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1 hour ago, stepee said:

Honestly people deserve housing inflation in California, they keep voting against themselves 

California was just the first, at the moment its probably not even in the top 10 for housing inflation these days, still the most expensive, but its prices are stable compared to Florida.

Just as a refresher on the afghan withdrawal i brought up an old NYTs article, and came across a real gem.  We have it good now.

“I really believe the Taliban wants to do something to show that we’re not all wasting time,” President Trump said in Washington hours after the agreement had been signed. “If bad things happen, we’ll go back.”

In rambling remarks on Afghanistan at a news conference on the coronavirus epidemic, Mr. Trump also seemed to suggest that the Taliban might be America’s newfound allies.

“I’ll be meeting personally with Taliban leaders in the not-too-distant future, and will be very much hoping that they will be doing what they say,” the president said. “They will be killing terrorists. They will be killing some very bad people. They will keep that fight going.”

Anyways, it was overall a good thing that we left, 20 years of stupidity there, and a lot of the chaos that happened was due to the Afghan president being a coward and fleeing the country after a deal was in place to keep the Taliban out of Kabul till the US completed its withdrawal, once he did that the security in the city evaporated and the city devolved into chaos.  No idea why anyone looks back on the withdrawal and comes away thinking anything other than good.

Honestly though i've just gotten to the point where when people bitch about things i just ask how their guy would fix it, I know they won't have answer because they're just given enough info and told to be mad about it and thats it.

GOP polls are funny, their front runner in the primary has an absolutely abysmal approval rating nationally, but they refuse to vote for anyone else, lol.

You mean people who think its their god given right to blow anyone away who slightly inconveniences them or puts 1 foot on their land aren't actually followers of christ but just programmed to believe they are?

2 minutes ago, Firewithin said:

its going to be fun when

 

1. all the teachers leave (which is what they want)

2. people get denied job opportunities due to florida "education"  

I can confirm 1 is happening, HS friend and her husband, both teachers moved back to NY for this reason. 

28 minutes ago, Spork3245 said:

I recently had to drive through West Virginia. The amount of huge porno stores, and the amount of billboards advertising them, on the major highway was really something else.

Cause as we all know WWJD and the answer is clearly rub one out.

I keep forgetting space force is a thing and that people thought it was a good idea. 

I generally just keep swapping parts till i get to the point where its either the motherboard or CPU and buy new ones if i get there since I never have another CPU of the same socket or motherboard.

4 hours ago, CitizenVectron said:

Some evidence that Ukraine is using brand-new Iranian shells (produced 2023) against Russia. No clue how they got them, or under what deal.

Iran and the US are working on a new nuclear deal, so possibly some cooling going on and aiding Ukraine to further that along.

Its wild how many orgs run shit from some "top adviser for X" saying the economy is about to take a nose dive any day now, for like that past 2 years, and like clockwork anymore the numbers come out and everything is fine, lol.

2 hours ago, Greatoneshere said:

What is the deal with Biden's immigration policy? You'd think he'd be a good bit better about it than Trump but unlike in other areas he's not.

Keeping out brown people is extremely popular among the elderly regardless of party.

13 minutes ago, BloodyHell said:

So world war to prevent global warming?

 

its a ridiculous situation all around.

World War because of Global warming is gonna be sooooo much better.

33 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said:

 

In Canada in -40C temperatures (and parked outside overnight), Teslas appear to have a reduced range on the scale of -40%. The main reason is not battery efficiency in the cold, however (which is a relatively minor hit), but rather cabin heating. If you're willing to drive without cabin heat, the range only drops by 10% or so. Obviously everyone likes heat, though, lol.

What i'm saying is the batteries have a heating and cooling system to keep them at their ideal temps, which is between ~65-80 degress F, in order to do this they have separate heating and chillers for the batteries themselves that are separate from your cabin heating and a/c, like yeah even if you don't turn your heaters on in the winter you're going to see pretty big mileage loss because of the battery heaters themselves.

In the last year or so i've sat through far too many EV presentations, another thing is in extreme cold your batteries will also not take a charge so the battery heaters need to be on so that it can even charge, on buses this takes as much as 4kwh from your charger so if you have a low end fast charger at 20kwh its taking 20% of your power just to keep the batteries warm enough to charge.  I'm sure something similar is happening with cars, basically EVs with ion lithium batteries in cold weather is no bueno.

Haven't really seen cold weather mileage talked about with cars, school bus manufacturers have told us from the start that when its cold out that 135 mile range is gonna be more like 70 when its cold out, not surprised its about the same with cars, but it sounds like Tesla was even overhyping their ideal conditions mileage.  Basically unless its 70 and overcast you're not going to ever hit the advertised mileage with an EV, once you're outside the 60-80 degree temperature range the battery needs to be cooled or heated to maintain ideal temperatures, and those are separate to the interior a/c, and heaters.  So mileage drops like a stone in cold temps, and a fair bit in hotter temps but cooler is less energy intensive.

Probe stuff only makes sense if they're from a nearby star where a few dozen years might go by before you get return data, or if they're an machine race and time is meaningless, and we've been marked for exterminatus in some coming millennia.

On 7/24/2023 at 3:41 PM, CitizenVectron said:

Blizzard's main issue is that they sell 99% of their copies to regular players and then balance their games for the 1% who try and be competitive. Same thing with Overwatch, where they balanced characters for professional players and as a result some characters were basically useless for regular players who didn't have the same skill.

They did this with Starcraft 2, each expansion they added devastating AOE units that in a pros hand isn't so bad cause the guy they're playing against is also damn fast, but in normies hands you blink and you just lost your whole army, stuff like this also happens in pro games, but the game is worse off because of it.

A lot of there problems also stem from modern gaming revenue where they can't just sell you a 60+ dollar game anymore they now have to get you to buy shit so you end up with endless grinds or buy this to get around it.  Live service games are generally a no from me anymore cause of this.

12 hours ago, CastlevaniaNut18 said:

I never completely understood the idea of a starter house. Love my house and I’ll live here forever, unless I decide to move to another state. 

From experience you don't buy the starter house thinking of it as a starter house, it becomes a starter house once you realize its too small after you have a kid, if you don't have kids you probably won't have the feeling of your house is too small.  The supply of "starter" home sizes is basically gone anymore though, its like everything built in the last 25-30 years is at least 1500 sq ft., and in the last 10 years it seems nothing under 2000 sq. ft. just isn't built anymore, at least around here.

Not saying its this, but there are a lot of explanations that aren't aliens, but basically oxygen issues in fighters is a thing.

Physiological issues in flight are going down, but still persist

WWW.AIRFORCETIMES.COM

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Five years after a spike in reports of dangerous mental and physical effects in flight, military aviators are breathing easier. But problems persist.

So they just brought some dudes up who said they saw shit, but with no documents or anything to back up what they said?  "Ohh yeah he def filed that report no doubts, they just hid the truth man!"

On 7/24/2023 at 5:09 PM, DarkStar189 said:

The dog running right past the suspect is what got me the most. Then the repeated “Good boy!” as the dog is mauling a guy already down.

It looks stupid but praising the dog is probably the correct thing here, as far as the dog knows he did what he was supposed to, and discouraging it from attacking its target would just be confusing to it.  Now this scenario probably wasn't a good idea to let the dog go, fucking cars crashing into each other, cops running all over the place, just way too much for the dog to parse, the other handler at the end probably realized this which is why he never released him.

I don't get how this guy thinks he fits in with the democratic party at all.

6 minutes ago, ThreePi said:

 

I mean, it's one thing to have a different personality at home versus at school. But like, what name do you put on a report card? How do you expect teachers refer to the student at parent-teacher conferences?

Their given name, unless directed to do otherwise by the parents, in which case you know the parents know.  Basically you don't just tell the parents "well your kid wants to be know as X, when their name is Y"  its really not that complicated.

4 hours ago, Jason said:

California school district to vote on forced outing of transgender students to their parents

WWW.EASTBAYTIMES.COM

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The proposed policy would require teachers to insert themselves into a personal matter, a union representative says. “It’s just not what teachers are supposed to be doing.”

 

This goes against CAs education departments guidance, and theres a good chance he state legislature would pass a law stopping this stuff, NY did it pre-emptively a few months ago updating their DASA law with explicit language for trans youth.

24 minutes ago, Spawn_of_Apathy said:

Yeah, I guess it’s a bit relative. I mean if a person was upgrading from rig that had a GTX 1060 to go up to one with a RTX 4080, they wouldn’t need an AMD 7950x3D or even a 7800x3D. They could do with a 7600X. 
 

I was getting the impression for strictly gaming purposes when a person might want to spend a couple hundred more on a higher end CPU would be if they’re not going to spend several hundred to a grand more on a GPU. Like if they were targeting a 4060 ti 12GB. They’d need the extra horsepower of the CPU for 1080p gaming. 
 

At least that’s what it seems like. 

Like sure you want a faster CPU to push more frames if you're playing a competitive game with settings lowered or something where you're trying to push into the hundreds for FPS, but if you're maxing your settings in a game like Cyberpunk, regardless of resolution the GPU is more important.