I mean we still don’t have Soylent green factories and we aren’t using teeth of the poor as a cheap source of aquarium gravel yet, so there’s still some blood yet to squeeze from this rock.

Oh good. I’m so glad to hear that.

Yes.

That’s his whole thing. In fact he had a book made about it. He’d sell out his family if it made him more money, and I’m not entirely sure he hasn’t.

I wouldn’t call him desperate, I would call him time constrained with money to enjoy. He probably won’t actually use it for that, he’ll probably dive into his video game addiction more.

Plus, he says that virtual ladies can’t betray him like the dumb fuck of his ex wife that pretty much ruined his self confidence and self esteem to the point where he doesn’t actually think he could experience the required vulnerability in other people ever again, and it’s been 5 years since the first time she cheated on him.

But he really does appreciate the concern.

The guy who is asking has some stuff in that department, he’s more interested in the visuals now

I’ve had my valve index for 5 years and never heard about bit rate affecting it - what am I looking for?

Someone who is not me wants to know how big of a difference would there be between like a 2070 super and a 4090 for some of that stuff?

They also want to know if there’s some more recent stuff they don’t know about yet.

Yeah when they said the “camps” thing, I knew it wouldn’t be too long before we actually heard this.

The only thing that I can come to the conclusion is that two of the three are neo-nazis.

He could be sending a message, and that’s what Trump is actually pissed about.

The Boston bomber I can’t justify with that same line of thinking though.

Executions are barbaric, plus life in prison is far more cruel anyway.

Correct!

And some people’s time is inherently more valuable than others - this makes sense in a deeply twisted way. A emergency brain surgeon for example, would be exceedingly difficult to find, and even more valuable to have, let alone utilize. I think a lot of us can agree that the surgeon being able to save a life in ways almost all of us cannot is valuable.

But some people’s time isn’t valuable at all. Any middleman - salesman of every type, healthcare insurance, stock brokers. They have been made artificially valuable because they are significantly better at producing income for the already wealthy.

No broker, salesman, or healthcare insurance provider (or hell manager even) is going to help 95% of the country make more money.

Now, if we got compensated based on the finished product we deliver - that would make the hardest workers a lot more fucking money. But corporate America would never allow that - the employee didn’t purchase the parts before assembling it, or the ingredients, or the network infrastructure, etc.

The problem, at its core, is that it all ends up tying a price to a human life. Until we can separate cash value from life, we will be stuck with this system.

It’s possible to do on a small scale, but inevitably it ends up recreating itself as the community doing it grows.

That works too. It just needs to get caught in a single prop for it to go down

You know, there’s no reason we can’t have anti-drone fireworks.

They don’t really even need dangerous amounts of explosives, they just need a strong net to get caught in a prop.

Drones are pretty damn slow if you compare it to a rocket.

For a moment, I thought “hmm. What if we all said ‘No, I shot Brian Thompson’” sort of like what happened in Spartacus, but then I remembered that all 6000 slaves or whatnot were executed

The act must be committed with the intent to intimidate or coerce a civilian population or influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion

No, see, that’s clearly false. The civilian population did not get intimidated or coerced by fuck and all, and the government wasn’t threatened.

So, nope. Not guilty.

Destabilize?

No, this is far worse. Big banks will just take your money. Credit Unions? I have no fucking idea.

I also can’t just walk into my bank and pull out $10k without raising all sorts of questions and concerns.

Jesus fuck.