More name calling...

Complete sidestep, no refutation of statistics at all. Check. Call objectioner a name. Check.

All that sweet Humboldt green bud around you, and you choose violence. Go have another bong hit. You seem to need it.

Cute progressive word play. Check. Message implying Nazi's were right wing. Check. Implication that gun violence is a right wing phenomenon. Check.

None of this is true of course. Nazi's were socialists, a mere step away from Communism. Communists killed over 100 million people over the last century, and the actual German Nazi's another 60m+. Violence to meet their goals is part of their creed.

Polling from the Democracy Institute just in the last month has Democrats in the US approving of violence up to and including assassination as high as 30%, and they're willing to admit that openly when asked in a poll. So just fuck right off. While you're doing so, ask yourself what has gotten into your head and hardened you heart. Because those polling number are obscene, and completely unacceptable in a civilized society.

The real crux of the problem is the '10s were not great for CPU performance increases. They shipped like 7 (?) generations of CPU's with basically the same single thread speed, and a bunch of horrible security issues like spectre & meltdown, etc... All you got were more cores, useless instruction sets, more memory, and near the end of the '10s NVMe & finally some better single thread speeds. Windows 10 was advertised as the "last version of Windows", etc... Win 7 to Win 10 was free for existing COA's... Expectations were set. Bargains were plenty...

I actually ran an old Dell T3500 (circa 2011) as a gaming rig until '22. I picked it up used for $75. I swapped out the HDD for an SSD, put a modern GPU in it, and swapped the 4 core workstation CPU for a 6c/12t server Xeon. 48Gb of interleaved triple channel DDR3 gets close to early dual channel DDR4 speeds, not really but close enough... The Win 7 COA allowed me to update to Win 10. I got 99fps on most of the games I play. The only downsides was no microcode updates, and the 130+ watt TDP. Otherwise it was a tank.

In the end I bit the bullet and built a replacement rig from new parts. The newer Ryzen 7's, PCIe4 GPU's and faster DDR4 memory finally made it worth the trouble. I did what I could to de-fang Windows 11, and I do most of my important work on Linux via my homelab cluster. The money I saved skipping several generations of PC's was used to build a homelab, and take some training. And that's the crux here... They forced customers to spend money that didn't land in M$'s pocket. That's a bad precedent to set. I've been assuming the Spectre/Meltdown stuff was some of the motivation, but the newer CPU's don't seem to have fully closed the hole.

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I don't have DirecTV, and for the most part... I don't watch TV.

Problem solved!

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Have you read up on the Federal Reserve Bank? :)

Irrelevant. The point is he was shot for his speech. He was trying to persuade people, for whatever motivation, and someone got mad an killed him.

The "hate speech" trope is disgusting. Hate speech is free speech. The revisionism around that is absurd. Once you justify violence over speech, you've lost everything we've gained over the last 250 years.

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I live in a state with a "homestead" protection. It's kind of an odd provision. I can declare bankruptcy and keep my homestead. I'd lose other property, but not my primary residence. The only way I lose my house is to not pay the mortgage or my federal income & state property taxes.

As for safety nets... I think it's long past time we couple unemployment and COBRA coverage in some fashion. This would roughly double the amount needed to provide unemployment benefits, but provide a much needed safety net. Structured correctly, it could alter the layoff calculus for corporations. The benefits having a limited period & termination date make's sure it's a safety net and not a hammock.

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Except... The only way it continues to exist is if it generates a profit. It's there's no profit, it stops happening.

Hospitals close, doctor's/nurses/techs leave, etc... Say I was a doctor (I'm not)... You call out the indifference, but you're indifferent to my needs. I'm not working for free. My college cost a lot of money.

As for socialism, it always fails. Always. People hold up Canada and England's public health service, but omit that you can wait a year or more for a simple MRI, and die in the queue. When you look at full blown socialism, that too always fails, from the Mayflower compact to Venezuela...

We need safety nets in society. Some of these are socialistic in nature, unemployment, medicare, etc... Some are regulatory, like making it illegal to hold cancer patients hostage to contract negotiations. Violence only leads to more violence.

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How'd that work out for Charlie Kirk?

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Someone please tell the AI filters in HR....

No... No... No... You have it all wrong. They want to export their high prices and make the surrounding states suffer. "Sorry Spokane, you got outbid by Santa Clara for the Upper Falls output generated inside your own city. But we can pick you up in the spot market using LA Solar at $1200/MWh!"

Yes, exactly... And they were almost completely wiped out by the Devonian extinction. The name itself adds to the confusion...

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No kidding... I read the headline and was like "Whoa, is that the late Devonian extinction?" Nope... Hadean. Before even the late heavy bombardment...

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Cmdr Taco and Cowboy Neal cashed out, they're long gone. What's replaced them seeks to influence you. Hence at least three "Ahhhh!!!! AI is taking all the jobs" and three "Ahhhh!!!! Climate Change!" stories a day, interspersed a few stories you actually might care about.

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