And DON’T FUCK WITH NATURAL GAS! Let the professionals do it. I guy near Detroit killed his entire family last year swapping out a hot water heater himself. He survived. The house was no longer there.

Or, ya know, be competent at it. I’ve swapped out a gas water heater, gas range, and gas clothes dryer, all of which have been in service for years now, and haven’t blown up yet.

(That said, at this point I would recommend transitioning away from natural gas if you can, by installing heat pump or induction electric appliances instead. Better indoor air quality, better efficiency/sustainability, enabling the possibility of completely eliminating a gas bill including the fixed base charge for pipe maintenance, enabling the possibility of eventually running the whole house on solar, etc.)

In other words, waiting for the day when antitrust law is properly applied against Nvidia’s monopolization of CUDA.

Because that’s what true “citizenship-by-blood/heritage laws more or less straight out of the 19th century” would imply.

Goddamnit, “healthcare” is the fucking least of our worries right now!

I wish. My ancestors moved to the US from Germany in the 19th or early 20th century, but I’m pretty sure I’m not eligible for German citizenship.

It’s weird that you think it’s relevant.

I stood in line at Microcenter Thursday morning to get a 9070 XT. I arrived at about 8AM (an hour before they opened), and the line was already wrapped around the side of the building. They let people in slowly after opening (apparently so as not to overwhelm the sales staff), and I got near the front door by about 10. They were handing out vouchers, and they actually still had quite a few left, with almost all the different models available when they got to me. After I got my card and left, I looked back at the store and the line still wrapped around the side of the building.

Frankly, from my perspective, I’d say the availability of cards was “surprisingly good.” It’s just that there was so much pent-up demand, even “surprisingly good” supply wasn’t good enough.

You want to know what the punchline is, though? Not expecting to have much choice in cards, and not having had time to research the differences between the ones made by different board partners, I ended up getting the “Gigabyte Gaming OC” version, which sounded good because it had a slightly higher max clock speed but was still $600. In retrospect, I should’ve gotten the PowerColor “Reaper” version because every other version is too wide to fit in my ITX computer case. [Womp, womp.] So now I have to decide between paying extra to replace a case that I otherwise like, or try to hope the cards actually do get restocked in a timely fashion (and still at MSRP) so I can attempt an exchange? I guess the moral of the story is, even if you “win” it’s still a fucking pain in the ass.

The last card I bought was a Radeon Vega 56, also on launch day (7.5 years ago!) and I was also damn lucky to get it. I cannot believe that the GPU market has been continuously fucked up since then!

Well, obviously Ukraine would chase the invaders back to the pre-2014 borders and then stop.

They’re attempting to speed run a power grab and shrinking the government at the same time.

“Shrinking” is buying into their dishonest framing of the situation. Don’t do that. What they’re doing is purging, not “shrinking.”

No, they both really can’t.

Why do you want people to not take the threat seriously?

DOGE only looks incompetent if you’re so naive to believe that its goals are what it claims them to be.

If you understand that its actual goals are to sow chaos and destroy the effectiveness of the government, inflicting “trauma” on long-time civil servants while installing MAGA sycophants and acting quickly to “flood the zone” to circumvent the courts trying to sanction it, it’s doing a pretty expert job.

Stop. Underestimating. The. Enemy.

They also flow from corruption (regulatory capture/failure to enforce anti-trust and other consumer-protection law). It’s hard to say whether that is itself a cause or result of wealth inequality, though.

race, gender, sexuality, disability or religion.

🎵 One of these things is not like the others,
One of these things just doesn’t belong, 🎶