Or Barbra Streisand's 1969 acceptance speech.

And who controls the DOE? It is not an independent organization. Are you aware of the Washing Memorial Reflecting pool disaster happening right now? No bid $17M contract was given to a Trump loyalist with no experience. The money was spent and now the pool looks worse than before.

Here's a thought experiment: Will you go to any lengths to excuse Trump of things we know he did?

It will suck more if these are poorly built. Given how Trump normally does things, I am confident that no bid construction contracts will be awarded to loyal campaign contributors who had no experience with construction. After billions are spent, these reactors are found to be so dismally constructed that they must be torn down and rebuilt.

So again you confirm you will not tell anyone what your grievances actually are. Got it.

The issue is the price for the performance and age of hardware. This hardware was much cheaper a few years ago as the CPU and GPU is many years old now. Zen4 was first launched in 2022 and RDNA3 in 2020. Right now multiple independent tests have the PS5 launched in 2020 as beating or equal to the Steam Machine that is priced at $599.Yes there has been more time to optimize PS5 games so maybe Steam Machine performance will improve over time.

Every digital cinema camera I've ever heard of has XLR inputs. So if you don't mind being tethered to the boom operator, you don't necessarily even need a field recorder. It all depends on what you're shooting and where and how.

But yeah, decent mics are cheap enough now that even low-end DSLRs have at least survivable mono audio.

Not necessarily. Canvassing can also bring broader attention to something. For example, I'm hearing about this, and my politics don't align with his, but now I'm curious what the issue is about, and might actually pay attention to it.

At some point, it stops being a mob and starts being a vote. And while it makes sense to not allow people to drag random folks onto the platform just to vote your way, it doesn't make sense to limit voting on an important issue to the 0.1% of users who pay close enough attention to notice. So I can see both sides on this one.

Maybe the right thing to do is to require a certain level of activity to earn the right to vote, then dump the canvassing rules. That way, any canvassing would only serve to increase turnout, rather than truly padding the ballot box.

L3 is not used as direct communication would be impossible with today’s technology. A relay satellite at L4 or L5 would be required. There are no L4 or L5 satellites right now but L5 is being planned for a space weather satellite that monitors solar activity.

"Hateful virtue signaling" by using her full name?

So I take it you will not explain anything you mean. We are supposed to read your mind about your grievances then.

Only if it wears a toga.

From what I can tell at the places I've worked: Macs cost a little more; however, they are only slightly more than business PCs. Remember large companies do not buy the cheapest consumer models from Dell, Lenovo, HP, etc. They get the business models. They are cheaper when it comes to maintenance. Incidentally one coworker with transitioned over to a Mac in one day. She had a Dell laptop and was visiting our offices for a meeting when her laptop just died. To fix her laptop would require a week to get the parts. It was a few years old, and she was due for a new laptop. But they only had Macs or the largest Dell laptops readily available at our offices. So they copied everything over to her new Mac.

[sarcasm]Yes because Steam 100% controls all the software that they sell. No one else sells this software at all like GOG, Epic, Microsoft, every publisher themselves, etc. Also no one makes PC hardware that plays games. No one at all.[/sarcasm]

It's $300 for 1.5TB more. Without part numbers we can't really tell it that is slightly more than component cost or not. A Gen4 or Gen5 NVMe SSD is around $300 though. Also performance and reliability is better if the SSD has a small RAM cache which adds to the cost.

I priced out a similar build for over $1,000 today. I probably could have saved some money by bargain hunting and waiting. That's the sad state of PC parts due to the current situation. Unfortunately the $1049 price is a deal today.