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I use ublock origin but I leave it turned off on YouTube and I haven't had issues.

I do recall the FW900 being heralded as a mythical legend, but I don't think there were many, if any others at its level.

1 hour ago, Ominous said:

It's been a while, but I don't know that they really had good blacks. Had a 27 inch Sony vega TV (with fancy 16:9 squish mode) and a 1080i CRT HDTV though... And my glorious Mitsubishi CRT monitor that nearly crushed my desk. 

 

I've never actually had a LCD / "LED" TV. 

Yeah they definitely all had greyish blacks. I guess some super duper expensive and very late production ones had good blacks "for a CRT".

5 minutes ago, Ominous said:

Maybe I'm the minority, but I don't want a super bright TV. Black blacks. No ghosting. 😔

If you're not searing your retinas, do you really own a modern TV?

1 minute ago, Mr.Vic20 said:

Why? They work great! 

Aside from weird UI and motion ghosting artifacts, AI generated frames don't actually create the same latency improvement that actual framerate increases would. It's just an illusion, and an 8k game running at 60fps with frame gen might actually feel like a 30fps game.

14 minutes ago, Mr.Vic20 said:

You can already play several games in 8K with DLSS with a 4090, I don't see why the high end of the 5xxx series would improve on that, especially with the adption rate for DLSS 3. 

Yeah but DLSS 3 fake frames don't count.

On 1/5/2024 at 7:06 AM, Mr.Vic20 said:

The 5xxx GPU series will easily be able to pull of 8K at good frame rates in DLSS games, so let's go now please! 

Ehhhhh......

You could make a power bank that can just infinitely charge other non-nuclear phones with this?

It's just so bizarre to me that there's allegedly rogue layers of the military that are shielding their operations from people with the highest level security clearance. Like for that to happen, they'd have to be working under their own auspices irrespective of the chain of command. Seems kinda unreal.

1 minute ago, GeneticBlueprint said:

 

Search Engine Optimization. How you structure your webpage and the words you decide to use help it appear higher in searches.

It takes into account historic data as well nowadays. If people landed on a page often, that one is likely to get pushed to the top. There's probably a lot more layers to it I don't even know, honestly. But that's why they try to piggyback stuff off of already popular pages.

It's already flooded with AI reviews. Fortunately the ones I saw did not say verified purchase.

But the SEO thing also means they'll change a product page to something else entirely so like a nasal spray has thousands of reviews for a toilet brush (actual example I found).

Amazon product pages are just a mess, period.

The executives are in prison, but still. That's just derranged, and at multiple points a bunch of people were just fine with all of it.

2 hours ago, Signifyin(g)Monkey said:

I wonder if he’s psychologically capable. Literally everything he did as governor of Florida was just prep work for a presidential run as the next Trump.  Like, the actual job of governing the state was not even a priority, so much as a side-effect.  Dropping out is essentially admitting it was all for nothing and his life’s work is meaningless.

I kinda get that vibe from him too. Like shuffling back to Florida in defeat and just being governor is infathomable for him. There was no plan B for losing. And I shudder to think what sort of governing he would do in an even more bitter and cynical state of mind.

2 hours ago, GeneticBlueprint said:

I would agree with that assessment. She completely fumbles softballs like “what was the cause of the civil war?” She’s not going to weather a barrage of Trump’s awfulness and his cult. 

Her problem is she's in no position to lose any votes, so she's terrified to piss off any conservative, even "The south will rise again" coalition.

It doesn't have quite the same ring as Ecks & Sever.

I like that Trump's lawyer makes an argument against prosecuting Presidents that actually sounds like an argument.... for? Prosecuting Presidents?

https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/09/politics/takeaways-from-the-appeals-court-hearing-on-donald-trumps-immunity-claims/index.html

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Taking the hypotheticals even farther, Sauer looked back to history, and raised the possibility of past presidents being charged for some of their most controversial official actions.

“Could George W. Bush be prosecuted for obstruction of an official proceeding for allegedly giving false information to Congress, to induce the nation to go to war in Iraq under false pretenses? … Could President Obama be potentially charged for murder for allegedly authorizing drone strikes targeting US citizens located abroad?”

 

Oh the horror!

13 hours ago, Jason said:

Donald Trump mocks Joe Biden over stutter - The Washington Post

WWW.WASHINGTONPOST.COM

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Trump falsely said that Biden had stumbled over the word ‘democracy’ during a speech, and mocked him for a speech impediment.

 

Maybe you're not the best person to criticize others for misspeaking, Don.

1 hour ago, SaysWho? said:

“a political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition.”

 

A lot of what you stated is just stuff you don’t agree with or categorizing things in ways I don’t agree with. Fascism is the Heritage Foundation’s proposal to centralize power in the executive branch if a Republican wins this year.

Idiots calling anything they don't like fascism...

Seems like as good a place as any for this. I think this was a powerful, pointed speech. He went into just as many specifics as he did platitudes and I think it really hit the message home. He's not pulling any punches towards Trump.

Look how funny it is to rehash old ideas. Nostalgia is so profitable!

Everyone knows the best lawyers work for free.

Someone got the entire short to play on an 8-bit MS-DOS computer.

34 minutes ago, Ominous said:

Well if Clinton is on it then I'm sure we'll hear about it 24/7 on Fox. It would really ruin his chance to be president if this the 1990s.

Trump will be screaming for Clinton to be removed from all 2024 ballots.

Just now, Fizzzzle said:

I encourage you to actually read about any of those things, not least because I massively oversimplified things and almost assuredly said something wrong. But the story of the beginnings of laws based on race and the story of Bacon's rebellion are fascinating and they do intertwine.

I'm too ADHD for that but I appreciate your cliffnotes version!

30 minutes ago, stepee said:

 

Like happy she got caught with her pants down because she is about to get some?

It is a pretty big smile for someone involuntarily showing off her unmentionables.