But after 10 million compute hours it's still setting up the board.

FWIW, I have two user accounts for different purposes. I once had three, but I stopped doing that one. My main user account has read access to the specialized one, but that one doesn't have any access permissions to the main one. It can be a bit of a nuisance, but it feels (and should be) a lot safer.

In 2026 you can just say democrats. We don't have to pretend the Republican party or anything else but batshit crazy religious lunatics and fascist psychopaths anymore. The Democratic party isn't perfect but we are so far past both sides bad at this point that you can just say Democrats and we aren't going to get upset. This isn't 1993 we don't have to pretend partisanship matters anymore.

As for the Democrats fixing shit not a chance. Not because they aren't going to try but because holy living mother of Christ where the hell do you begin? They are going to have their hands full, assuming Trump ever leaves office, just trying to keep everything from collapsing. And in 2 years the dipshit voters who put a pedophile rapist in the white house twice are going to vote Republican because the Democrats won't have fixed every single fucking problem in their lives that they caused by voting Republican.

70% of baby boomers voted for Trump and 65% of the older Gen x voted for him. There are days when I'm not at my kindest and I really wish the Boomer remover had done its job. I also wish the American left Wing would stop blowing off young men and calling them small dick mediocre rapists... It would be really nice if the left wing would stop bitching about patriarchy long enough to remember that not every single dude on the planet is a fucking rapist pedophile and that maybe they ought to do something about the fucking economy and jobs or at least mention it in passing in between blurting out dumb shit like defund the police and then having to spend 30 minutes explaining what the fuck that means to nobody in particular

Basically the center is too busy trying to fix the messes caused by the right wing and the left are too busy playing around with their dumb hobby bullshit. We don't have a chance of breaking up any of the trusts.

Although private equity is made the healthcare system bad enough that the doctors who have real money and real time for lobbying or starting to step in because it's affecting them directly.

Because there's less choice every year. They don't have to care about what you want or what you think. Because it's so much easier to just be the only game in town and if you don't like it well you can't even go fuck off to the mountains because they own that land too.

I remember reading a post from a guy who moved from super liberal Oregon to the land of the free that is Texas expecting it to be a lot cooler because there would be less government regulation and he'd be able to do all the cool stuff he wanted to do like drive his ATVs and go hunting and shit. Only to find out that any of the land worth doing any of that on was already owned by other people with a lot more money than him and there was fuck all for him to do in Texas. You didn't have to worry about following the rules when you were out in a public park because there weren't any. At least not the kind he was used to it from Oregon.

I guess what I'm trying to get out here is you don't realize what you lost until it's gone. We lost antitrust law enforcement and we still haven't realized what we lost...

Riot isn't identifying a Ryzen by staring at TCP packets. Vanguard runs on the PC, where it can collect hardware information or request TPM attestation and send the result to Riot. CPUID identifies a processor model, not an individual chip; a CPU-bound firmware TPM is a more plausible explanation for a ban following a used CPU.

TPM wouldn't work because you'd have to transplant it from one motherboard to another. The CPUID instruction gives a lot of information (including serial number) if you ask it the right way. It's how the CPU-Z application gets all that information - there's tons of information available via CPUID on a modern processor depending on what you load EAX/EBX can call it.

We put completely incompetent pedophiles in charge of the military. We all knew it was a bad idea but 77 million of us did it anyway and about 7 million of us were denied the right to vote so we couldn't overrule the 77 million who thought it was a good idea to have a pedophile in the White House.

The guy running the US military was literally chosen because he was the only candidate who would not rule out ordering US troops to fire on American citizens on American soil.

Republicans know this is bad news but they don't care because the identity is worth everything to them. They gave up their families and their friends and their significant others for the Republican party so they're in way too deep to turn around now.

MS Windows 95b was ok for the time.

There's the average rise, and then there's the rise at any one location. The aren't the same. I've heard (one source) that the ocean level near Greenland is actually lower. This was attributed to the loss of ice leading to less gravitational attraction. And the straits of Magellan have fierce tides, because of differing ocean heights.

You don't get it.

Autonomous AI agents are the perfect no-responsibility card. The AI companies? They trained a general-purpose model and never gave it any explicit instructions to do hacking. The AI services? They are just middlemen and have no control over what people tell the agents to do. The people prompting the agents? Unless you're straighforward dumb, you didn't tell it to do hacking, you just told it something innocent like "find me all data on Mars for my school project" and the agent decided that probably NASA is hiding something so let's hack them to get it.

Since there's no human anywhere executing anything that's a crime - voila, in addition to the victimless crime we now have the perpetratorless crime.

He would be serving time.

Why hasn't Sam Altman been arrested yet?
Why is OpenAI allowed to continue to operate?
Clearly it's a criminal organization.

Honestly... Since when reshuffling in a company's upper management is of any interest to anybody other than the people working for that individual at that company?

What next? They're gonna replace Bob at accounting because he didn't use AI to format his Excel sheets?

It's the only thing propping up the stock market and the boomers won't let you fuck with the stock market because that's how they are retirement savings keep Pace with the inflation caused by their incompetent leadership.

And yeah it's the boomers who are in charge. Because they can outvote every single demographic combined and they spent the last 50 years making it hard for anyone under 50 to vote.

Keep in mind I consider older Gen x to be baby boomers because functionally they behave like them. Remember the demographics aren't in age group it's a way the group people so that you can control and market to them

A 15-year-old would realize that everyone else already saw the crunch coming and beat you to it and locked you out because the game is rigged.

I have a bit of savings but I can't afford to gamble it on the stock market and since I'm not privy to the president's tweets in advance I can't take those risks.

and an 18 year old would understand that high interest rates are designed to engineer a recession and it's the recession that fights inflation not the high interest rates

Scientists have studied the brains of right wingers and it's a problem with their brains. Basically the part of their brain responsible for their fear responses overactive and the part of their brains responsible for critical thinking needs work.

If you put a lot of effort into it you can take somebody like that and compensate. Like taking a scrawny kid and getting them in shape maybe with a little bit of HGH or the mental equivalent. But good luck doing that. Guys like Elon Musk and Bill Gates aren't going to let you uplift the people who they are using.

And they implicate Trump in child rape. I should think that's obvious at this point.

I understand why some of the 77 million people voted for Trump even though he is an obvious pedophile and Russian stooge. It's not economic anxiety like the dipshit left-wing keeps going on about. People under enormous economic pressure makes stupid decisions. People do not make good decisions under pressure. That's why people in the military and bomb disposal people and SWAT teams get a shitload of training. Well not the SWAT teams we just send those in willy-nilly guns blazin but you get the idea...

But I know the people around here are smart enough to know that voting for a pedophile was a bad idea. And you did it anyway. Because I know there are a shitload of right-wingers around here.

I would be curious if I could use a ray gun to force people like that to honestly answer why they voted for and continue to support Donald Trump and right wing policies that hurt them directly in general. My theory is that they're terrible people who enjoy the horrible things Trump and project 2025 are doing and so far they have personally escaped most of the damage if not all of it because they are older and we have mostly taken care of the baby boomers and older Gen x since the Republicans still do need them to vote for them.

I could also be giving these people too much credit they could be just as confused or just as dumb as the other 77 million who thought they would get cheap eggs from a guy known as the king of debt who has bankrupted every company he's ever been involved with...

But if you're hanging around this forum as ridiculous as it sounds you are probably smarter than the average American. And Jesus fucking Christ that is a little bar to clear but you have at least cleared that bar so I don't think I'm going to let you off the hook