Remote work benefited absolutely everyone. If you were somebody who got to work from home multiple studies showed you were more productive and happier and save the bunch of money. If you really did have to be at a location to work you have less traffic and the price of gas dropped because less commuting.

And a few dozen men decided fuck you.

It really does show how weak and powerless you really are against the people who are really in charge.

The funny thing is you put them there. And every time somebody suggests removing them from their status you get terrified that somebody is going to steal your house and your car and your toothbrush and you insist on protecting those billionaires and the right to tell you what the fuck to do.

It's bizarre. I guess you do get a kind of weird order out of it. I guess it's better to have psychopaths in charge then nobody in charge right? Or at least that's how a lot of people seem to think

The people that needed to see this are the Fox News Grandpas still watch 60 minutes on TV. They are not going to navigate LimeWire or even YouTube to find a copy of it and watch it. So the money spent taking over CBS was money well spent.

90% of America media is owned by billionaires. If you find yourself agreeing with what you see in the news consistently then you need to start thinking about what that means. If you think billionaires are your friend you need to take a step back and reevaluate things

Was being the operative word. Thanks to America's corrupt supreme Court it took years to start building up those cases because they needed to be ironclad and locked in. You can imagine what happened to all those cases can't you...

But those voters are so solidly Trump that it's a moot point. They can fuck off and die Trump doesn't have to worry because they will always vote for him.

And they won't die fast enough or in big enough numbers to affect voting or Trump's re-election to a third term. Gerrymandering means that they have way more power than they should have and they use it to stick it.

But what it doesn't do is reduce the number of applicants or immigrants. Meanwhile Trump said himself up so he can wave it anytime he wants for his buddies or anyone that bribes him.

Companies aren't going to start wanting to hire Americans just because it cost an extra 100k at the start of a contract. It's not just about the cost of hiring an American it's important to keep the labor market tight so that there is no competition for workers and it's important that they can import skilled labor without having to pay taxes for colleges to train that skilled labor.

Billionaires and CEOs think of the labor market as a whole and holistically. Us peons think of it in terms of whether or not we get a call back for an interview. It's a completely different perspective

Needs a visit from the freedom fairy!

One of the first things of failing empire does is invade other countries to lose them in order to fill its coffers.

You would think Europe would have the good sense to stop America's democracy from collapsing. But I think a bunch of their wanna be billionaires who want to be trillionaires are hoping that when America collapses that they can step into the vacuum and take over.

Which would make sense if we didn't have a military large enough to basically take on the entire fucking planet. We do. And it probably isn't a good idea to rely on your nukes because we are fucking insane and God will protect us.

They've never really been able to get it to work all that well. It's too complicated and two crash prone and requires custom software from the developers. So it's never been worth the cost.

Isn't the point of DLSS too run games at a lower resolution in order to maintain frame rate and then upscale?

It really pisses me off the a card as expensive as powerful as the 5080 with 12 gigs of RAM too. That is explicitly designed to force you to upgrade that video card in a few years.... But that's Nvidia for you

Seriously. So LCDs and modern displays have square pixels where the old CRTs the pixels ended up being kind of rectangular (I might have gotten that vice versa it's sometimes hard to keep track which is which)

If you have ever played an old dos game on a modern display and it felt a little off that's why. It's especially noticeable with rts' but you will probably also notice it with other games that make heavy use of the mouse.

Going up to 4K helps because the pixels become smaller and the differences matter less but supposedly once you hit 8K the resolution is so high it's equivalent.

So if you want to play really old games on modern hardware you need a super duper high resolution display which I find highly amusing.

He added a fee but it's not really enough to matter and it only applies to H1B which is only about 65,000 visas a year. For context we bring in around a million immigrants legally every year and about 40% of them are here for what would be considered middle class jobs (doctors programmers project managers that sort of thing).

Trump is making a lot of show and ice beating the shit out of grandmas makes good TV for bitter old racists but in practical terms immigration is increasing under Trump especially the kind that takes good-paying jobs Americans are gunning for.

As is typically the case with Trump it's all theater and none of it is real. I mean yeah ice will hurt a bunch of people and your racist Grandpa is loving that but it's not going to help anyone under 70 get a job.

And Trump is a billionaire. I mean he is now what with all the cryptocurrency corruption.

I know there are still a ton of trump supporters here though. They keep quiet and use their mod points when they get them. And they will vote for Trump in 2028.

Consider me stigginit'd.

You could stop actively supporting and voting for rapists that would help. Because Trump fucks kids after all and you love Trump.

You could also stop punching yourself in the nuts. That's going to be real hard to do because you've been doing it your whole life but if you try real hard and maybe take a classic Community College you can figure it out.

And remember if you see an llm remind at the Trump fucks kids!

I don't think anyone involved here is on the side of capitalism. This is a billionaire money fight and billionaires have pretty much had it with capitalism and consumers. That's why they want control of the media. They want control of the information you consume.

and they implicate Trump. I think that much is obvious at this point.

It's just racism. The practice got it start here because after minimum wage took effect there needed to be a way to pay black people less than minimum wage. That's why the United States developed tipping and other countries didn't.

Anytime you see a quaint little American custom that you can't figure out why it's still around the answer is usually there was some nasty little bit of racism that we've forgotten because of the civil Rights amendments and a shitload of lawsuits.

In this case though this is just taking what's left of tipping which these days is a mechanism where companies can advertise one price and offer another. Sort of like how sometimes something evolves in an animal and then gets put to another use.

I'm not sure the status of Australia's consumer protections though. In America with how corrupt things are now as long as it's large corporations doing this shit I'm sure they can get away with it however Australia might not allow what is very obviously just a trick to advertise One price and offer another. Bait and switch like that is generally frowned upon.