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It really is that bad, and its compounded with the fact that they speak with conviction and confidence - which when reiterated often is enough to massively sway a person's opinion. Now, ironically, when I try to listen to that programming, it very much sounds like the satirical radio stations from a GTA game - even right down to the musical beats and style of inflections in their voices - which I'm sure is a game the majority of these MAGAs love.

I would like to think no one is beyond reaching either. But if these people become even more entrenched into their beliefs because we appropriately removed and explained the true context of these statues and what they represent, I am unsure of what more we could do. We can't help if they think, they assume, we are demonizing them by this act alone. In a game of balancing acts, it's much better if we do remove them and cut off the romanticization. More good will eventually come from it than if we were to leave them be.

You are close to the conclusion that everyone else is saying. "We have 160 years of" romanticism for the South. That is the huge problem here, which has spread the Lost Cause myth beyond just southern states, pervading every rural community in this country. These statues, movies like Gone with the Wind, and shows like The Dukes of Hazard romanticize the Confederacy and increases its outreach. While I agree that education is key to healing this problem, we need to first cut out the cancerous material. The blowback will be short term, but the long-lasting effect of not having these perverted ideas of the Civil War persist in our culture will give us the opportunity to re-teach these people. Now let's work through the logic of the blowback you're worried about. If certain people consider the removal of these statues a serious insult as if we're calling them idiots and racists, then I think we can agree that these people have zero chance to ever be reached in the first place. So it doesn't matter what we do; then we might as well do the right thing. Now there will be people who are temporarily bewildered or mildly insulted (those who aren't seriously hurt), people who don't have a strong allegiance to the Confederacy, never questioned themselves, and just enjoyed the seemingly benign romanticism of the culture as depicted in mass media, these are people who we should be able to reach so long as we, upon the removal of statues and other idolizations, immediately follow up with the re-education campaign.

Pretty sure AMD lends out CPUs for bios upgrade.

I'd definitely check out a few 3D movies, but I could also just stream them through Virtual Desktop as well.

Looks like the average size of Quest stand-alone games is, what, 2-4GB, is that right? Seems like the 64GB version would be more than enough for these games, as the more demanding ones I want to play via Virtual Desktop anyway. Is this the general consensus?

@DPCyric @Stickey @Boyle5150 @Rev @Alpha1Cowboy Concerning Virtual Desktop, what kind of WiFi network (router) are you guys using? I have an AC-1900 router and wondering if this is sufficient for a Quest 2 and Virtual Desktop.

So is direct.playstion.com getting more units today, or did I miss the window?

Desmond finally woke from the animus.

I failed every time for the disc version.

I'd definitely like to know how anyone could get one from Walmart. I've tried three times today and the site crashes after 10 seconds, then it cockteases you for 5 minutes before it finally says out of stock.

Yeah, 2x16GB would be a little bit faster overall. Always nice to have capacity too.

You'll get slower performance with 4000 if you decouple the FCLCK (Infinity Fabric clock speed). The FCLCK runs at the same frequency of the real memory clock. So DDR4-3600 means you need to run the FCLCK at 1800 MHz, because 3600 is the double-pumped effective speed while the memory is technically running at a real clock of 1800 MHz.. DD4-3800 would need the FCLCK at 1900 MHz, and DDR4-4000 needs the FCLCK at 2000 MHz. But if you run the memory at 4000 MHz, and then set the FCLCK to, for example, 1800 MHz, then it will actually force the FCLCK to run at 900 MHz (half speed). Problem with overclocking the FCLCK of this nature (stock frequency being 1600 MHz) is currently 2000 MHz is very hard for Ryzen processors to reach. Ryzen 2 processors tap out at about 1900 MHz. But you could get lucky and get a good chip that can hit 2000+ on the FCLCK, so if your DDR4 4000 is a good kit I'd keep it. You could always run it at 3800 MHz and try to lower the timings. edited to clarify double pumped CLK.

Honestly there's no need to overclock the CPU clockspeed. The Turbo boost pretty much maxes out what the chip is capable of - and the the colder you get the chip the higher clocks it will automatically sustain. 280mm or 360mm water coolers are the best for keeping these chips cold. You'll get more of a performance benefit from RAM and FCLCK frequency. 3600 CL16 is the sweet spot, and you'll want to make sure it's in dual rank configuration as opposed to single rank configuration. What does rank mean? If you're getting 8GB sticks, you'll want to get 4 of them to populate all memory slots (two sticks per memory channel) as most 8GB sticks are single rank, but putting 2 single rank sticks on the same memory channel will make it dual rank.. If you're getting 16GB sticks, most them are dual rank on a single stick so you'll only need 2, one per memory channel.

I still feel your representation of the arguments I am trying to make is hyperbole, and as for the rest of your viewpoint we just simply have a disagreement (right now). I now understand your sentiment about this being their last chance, so I will not wholly disagree with you. Fighting will definitely need to be done. Whether or not I believe some of those people deserve a chance to redeem themselves is just something I will have to observe and examine from here on out. Your experiences tell you it's over and mine do not; however your arguments are convicting and it does make me sadder and angrier each passing day after reading right-wing comments from everyday people.

He'll shortly be back to his regularly scheduled shit show. This is me after skipping the last 2 days of this thread... On our current trajectory, I just can't see a peaceful separation after the Kyle Rittenhouse incident.

You all should be ashamed in participating in this blatant tax write-off scheme. Release the returns!

Needs the Yub Nub song. Come on now, you can cut out the hyperbole on this board. There's no place for strawmen arguments here, because no one is saying these people need to be coddled. There are multitudes of ways to spread mass information (the progressive, "Democratic" message). Finding a different way to relay the same message (that the left hears) to the right is a start. It plants the seed. You tell them what you want in a way they want to hear it - shall I say that is advertising 101?

They are trying to say "It's not official yet!" And then trying to claim voting software are switching votes from Trump to Biden in all swing states.

Wow #lockuprioters #notsopeacefulprotests

I want to quench conservative ideological growth, which I think requires flipping as many as we can. Not doing so, not putting in some work, is resigning our futures to the current state of affairs. Now while progressive outlook growing, it's simply growing too slowly. I do not have an argument against your equation ignorance->negligence->harm->bad. I can only argue against the initial variable, ignorance, that can be changed with some work. But admittedly, the biggest factor for change in ignorance is time. Time for the old, conservatives to die while we instill skepticism and critical thinking into the younger generation. I, too, am dumbfounded and sickened by the actual Trump supporters. Trump, not necessarily GOP, supporters are in love with this man. It's fucking crazy to see people scream freedom and democracy at the top of the lungs while they treat this man like a beloved king and dictator.

I will have to query your statement of whether or not the value proposition of trying to empathetically reach these people versus vilifying them. Shaming them could be an effective and ironic way to reach some of them. Demonizing the truly terrible ones I would consider a necessity to stamp evil out, and then just have to live with any collateral damage. I don't want to rule out my anecdotal evidence because the big data includes so many confounding factors. We've already brought it up, but is a single-issue voter bad? You can clarify, but you seem to be indicating they are because of their ignorance to the issues outside of their single one, and I'm saying they may or may not be and we can flip these people like @Fizzzzle was flipped.

Strongly disagree that 70+ million are just bad people - as I'm assuming you are saying they are inherently bad. I will concede that a large portion can never be reached - through any kind of re-education - and thus we can consider them inherently bad people - but a large portion are not. I'm surrounded by these people in family and work; they aren't bad people. I think we can reach a lot of these people. Just throwing them out will most certainly not bring the reachable ones in; it will cause further strife and divide. Mocking the shitty ones though, I have no problem with, but we should do more than that. One hurdle in stopping the misinformation is going to be infiltrating the conservative Facebook groups and echo chambers. This is something outside of Biden's control; we as local community members can affect bigger change.

He lost to the oldest candidate in history. He lost to a guy who's failed a nomination for the last 35 years. His next book though:

So I just picked a random Trump supporter from Facebook and what I found confirmed what I said earlier: Operating under a different definition of facts. I was worried, if Trump decidedly wins this election, that the riots would intensify. However now it seems like the right is telling themselves they need to demonstrate their disapproval Wade is right; our dissolution is immanent.