Good news! Hmmm . . .

Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Taiwan!

When it comes to Asia, aren't we kind of missing an elephant here?

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I dunno about these "animated shorts". I'd never wear them. :tongue:

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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: slaapliedjePersonally I'm just enjoying the show; you see I kind of like watching chaos unfold, and watching 'The Left' lose their minds because Twitter is no longer going to be banning / lowering visibility for 'The Right' just makes me giggle.

Mind you, no matter what he might claim he's not in favour of free speech. He's been actively banning leftists from Twitter--not just the random ones where he gets miffed cuz they said rude things about him, but quite a few more quietly at the request of alt-right figures, who are gleefully identifying who to censor. If it's just flipping who gets censored, is that really "chaos"?

Incidentally, "The Left" was never in control of Twitter in the first place. Liberals were, but that's rather a different thing. Actual leftists have always been more likely than the alt-right to get dropped off Twitter, Facebook, or any likelihood of showing up on Google searches. Much the way the US "liberal" media always tried way harder to sideline Sanders or the Green party than Trump or the alt-right, who always got tons of publicity.

All that said, with a couple of high-profile exceptions around stuff like Hunter Biden's laptop, Twitter never particularly went after the right as such. They went after the uncivil and threatening . . . just happens that the alt-right are more uncivil and threatening than liberals are. It's kind of like the way more than 90% of political violence in the United States is done by the far right. You see a politically motivated killing it's almost always someone on the far right. So then if some right winger comes along and says it's not fair, leftists should get arrested for terrorism just as much as rightists . . . well, no. So, sure, rules against being threatening and violently uncivil are in a sense fundamentally unfair to the right. But most threatening and uncivil stuff isn't political at all, or at least not overtly political, and a platform has to put a lid on it or you get tons of cyberbullying and doxxing and stuff.

So basically, any forum for discussion, in order to function decently and not turn into a hellscape, pretty much has to discriminate against the far right as a byproduct of what they do to make the forum work. There are two ways for the far right to avoid this problem: First, set up their own little spaces where they can be as horrible as they want, which is what they mostly do (and what Musk is now trying to turn Twitter into; he may be so successful it goes bankrupt). Or second, not act like total pricks. But would they still even be far right if they did that? It's a dilemma for the right, but I don't care.

My advice to anyone has always been 'extremism is bad, no matter which way you lean.' Unfortunately since so many people react before they think; you end up with a scale that leans one way too far, so then the other side tries striking back with a bigger pile of crap, so that the scales will then lean in their favor. There needs to be a balance. At least George Lucas understood that. :P

Well. Speaking as an extremist, I tend to disagree with you. :grin:

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Quoting: buckysrevengeI think them finally fixing issues with Nvidia GPUs w/gamemode (new BPM) is a nice step towards getting SteamOS 3.x out as a generic ISO. I'd love to get it set up on my old Steam Machine (currently running Manjaro stable and new BPM), the ease of Valve's updates on the Steam Deck translated to a dedicated HTPC would be nice to have again.

what is bananas per monkey and how does it help? I can't find anything about BPM

Well obviously if there are more bananas per monkey they are happier and so their random typing will generate Shakespeare's complete works faster.

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Quoting: xuwangAfter my time in the states and learning a bit about baseball, I would say it's a grand slam :)

Ah yes, clearly you've been bridging the gaps in your baseball knowledge!

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Quoting: pleasereadthemanualI disagree that regulation to prevent exclusivity is all that's needed. As I argued in my previous comment, this would overwhelmingly favor Disney, who owns multitudes more content than any other one company. They don't have an exclusive license with the content creators; they are the content creators. Copyright by its very intention created and preserves this monopoly. I point this out because outlawing exclusive licenses alone would ease but not solve this issue because Disney has an unassailable advantage. The only way it could work is if, as you say, compulsory licensing was implemented.

This in turn raises the question: Should corporations actually be able to hold copyrights? It's not like "The Disney Corporation" ever wrote a song, after all.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeGuess it depends on who you believe, as I haven't actually looked more into this myself. But there are videos out there showing that he really had nothing to do with inventing the Tesla cars (which I agree with, as the actual engineers are not named Musk) and that he more or less finagled his way into being the CEO of Tesla, and managed to get tagged in as the one who really brought it into being. More or less he inserted himself into that role.

No doubt, but still, I remember hearing about Teslas when all the Teslas in existence were a few Tesla Roadsters and Tesla didn't even really have a factory, and Musk was already the guy you heard about. So it's fairly clear he was very thoroughly involved in bringing Tesla from a pretty marginal concern that was a longshot to succeed in a field full of barriers to entry and big, ruthless companies very much not interested in new competition, to being a really big company that mass manufactures cars worldwide and has those existing big, ruthless car companies running scared. This is not something that happens every day, or totally by accident; it's not like there have never been any other plucky little aspiring car companies, electric or otherwise, and where are they all? I think it's pretty clear he knew a lot more about how to get an electric car company to succeed than he knows about Twitter or politics. Unfortunately another thing he doesn't seem good at knowing is, what he doesn't know about.

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Quoting: slaapliedjePersonally I'm just enjoying the show; you see I kind of like watching chaos unfold, and watching 'The Left' lose their minds because Twitter is no longer going to be banning / lowering visibility for 'The Right' just makes me giggle.

Mind you, no matter what he might claim he's not in favour of free speech. He's been actively banning leftists from Twitter--not just the random ones where he gets miffed cuz they said rude things about him, but quite a few more quietly at the request of alt-right figures, who are gleefully identifying who to censor. If it's just flipping who gets censored, is that really "chaos"?

Incidentally, "The Left" was never in control of Twitter in the first place. Liberals were, but that's rather a different thing. Actual leftists have always been more likely than the alt-right to get dropped off Twitter, Facebook, or any likelihood of showing up on Google searches. Much the way the US "liberal" media always tried way harder to sideline Sanders or the Green party than Trump or the alt-right, who always got tons of publicity.

All that said, with a couple of high-profile exceptions around stuff like Hunter Biden's laptop, Twitter never particularly went after the right as such. They went after the uncivil and threatening . . . just happens that the alt-right are more uncivil and threatening than liberals are. It's kind of like the way more than 90% of political violence in the United States is done by the far right. You see a politically motivated killing it's almost always someone on the far right. So then if some right winger comes along and says it's not fair, leftists should get arrested for terrorism just as much as rightists . . . well, no. So, sure, rules against being threatening and violently uncivil are in a sense fundamentally unfair to the right. But most threatening and uncivil stuff isn't political at all, or at least not overtly political, and a platform has to put a lid on it or you get tons of cyberbullying and doxxing and stuff.

So basically, any forum for discussion, in order to function decently and not turn into a hellscape, pretty much has to discriminate against the far right as a byproduct of what they do to make the forum work. There are two ways for the far right to avoid this problem: First, set up their own little spaces where they can be as horrible as they want, which is what they mostly do (and what Musk is now trying to turn Twitter into; he may be so successful it goes bankrupt). Or second, not act like total pricks. But would they still even be far right if they did that? It's a dilemma for the right, but I don't care.

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Quoting: Klaas

Quoting: Purple Library Guybig deal is saving us all from climate change,

It is? I thought his big deal was making more money.

Well, yeah, but I meant his, I dunno, public persona big deal. And I mean, Tesla's success wasn't guaranteed--there were quite a few years early on where you'd definitely say there were much better ways to make money.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: pete910@liam

Not to be picky but

Stock was, as expected, very limited.

Gibbo on OCUK (Where you got yours from) stated he had a 1000 + reference cards + the AIB's so good deal more than the 4080 had tbf.

What he didn't expect is to sell the lot in 20 minutes :shock: He reckoned around a few 100 at most.

I certainly didn't think they'd be that popular given their performance.

If I'm putting my payment details into something that even right then says it's in stock, I expect it to be in stock. They've now announced today they oversold it.

You would think that if something wasn't in stock they'd, like, say it wasn't in stock.

As to oversold, well, seems like practically everything is oversold these days. Hype galore.

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