How bout we turn it into a public grocery store instead?

In Canada it’s on ranked choice, proportional rep or other alternative voting systems. Every time someone campaigns on implementing it, and occasionally they get in but as soon as the first-past-the-post system lets them through the door, they chicken out.

It had been cheaper to wait for component sales. But certain components are getting so expensive that my local Memory Express shop stopped putting the price tag on their RAM and graphics cards, so it’s market price as if it’s fancy whole lobster at a restaurant. So now it’s not much different and a good deal on a pre-built might get you the best bang for buck at this moment. I think I’ve seen decent quality/price builds at Costco.

Canadian examples: https://www.costco.ca/.product.4201008598.html for 1700 CAD (1200 USD) as of today.

https://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX00138751 same price, slightly better CPU.

For what you want (arc raiders and gmod) these will work great. An 8 gb card will do great for all except maybe some games’ “Ultra” settings with textures filling up all your vram. 16 gb of DRAM is about the standard for games, gmod is old so it doesn’t need much at base, the modded servers it depends but it will probably handle okay unless you go super overboard with it. Luckily RAM is one of the easiest components to upgrade on most desktops, it’s just being hoarded between AI companies and the greedy cartel of companies that make memory.

For a new CPU I’d recommend i5 12th generation or later, or AMD Ryzen 5 3600 or later, but newer is better, these are the oldest ‘minimums’ I could recommend picking up. I use cpubenchmark.net to know the relative score between chips.

Spcx as a company is a massive AI business liability bolted onto a viable satellite internet business and an experimental but potentially successful rocket business. The former dwarfing the latter two in size. If they can decouple and let xAI die it can probably survive as a smaller company. If not, then it will likely, in my layman view, implode, and the satellite portion picked up by another company.

The fundamentals did change… there’s now mounting public evidence that Nvidia committed crimes of illegal export and ceding the moat to China destroying their own narrative for urgency.

They are also the pick-and-shovel seller to companies living in corruption-fantasy-land, where reality and real figures don’t matter because the SEC is currently non-functional. Nvidia is giving those companies money to buy Nvidia chips. That is looking to change sometime next year. Since stocks are a reflection where people imagine business is and will be, and if that future includes political and criminal investigations, with or without Huang, that will get priced into the valuation.

Anyway I’m also not fond of the trend of how much the superstar CEO hypes a stock being the main decider of how stocks swing, but in this case this is more than just Huang’s personal failing and messing around. You could still be right, the stock can and probably would rebound after some time as if nothing happened.

In fact I can’t think of a single company that would go under if it’s CEO got fired, or just suddenly disappeared,

Musk, spcx

He never saw the sexual abuse going on because he’s Gym-Pants-on-Head Jordan.

I’ll just put it out there, that it was the Chuck Schumer who, as the leader of the DSCC in 2006 endorsed Bernie Sanders and helped ensure no other Democrat challenger would appear on the ballot to split his vote. So Schumer hasn’t really been outwardly anti-Sanders over the decades they knew each other since his time in Brooklyn.

I still think that at present he stands to just rot in the Senate leader’s chair ala Mitch McConnell, and this moment calls for change and a movement away from the age-old familiar practices in order to meet it.

Roberts’ Corrupt Court: The Constitution didn’t say nuthin’ about free rhetoric!

Most members of Trump’s cabinet bring enough political spectacle they could each run their own travelling circus.

What if Democrats manage to investigate and refer evidence to state criminal trials (so they are safe from pay-to-pardon) all of Trump’s corrupt appointees, and let Trump pick more corrupt people to repeat the cycle, like flies to a piece of crap?

To quote him directly: “You gotta be able to walk and chew gum at the same time”.

Y’all aren’t looking at Gov. Shapiro’s position from where he stands. PA government is going to get to work, now that PA Senate Republicans have been kicked out of the majority for the first time since the 70s. They have lots of progressive legislation on deck, and going by the gov’s and state leg leaders’ post election speeches they’re prepping to get lots done.

From that POV what the state would want first and foremost from the feds is money put/restored towards food security and healthcare supports so that they don’t have to dig through emergency reserves to cover what Trump and Republicans took away in 2025.

He literally said in that article he wants Democrats not to forget to hold Trump and his cabinet accountable for crimes. Yet people ITT are acting like he didn’t say anything about it and wants Congress to ignore the issue altogether.

It can’t be either/or,” he said. “It has to be both/and.”

Fewer tariffs on Canada! More beautiful tariffs on billionaires!

Finally! That’s one of the main things that have kept me from being a regular GOG customer, having its own Lutris and Wine prefix for it is so annoying. Steam has had it right for at least 8 years.

Tbf, the title is talking about the interstate popular vote compact, which is state legislation to assign electoral college votes according to the popular vote result, if the signatories have a collective majority of them. So technically this isn’t landing on Schumer or Jefferies’ desk at any point.

But yes to your point on Citizens united repeal and stock bans and just cautiously optimistic that Jeffries/Schumer will allow anything to change.

Yimbyfornia can’t come soon enough

Republicans hate minorities, they can’t cope with being one again in Congress…

It was closer to the other way around an hour ago but oh well, too bad. The fact that an alternative is even imaginable there…

Young Americans. Don’t forget tonight. Don’t ever forget what the last two years of evil that was allowed free reign in the USA and across the world.

Also. I didn’t hear a peep about Idaho this cycle, and even they’re going Independent?!?!? (Early results showed 47% I 40% R it’s no longer). Like yeah they are a bumfuck redneck state but even the guy they’re sending actually might support Bernie-style efforts to defeat anticompetitice oligarchies, billionaires, and might pass wealth taxes on them for deficit reasons…

Good to hear some polls have been voted dry.