Being a modern so-called "wage slave" sucks, no doubt. But equating it to actual, literal slavery belittles what those people actually went through to a disgusting degree. No one today can whip you if they feel like it. No one today can separate you from your spouse and children, selling them to some random asshole two states over, never to be seen again. If you decided to try to make it on your own and move, no one can sue to have you brought back to your workplace in a cage. If you break your leg, no one can shoot you in the head like you're a useless animal.
The closest thing to slaves we have today are convicts. There's a whole different discussion to be had there about how immoral it is to use prison as a punishment instead of rehabilitation, allowing a court to take away someone's rights, exploiting time behind bars for labor, the incentive that provides for pronouncing people guilty, and removing felons' rights to vote. But poor wage workers are NOT slaves.
Unless the game is solely bottlenecked by processing stuff
yyyyep. Pretty much any mainline GPU made since 2010 should be able to handle TF2 just fine, and if you've got a 1060 or better I seriously doubt your GPU is the problem. The problem is that CPU usage is horribly optimized and it can only really utilize 2 threads (not cores, threads). After that it's your clock speed that makes a difference.
I played competitively on a 680 and an overclocked i5-4690k@4.2Ghz until I finally upgraded last year, and would only dip below 100FPS playing pubs on Halloween. In 6s I never went below 200.
I mean, back in the day, I already used to get better performance when I would boot in Ubuntu 16 instead of Windows. Not sure that's the case anymore with modern stock Ubuntu but I imagine Mint would still do better thanks to having less bloat. But I have trouble imagining that better shaders are going to help many people at all.
edit: the vulkan update probably won't help. the switch to 64 bit has the potential to be HUGE.
But Twin Galaxies' own lawyer, David Tashroudian, faced misconduct claims of his own after he improperly contacted two witnesses in the case — prompting Superior Court Judge Wendy Chang, who's overseeing the case, to consider referring him to the State Bar for discipline.
I'm no lawyer, but this seems like small potatoes in comparison to Mitchell's actively fabricating evidence and lying under oath. Absolutely shameful that after years of litigation TG's case falls apart thanks to an idiot lawyer. Hope that lawyer gets paid nothing and Jobst's lawsuit goes better; Mitchell needs to see real consequences for the years of intimidation and lies.
I don't understand why this is a shitpost. Watched the whole thing waiting for something to happen.
Y'all just now learning that high fashion is unconventional? It's not my bag either but at the end of the day this is pretty mundane. There's way weirder stuff at fashion shows
in this specific context it means bullshit, like "no bullshit," but it can't be used literally any other way because "to cap" someone means killing them
I can't possibly disagree more. I don't think you understand how restrictive an actual prison is. The man got to live out his days eating good food, going where he wanted, and doing what he wanted. We should all be so lucky to be able to do that at the cost of merely getting some dirty looks here and there.
Given the war and the oil embargo and everything else that was going on at the time
I don't see how pardoning Nixon helped solve any of that or how they make the pardon any less of a travesty.
Ford gained nothing by the pardon
You know, other than the part where he only got to be president in the first place by making an agreement with Nixon that if he resigned, he'd get a pardon. He got to bail out his buddy and set an example for the rest of his Republican pals that breaking the law is fine, we'll cover for you from the very top levels of government! No matter what the general public might have thought of it, the people within the party saw it as a huge service to their political machine.
Nixon got to live out his days comfortable, happy, and carefree. "He did not even have a state funeral." Give me a break. By this logic, Trump doesn't really need to be prosecuted! He already lost one election, and if he loses the next, he won't have what's REALLY important to him, and isn't that punishment enough?
Of course not. Heinous crimes were committed against the integrity of our country's ability to have democratic elections, and actual, real, legal conquences MUST follow, or the next asshole will comfortably push things even harder. It's thanks in part to Nixon's pardon that the rest of the republicans today are so happy to join hands around their lies about the election being stolen and the Jan 6 rioters being on a tour. They'd never have gotten here so easily without the precedent they have of covering for each other no matter what, no matter how serious, and no matter how high the office.
Trek tends to fudge the dates on purpose. It's supposed to take place In The Future, and you're supposed to be thinking about whatever philosophical concept the episode is about, not the exact timeline of events. From Wikipedia: "stardates were originally intended to avoid specifying exactly when Star Trek takes place." I hate linking to Fandom wiki pages, but I'll say the page on stardates goes on at length about how inconsistent Trek time is.
Jumping around within a single episode is a little funny, but doesn't surprise me. Some writers try to be consistent, but maybe only for a few connected episodes, and some don't try at all. Sometimes a character will die, but an earlier episode or a flashback with a clearly later stardate will see them alive. There's all kinds of technobabble about where they are in the universe, and light speed relativity, and so on, but at the end of the day the show isn't trying to hide any serious messages in its timeline so long as the story of the episode makes some level of sense.
People like you would be watching the Nixon resignation saying “he got away with everything”.
I mean... yeah? You think his resignation and pardon WASN'T him getting away with everything?
I'm as hopeful as the next guy that the supreme court won't just rule that nothing bad happened on Jan 6th and that Trump is allowed to be prosecuted, but 3 years on, it seems pretty reasonable to doubt it until it's done.
i always figured centaurs would be entirely their own species, so it's bestiality in either direction. Like if you could ask a goose whether it would rather pair up with a cockatiel or an ostrich, i don't think it'd be happy about either choice
I like that part of firefox's summary was that it's free. Uh, yeah, they all are. Thanks Mozilla!