Trump was right, we do need a wall. Just not in the present time and not for the purpose he intended.

Keep out the colonizers and see what the country could have developed into.

And she can’t be bothered to even try.

New York State government is both legendarily incompetent and irredeemably corrupt. It is to politics what Mos Eisley is to Tatooine.

Do not trust anything uttered or authored by anyone with “-NY” after their names, including “Good morning” and “the.”

Oh so you don't get a brand new PS5 from the store? You have to grab a screw driver and manually take everything out of your PS4 except for the power supply, then put all of the new PS5 components into the old PS4 case??

I'm a PC gamer, I even have a full custom loop that takes a bit of work to maintain. But it's simply fact for the last several years that consoles are a better value for straight gaming. PC catches up in value if you're reusing old parts, using it to multitask with productivity/WFH, and take advantage of video game discounts/sales, opposed to ps+/Xbox live which has a monthly fee. But the immediate cost is simply higher than console

in poker, it’s called a “bad beat”

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And what are they doing to get that passed? How are they drumming up support from the country to pressure their moderates in congress to support it or at a minimum put them on record for not supporting it.

It’s not like they are doing anything anyways. Wtf they need 50 staffers for if nothing ever gets passed. It’s amazing how closing the carried interest loophole was just dropped with no debate, no pressure put on any one, just “oh darn we can tax our rich donors, guess we will leave it alone”

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You mean the indigenous people who were here first…

Lobbyist should be illegal

The PC hardware market is largely based around the needs of PC gamers. 20 years ago you could release a new CPU or GPU and there would immediately be new games pushing the limits and taking advantage of those new chips. But today the PC gaming market is largely subservient to the much larger console gaming market. Console hardware development moves much slower, the pace of graphical development has slowed, and thus the need for faster and faster chips has slowed as well.

I built my computer in 2020 and it still plays every new game at the highest settings. 20 years ago you could build a top of the line computer and then six months later Crysis comes out and makes it feel like a potato. That just doesn't happen anymore.

Didn’t I just read an article about one of the manufacturers purposely under shipping to make sure prices stayed high?

Also in NY corporations gutted the movement to provide affordable internet access to low income people.

We live in a Corporate Fascist world.

What about the bits that came from Spain, France, and Russia?

Vote her out

Hochul knew she only had to be slightly less garbage than Cuomo; it was an unbelievably low bar to clear.

You know the democratic party has direct actionable bills for all of the things you listed and that the republican party is the one blocking them....... right?

Or are you just too enlightened to notice?

You've raised awareness so others can continue the battle. Law is a game of small incremental gains. I've noticed more YouTubers discuss and address these issues and that in turn informs the audience. We just need the politicos to do their job.

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Tech companies don't care about you, the environment, what rights you think you have, fairness, goodness, anything. They don't even care about making good products. They want one thing: to make money. Period. Full stop. And they'll do anything they can to keep making as much money as possible.

I'm always astounded when people are surprised to find out these companies are assholes. Of course they nerfed the bill. I bet the governor is a lot richer now, too, because of it because hey, guess what, politicians are money-grubbing assholes too, and they don't care about you, the environment, what rights you think you have, fairness, goodness, or anything else, either.

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But that’s not true entirely. There’s echo chambers on Reddit as much as their is on FB or Twitter, and there’s a reason why people occasionally use the term ‘Reddit Hive Mind’.

I pay over a grand a month in Dublin for a box bedroom in a house with 3 others. No, I am not an outlier, no I cannot magic more space for my homelab. It’s NUC’s/Pi’s, or nothing.

This is a common problem in Ireland. Too many people in Dublin, and the houses/apartments are small.

Maybe Lost this round. More fights, more battles, more wars, more time; The battle for progress is eternal, and little lights in the dark are sometimes all you can do. Just holding the torch against the tide is enough to inspire more action, sometimes. Keep holding on, we still can go on, too.

Always has been