I don’t remember if they published the ACTUAL sex tape and I assume I would have intentionally refused to look then like I do now.

Posting non-consensual media of sexual activity is wrong, full stop.

Posting the AUDIO of that? yeah, if Joanie were dropping n-bombs and being hateful I would be all for a tabloid rag to ruin her (already pretty ruined by WWE and Paul “HH Helmsely” Levesque) life over that.

To quote the almighty dril:

issuing correction on a previous post of mine, regarding the terror group ISIL. you do not, under any circumstances, ‘gotta hand it to them.’

Good.

He was a notoriously evil racist, was alleged to have commit almost ric flair levels of sexual assault over the years, and has an argument for singlehandedly killing the unionization of pro wrestling and leading to the modern “independent contractor” mess.

Might have go go chug some gatorade and visit his grave.

I am an artist in OtherCountry. You want to buy art from me. How do you do it?

Physical money? Okay. You now need a way to track that YOU sent 40 bucks in the mail and that I received 40 bucks in the mail and that is (at least) two different national postal services involved. And now I need a way to convert 40 YourLandia dollars into OtherCountry pounds. AND we need to make sure all of that happened quickly enough that exchange rates didn’t meaningfully change

Digital money? Who is running the site? How many different sites do I need to have accounts on to accept payment from all the countries I want to sell to?

At the end of the day: For any transaction that is not face to face transfer of hard currency (and even then but…), you need an intermediary that both parties trust. Payment processors are that intermediary. Sometimes they are the person taking my IOU and turning it into money so that you can give me a hamburger. Sometimes that is effectively a courier making sure your money gets to me no matter where on the planet we are.

It is what lets us have transactions that aren’t “Okay, you drop your armor and I’ll drop my money and then we’ll slowly change places and… who the fuck just ran out of the bushes to steal the money I put down while waiting for you to put down your armor? And why are you now both doing the Carlton?”

The point is “I dunno, do something” when you don’t even understand what you are talking about is literally what trump was trying to do.

There are already plenty of alternatives to nVidia and MUCH more successful efforts to even avoid the kind of “Well, you COULD use libre office but it won’t support what we do to the docx format next week” stupidity. And… they all basically depend on TSMC which is even funnier.

Similarly, if you actually understand what nVidia’s (hardware) product is, you will know why it fundamentally doesn’t make any sense to split it up. Because the only way that works is “Okay, build all new fabs, all new research divisions, all new software divisions, etc to make the exact same product but with a lot more waste because you need perfect yields”.

No. The solution to this is to incentivize the competition to make it actually competititon. Intel is… moving on. But we already see government orgs around the planet prioritizing AMD purchases. Sometimes just for cost reasons, but it encourages those vendor agnostic shims to continue to exist and, hopefully, will increase AMD’s market share.

But “I dunno, do something to make it go away” is the kind of stupidity that we would expect from the president of the united states. If you can’t contribute to a conversation then… don’t. Or, better yet, actually ask questions rather than immediately jumping to regulation from known compromised agencies.

That’s where we should look. Why is it hard to be a payment processor.

Because you essentially need a global presence to at all be worth using. That is why it is a joke that NOBODY accepts American Express and only the shadiest of international ATMs accept Discover (saved my ass in Germany back in the 10s though)

You are literally saying that we need to look at why there aren’t more global mega corporations.

Do we need to explain why “I dunno. make the government figure it out. Worst case scenario they nationalize a major international company that is the backbone of many industries around the globe” is not a great idea in 2025?

Like, the US is its own particular level of fucked up. But other countries aren’t THAT far behind in many regards.

Not just successful. But praised.

Even on Lemmy, if you go check out the initial threads on the Steam censorship you’ll see lots of “It is just incest and furry shit. Of course that should be banned” style comments. Less so here, but plenty of other boards and influencers immediately then chimed in that porn addiction is the real problem and you should watch a stream of a nice bigoted white man rather than give in to it and blah blah blah.

And it didn’t even start there. It ALSO isn’t the start, but the attack on Pornhub a few years back was a big watershed moment where this exact same attack was used (pressure the credit card companies to not do business with a morally dubious site). On the surface? Pornhub is full of revenge porn and child porn so it needs to be destroyed. No rational person would disagree with that… and everyone quietly ignored all the data showing that (and this was early 2020s…) facebook and twitter and instagram and so forth had MUCH more of both of those. But hey, Pornhub Corp complied and actually instituted some REALLY good policies that more or less equates to signed consent forms for every single performer. And… they were still on the shitlist. But everyone had stopped caring.

The reason for a “fourth party” is because so many of these are fully international.

The dream of cryptocurrency as actual currency (rather than just reinventing stocks) was the idea that you could use your bitcoin wallet to pay for a pizza in Kansas, London, other London, Shanghai, or Timbuktu with no perceived difference. That IS what visa/mastercard provide.

Get rid of that “fourth party” and now every single online service needs to have office space in every single country so that they can accept and convert purchases on their own. And the end result will just be dropping the majority of the world.

How would you do that?

This isn’t even a google where they are separate products with shared revenue streams and dependencies.

Gamers, AI, Data Centers, and Crypto all use the same hardware. In fact, those gaming chips (and even a lot of embedded machine chips) ARE the same chips that go to super computers and major data centers just with more imperfections and thus lower peak performance.

Yes.

My point is that saying games that have been going strong for over a decade “always ends up being a rugpull” is… it doesn’t make it look like you understand what a “rugpull” is.

Yup. I REALLY hate those 11 year long scams. Hell, WoW is going at 21 years but it is gonna screw everyone over ANY! SECOND! NOW!

Also jesus fucking christ, WoW can drink.

It is arguable how much it is needed if games/libraries are coded “correctly”.

If a game is not resource intensive it won’t consume a lot of resources. This is why people who don’t understand power supplies might pop a breaker if they boot up the least AAA game but won’t have issues playing Stardew and the like. Or why you can get a few hours out of some games on the Steam Deck and MAYBE an hour with others.

If this is meaningfully effective then it speaks to something with the underlying Sony libraries (I forget the technical term) space filling resources. It sees memory is free so it uses memory and so forth. Which is pretty common with a lot of database/queuing software and why good practices tend to be restricting those with VMs.

Nah. Fuck the remnants of polygon (buncha scabs) but I think they are right that this has to do with setting a threshold/target for a potential handheld SKU. Basically the same thing MS had with the Series X vs S.

Just to provide a bit more. A common way of thinking of it is you have a static and a dynamic energy cost. Running the CPU at all costs a certain amount of power (static). But doing actual work on it costs more power on top (dynamic). So a completely idle chip is just the static and a balls to the walls run is static and 100% of the dynamic.

You can potentially turn off parts of chips to reduce the static cost (e.g. run with 4 cores active instead of 6) but that tends to require significant hardware support. And… most literature on the subject tends to e that it is still better to just run until the proverbial sweat runs down your crack because you’ll consume less power than if you had run lower for longer.

I mean, I can definitely see an argument for barely knowing somebody for over a decade.

But the friend of a friend that I always have to check my phone for the name of? We may have been eating lunch together a few times a month for the past six or seven years but we ain’t inviting each other to private islands or committing horrific crimes together. That is AT LEAST acquaintance level shit.

Exactly.

But that is the republican mindset. “We can’t go after X because that would hurt our team” versus the moral response of “Cool. Round up all the people raping children and chemically, or physically, castrate them”

It depends how it was printed.

As a SUPER simplified basic: Any 3d print consists of walls/perimeters and infill. The walls are the exterior surfaces of the print. The infill is what is inside. And the vast majority of prints tend to be sparse infills. So rather than solid plastic beneath those walls, you mostly just have air and a mesh structure of some form.

So if the wall is thick enough (generally referred to as “number of walls”)? Sure. If it isn’t? You’ll just see the void inside the shell itself and make things much worse.

What is generally done to reduce “3d printed texture” is a mixture of smaller print layers (so the ridges are much thinner), printing with more walls, and actually lightly melting the exterior surface (either through chemicals or heat).

VKB are probably the kings of the mid-range sicko HOTAS market and I am like 90% certain they 3d print the shell of their sticks for the Gladiator (?). But they do such a good job that I genuinely can’t be certain. Whereas the vast majority of ploopy builds… aren’t that.

Then please. Educate me as to what this great secret that only Christopher Titus is brave enough to share it is.

Not a link to a video. Actual words. And links to data to support it.

I am not aware of musk having access to voting machines en masse during the Biden administration but, sure, let’s roll with that because it does not matter.

Do you honestly think musk, on the same k-hole where he called trump a pedophile rapist, wouldn’t have bragged about having stolen the election for him? And, we are to believe that elon fucking musk single handedly hacked the entire country while not playing Path of Exile? Or are you now assuming the twenty employees at spacex are so immensely loyal to him that NONE OF THEM would have narced for a book deal?

And yes. Voter suppression is a thing and it always will be so long as we have a system fundamentally built around gerrymandering and the electoral college. But demographics analyses show that even black men have increasingly skewed republican (nowhere near as much as other demographics but still).

If this were a super close election that had come down to a single battleground state? Sure. But it wasn’t. It was a fucking landslide. So unless we are assuming that musk and big balls are super 1337 hackers who managed to not only hack every single election in America (again, under the Biden administration) AND never once said a peep about it when they blab about EVERYTHING else… Oh, and they also hacked all the polling and demographic analysis data to make it look like they didn’t hack anything.

Not really.

People want to believe there was some magic conspiracy that, somehow, absolutely NOBODY has talked about when trump can’t even go a decade without talking about wanting to bang his own daughter. AND they managed to pull it off, not when trump was actually in charge, but four years later when Biden was.

Because the alternative is realizing just how hateful this world is. And having to question if maybe “I am against genocide and won’t talk about anything else” and “we should have run bernie instead” might not have been particularly helpful in encouraging liberals and progressives to actually fucking vote.

You see it any time personal accountability becomes a thing. The republicans flocked to qanon because it meant they were actually special and great and it was everyone else who was an evil jewish space lizard or whatever the fuck. Not that they are odious hate fueled shitheads. And… apparently lefties really wish they were Dave and Tommy. Rather than acknowledging that… yeah, glazing liz cheney ain’t it. But maybe villifying anyone who can provide progress for not being Progressive enough isn’t it either.

Just like it was really weird that nobody was talking about shoving horse medication up our asses to cure covid.

Here is the thing. if you approach the data we have from the perspective of wanting to find something weird? You will. EVERYBODY has been clowning on nate silver (long before he became a parody of himself) because they don’t understand statistics or sample sizes. But when you actually look at the demographics who claimed to have voted and general polling… it paints a very reasonable and incredibly depressing picture of how trump won.

https://catalist.us/whathappened2024/ is a good write up of things but it mostly speaks to what we all kind of knew going in:

1. Americans are ridiculously misogynistic
2. Americans don’t like brown people. This, somehow, isn’t just the white Americans.
3. Historically religious groups (e.g. Latinos) favor republicans.
4. Older generations tend to skew conservative AND actually go vote

But hey. I would LOVE to see an excuse that isn’t just “we are a country full of racist misogynists who just want to hurt people and people who can’t even be bothered to vote in their own interests”. But if the only person listening to the truth is a guy who has made a career out of being open with his struggles with mental illness (both genetic and experienced) who has been going further and further off the deep end since the mid 00s? Yeah… there is probably a reason other people aren’t listening to The Truth.

To be clear. I actually really like(d) Christopher Titus. I think he did an excellent job of using humor to make people acknowledge mental illness, toxic masulinity, and even domestic abuse. And he somehow did it on god damned fox. But he has also very clearly had troubles over the years and it was evident even from just the tone of his humor during his stand up specials.

And just because someone has a podcast doesn’t mean they are qualified to speak to… anything. All it means is that they have a microphone and someone explained to them that they could use stuff they would already buy or do to lower their tax burden.