Pretty sure the deification isn’t his billionaire status, but his founding and direction of Steam. Would the picture be more acceptable to you if his net-worth were only 999million? At what level of wealth would that picture be acceptable to you?

a statue of Baal—which they described as a symbol of Satan

Cringe as fuck. “Satan” exist in a real manifestation in the form Capitalist Governments. You don’t need throw religion into it.

At least initially, eventually they will run into efficiency issues and they will need to upgrade their methods. if you have 100 people you want to kill, hanging is fine, but what about 1000? 10,000? 100,000? hanging is just too slow.

Does there exist an alternative that has both a desktop (WIN/Linux) client and a phone (android/iphone) client?

Goddamn, I thought American Liberals were the worst possible “left” party. But apparently the UK thinks that burning wood is a reasonable substitution. Maybe one day someone somewhere will understand that the CO2 is the problem, not the fuel source.

That’s cool, too bad they are apparently as morally bankrupt as the USA leadership otherwise they would advocate for the utter destruction of israel and the public execution of any Chinese citizen who had ever invested a single Yuan into genocide.

Nah. Trump will bomb a couple of random Iranian targets, claim that the grand-pumbah of islam was killed and then he’ll declare victory and leave, just like last time. Iran will shoot 1000+ missiles at Israel, Israel will spend $200million of US military AID to blow up 90% of the missiles and the remaining missiles will kill 17 people and then Iran will declare victory. Israel will sortie 2 American f-16’s to blow up some long abandon “nuclear sites,” and then Benjamin will get his propaganda win.

At the end of the day a few billion dollars will be wasted, and literally nothing of substance will happen.

Wow the international slush fund is running out of money because member states aren’t interested in it’s supposed benefits? Crazy.

Oil Shipments anywhere are the enemy of all people everywhere.

Eh. The national guard could be used as a moderating force. For example they could require that ICE Officers be escorted by national guard members at all times while they enact their “lawful” duties. Failure to be escorted could be declared unlawful action and the transgressing ICE member would be arrested and turned over to federal judicial branch, after a lengthy bureaucratic process. Of course this would require democrat politicians to actually want to disrupt the very system they were elected to uphold.

I also don’t think the national guard gives a shit one way or another about any specific private property. In the aggregate as a construct of a capitalistic state, sure they will support capitalism, but in the reality of the individuals who make up the state national guard, they are being abused by the very system they are supposed to protect. They seem fertile ground for revolution. It’s not oligarchs and billionaires who join the national guard. It’s not senators’ sons, and the daughters of NGO founders who are in the national guard. In short, the members of the national guard are not the ones benefiting from our current system, in contrast to the federal officers and police that do benefit.

I’m still using DDR3 as I haven’t upgraded my computer in like 6years. It’s fine. I can play most games at 4k and I’m rocking an Nvidia 4070. I don’t really see any compelling reason to upgrade until GTA6 comes out. (I can play gta5 just fine)

Now ban all advertising, please! Make public spaces for people, not products.

The only thing that matters is how clean our power is. If you are worrying about “cost” you are supporting capitalism and the fossil fuel industry. And cost to consumers is extremely misleading mostly as a result of power policy, completely divorced from cost to generate. Nuclear can absolutely be cheap, just end the subsidies on other fuel sources, allowing fuel recycling, and imprison all shareholders, congressmen, and lobbyists of the international energy cartels.

God I want a nuclear reactor in my literal backyard.

Fortunately I live in Illinois the state that has over 50% of it’s power provided by Nuclear, the most in the nation. (As of 2024, Illinois generates 53.62% of electricity from nuclear power, 31.10% from fossil fuels (comprising of coal, natural gas, petroleum, and other gases), and 15.28% from renewables (comprising of wind, solar, hydropower, and biomass)). It will be nice to get the renewable mix up too, but in the meantime I’m quite happy. Electricity isn’t the cheapest, but it surely is the cleanest which is the only thing that actually matters.

https://cleanenergy.illinois.gov/tracking-illinois-progress/electricity-generation-mix.html

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The concept of a nation only exists if you can defend it. I can’t declare my house a sovereign nation and assume that other nations have a moral duty to defend my sovereignty from America (or any other nation).

Did some Amercian tourists that had entered Venezuela via official ports of entry kidnap the president of Venezuela? What a weird correlation to draw.

This was always allowed. Anything posted publicly on the internet can be manipulated by anyone for any purpose, and has been since the first ASCII art on a bbs existed.

yea, ever since TPM was first making the conspiracy rounds in the 90’s there has been a huge misunderstanding of its purpose, let alone its capabilities. I 100% agree with the author that looking at the TPM as an evil blackbox is really just depriving users of a tool that can be implemented in an open source way to secure user privacy. The GPU however is impossible to implement in an opensource way by everyone except a small handful of semiconductor companies, and even then you would rely on proprietary microcode that woul take millions of manhours to reverse engineer if it were even possible. So if I were some megacorp who relied on Imaginary Property, the GPU that was exclusively created by a fellow megacorp is where I’d place my trust.

I also dont know why Win11 requires a tpm2.0, but since it does, and my current computer doesnt have one, I’m certanly not going to run it.

Same as it ever was.

If the headline is trying to ask if Venezuela is going to be America’s next Vietnam or Iraq or even Afganistan, the answer is “no.”