Prove_your_argument

• Indeed, for much of the 2010s and likely before and since, it appears the crime rate of CBP agents and offices was higher PER CAPITA than the crime rate of undocumented immigrants in the United States.

Ding ding ding! We found the criminals!

ICE and CBP should have no immunity of any kind when working outside of a port of entry, and the qualified immunity qualifications should be razor thin.

Need more of an FDR.

The New Deal is what america has needed for a long time, but instead we have been giving that money to the billionaires. Citizens united absolutely doomed us all to stay in this cycle in perpetuity.

It’s been nearly a hundred years. Trump’s great depression might arrive just in time for a real change, but we’ll see. There’s way more hurdles for someone trying to come in and actually make working class lives better. There’s no money in that for the ones running the show.

I think a good non-tech comparison is moderna. They made a shitload of cash from covid vaccines being state subsidized and then once the initial backlog of orders cleared they reduced to next to no cash flow. They’re still better off than they were before (and nvidia will be too, there will always be some demand… but not years of backorders.) Moderna is still downsizing heavily though and can only have more layoffs unless something changes.

I’d say they will end up around 2-4x their original revenue, in ~5 years.

I have thought about the thor or whatever vita looking thing they have but the reality is that I probably wouldn’t do a ton of emulation right now. These devices look cool as hell, but I don’t need more tech ewaste/paperweights.

I have a deck and hardly use it when I go anywhere because being an adult is a shitload of responsibility and relationship work… and next to no time alone where I can game in peace. lol

If I still had a subway/train commute or I was still a bachelor in my 20s or 30s it would be another story though. Deck is way too big for the subway, but the thor is basically just a 3DS. I used a 3ds/vita/ds for over a decade almost daily because of my commute.

The base proc in this was slow when a phone released with it 5 years ago.

LTE and NVME is mutually exclusive on the device I believe.

If all you need is a 3.92” screen, 8GB of ram or less, 128GB of space plus an sd card, and a tiny screen then it’s fine. Kickstarter though means unknown delivery date. I don’t think they’ve sold anything before?

Four hundred bucks for 8gb of ram, three face plates, the upgraded uber slow processor and 128gb of storage. 3.92” amoled screen.

Four fifty for an ayn Thor with 16gb of ram, 1tb nvme. 6” amoled screen and 3.92” bottom amoled screen.

That’s how I escaped the marketing. Pricing and specs. If your primary use case is just gaming and not a very low power handheld PC, it’s just not good.

A $90 miyoo mini plus 128gb is just fine for small portable handheld emulator too. Sold on Amazon and not a kickstarter fantasy that could take years. I’m sure there’s many other better options.

These things don’t have feature parity. They don’t do all the same things. They are however way better at what they do.

Once I upgraded to a 4k tv I started pulling 4K HDR versions. It can be hard to know how good the quality will be between 5GB, 10GB, 25GB and 50GB movies, because there are many substandard releases out there. Especially true with older content.

Newer stuff can make a difference, but let’s be realistic. It costs nothing to just download a few versions and see. :)

They would be insane to prop up OpenAI beyond at cost hardware or cuda integration support / tooling.

The steam is running out on funding. It was a one time event, like crypto.

They will regress to what they were before. Pushing horridly overpriced workstation cards and price gouging gamers and pumping out substandard garbage cards for prebuilt “gaming” pcs assembled by others with a shitload of flashy lights and no substance.

You can bet they will continue to develop proprietary standards akin to Sony to try and accomplish another big win that makes them quadrillionaires.

I have a multi wan SMB router. 945mbit throughput. $60 new.

TPLink omada or Ubiquiti tier stuff is all you really need for small business. The redundant ISP connections cost way more, but it’s still a tiny cost per month for something that can get the job done in a pinch like a hotspot.

Battery backups are only useful if you have a generator to take over the utility load imo. Not a common thing in small business unless you’re leasing somewhere with generators provided for the whole building.

Redundant servers are not that hard to have. Just need proxmox. It’s not as intuitive as old vmware but it’s more than enough for a SMB. Some kind of storage shelf and three little servers gets you a ton of redundancy. If a tiny budget is necessary and small downtime is fine you really only need a couple of hosts that are beefy enough to run everything you need on each.

Shitrate 4k and 1080p are all you get on streaming platforms. Hard to get good quality bitrates outside of I guess bluray and piracy.

Amazon Photos syncing, if I had to guess. It was marketed a free unlimited backup for amazon prime users.

There isn’t a very structured process for approvals or denials of things like temporary protected status. If there were then practically anybody being deported would have been able to sue and get back in.

I’m on your side about this but the reality is that the Supreme Court is politicized and largely siding with this administration, congress still sides with this administration, and the billionaire corporations we all feed into to grow their wealth are all siding with it too.

It’s amazing to me that we can’t get 60% of the vote to lock shit down, but the reality is that “democrats” aren’t on our side outside of a handful of exceptions like Bernie. Big money owns politics. We’re seeing the fallout of allowing superpacs to be funded now. The citizens united ruling back in 2010 is what is fucking us, but it’s too complex for people to rally behind for a general strike.

I wish I could change it, but I’m powerless. I’m not a billionaire or a trillionaire.

There’s a craigslist post paying people $50 to sit through it on launch night in the boston craigslist.

Don’t get me wrong man, I binge star trek routinely. I’m currently hopping between DS9 and Voyager.

B5 just hits harder in a different way. It elicits an emotional response with the finale that tops even the most soul crushing anime like Your lie in April and Angel Beats. It has tons of parallels to today’s world and the story goes well beyond a bite sized episode.

It’s got it’s flaws. There are plenty of episodes that are rough patches especially in S1, and S5 can be very meh, but for it’s time it’s a marvel. In a world of sitcoms and one offs it delivered a story with tons of plots that go beyond just a two part episode. It’s a show that feels way more modern in good ways despite the low resolution and relatively small budget.

Like any show though, it’s not for everyone. It never got the mass appeal that star trek attained, but it feels like a much more realistic future than star trek will ever be unfortunately.

Laws kind of still are, it’s just that immigration law today in the US is completely arbitrary. That’s why they can bring people in with legitimate asylum claims, initially clear them and give them TPS, then simply deny them after the fact and put them on a plane and deport them within a couple of days of holding in southern shithole states where private operators make boatloads of cash working with the process.

I have sat down with a final interview with a USCIS officer less than a year ago. We were terrified that the conditional green card would be revoked (had spent something like two years applying to have the condition removed, the interview for naturalization came first.) We were terrified that they would simply be taken right then and there, but somehow it was simply “recommended for citizenship” and just a few short terrifying weeks of ‘invalid certificate of naturalization’ back and forth mailing on a passport application later and an extra visit to have them re-do the mistake at USCIS later, they got their passport and we feel mostly safe.

For some reason we as a nation are pretending like Afganistan, Haiti, Somalia and Venezuela are safe countries and that the people who have come here to try and escape persecution, rape and death are not under real threat. It’s mind blowing and probably a violation of international law… but still the majority of those that elected this administration are cheering for this. The opposition party has no influence or power to stop it and all the protests in the world by the left won’t stop this. Nothing really can change until midterms if the democrats or independents pull a miracle and win in tons of red districts.

The cherry on top is that tons and TONS of latin american immigrants are highly conservative and completely for this. I know several and it’s just completely insane. If they did the process the “right way” by marrying a citizen or winning the lottery they act like they somehow deserve it any more than the next one.

Since i’m already well into my soap box… the fear and intimidation tactics are wholly unnecessary, and they’re still only deporting twice as many as Obama despite pouring billions of dollars into this. Minnesota and Greenland have all just smoke and mirrors to distract us from the trumpstein files imo. There’s enough there to cause serious damage but the news cycle has wholly ignored them all of January. I think a lot of this shit is planned out well in advance from a high level, but trying to prove that is like trying to convince a faithful person that religion is a lie.

Come on, you were so close when you almost said Babylon 5.

Have to make it the law that ICE transfers cross state can’t happen for 7 full days or something.

It’s always dinner time somewhere.

There’s nothing that says game developers can’t allow add-ons to be installed from third party stores. Already works that way with games like Gratuitous Space Battles. I’ve bought the expansions on third party stores and simply put the zips or whatever in the relevant game folder.

I don’t know if something has changed since that game, but I don’t see addons sold by 3rd parties as a popular avenue for consumers simply because you have to then manually manage it.

Will say it would be nice to own games on one platform and be able to buy and manage the game via steam. Select the platform you bought it from / the install folder and let steam automagically update the DLCs in there for you.