Yeah carbon is the building blocks of life. I suspect leaded paint was a part of your childhood.

Every morning I wake up looking forward to them finding his bloated corpse dead on his golden toilet. Nothing but disappointment so far.

Don't forget building camps for "undesirables" and stripping political enemies of citizenship. No don't build housing for homeless veterans or anything that could help people.

Don't forget the moral panics.

Make no mistake people, especially people here who tend to be better educated and informed, made a trade.

I don't believe for a second there is anyone here on this forum that doesn't know Republicans are bad for the economy. Tech nerds have more than enough pattern recognition to figure that one out.

So you have to start asking why the people here voted trump, and I know they did. Not everybody but I would guess the majority.

And that just leaves moral panics. Woke, dei, trans, those are the current ones but there were plenty before that that people traded there economic future for.

Mind you none of them believe they're going to be the ones personally hit. If they did they would have voted against trump.

Probably one of the most famous quotes from a trump supporter out there is, he's not hurting the people he's supposed to be hurting.

At this point nobody is going to escape the damage. But Trump voters will go to their graves not believing that. Even as they lose their houses to Banks after mortgaging them to pay for medical care.

Somebody got their mod points. My last five posts have been modded down by 1. Man what a sad existence we all have here...

You bring up a good point. He keeps talking about the "commie mayor" possibly getting elected but taking a cut of that steel deal isn't the government seizing the means of production? Or do we call it something different?

Thought I was having a nightmare. An 80 year old dementia patient running the country.

Intel did it much worse than AMD, and about the same as IBM in terms of vulnerability and performance impact of mitigation.

Core 2 was pretty decent, that's fair. But by the time the i7 came around AMD was kicking their ass at everything but single thread. Even though I am a gamer that's never been the only thing I cared about, and I've also always been cheap, so to have AMD provide dramatically more ops per buck and have very competitive processors which were outright faster in many situations has had me an AMD customer solidly since Athlon. AMD never was able to keep up with Intel's process technology, but by the time that ceased to be a thing, all Intel had left was inertia and skullduggery.

My last non-netbook Intel-based system that I bought with my own money (I had an Elitebook with a Core 2 Duo for a moment) was a P2 400 because AMD has kicked Intel right in the goodies in the market segments I care about since right around then. Only Hammer has even been slightly disappointing since Athlon, and it was still an absolute value for money champ.

It turns out there's still no evidence that he was ever shot.

The core 2 and i7s were very good. Everyone compromised speed for security without realizing it if they went for an out of order processor.

Oh yeah I know, like I said when an empire starts to fail it tries to expand its borders in order to loot.

I'd like to see us turn it around but I just don't see how. Propaganda plus voter suppression means our right wing extremist party can win every election with ease and they're incompetence and evil means we're basically doomed.

The centrists have their heads up their asses and the left wing refuse to give up on 18 to 24 mega voter turnout that's just never going to happen. So there is no viable opposition to the right wing extremists

In what way? Take a game and divide it by hours of entertainment it provides and then compare it other activities in a cost per hour basis. You'll find gaming is cheaper than literally anything you need to go somewhere to do, and cheaper than most other media forms you have at home. Certainly several orders of magnitude cheaper than buying a music CD or a bluray, and also cheaper than paying a streaming service.

The absolute joke here is your ability to do math.

Games represent one of the cheapest forms of entertainment money can buy.

Why? Got a citation to back that up? Or do you use that as a term of endearment for everyone who says something right which you think is wrong?

What makes you think they need to follow the red book? There's no hard rule about following that spec unless you stamp the compact disc digital audio logo onto the CD package, which they don't do.

There's quite a lot of CDs on the market that don't follow the red book standard.

Why do you need to own a song? It's a form of entertainment. It is fungible and easily replaced with another song. Look I'm making a point here, I too buy CDs but that's mostly my desire to actually support the artists in some way that actually nets them more money than being raped by streaming services. Often I actually buy a vinyl or even better, merch like T-shirts.

But as to why I subscribe to access to a streaming service? Well it's simple cost/benefit. I could spend 100s of thousands of dollars to buy a tiny fraction of what I get from Spotify for $10/month. If a song disappears? Well there's 99,999,999 other's in the library so I'm sure I can find something to listen to.