I don't know what gets the sales numbers up, buuuut...my conjecture is that, at least for billboards, it's probably more about relevance to the intended target audience and they're just aiming for a tiny selection of those who pass by. Reason I say that is because right by my work there seem to be all sorts of companies either trying to get our attention (likely fruitlessly, but they don't figure that out til after they've already paid whoever owns it because they never hold it long) or trying to get the attention of some curious tourists. Yet go like a mile or two in any direction and basically none of the billboards are being bought up, save for the occasional ambulance chaser ads, likely strategically placed for obvious reasons.

I think they'd be far more satisfied with Google deciding not to kill off third party cookies.

Trump isn't the only one who repeats that lie. It's a common Bernieism as well (and did I mention, he also loves tariffs? an idea I've shat on since long before orange man did it) and people here repeat claims about how bad the US economy is often, to the point that they give me shit even when I provide hard numbers very conclusively proving them wrong, not just on a macro scale but also on the micro scale, right down to individuals. Like for example when I point out the fact that the US is second only to Luxembourg in median disposable income and purchasing power parity, which also takes into account mandatory expenses like taxes, food, housing, and health care. Some asshole (don't recall who and can't be bothered to dig up the old post right now) here literally claimed that the numbers I provided were somehow misleading and never could explain why, other than the fact that he didn't like the use of medians for some bullshit reason. And of course, if rsilvergun is to be believed, the US has been in a terrible state, both economically and otherwise, since Leave it to Beaver was cancelled because those were his only good years.

Basically, it's the favored view of people who want to promote their own political views. When somebody like me comes around and reassures them that their life is already much better than they think it is, all it does is piss them off.

Honestly I think the best thing that could happen to the US right now is for Donald Trump AND JD Vance to have a stroke (NOT assassination, last thing we need are for bad people to become martyrs like George Floyd) and hopefully in the process we get somebody who fills the presidential cabinet with actual economists. Bernie Sanders and AOC too while we're at it. Mind you, I'm not wishing permanent disability on anybody, rather what I'm saying is the country as a whole would benefit if extremists like these have no ability to cause further damage with their economics, which they still think is a good idea despite over a century of evidence to the contrary.

I neither know nor care what "republican talking points" are on this matter. Tell me, what are the republicans saying about the health care situation I've encountered here? How many of them have a kidney transplant AND a chronic EBV infection from it, to make a talking point about it? Show me some examples.

I don't care who he gets a pass from.

At the time I was born, my parents were going through bankruptcy, had one car and a house that apparently wasn't even in their name. Everything I've done to get where I am today was done quite on the cheap and out of my own minimum wage earning pocket. Tell me just how rich you think I was born.

That's an interesting comment considering nobody actually said that. Here's what was said:

In other words, as if only one particular group of people is doing it. That's obviously not the case.

That's because you're an invertebrate with no central nervous system, let alone a brain, so it's no fucking wonder you can't think for yourself and just repeat the same shit over and over like a every other automaton.

This has absolutely nothing to do with anything, particularly considering California, where republicans have for all intents and purposes, zero control over housing or much of anything in this state at all. This has everything to do with the fact that California has an unwritten BANANA policy.

Unlike you, I actually lived here when it was implemented. The prices raised quite a bit in fact. During that time I was basically living off of dominos for about two weeks. Literally overnight they increased the price of everything by a dollar or more, and started charging a dollar for parmesan cheese and red pepper, which every pizza restaurant unaffected by this law still gives away for free. Prior to this law going into effect, their prices were literally identical to what they currently have in Arizona, where it still hasn't changed since then.

Well unlike you:
1) I have an education. Typing up posts like that is nothing to me. Which is also why, unlike you, I don't rely on canned responses.
2) I can think for myself instead of just copying and pasting shit from fark or from AI crap without understanding a word of it.
3) I'm not an authoritarian Maoist pretending to want democracy.
4) I'm an atheist. I don't believe in invisible men. Keep that shit along with your quran to yourself.
5) I actually have real world experience with everything I just mentioned. You have zero experience with any of it. Not only because you have no medical conditions comparable to mine, but you don't live in this state, you're too fat to even get on a plane to even visit this state, you don't work for a living, you've never done any actual work for a living, and you've never paid taxes. Not only are you worthless, but you're a net drain on those around you just like any other leech. I'd tell you to move to Canada or something, but they'd also deny you entry because they don't want you leeching off of them either.

I see you haven't been to California lately. And remember: California is a state run by you guys at ALL LEVELS.

How is $20 an hour good when everything is so fucking expensive here? Even $45 an hour here might make you rich enough to live in a 10 by 10 room in an old 50s era crackerbox without so much as place to do your laundry. Oh, and did I mention that $20 an hour is only for restaurants, except for the kind that the governor owns?

Health insurance? Wonderful, because even when you have it, it's hard as shit to get any kind of care here. When I left Arizona, my transplant team said that I need to be under the care of another transplant team, which in most places is easy to get. So when I get here, what do I do? Call UCLA, explain my situation and explain why I've been told that I need ongoing care from a transplant team. You know what they tell me? We don't have the capacity for that, you'll have to make due with a regular nephrologist even though they agreed that because of my chronic EBV (which came from the kidney BTW) I do need careful control of my tacrolimus titration that only transplant specialists are qualified to do. So what happens when I go see a regular nephrologist? I'm told I need to get lab work ordered by a California GP and then get a referral EVEN THOUGH I'M ON A PPO AND I'M ALLOWED TO SELF-REFER. Why? Well, it's that capacity thing again. Regular appointments for specialists take ages as well. Did I also mention that parking often costs more than the actual doctor appointment? I had NONE OF THESE issues in Phoenix. Ever.

So what good is health insurance when it's hard as fuck to get access to health care?

And what autonomy? Apparently it's illegal to carry a dive knife in my actual dive bag with the rest of my dive gear, or so much as a FUCKING SQUIRT GUN without breaking the law here. And better not drive a Tesla because some enlightened fucking progressive will probably scribble nazi propaganda on it. If you own a car, it better be the fucking right one, which includes cars made by a company whose original logo was a literal fucking swastika. And of course, we haven't even gotten to how California is actively hostile to sex workers, even where it doesn't involve prostitution:

https://www.latimes.com/archiv...
https://www.theguardian.com/us...

90 billion dollar deficit and still spending. Budget? What budget? Usually when you have a budget, you try to stay within it. I pay California more in taxes than you probably make in your annual salary, yet nothing here fucking works. Every other god damn road sign has been scribbled with graffiti ever since I moved here, the only time they'll ever remove it is if somebody sprays boobs or a dick over it, because human body parts are offensive, but references to gangs known for violence are just fine. Potholes ruin your tires and nobody fucking cares. Some of the roads have lane markers so faded that they may as well not even be there. And those are the good roads, because others are often so chunked out that we'd probably be better off if they weren't paved at all. The infrastructure here is such dog shit that even the previous governor is still complaining about it.

So what does all of that tax money fund? Well, Gavin Newsom along with numerous fire and police chiefs get paid more than POTUS, and it seems none of them are worth a shit. Though Newsom thinks so highly of himself that he paid some of that government income to build a statue of himself in SFs City Hall. LA City Council gets paid more than congress, and what are they doing for us? Well, basically this:

https://www.latimes.com/califo...

Yeah, talk up a storm about how black lives matter even if you don't give two shits about it, whatever gets you the votes, because you know that this is the only thing most of the dumbass constituents here care about. They certainly don't give a shit about just how much the city wastes water while demanding a larger share of the Colorado River, or how horribly fucking polluted it is to the point that it's actually unsafe to breathe the air here even before the Palisades burned up (which itself is directly attributable to poor land management, namely the state never did any controlled burns, which is something the Natives Americans used to do for exactly this reason.) If they actually did anything worth a shit, they would have done something about it decades ago.

Oh and you want to talk Oligarchy? Check this shit out:

https://www.latimes.com/projec...

But it gets even more blatant than that, as slashdot itself once covered:

https://mobile.slashdot.org/st...

I don't think I've ever been subject to a more corrupt government than this one. And did I mention that it's a de-facto single party state, the same party you think is so great? Such a fucking enlightened group you guys are. Obviously what we need to fix everything is a big make-work project, because jobs. Like say a $100 billion high speed rail to nowhere...oh wait, we're already doing that...and worse, we're going against the voters by doing so because what they voted for was something different entirely, because fuck democracy.

And not that it matters but you mentioned religion...California's religion isn't just fucking weird, it's fucking batshit. I swear I've never seen so many people here that actually believe in psychics, fortune tellers, palm readers, etc. And they're everywhere. Decent chance when you've parked your car somewhere, one of them leaves a business card under your wiper. And you pretty much can't drive more than two miles in any given direction from any given point without seeing a business sign for one.

Trust me when I say this: Your shit stinks just as bad, if not worse, as theirs.

Well let's take score then, shall we?

1. Washington post
2. Uncited, but this is Dylan Roof. If you can't recall the media coverage over this, by several national outlets, then you're living under a rock
3. Local newspaper is cited, however it was in fact covered by ABC: https://abcnews.go.com/US/stri...
4. Washington post
5. Washington post
6. Associated press. And I might add, done by a black guy who was a member of the church's congregation. Essentially the guy did a Jussie Smollett.
7. NPR, CNN
8. NPR, NYT, CNN, CBS. Also worth noting that the motivation here was animus against Christianity.
9. NPR, NYT, CNN
10. NPR, NYT, CNN
11. PBS

So by my count, that makes it 1 out of 11 were only covered by local news media, at least according to wikipedia. But honestly, you don't even have that, because in fact that one only cited as local news was in fact covered by the national media, in addition to the Guardian and the BBC: In other words, you're 100% full of shit here. Furthermore, several of these don't appear to even be "right wing", whatever the hell that even means. Not all of them were arson either.

In other words, this is pure disinformation on your part.

So you proceed to link to a Wikipedia page containing...numerous citations to news articles, most of which appear to even be major news outlets instead of just obscure local ones. Like this one:

https://apnews.com/article/522...

I'll never understand why somebody would link to something that disproves their own assertion. Though I doubt you ever had any intention of being honest with either yourself or anybody else, so it's more likely you never intended for anybody to actually cross examine it, which is probably why you posted anonymously.

Well said.

That would simply be a waste of time.

https://www.penny-arcade.com/c...

I'm honestly impressed with just how many of you guys are drawing conclusions based on your own speculation even though the paper specifically says they don't know the cause. Dunning-Kruger is manifest here. I'd ask if any single one of you even bothered to read the quote at the end of the third paragraph, but that would involve taking a few seconds to read what's already under your noses.

And because it needs to be said because you guys obviously can't reason about much of anything at all: I'm making no commentary whatsoever about equality or anything like that, rather just how incredibly stupid people can be. We have a stupid president who thinks kneecapping trade is a good idea precisely because he either cannot or does not think. Then I see people like you guys and realize he's not the only one. Maybe that's just the in-thing now: Make catastrophically bad economic decisions based on what your gut tells you.

Probably not, but it's sure as shit the in-thing here. That's exactly the reason I've refrained from posting here lately. It's astonishing how some of you guys draw conclusions and make matter-of-fact claims based on rumor alone. One post in particular get a score 5 making a claim that I already know to be false but popular opinion here buys into it anyways. Whatever, populism does that I guess.

Given the 5090 has over 21000 cuda cores this is more like a 5045 with half the compute capacity, a quarter of the power limits and around 70% the memory/bus.

I guess on the plus side there's no 12v high fire connector to worry about because these chips are mb integrated and wouldn't draw enough power to worry about anyway.

It's kind of stupid to target DNS when they could just have their domestic ISPs blackhole whatever IP the domain name points to, also ensuring that they only have to deal with local companies that are subject to their local laws, instead of foreign ones who probably aren't. Sure, it won't block VPN as a means of circumvention, but neither will DNS, and VPN has a higher barrier of entry than simply switching DNS servers. But you know these Europeans; not exactly a clever bunch.

So then are you going to start painting "el salvador" on them instead? I don't see how that helps.