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frigid blade
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I will be watching from my home in Poland

grizzled frost
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I mean i can write in granite that it's named the president's dollhouse but that doesn't make it the legal name

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California is 100% losing that war handedly

onyx bluff
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😂😂😂

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I say this as a new yorker - what the fuck are you talking about

frigid blade
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This dude must be from California

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Glazing Cali for the fun of it

gilded imp
hardy horizon
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It current growth. They pulled to McDonald's. Dort Ash and other delivery services don't allow restaurants to charge more for the food. So the restaurants increase the price of the food for every customer.

If you want to pay then not inflated price you must be on some kind of loyalty program with them.
Walmart did the same with Walmart+. Prices are 20% cheaper when purchased online for pickup than it is to go to the actual store.
80% of food stamp recipients shop at Walmart. They're pushing circle K out of the market that it defined for decades. And if they continue their aggressive Costco like fuel margin in order to bring in foot traffic to their stores there's going to be a lot more competitors that they're going to start pushing on.

Now whether or not that's worth their PE ehh. Finance is long removed from that even mattering as we've seen. Don't forget largest private employer in the United States.

gilded imp
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cali makes so much of our food

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they wouldnt win but it would REALLY suck for everyone

frigid blade
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Cali has 0 nukes so just nuke them

gilded imp
frigid blade
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It’s an easy win

deep musk
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Means literally nothing in the eyes of the law

onyx bluff
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why be like this

gilded imp
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I hope bro is trolling

onyx bluff
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in their eyes, they legally changed the name

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holding them to that, is the point

frigid blade
onyx bluff
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yes, me calling it the department of war, is a criticism. whoop de do for pointing that out

grizzled frost
steel umbra
# frigid blade It’s an easy win

californian terrorists capture us nukes and nuke the us with them, then us got nuked more by other countries 2027 nuclear worldwide civil war

hardy horizon
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They didn't threatened nor have the power to take civilizations back to the Stone age though....

onyx bluff
hardy horizon
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Well and NVD value increases directly counted in that GDP as well.

onyx bluff
steel umbra
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largest dutch company in the history

onyx bluff
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they have a fucking brand guide

steel umbra
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it went on a downward spiral and ceased to exist

hardy horizon
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I'm talking about world war II times which is where the rhetoric of when a country goes to war their economy grows rapidly and when they come out of war as the victor they're in a substantially better place.

gilded imp
onyx bluff
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so which is it

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the organization isn't real, the logos are fake?

gilded imp
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nuance is dead

steel umbra
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even when the war is a “clean” victory

onyx bluff
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you can't make your argument against me calling it what they say they want to call themselves.... salient. it's stupid

hardy horizon
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Yeah, their social support network is about to strangle itself though because of the birth rate issue

onyx bluff
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again, like, that's the name now

frigid blade
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Actually renamed back to DoD so

onyx bluff
gilded imp
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yep

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too many old people

steel umbra
onyx bluff
frigid blade
hardy horizon
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Ehh, there is very little infrastructure spending which was desperately needed and has been desperately needed and now we're seeing projects cost three times what they would 6 years ago because of debt financing cost along with inflation increasing costs.
I mean light rail is 250 million dollars a mile.... Sure would have been nice to finance that at negative interest rates
Army corps of engineers say like 60% of bridges are in a critical state and could fail at any time.

deep musk
onyx bluff
deep musk
gilded imp
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I finished my steak ):

onyx bluff
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because, I'll be really obnoxious and copy/paste the section of the website where they insist that it is, legally, the DOW

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Use of Name
In Executive Order 14347, issued Sept. 5, 2025, President Donald J. Trump directed the U.S. Department of Defense “be known as the Department of War,” a secondary title for this cabinet-level department. The order permits the use of this secondary title for official correspondence, public communications and ceremonial contexts within the executive branch.

Use "War Department" in most cases on first reference, reserving "Department of War" for quoted matter, or situations that require that level of formality.

The correct acronym for "War Department" as used on the War.gov flagship website, which uses the AP Style as standard, is "DOW" with an uppercase "O" in the center; use on second reference after "War Department" or when the standalone acronym suffices depending upon use. Do NOT use "DoW."

The correct acronym for "War Department" in official written department communications, including but not limited to news releases, speeches, transcripts etc., including those published on War.gov, is "DoW" with a lowercase "o", Do NOT use "DOW" in these types of products.

frigid blade
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It says secondary title in your post btw

frigid blade
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So the DoD is still the primary name

hardy horizon
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Can't, will get pushed out of power as a global dominator. Soft power disappeared with USAID So now it's just hard weapon power for deterrents. 😭. I miss when we could just help humanity and build allies

gilded imp
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Check mate

hardy horizon
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All bankrupt means is that you ran out of cash You're unable to raise more cash. And that your total debt load exceeds the asset value which was only a 26 billion dollar spread in Lehman's case

onyx bluff
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totally not backdoor spending for the CIA

steel umbra
deep musk
onyx bluff
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absolutely we just genuinely wanted to support theater in greece and hopscotch in nepal

gilded imp
hardy horizon
onyx bluff
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listen you can criticize DOGE quite fairly but cutting USAID was like

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the most obvious crooked pork barrel cut to make

gilded imp
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Is that what the government told you?

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🤔

onyx bluff
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what do you think USAID's money was actually spent on

deep musk
onyx bluff
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food? medicine?

deep musk
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I swear if he spits out something phobic or racist

onyx bluff
hardy horizon
# steel umbra most of the time both suffer

True but everybody remembers the GIs came back flush with cash and the new generation was the strongest financial position the US had ever seen. That's why we got the mustang and the pony cars. We started to develop two income households.

onyx bluff
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no, it was a slush fund for NGOs

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global not-charities with vague restrictions and accountability

frigid blade
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N N you remind me of the lady from the Homeland series

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You should watch it

hardy horizon
# onyx bluff

Yeah . Medicare part B. Were the US government issues a blank check to pharmaceutical companies to pay 20 million to a research firm to obtain a patent and then sell a drug for $150 a pill.

onyx bluff
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idk what any of that means but I'm criticizing USAID from the left right now. it was meaningless and rife with corruption. rent being paid on buildings in foreign lands without noted purpose or reason. the fuck?

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the medicare part that pays for drugs is D, dumbass

gilded imp
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He’s just parroting what the GOVERNMENT told him!!

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😂

onyx bluff
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the government would tell you that drugs are part D

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so no, he's not doing that 😭

hardy horizon
# onyx bluff sure that's what USAID did

Doesn't matter what it actually did... What matters is what the world believed it did.
We got the same conversation about how the CDC is failing to assist the United Nations in a meaningful way with the Ebola outbreak currently. And is failing to execute historical response time and abilities. . But then people would get mad.

onyx bluff
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we should piss away 10s of billions a year and not actually do the charity we pretend to be doing?

hardy horizon
# onyx bluff

Wouldn't banning fraudulent NGOs be a better use? Along with lobbying. Any person in government having any stockholdings. Political contributions by companies.

steel umbra
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btw most of africa is in chaos and wars many don’t realiye

onyx bluff
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we still have plenty of mechanisms for foreign aid, by the way. all of that should be put under intense scrutiny, and that's not *phobic, that's just genuine fact

tulip sparrow
steel umbra
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huge reductions

frigid blade
onyx bluff
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most of africa is ruled by corrupt warlords and the donations were never reaching the people, but we're never going to have that conversation because on the right, they don't have oil

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and on the left, that's "needless war" or something

steel umbra
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we build houses! they stand on fucking minecraft sticks

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and don’t even have insulation

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of actually they have gaps in the construction

gilded imp
hardy horizon
# onyx bluff what the fuck does that even mean

That America's destroying its ability to rule via soft power. Which means the risks will increase.

You can't go around upsetting people and having their families die because you failed to support programs that you were historically supportive of and not expect somebody to get a little mad and come and punch you in the throat.

tulip sparrow
onyx bluff
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DR Congo government be like "go burn down the American doctor's tent! they're the ones who brought the ebola!" and so the people did. I can't say this from a perspective of anything but trump who would do the same thing

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and like, in a just world

steel umbra
gilded imp
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Like 💀where do I even fuckin begin

steel umbra
gilded imp
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I wouldn’t want to live in a sheet metal house because I have the option of fucking not doing that

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They do not 💀

tulip sparrow
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Wouldn't this talk fall under no politics rule <@&750150305383186585>s ?

sleek ibex
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What the fuck am I readingjerryyyyyy

onyx bluff
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global events, not politics, so no

gilded imp
onyx bluff
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nobody's talking about political figures here, this isn't A vs B this is just legit global events

ancient light
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any suggestions for stuff to buy for cable management or is it completely dependant on what ur pc has

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idk about any of this 🥺

onyx bluff
steel umbra
# gilded imp They do not 💀

i feel like you’re arguing for the sake of arguing, you who live in an insulated house says other people in africa don’t need insulation

gilded imp
steel umbra
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did you know africa doesn’t have 30-40 degrees all year?

gilded imp
mint umbra
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Is this a good deal in cad

frigid blade
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Dude deleted his profile

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That’s so sad

gilded imp
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You feel like I’m arguing to argue because you aren’t even remotely close to understanding what I’m saying 🤷

hardy horizon
tulip sparrow
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$550 CAD? I would say yes

onyx bluff
gilded imp
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“No house is worse than shitty house” is not a massive leap in reasoning

frigid blade
gilded imp
steel umbra
frigid blade
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And you don’t pay tax

gilded imp
steel umbra
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the sticks will rot and the house is gone by that point

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i’m literally saying sticks because they are sticks

onyx bluff
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"giving away" meaningfully defective houses isn't charity, it's basically fraud and you've turned the recipient of that donation into a victim. that's not much of a stretch but yall seem to ignore that entirely

gilded imp
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Fraud 💀

hardy horizon
gilded imp
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You people are too fucking much

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Literally just redefining words in real time 💀 just embarrassing bro

onyx bluff
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brother

gilded imp
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Have fun you 2

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I’m out 😂

onyx bluff
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what part of "hey here's a house, btw the roof leaks" isn't fraud

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you're embarassing yourself

tulip sparrow
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I have done what I needed so I am out

steel umbra
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with post edits

onyx bluff
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they pretend they're functional houses

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it's fraud

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they took money from donations, get ad revenue, it's either directly or indirectly profitable for them. and they leave people held up in a bad situation they obviously can't afford to fix with money. It's insane

steel umbra
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not just from goodwill, for themselves

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mrbeast pollutes earth indirectly by water bottle sponsors, chocolate bars, etc. made from plastic and then asks for donations to clean said trash

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which is extremely unefficient and results in more pollution

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same with planting those new trees

tulip sparrow
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facepalms hard I click price history on Amazon and get ai chat instead 😣

steel umbra
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if that money was spent on preventing deforestation in the first place…

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you would not have to plant as much new

steel umbra
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during livestreams

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implying he’s losing money on the orders he’s sending out

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and creating a sense of pressure on fkin kids

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idk @gilded imp just seems really not educated on greenwashing and pr moves

jovial swan
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Probs a wierd question, how much can i realisticly sell this for in euros (i am aware that the TnT2 is ancient)

gilded imp
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bro REALLY wants me to continue this stupid ass arguemnt with him

steel umbra
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same with EVs he only mentions emissions and nothing else such as toxicty and other waste products

gilded imp
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you can stop pinging me because obviously youre talking to yourself

gilded imp
compact basalt
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Behold fan hub in cable form

gilded imp
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this is why I dont debate anything you say because you just talk to youself and ignore literally everything else

steel umbra
gilded imp
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are you functionally illiterate

sleek ibex
gilded imp
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youve managed to sum up the LITERAL EXACT opposite point I made a week ago

sleek ibex
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What is even going on here

jovial swan
arctic kettle
compact basalt
jovial swan
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Cant wait for this to be delivered pepoJuice

compact basalt
jovial swan
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Now Ive found a Nvidia Quadro M5000 for 87 Euros locally and a P5000 for 190 Euros locally. But im unsure of if i need to get them as well

jovial swan
compact basalt
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Nice will probably run raytracing somewhat

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Idk if it can use dlss at all though

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Hm I looked doesnt seem to have it. But will definitely be a beast for ai or old games

fickle ivy
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Ads on YouTube are out of hand ngl

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Wdym I just got 4 unskippable ads and then a skippable ad

azure topaz
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its maxwell

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from like, 2015, no it wont

jovial swan
jovial swan
ivory mountain
steel umbra
tulip sparrow
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I assume those cheaper laptops with 20/24gb of ram have either 4/8gb soldered on and they slapped a 16gb stick ontop of that

ivory mountain
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havent seen that in a while

steel umbra
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my point was mrbeast does the charity work to raise his pr thus profit.

gilded imp
steel umbra
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his whole image/brand is built on it

ivory mountain
steel umbra
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perception of this “good” guy

tulip sparrow
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Yeah I wouldn't pay anywhere near that price for a N4500 based device

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$610 LOL

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Also I HIGHLY doubt the V15 is MILITARYGRADE Hardware LOL

steel umbra
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on pcb

tulip sparrow
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Third party listings on amazon do be slapping the stupidest shit on products

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and overcharging to boot

steel umbra
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it seems to be a common trend in quick fashion stores

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they sell you clothes with tags such as 100% cotton

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but it’s a lot of the times not nearly close to being 100%

tulip sparrow
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I highly doubt Lenovo themselves are making these claims on Amazon

steel umbra
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you can tell by the tag on the hoodies themselves for example having the % listed

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instead of the retail tag

formal sonnet
formal sonnet
# steel umbra you can tell by the tag on the hoodies themselves for example having the % liste...

Exactly. I recently had to get Etsy support to force the seller to refund a couple themed shirts I bought. Their listing claimed 100% cotton, but the shirt was anything but cotton. 🤣 Twas cheap drop shipped polyester crap. Luckily, the drop shippers failed to remove / cover up the first shipping labels with the name of their stores from all the shirts, so I was able to order more variations of the shirts that were cotton for 75% cheaper than the Etsy listing. smart

tulip sparrow
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The laptop I picked up should be plenty for my mother

steel umbra
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written in portuguese or spanish

tulip sparrow
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and no I didn't snag another 8840HS based laptop with 16gb of ram and a 1tb ssd for $650 again

bold olive
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is it just me or I prefer charging my earbud on wireless charging

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and the rest are wired

tulip sparrow
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I plug my earbuds in

bold olive
halcyon quest
cosmic berry
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https://youtube.com/shorts/iuHdF0rKTkg?si=gVqHSU6RLihv8L7A
"Probably the most terrible thing I have seen lol." - NAH this is worse.

I should be making some improvements to the pipeline too soon including more hardware and obviously more updated software's throughout it

Job is covered in sores, his ten children are dead, and his best friend just told him he deserved it.

In chapter 6, Job answers Eliphaz with one of the most haunting metaphors in the Bible: friends who fail you in crisis are like desert streams that dry up the moment thirsty travelers arrive. He weighs his grief against the sand of the sea and ...

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sturdy jewel
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does this look right? my ram is 6000 MHz but hwinfo is saying its only 3000

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someone said that ram is measured in MT but my ram kit, like any other ram kit, has it listed as 6000MHz

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ddr5-6000

sturdy jewel
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ik but i thought each ram stick is 6000

bold olive
bold olive
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it should show up as 6000 in task manager

ivory mountain
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Double data rateee

formal sonnet
solar moat
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dual channel does not affect clock rate/data rate at all just the bus width for more bandwidth

tender vine
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is there any risk to using additional pcie slot for storage using an nvme adapter

hushed tendon
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not that thats LIKELY to happen, but you asked for ANY risk

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or i guess you could accidentally format the wrong drive.

tender vine
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;-;

hushed tendon
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tbf here that nvme adapter was like 10$ from aliexpress, so... maybe dont be as cheap as i was at the time?

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it worked for a few weeks which was a miracle by itself

glad gulch
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I appear once to deliver this message.

Don't ever let someone tell you you need to close your apps. Fill your RAM and Swap space. Make your computer work for it. trol

latent pasture
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consumes ssd life

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aka nah

glad gulch
# latent pasture aka nah

SSD is used anyways, it's some SanDisk 1TB thing that mostly does iTunes things. Eventually maybe if prices drop I'll try and find a 2TB thing, whether that be an SSD or HDD

hushed tendon
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actually now that i think about it i guess temu is the new aliexpress of "dubious tech items"

limber nacelle
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you get what you pay for 🤷

hushed tendon
# limber nacelle you get what you pay for 🤷

yeah i threw that in my r740xd with 80tb of storage and like 2 weeks later the nvme drive magically disappeared, i went over pulled it out and was like "huh." entire thing was charred on the back of the pcb...ssd drive still worked fine though.

limber nacelle
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🫡

hushed tendon
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na. id have noticed that. i have smart sensors in my 42u for temperature

limber nacelle
lilac mist
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Experiencing the pain of rural (at least cable) Internet at the moment

hushed tendon
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id have gotten a "its like 200c in your rack" notification lmao.

bold olive
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thank you all for those who said double data rate (i legit forgot)

limber nacelle
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I respect the big rack

lilac mist
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Sorry had to say it

frigid blade
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wouldnt that usually be a he said

hushed tendon
bold olive
lilac mist
hushed tendon
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i also have a kvm that pulls out like a laptop on it that i got off ebay for 50$

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one r740xd runs my plex server that i share to the neighbourhood running overseerr, the other one runs a homelab and the nuc's are my k8s homelab

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needed a virtual and non virtual environment for that

frigid blade
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ive been wanting an R940 for so long

hushed tendon
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then i also have a layer 3 switch for failover with 2 1gb symmetrical fibre lines to it

lilac mist
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Well gonna have to probably upload like 30-60gb on a 10 meg upload speed tonight

hushed tendon
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that goes into the opnsense router followed by a normal 48 port poe unifi switch

lilac mist
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This is literally 1 megabyte per second upload speed BillieScream

hushed tendon
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so i dont get 2gbps up/down

lilac mist
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I'm just commenting on my situation here

hushed tendon
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just high uptime

lilac mist
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what's your speed?

hushed tendon
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2x 1gbps symmetrical lines with HA failover

lilac mist
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this is at my family's rural vacation house 💀

hushed tendon
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my internet cost is 5x my electricity cost for my rack per month

lilac mist
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I'm going to be out doing stuff but still by the time I get back on the laptop after the day it's still probably not gonna be done

hushed tendon
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which is oof.

lilac mist
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at home I have symmetrical fiber

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literally limited by the ONT having a gigabit port

hushed tendon
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i have 4 servers running plus all those nuc's plus the switching and its like 60$ a month in electricity...meanwhile each gb connection is 90$ a month

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so its literally 3x

lilac mist
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about the rate I have for gig internet ~$80-90

hushed tendon
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yeah, i randomly cancel to try and get them to give me a 6month 50$ deal...they fell for it a few times but im pretty sure someone flagged my account after a while lmao

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"dont give this guy a deal, he uses more data than his entire neighbourhood...combined"

lilac mist
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This is my current setup
HP NAS (1270 V1, 32gb 1333mhz ECC, 2x120gb SSD boot, 3x4tb HDD storage)
Lenovo RS140 (1276 V3, 32gb 1333mhz ECC still need to put storage in)
Supermicro something (1275 V2, 32gb 1333mhz ECC and also needs storage)
Gonna have to figure out what to do with the 2 1Us

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I might just put my Minecraft servers on em

hushed tendon
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you can just put that in docker

lilac mist
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Need some 256-512gb SSDs first

hushed tendon
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just use ssd's as cache drives

lilac mist
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this is my first ever actual home lab setup

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beyond a simple folder network share like a decade ago on an Athlon 64x2

native path
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my 5gig symmetrical is ~$50 usd

native path
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yes thats a flex

hushed tendon
bold olive
hushed tendon
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yeaaaaaaaah on that note i need to start prepping to upgrade my AP's to wifi 7...

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i skipped 6

bold olive
hushed tendon
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thus: prepare lol

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either way ill either move to ruckus wifi 6 used or brand new wifi 7 ap's depending on how big of a difference it makes

bold olive
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who came up with wifi 6e

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and why not 6.5

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e for efficiency?

formal sonnet
# bold olive e for efficiency?

IEEE 802.11ax-2021 or 802.11ax, is an IEEE standard from the Wi-Fi Alliance, for wireless networks (WLANs). The standard is marketed as Wi-Fi 6. It operates in the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands, with an extended version, Wi-Fi 6E, that adds the 6 GHz band; these are license-exempt ISM bands. It is an upgrade from Wi-Fi 5 (IEEE 802.11ac), with improvem...

hushed tendon
# bold olive e for efficiency?

yeah efficiency wasnt their goals as 6ghz is higher energy usage lmao. that being said 6ghz isnt great outside of lab conditions or heavy ap saturation

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trying to run 6ghz in a larger building with lots of walls is an exercise in futility from a cost benefit perspective

glad gulch
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Meanwhile half of my laptops are still on WiFi 4

boreal elbow
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My ssd doesnt show up in bios tried new cables is it cooked?

bold olive
boreal elbow
lilac mist
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Hopefully this will be the last upgrade for a while

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I actually upgraded my parents wifi a few times because I don't like slow internet when I visit

sharp ivy
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guhh

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I'm trying to find the max HDD size supported by my CPU

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but I can't find info on it anywhere

hushed tendon
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there is no max hdd size?

formal sonnet
clear canyon
clear canyon
formal sonnet
clear canyon
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Yeah, could possibly be a pcie limitation if you got enough hbas lol

hushed tendon
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for normal motherboards youd also run out of slots before youd run out of pcie lanes though. its not like you have some custom enterprise motherboard with like 80 pcie slots

shut sentinel
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I turn 20 today and Apple still hasn’t fixed the ringtone

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Actually switching to fucking Samsung

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The ringer I mean

native path
fringe prairie
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nothing

covert peak
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5060ti is faster then 9060xt right?

native path
spring quail
glacial kraken
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is 95% packet loss bad

formal sonnet
glacial kraken
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i see

lunar axle
modest flame
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Final verdict on the RØDE PodMic USB: best microphone I've ever owned. Even through Discord sound compression I have been told I sound terrifyingly clear. Like "speaking into your soul" levels of clarity

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I'm sure I could get better with an audio interface and an expensive XLR microphone but I'll be honest I don't need that

gaunt spade
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@random junco

forest reef
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Hi can someone help

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I want my PC lights to be all one color
what can i use to do that

stray portal
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Why is android making liquid glass

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I dont like it

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Its not that good

ionic topaz
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Hi, I need help with the rest of the parts for an AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D and RTX 5090 build. Any help would be much appreciated.

stray portal
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Get an expensive motherboard (i like gigabyte) and 64gb ddr5

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Big psu as well

ionic topaz
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Ok

bold olive
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(preferred gigabyte)

rough salmon
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I wanna slowly build a pc, what should I buy first

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What’s a decent motherboard

sharp lance
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I think my mc server is idling to warm

iron glen
spring quail
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to warm what?

iron glen
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Most likely

sharp lance
spring quail
bold olive
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spending half an hour to find a cable that can do 9 volts with my charging dock

gilded harness
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its time to make yo own dud

bold olive
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i have a literal warehouse of them so no thank you