So it's not like the editors have anything important to be posting about right? Everything is just so calm and dull but you've got to expect this. It's just one slow news day after another and has been since the beginning of 2025.

There's nothing ironic about it they got what they paid for. People forget that Trump was a Russian stooge for ages. The reason he wasn't bankrupted during his most incompetent business deals is because he was laundering money for the Russian mafia.

Never mind the fact that Russia and the Israeli government both have massive amounts of dirt on Trump thanks to his long-term friendship with Jeffrey Epstein. You would have to be incredibly naive not to know that the Russian government has evidence of trump raping kids. You don't have to be Sherlock Holmes to figure that out. We learn from the Epstein files that the Russians provided a lot of girls to Jeffrey Epstein and we have eight credible women accusing Trump of raping them when they were children details of which have been corroborated by several journalists.

The problem is you can lay out all the evidence and proof of that but nobody is going to believe you because it's too fucking insane to think that we elected a pedophile who is under the control of a hostile foreign Nation to be president of the United states. I don't think the human brain is capable of grasping the enormity of that.

You get the same problem with things like the Iran Contra affair or how Ronald Reagan arranged for Americans to be held hostage so that he could win his election. It's just something that you don't want to believe is true no matter how true it is because you don't want to face a world that fucked up.

Hillary and Kamela sucked, end of story, just like Jeb and Mitt. People love Trump. No one loves Kamela or Hillary. You'll be hard pressed to find a voter who gives a fuck about them now that they're not running. People love Bernie. People love Obama. People love Trump. People who voted for Mitt, Jeb, Hillary, and Kamela preferred them over the competition, but didn't love them. People still care what Obama thinks. Who the fuck cares about anything that comes out of Hillary/Kamela/Mitt/Jeb's mouth these days?

The Democrats are fighting an unfair fight. With so much ignorance and propaganda propping up Republicans, For New being the most dangerous, they have to fight with rational thought. Democrats can lose voters. After Trump, few Republican voters are rational. They vote their beliefs, but VERY FEW rationally considered both sides and thought the Republican was a better fit for them. You'd have to be a billionaire to objectively benefit from a Republican administration. They voted on emotions or habit. It's a lot easier to lose a rational voter than an emotional one.

But, most importantly, the couch is always on the ballot. The Democrats need to run a candidate that people love...not simply one that is superior to the Republican offering. More individuals prefer Democratic candidates and policies, but more Republican voters show up...for a myriad of reasons...key of which is that the majority are emotional voters. The majority of Kamela voters voted out of duty, not excitement. She was boring AF. I can't say a nice thing about her other than she didn't suck and she was nice looking. I don't remember her being charming or likable. I don't remember anything interesting about her. I don't remember her being funny. I couldn't tell you anything about her personality. I can tell you a bunch about Bernie, AOC, and Fetterman...but Kamela?...not really, blank, pretty smile.

It sucks and is unfair, but that's life. Democrats have to run and please rational voters. Republicans just have to inspire crazies with empty promises, no results, and pretty much all end their run with a recession.

The rank and filed that those radicals need to stage an actual revolution aren't. Just like when 9/11 happened in America I can tell you right now that every single regular Iranian person is going to rally around the government and the military. Doesn't matter how terrible the government and the military are when your country is attacked you rally round them.

On top of that Trump has done numerous stupid things guaranteed to undermine any opposition of the Iranian regime. Go look up YouTuber Belle of the Ranch. She does a good job talking about it and how incredibly inept the Trump administration has been. Like criminally inept.

There are no upsides and no good outcomes from this. This is downhill for everybody. Which is to be expected from a man who bankrupted casinos.

So that Russia could have more access to our politicians and voters. It worked Trump's president again. But it does mean that we are substantially more vulnerable to other attacks. Especially when a senile old man can easily be tricked into starting a war that even Bush Jr wasn't dumb enough to start...

As for Iran yeah, we attacked them without any reason to do so. We already had a perfectly good deal to stop them from building nukes. But it came from a black man so it had to go.

And now it looks like all told this little adventure is going to cost us about a trillion dollars. That's another trillion dollars of debt and inflation. Almost as if electing a well-known rapist and pedophile with a long history of bankrupting businesses including casinos was a bad idea...

Funny thing is I don't see anyone defending El presidente in public anymore. Trolls will yell TDS at me but they never actually defend his actions anymore. Not outside of their safe spaces.

And despite $4 a gallon gas and a huge wave of inflation about to hit in a few months that we all know is coming, Trump still somehow has a 36 to 40% approval rate depending on the poll. I don't even know what you do about that it's fucking insane.

A sizable percentage of likely Democrat voters are worried that a woman would get bullied in international negotiations by male world leaders. This is of course a silly thing to think but they think it.

To counteract that women who run for president, and this goes for both Kamala and Hillary as well as the various women who ran in the primary, all have to do a bunch of saber rattling to show how tough they are to those voters.

The problem is that saber rattling inevitably backfires and a bunch of young men see it and get spooked that the woman in question is going to drag us into a war with a draft.

There's an old saying about war, don't give your opponents problems give them dilemmas. What I described above is a dilemma. There's no actual right answer or good solution. If you skip the saber rattling you lose the voters who think you aren't going to be able to negotiate and if you do the saber rattling you lose the voters who think you're going to draft them off to die in the Middle East.

The Republican party has a lot of these kind of dilemmas and they can usually solve them with overwhelming propaganda and dog whistles because they have a much larger media apparatus and a lot more money. Those aren't options for the Democratic party.

Because of all this under the current system it's basically impossible for a woman to become president. I think if they completely eliminated voter suppression then they could win but that's going to be a multi-generational effort.

This is what Jasmine Crockett meant when she said the Democrats are going to nominate the safest white boy they can find. They aren't in a position where they can risk running a woman again. We've got 20 or 30 years of civil rights organization and voting rights organization before that can happen...

LOL. Tell us you never used it without telling us. Some of us don't want to run 30m long HDMI cables from our computers down stairs to the living room. Compression artefacts? Lag? Not sure what you're talking about there. Likewise with network bandwidth given Steamlink required about 40Mbps to stably do 60fps on 1080p. If your network can't handle that then a HDMI cable isn't your concern, you probably have problems keeping the power running in your home.

Also can we briefly address the hilarity of you thinking that Steamlink isn't suitable for TVs, but somehow is suitable for VR (yes it is, and it works great) despite the latter requiring 2 orders of magnitude more bandwidth and being insanely sensitive to latency? Your post makes zero sense.

This has nothing to do with Valve. Valve never made a Steam Link app for any TV. Samsung worked with a 3rd party to create a Steamlink app, the only part Valve did was consent to their name and logo. But an updated app is completely useless anyway. Long before Steamlink was announced as being dropped Samsung royally fucked up the ability to pair game controllers with the TV. Both Bluetooth and USB game controllers had their right analogue stick mapped to TV volume control.

So yeah Steamlink was a great thing between 2022 and 2023 if you played games that didn't involve looking up or down. Most people abandoned Steamlink on Samsung TVs long before Samsung called it quits (what a strategy, it seems like the general public is blaming Valve for this).

So what? You think the ship's crew are the ones paying the toll? That's done by an office somewhere in another country. The ship isn't doing any transaction here.

If course he is. Bitcoin may take a while to be committed to the chain, but that doesn't mean you can't have an exchange in a friendly country guarantee the exchange while the technical issues resolve themselves in the background.

In the medium to long term the main outcome of this war will be accelerating the move away from US based currency and payment systems. Lots of alternatives to Mastercard and Visa already have some momentum, and trading oil is moving away from USD.

With such a system you can tolerate a lot of false positives, to ensure you don't get false negatives. All that happens is the false positive image gets sent to the ground for verification.

And remember that the other option is having nothing at all.

Didn't they try to do that kind of image recognition in the 90s and find it unreliable? IIRC they tested it with tanks and found that rather that detecting tanks it was detecting sunny days, and once they eliminated the weather variations it couldn't do anything useful.

Today Tesla's vision system is notoriously unreliable, and you would assume that in military applications the aircraft are going to be camouflaged.

But then you have to transmit potentially massive amounts of data back to Earth.

Say you want to detect aircraft entering airspace. They are difficult to detect with radar, so you want to do it optically. You need decent resolution to capture small drone sized ones, and you need multiple images to help with camouflage, false positives, and determining flight path.

That's a lot of data. The data rate is likely to be the limiting factor on what resolution and how frequently you can image an area. Being able to do the detection on the satellite, and only send reports or images that suggest further investigation is worthwhile, is going to be very useful.

What's the laptop distinction? These days countless people use laptops with docking stations or external screens for complex professional work.

As for the activity of designing FPGAs, that's not a very intensive task. An entry level consumer laptop can trivially do the task. That doesn't change the fact that the underlying database for these tools are massive.

Don't be such a gatekeeper and maybe look at what people who are not you do with their computers.