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Comment Re:GOP hates capitalism (Score 1) 82

This is such a perfect example of why Republicans are in really deep shit. They are reduced to making arguments that are painfully obviously complete bullshit. No-one wants to eat liver instead of steak, gas prices have gone up not down, we all remember that Trump said he wasn't going to start a war in Iran, and Mississippi has not been a Democrat-run state for decades. What the fuck are you talking about "their Dem governor"? The last dem governor was booted out 22 years ago -- Ronnie Musgrove. All three governors since then have been Republicans.

You people are such pathetic trash. Just pathetic little lies that are instantly, obviously false to everyone.

Comment People have noticed that cycle (Score 1) 142

The right wing takes over and they crash the economy.

The left wing takes over after the right wing collapses everything and starts to fix things.

They can't fix things fast enough so the voters get angry and vote for the right wingers again. This is compounded by the right wing doing everything they can to sabotage the left wing.

Voters get upset that everything wasn't fixed so they put the right wing back in charge and the right wing collapse everything again.

Voters then put the left wing back in charge but they can't fix everything from the last cycle so things keep getting worse every cycle.

People on political forums I follow have finally noticed that cycle. I noticed it about 10 years ago. Around the end of Obama's second term is when I figured it out.

Don't know how to break the cycle though.

Comment Re:X86 chips still run rings around arm processors (Score 2) 48

The main advantage to an arm processor is the incredible battery life you can get out of them.

Well, there's also the lap-cooking advantage... as in ARM devices don't.

I have an M3 MacBook Air from work, while my personal laptop is a 2020 Intel MacBook Pro. That Intel Mac routinely gets too hot to be comfortable sitting on my lap, while the M3 Air barely even gets warm running the same applications via Rosetta emulation.

Comment X86 chips still run rings around arm processors (Score 1) 48

At least when the workloads haven't been heavily optimized for those processors. Those amazing benchmark figures you're seeing from Apple or for applications that have been hand-optimized and that Apple included specific silicon to optimize for. Apple has the advantage that they know a lot of their users are going to use Adobe products almost entirely so they built hardware around that and Adobe coded to it.

There is nothing wrong with that. There are obvious advantages to buying purpose-built hardware. And it's kind of neat that we have computers for that for the first time in a long time.

But if you want or need a general purpose computer you still want a Intel or AMD based piece of hardware. Compatibility isn't necessarily the issue performance is.

The main advantage to an arm processor is the incredible battery life you can get out of them. Intel and AMD cannot even come close. If you mix one of those fancy 1 MHz screens with it you can get a true all day work experience out of it. Basically not having to think about plugging into a wall socket at all.

Comment Re:Seems to me maybe government isn't the answer t (Score 1) 82

It's not the people's liquor it's the liquor of the guy that owns the contracts to make it.

You can try to make your own liquor. If you're lucky and successful the big company will eventually buy you out and you can retire. If you're not you'll either lose your shirt like the other 80% of businesses to go under or you'll get run out of business by the big company then under cuts you or freezes you out of distribution.

The world isn't fair and it's not because of "the state". You could do away with the government tomorrow and that wouldn't make the world fair.

Comment Double jeopardy (Score 1) 40

So when you move a charged into the federal courts like that you create double jeopardy. This isn't always the case however the state can basically say that they're letting the federal government take over everything and then after that the person can't be tried for a state charge.

This is why it's important to commit your crimes in a red state. It's easier enough to buy off the Texas attorney general and dirt cheap to buy off of Mississippi attorney general. Honestly you probably don't have to because the prosecutors there aren't going to bring charges because they're going to see that your buddy buddy with Trump and they're all hoping to advance their careers and they know that going after you doesn't help that.

Now if you start meddling with blue States it gets a little dicey especially if you do most of your crimes in a blue state. But there are only so many hours in the day for a attorney general in a blue state to fight corruption. And they still have to deal with regular criminals.

Comment Re:No reason to not privatize (Score 1) 82

Washington state privatized liquor sales a number of years ago. Overall it's been a plus in terms of what's available and convenience... but it didn't decrease the price, because the government piled on the taxes. There were two arguments given for this: 1) They were concerned about lost revenue, even though we're basically talking about a blip in the overall state budget; and more importantly 2) they were wringing their hands over possible increased consumption driven by the lower prices.

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