Remote work benefited absolutely everyone. If you were somebody who got to work from home multiple studies showed you were more productive and happier and save the bunch of money. If you really did have to be at a location to work you have less traffic and the price of gas dropped because less commuting.

And a few dozen men decided fuck you.

It really does show how weak and powerless you really are against the people who are really in charge.

The funny thing is you put them there. And every time somebody suggests removing them from their status you get terrified that somebody is going to steal your house and your car and your toothbrush and you insist on protecting those billionaires and the right to tell you what the fuck to do.

It's bizarre. I guess you do get a kind of weird order out of it. I guess it's better to have psychopaths in charge then nobody in charge right? Or at least that's how a lot of people seem to think

Barbra Streisand.

I am quite sure far more people have viewed the piece than if it had not been pulled.

The people that needed to see this are the Fox News Grandpas still watch 60 minutes on TV. They are not going to navigate LimeWire or even YouTube to find a copy of it and watch it. So the money spent taking over CBS was money well spent.

90% of America media is owned by billionaires. If you find yourself agreeing with what you see in the news consistently then you need to start thinking about what that means. If you think billionaires are your friend you need to take a step back and reevaluate things

Sure, in the same way that the literacy test for voting applied to everyone.

Was being the operative word. Thanks to America's corrupt supreme Court it took years to start building up those cases because they needed to be ironclad and locked in. You can imagine what happened to all those cases can't you...

But those voters are so solidly Trump that it's a moot point. They can fuck off and die Trump doesn't have to worry because they will always vote for him.

And they won't die fast enough or in big enough numbers to affect voting or Trump's re-election to a third term. Gerrymandering means that they have way more power than they should have and they use it to stick it.

But what it doesn't do is reduce the number of applicants or immigrants. Meanwhile Trump said himself up so he can wave it anytime he wants for his buddies or anyone that bribes him.

Companies aren't going to start wanting to hire Americans just because it cost an extra 100k at the start of a contract. It's not just about the cost of hiring an American it's important to keep the labor market tight so that there is no competition for workers and it's important that they can import skilled labor without having to pay taxes for colleges to train that skilled labor.

Billionaires and CEOs think of the labor market as a whole and holistically. Us peons think of it in terms of whether or not we get a call back for an interview. It's a completely different perspective

Needs a visit from the freedom fairy!

One of the first things of failing empire does is invade other countries to lose them in order to fill its coffers.

You would think Europe would have the good sense to stop America's democracy from collapsing. But I think a bunch of their wanna be billionaires who want to be trillionaires are hoping that when America collapses that they can step into the vacuum and take over.

Which would make sense if we didn't have a military large enough to basically take on the entire fucking planet. We do. And it probably isn't a good idea to rely on your nukes because we are fucking insane and God will protect us.

Profit motivated: yes. But it's their own personal profit, not the company's. This means they may make some dumb decisions if they feel that they will personally benefit from them.

Don't forget that they also have investments in office space that they are keen to justify.

They've never really been able to get it to work all that well. It's too complicated and two crash prone and requires custom software from the developers. So it's never been worth the cost.

Isn't the point of DLSS too run games at a lower resolution in order to maintain frame rate and then upscale?

It really pisses me off the a card as expensive as powerful as the 5080 with 12 gigs of RAM too. That is explicitly designed to force you to upgrade that video card in a few years.... But that's Nvidia for you

Seriously. So LCDs and modern displays have square pixels where the old CRTs the pixels ended up being kind of rectangular (I might have gotten that vice versa it's sometimes hard to keep track which is which)

If you have ever played an old dos game on a modern display and it felt a little off that's why. It's especially noticeable with rts' but you will probably also notice it with other games that make heavy use of the mouse.

Going up to 4K helps because the pixels become smaller and the differences matter less but supposedly once you hit 8K the resolution is so high it's equivalent.

So if you want to play really old games on modern hardware you need a super duper high resolution display which I find highly amusing.

Sorry, but you are wrong about this:
"1. Can I receive Social Security benefits if I am not a U.S. citizen and I live outside the United States?

Generally, we cannot pay Retirement, Survivors, and Disability Insurance benefits to noncitizens after their sixth calendar month outside the United States."
https://www.ssa.gov/internatio...

There are exceptions:
1. People who claim as a dependent of a US citizen (widow, etc.)
2. Countries with which the US has a totalization agreement. THis includes the UK, for example, but not India.

I already said that in my original post.

I am a former H1B holder that is now a citizen, however, I know other former H1B holders who have gone home, some of whom had citizenship or green cards.

I also know Indian H1B holders who are considering a move home now, since they are unlikely to ever get a green card. Note that, if an Indian citizen moves home without getting citizenship, they won't be able to claim any Social Security payments when they hit retirement age.