Man, how did Mobil Eye not just tack an “s” on the end? The pun is right there, and it’s frankly excellent and super topical to what they’re trying to do.

Oooh, good tip. Didn’t know about that feature.

I’d say the situation is a lot closer to the Spanish Civil War, tbh. A lot of countries sent expeditionary forces and volunteers to assist one side or the other, including Russia and Nazi Germany (who kinda used the conflict as a proving ground for the concept of combined arms doctrine we know as “blitzkrieg”).

Mmmm disagree - it was WAY earlier than that.

• It was abundantly apparent in 2014 with the annexation of Crimea.
• It was abundantly apparent in 2008 with the invasion of Georgia.
• It was abundantly apparent in 1999 with the second invasion of Chechnya.
• It was abundantly apparent in 1994 with the first invasion of Chechnya.
• It was abundantly apparent in 1992 with their involvement in Transnistria.

There’s a whole Wikipedia subsection on stuff the Russian Federation has been up to. It’s not small.

Oh, I know. I’m just handing them a shovel to make it easier for them to dig their own hole.

It’s really honestly baffling to me. The EU reaction to Trump trying to fuck up NATO integrity and cohesion in his first term was… essentially nothing but conversations and hopeful thinking, as far as I can tell.

I fucking detest Trump, but there is a kernel of truth in his statements about Europe more or less just riding on the US’s coattails in terms of the balance of military power, instead of trying to be a meaningful and (taken together) a peer power to the US. Moreover, if the balance of power and capability was closer between the US and the EU, the US would probably be a lot less likely to just categorically push the EU around.

The post-Soviet peace dividend era is well and truly over - in fact, it ended at least a decade ago (really, probably closer to two). It’s time for Europe to start acting like it.

Tbh they like to sow chaos as much as possible when it comes to geopolitical adversaries. Putin/the Kremlin also know that the conservative media sphere is often impervious to facts and logic, so who knows if the trumpians will even believe this.

Lmao I fucking hate both Trump and Putin, but it is absolutely hilarious that the latter threw the former under the bus so quickly

Explain

Frankly, Sinclair Broadcast Group needs to be shattered most urgently.

Well, it was more than that.

I actually did an interview at MS about a year after Win7 was released (was fresh out of college), and I asked a pretty pointed question about why the release quality seemed so… variable. The manager’s answer was that they had done entirely in-house QA for XP (we didn’t go into WinMe), outsourced the vast majority for Vista, and brought it entirely back in house for 7. He further mentioned they were taking a hybridized approach for 8. I remember questioning the decision, given the somewhat clear correlation between release quality and QA ownership, and got some business buzzword gobbledygook (which I took as “the real answer is so far above my pay grade that I can do absolutely fucking nothing about it”).

TL;DR: it was largely just profit-driven quality cuts done too aggressively, so they had to backstep and reinvest a couple times to normalize it for the user base.

I mean, I guess it is mildly offensive to gay dudes, but tbh if I was gay I’d still think that Colbert’s comment was hilarious

Oh, we are not proud of it. We’re trying to chip away at the absolutely fucked power structure, but the people in charge of the system have a vested interest in preserving it, with all of its fucked up little idiosyncrasies like this.

I dunno, maybe the shepherd’s great great great great great great grandsire suddenly became Argentinian after the war, if you know what I mean?

Never said he was sober. He loves the pills and the powder.

But he’s a teetotaler because his older brother struggled mightily with alcoholism for much of his life, and died rather young at 43.

I’m more than happy to buy a TV that uses post-purchase monetization, because I am never going to connect that fucker to the internet. It’s a display. I shall use it as a display. I do not care that it can replace my streaming box. I fully control my streaming box, and I will use that.

If I catch it doing any sketchy shit like trying to use unsecured/Comcast/etc WiFi to phone home, it’ll be time to pull out the screwdriver, though.

And Clarence Thomas is not concerned because he’s the canonical definition of a race-traitor

One of the first hardware things I check when a system starts getting a bit fucky is the memory. Check out memtestx86. Depending on how beefy your system is, you may have to let it run for a day or so, but it will do a rather thorough series of bitwise checks of your entire memory space, and let you know if there are any hardware faults, and indicate which physical module is the problem. If that gives you any hits (and assuming the RAM is swappable/upgradeable), just swap out your memory with some new ones (I generally go with factory-paired modules, unless it’s a system I don’t care much about, but you should absolutely used matched speed and timing on the modules you swap in).