomfortable or bothered by any male, she should be quite pleased with her success. She is free of male tyranny, and can live her best life.

Here's a homework assignment for you Watch "Snapped" on the Oxygen Channel. Actual cases of women who kill their boyfriends, husbands, parents, and children. It has been on for around 20 years now, and isn't running out of cases.

Regardless, the fertility rate dropping below replacement is a major win for feminism.

And please, consider that your defense of female DV against men by using more cases of male violence is really offensive. Sorry, but anyone doing violence against their spouse or SO is a criminal, your statement is implicitly saying you consider one worse than the other. And as a man who has never raped, assaulted, or touched a woman without consent, tells me where you stand.

If you didn't believe that you would have prefaced that no person on person violence is ever acceptable.

Yay! I brought out the real you! Please, more insults, you are teh grist for my mil.

I have received my comeuppance sir, my comeuppance I tell you!

Your inability to answer the simple question is a little disturbing. I'll just accept your evasion as just evasion. I think you might need a hug.

I use Safari, FireFox and Opera on My Macs. They all perform pretty much at the same speed, Might be Azure related.

While all of these issues are framed from a woman's perspective, I wonder if they have considered that there are some other people involved.

We haven't achieved parthogenesis, so a stem donor is needed, and these stories always seem to have a bit of narrative to them.

The people behind this seem to thing that birth control was just invented a few years ago, that people stop having children at any time they economy isn't booming, the only thing remotely touching on this is the one womannoting lower sexual activity for teens.

No where in this is noted that men are checking out. A couple years ago 63 percent of men under 30 have chosen to be single. I suspect it has grown since then. The femosphere has narratively framed this as a male loneliness epidemic, in a faux expression of sympathy.

Meanwhile, men have framed this are claiming that they no longer wish to be involved in a system that to many looks like any interaction with a woman is akin to handling a hand grenade with the pin pulled. One wrong word or move, and you can wreck your life. So they avoid the move. They see that the divorce rate is above 50 percent, which doesn't include the men in unhappy marriage.

What is a real issue is that as the modern narrative for women is like something out of "Sex and the City", where you don't even think about marriage until you are in your mid-30's, and experienced man men to make certain you can find Mr right. Problem with that is that when men hit that age, they think more with their brains than their genitals. In addition to the general disrespect, with fertility on the downswing at that age, many women will be looking at IVF.

And yes, Birth control has been around a long time, especially if you consider condoms. The first birth control pills were approved in the US in 1960. That's 65 years ago! It's a stretch to blame that.

Back to the male loneliness epidemic. I'm in a campus environment. When I was a student, we were all yencing our brains out, and having a lot of fun.

Today, a sort of sexual apartheid has developed. Here are young men and women at their peaks, and there is little interaction.

But here's the interesting observation. The people presumably suffering - the men? They don't look unhappy at all. They hang out, mess with each other as men do, Monkin about. The women on the other hand don't look all that impressed by their own situation.

When I was in college, you would see men and women interacting, holding hands hugging, kissing, enjoying each other's presence. Today, it is almost jarring if you see a man and woman holding hands or interacting. This is weirdly un-natural.

side note: I was married by the time I was in college, so didn't have the "college experience"

Point is, you can swing the pendulum too far, and lets face it, when normal interactions become sexual harassment, when even marriage is problematic, it is not illogical for the gender that is claimed to be always at fault to do a simple risk/reward assessment, decide there is virtually no reward, only risk, then lean out. It is also not surprising that the group who ended up causing this problem frame it as a loneliness epidemic. This is a problem men cannot fix, and with the narrative that it is not possible for a woman to do anything wrong, it is going to be a generational issue to repair.

Since the usual crowd will downmod me, all me incel, and drop to coward status to do so half the time, might as well let everyone know that despite being married for a long time, and not young, I'm still sexually active, and the wife initiates it half the time or more - I don't really keep count. So have at me as you usually do.