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  • The problem was it was too quick: if you died of COVID, you were dead. You could be memory-holed and everyone would simply forget you and move on.

    If you had Polio, though, you were paralyzed and stuck in a metal tube and kept alive.

    Can’t forget your not-dead kid who lives in a tube, and thus it was treated as more of a thing that should be fought because there was a clear and visible reminder of what this disease was doing to everyone’s kids.

    If COVID left a couple million people living in tubes, then we absolutely would have treated it differently, but it didn’t.

    (Alternately, if COVID had killed 10 or 20 million people, we would have also treated it seriously: it just wasn’t sufficiently deadly OR left a wake of broken, but living, people.)






  • How would the Democrats fix this, if they have full control of the government? Will they give Americans free health care, or stop financing genocides? Have Obama brought the change he was supposed to? Guantanamo was closed? Was it because he/the democrats did not control enough of the government? Maybe if people vote more next time the Democrats will tackle social issues.

    I’m with you on the old and jaded bit, but that right there: they won’t do ANY of those things, they haven’t done any of those things when they 100% could have and voting for Democrats again, but with feeling! won’t get you any of them.

    The only difference between the Democractic party and the GOP is that it appears the GOP would prefer to sleep with 16 year olds.

    I haven’t shifted right the older I’ve gotten, I’ve shifted into accelerationist and must admit very limited give-a-shit about actions like what Luigi did and feel that maybe a few more might be more useful than another decade of me voting.


  • I’m in the same boat, with a Quest 2.

    My plan is to use it until it’s no longer working, and then replace it with something from someone else, assuming civilization still exists by then and my desire for higher-resolution Beat Saber is still a concern and not scavenging for food, or fighting the raiders or whatever the hell.

    I don’t get the ‘oh throw it out and buy a thing that’s not from that bad company!’ responses: that’s the same dumb shit that led to people breaking beer and burning Nikes, which I can assure you nobody gives a shit about as they already have your money.





  • Those both have a Ring 0 component, which is essentially presented as required for the crap to even work.

    The argument being that you have to have that level of access for the anti-cheat software to be able to actually be able to do it’s thing, since if you just ran it with a normal user’s permission, it’d be subject to numerous ways you could have a cheat tool simply bypass it.

    They’re probably not wrong about that, but doesn’t mean that we should have to essentially install a rootkit on our hardware to play online games.



  • You kinda missed the most important detail: they’re competing with the mid-range (and yes, a 4060 is the midrange) for substantially less money than the competition wants.

    I know game nerd types don’t care about that, but if you’re trying to build a $500 gaming system, Intel just dropped the most compelling gpu on the market and, yes, while there’s an upcoming generation, the 60-series cards don’t come out immediately, and when they do, I doubt they’re going to be competing on price.

    Intel really does have a six month to a year window here to buy market share with a sufficiently performant, properly priced, and by all accounts good product.



  • I’m certainly not an economist, a politician, or in healthcare but I’d be surprised if you could actually build a working healthcare system for less than we spend now even if you took out the profit motive.

    You need to rebuild rural hospitals, hire more doctors and nurses, build clinics and staff them in underserved (read: poor) areas, and basically spend an awful lot of time and money to fix the broken mess that the insurance companies have caused.

    I mean you COULD just change who pays the people and places that exist now, but that’s not really… fixing anything.

    Perhaps it’s me, but I’d be fine paying what I’m paying similar amounts for an actually funded and working healthcare system, if it covers everyone. Just need to tap into the AMERICA #1 bullshit somehow, and get the uh, poorly informed, on board and do it. Again not a politician or political strategist so that’s someone else’s problem, but I won’t complain about paying for it.




  • The best way I’ve heard that described is that for the Bambu stuff, you spend your time fiddling with the thing you want to print, not your printer.

    I love my p1p (and it’s several thousand hours and 100kg of filament into ownership and all I’ve had to do is clean the bedplate and replace a nozzle), and really wish there was anyone who was making an open-source printer that’s as reliable and fiddle-free as this thing has been.