Fedi-Overflow?

Stackiverse?

Pretty much.

This is what the Republicans have wanted for decades, they’ve just also been largely lying about not being this craven or extreme for decades.

I come from a right wing household, was raised listening to Rush Limbaugh on the AM radio all the time.

The base has always been like this, the people on top, funding and puppeting the base, have also always been like this.

The mask is just off now.

Trump just gave them all permission to stop pretending they gave a fuck about making sense or pretending to give a shit about any principles.

It literally just is ‘first the Dems get a Black President, and then they ask us to wear masks in a pandemic?’

Too much, the hard core rightoid loses their mind at this point, and just wants everything to burn.

Of course it doesn’t help that neoliberal capitalism has been disenfranchising everyone for decades, but the base Republican voter is way way way too stupid, or horrendously misinformed to know what those words mean.

Well once upon a time there was this thing called the CHIPS Act … and while that wouldn’t have changed up corporate ownership, it would have at least got some domestic US chip fab going…

But uh Trump shit all over that, took credit for inventing it after he basically cancelled it, and then started a trade war.

Art of the Deal, you see.

My head canon is that Satoshi Nakamoto…

… is Hideo Kojima.

Anyway, Satoshi is the pseudonym used on the original… white paper, design doc, whatever it was, for Bitcoin. There’s no doubt about that, I was there back before even Mt. Gox became a bitcoin exchange, on the forums discussing it.

I thought it was a neat idea, at the time… and then I realized 95% of the discussions on that forum were about ‘the ethics of fully informed ponzi schemes’ and such, very little devoted to actual technical development… realized this was probably a bad omen.

How is a legacoin different from … just being a fancy NFT?

An all inuclusive, total body mind soul detox cleanse, vacation get-away trip.

Yeah wow great.

What a goddamn headline.

Oh no its fine you see, flying through an actively radioactive cloud/plume is uh… uh, maybe, technically allowable, therefore perfectly safe =D

Holy dear lord this species is actively Great Filtering itself in realtime, what an era to be alive in.

Which uh… which exact piece of media is that?

There is so much Batman and related stuff… I don’t even know if you’re referring to a comic or a tv show or an animated movie or what.

Two clowns walk into a bar at the same time, trying to fit through the doorway simultaneously.

Clown 1: Look at this clown!

Clown 2: honks nose, spritizes Clown 1 with water from lapel flower, silently does dramatic crying face emote/pantomime

Camera pans to all the bar patrons

… They are all clowns.

… do they skill make wallpaper glue out of potato based starches?

I’m honestly quite interested to see how well the Switch 2 handles CP77.

Also, I edited a bit and added more to my comment likely as or after you made yours.

https://hardwaretimes.com/doom-the-dark-ages-gpu-benchmarks-ray-tracing-vram-usage/

This says a 4060ti can do Dark Ages at about 50fps at 1080p.

Looking at other benchmarks, it … oddly looks like the 8gb vs 16gb version of the 4060ti perform essentially exactly the same

I mean I guess that counts if you’re a 1080p person… I tend to think of 1440p 60fps, everything on ‘ultra’, as a minimum threshold these days for ‘running ray tracing well’, as raytracing becomes exponentially more performance costly as you go above 1080p… which is the whole reason why modern frame upscaling and framegen had to be invented.

A 4060ti cannot run Doom Dark Ages, 1440p at 60 fps. Unless you turn down some other graphics settings… I am not seeing that in any benchmarks.

If 1080p is your benchmark than sure, I guess a 4060ti can almost run at 60 fps.

Also… I am using currently actually existing prices, not MSRP, with actually existing ‘buy now’ stock… as my basis for the previous statement.

There are very, very few 4060tis (16gb) actually available new right now, $600 is the lowest US price I am seeing, though there are a good number on eBay going for around $550, so I guess there’s another technical ‘you got me on that one.’

The only stuff that can run ray tracing well (60fps or better, well) are currently GPUs that cost … $600 if you’re lucky, more like starting at $825 or $850, going up to $2000+.

This is independent of AMD or Nvidia, at this point. Yes, you can get better RT out of an Nvidia card, but you’ll be paying significantly more.

What you mean to say is: Games with forced RT instead of actual graphics options force you into the Nvidia monopoly.

…

Handhelds can’t handle RT.

Like just none, barring adding on an eGPU.

Switch 2 could be an exception, but I doubt it’ll be able to do more than 30fps with RT on, with say, Cyberpunk 2077.

The only reason consoles can handle RT at all is because they use checkerboard rendering, which is basically sort of a mix between using interpolated frames and also upscaling.

480p fully renders each frame, 480i only updates half the pixels on the screen each frame, usually with alternating scanlines.

Checkerboard rendering is more or less another way of doing that, but in a checkerboard pattern, that also upscales by a factor of two… so when a console says its outputting at 4k, thats true, but it isn’t rendering at 4k.

…

The steam deck overlay does have a half rate shader rendering option, I have found this helpful in certain games/emulators… though sometimes it makes too much of the game look like too much ass, when it is either heavily reliant on shaders and/or they are wildly unoptimized.

It is theoretically possible that this option could help at least somewhat… the author mentions trying deckyframegen on a game that just came out, apparently having no idea that decky framegen needs time to… you know, incorperate some other mod that figures out how to hack FSR into the game, or do it themselves.

Either that, or go into the game’s config files and see if there is some value or toggle that can be flipped to just actually turn RT off… which I guess at this point just is what people would and have called a ‘graphics mod’ for many other games where something like this is done.

…

Nvidia and Unreal heavily pushing RT is a market strategy to ensure the monopoly power of Nvidia, and the further usage of UE5.

…

EDIT: Looks like idTech 8 doesn’t normally/fully support Vulkan on Linux.

If they wanted to make a release that works without RT, they could, they’d just have to rip out all the RT stuff and make a version compatible with Vulkan-base, and that looks like it would run well on AMD GPUs / a Deck, but that apparently was not a launch priority for them.

Which is kind of weird, because idTech7 was… only Vulkan, on PC… and did support RayTracing, and Doom Eternal, with RayTracing, did run decently well on high end AMD GPUs of the time (6800, 6900, etc), despite having less and less advanced RT cores than the Nvidia 3000 series.

… dear… god…

You can also just wear a chest rig, without pants…

Also, I am now just remebering these exist: Utilikilt.

I’d call that optimistic, but plausible.

If Trump just goes full Hitler’s last days ala Downfall, everyone will just keep awkwardly and dangerously screaming at each other when not in front of him, untill he finally just actually croaks.

Pretty much, yep.

The only ‘domestic manufacturing’ we really have left, that has any real export appeal … is…

Military equipment and commercial jet aircraft.

… And both of those are now far, far less appealing as imports, when combined with Boeing’s last decade of fuckups, Trump’s absurd belligerence against former allies, and oh right, all of those are absurdly complex supply chains that are definitely reliant on imports from people we’ve just pissed off at at least critical point.

We… could have done the Green New Deal and tried to kickstart a massive solar and wind and such backed mfg boom, that could have had some export potential.

We could have done CHIPS and tried to bring at least a good amount of domestic chip fab to our own shores… probably not as great export potential, but it is a legitimate national security concern NOW, as well as just generally a reasonable plan due to how many things are ‘smart’ now…

But nope, none of that.

Nope we’ve got our auto industry, which is a fucking dumpster fire… and pharmaceuticals… which is a turbomega dumpster fire because ‘who could have thought health care could be so complicated.’

… Like, I am no fan of neoliberal capitalism, but Trump and his fucking idiot troupe are apparently actually so stupid they don’t even know what ‘neoliberal capitalism’ even is, what those words mean.

… It is literally impossible for any remaining small farmers at this point, and even the corpo ones … you can’t just fucking unplant a field, grow everything everywhere… so much of our farming exports were feedstock exports to other countries that now all hate us… food is gonna like triple in price within 6 months.

This is gonna be an American Holodomor if someone doesn’t strangle everyone in this administration.

Its pretty much like, ok, so we run Gotham, but we decided to go all in on this Joker guy… and he just burned down our bales of cash we can’t keep in any banks.

But we can’t… acknowledge… that we invested all our funds into the obviously crazy person… otherwise we look stupid.

This is unironically Soviet levels of unnacountability and corruption.

We’ve got the purges going on as well, notably with Hegseth basically firing all the top military brass.

Washington is seeking to reduce its $295bn goods trade deficit with Beijing and persuade China to renounce what the US says is a mercantilist economic model and contribute more to global consumption. Beijing has pushed back against what it sees as external interference and wants Washington to lower tariffs and clarify what it wants China to buy more of.

What the US is doing is explicitly, unarguably, an idiotic 1800s style Mercantalist model.

(It is idiotic because we have basically no relevant or competetive domestic manufacturing, but we are acting as if …we do.)

Not what the Chinese are doing.

This is literally not arguable, unless you have John Fetterman level brain damage, or know literally nothing about economics nor any relevant recent/current data about the economies of the US and China.

Trump needs to be fucking euthanized.

Time to ride off into that sunset, otherwise we are all gonna fucking starve.

Ah! It seems you are… broadly correct on that one!

Though it gets complicated when you dive into the details… it appeara that exactly which name is being used by which language and people … involves essentially some … derogatory puns, slight manipulations of certain vowels/consonants to change the literal meaning of the name.

https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/questions/68544/is-asherah-related-to-ashtoreth#68545

As to books, reading?

I am doing my best (and must admit I am certainly oversimplifying to some extent, and may be making even more errors) … to put together the totality of what I’ve absorbed from watching a large number of videos either by or involving Drs. Josh Bowman and Kipp Davis.

Dr. Bowman is digitalhammurabi on youtube, Dr. Kipp Davis is… I think just eponymous?

Both of them together, or each of them singly have often appeared on the MythVision yt channel, Paulogia, more recently Esoterica… and all of those channels also feature many other scholars relevant to near eastern history, religion, language, etc.

I am not sure if Drs. Bowman or Davis have books that outline exactly what I’ve tried to sum up, but I know they definitely do have scholarly publications and at least some books focused on other topics that end up describing different parts of my summary.

I am not an expert, just a very interested person who follows the experts best I can.

Yeah, ‘aerial battle’ would have been the term I used, but hey since when are journalists supposed to know what words mean?

I suppose it is technically possible there could have been some actual close range dog fighting in this giant battle, lots of jets involved still have actual guns, as well as less long ranged and less accurate missiles…

On the other hand:

Holy fuck.

125 aircraft engaged in essentially one gigantic battle?

That is totally unprecedented in the modern era.

So, uh, anyway… Pakistan and India both have nukes, and as best I can tell, both have threatened to use them is things escalate… so… uh… yeah…

https://www.reuters.com/world/india/pakistan-says-three-air-bases-targeted-by-indian-missiles-2025-05-10/

Apparently there is a cease fire, apparently Trump is taking credit for it, apparently it has already been violated?

I am watching India Today’s livestream and they are currently saying Pakistan has and is currently still violating the ceasefire, and I have little doubt the Indians are as well.

EDIT: Former Indian Secretary MEA is basically saying Trump’s ‘ceasefire’ is complete bullshit, that India and Pakistan reached their own ceasefire, and though it seems like its falling apart, the other point here is that neither Pakistan nor India are paying any attention to Trump, they have no idea what he is talking about, they have not agreed to anything mediated by the US.

Just to give some context here:

US Dockworkers (Longshoremen) are not all in the same Union.

The West Coast and Hawaii are ILWU.

The Gulf and Atlantic Coasts are ILA.

The ILWU came out heavily against Trump before the election, endorsing Kamala.

The ILA on the other hand… basically decided to time their most recent strike with the latter stages of the 2024 campaign, snubbed Biden on multiple occasions, openly praised Trump on many occasions, both before and after he was elected…

… though I don’t think they formally endorsed Trump, its fairly clear which horse they backed.

Teamsters, on the other hand, represent… road maintenance workers, truck drivers, train operators, railway maintenance workers, construction workers, newspaper workers, police, warehouse workers… after over a century of union mergers, their represented industries are much more broad.

And they didn’t formally endorse anyone, but uh yeah, similar to the ILA, its very, very clear that leadership prefers Trump.