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This is cool but I also want to take this opportunity to point out SUPARCO started as a prestigious NASA partner that eventually devolved into yet another army staffed office whose only purpose is to collect a paycheck and inhibit any actual growth.

ie they could easily just choose literally anyone to be the astronaut since Pakistan axed it's space program decades ago.

At this rate I fully expect the democrats to fumble the midterm elections which should be literally the easiest campaign in decades.

I was surprised that bands of 20s could add up, but then I remember how you can fit a million dollars in a suitcase with 100s lol

Same boat as many Gapps like Google Maps. No large market competitor to show users how much better it can be.

Onion chose literally the most inopportune time to revive itself, their poor writers have been working constant overtime to stay ahead of reality lol. Trump already outdid his first 4 year term in only a couple of months.

Actually I did use to watch it quite often.

My point was not that it dropped in quality, it's just that it became slow to keep up with ongoing events with details and information readily available via basic OSINT on primary sources or even regular quality news outlets.

Ex: https://youtu.be/dRRJmOTCqqQ

Pretty much everything presented in this report was already well known and available for months, making the the rest essentially a PR moneyshot for the US Navy.

I still watch it occasionally for its direct interviews with select people, but it's still a legacy production that struggles to keep up with info you can get even from AP or Reuters.

Mind you it's still miles better than flaming trash like Washington Post or NYT, but I could easily see CBS axeing it years ago.

I mean tbf people have been calling 60 minutes a legacy production of the bygone era of quality journalism for years now.

Here is an example of a successful third party in a 2 party FPTP voting system that people keep insisting is impossible in the US because "muh RCV required"

No that's what we call HDD fragmentation, and the whole point of fragmentless filesystems like ext2/3/4, UFS, HFS, APFS, etc.

And it's not like a small difference, the load time and HDD read demand was down by 40% system wide, not just videogames.

I'd even go and demo it again, but I removed windows from my ye olde HDD a few years ago. I mentioned WoWs specifically because its a asset heavy game that I actually happened to have installed both on Windows and on Linux on the same HDD, each within their own respective partition.

It is not, ext4 does circles around piece of junk ntfs and I've got the load times from my own old world of warships install to prove it.

Windows gg ez'd its way out of making a better filesystem with the advent of SSDs which doesn't have performance hits from fragmenting like a spinning disk does.

I still remember running defraggler every few months just so I could play Batman Arkham Knight on Windows, otherwise the game would freeze lag and run at a ridiculous 10 FPS.

Windows also eats 2GB RAM at idle for no reason compared to usually 1.3-1.4 for KDE and 1.0 flat for XFCE. Zswap/Zram also helps a lot when you don't have an SSD.

And to top it off, Compiz, Wayfire, KWin, etc all outperform Windows's desktop compositor by miles in terms of performance and visual snappiness. Windows lags heavily on anything mobile like a light laptop or tablet, yet you can run a full transparent 3D compiz cube no problem with basically no hit to hardware usage due to its use of OpenGL.

No no IT Crowd is a show about sysadmins, not geeks lol. There's a very clear difference.

Compiz, Wayfire, and KWin all outshine both Windows and MacOS in quality and render performance.

The amount of visual magic in Compiz and Wayfire especially is both incredibly useful but also hilarious.

3D desktop cube is a great way to handle multiple desktops, but rotating your windows to any angle is just to show off to your friends lol.

Yeah okay pack it in boys, we're screwed lol.

Why even bother to run a primary at this point? Just let the DNC select their candidate so we can skip out on the 6 months of sham and shilling.

Probably will get some groans but World of Warships is actually modeled very nicely. And yeah its a free to play monetized game, but it is miles ahead of war thunder in terms of actually having fun and playing the game at high FPS and great quality even with a potato computer.

The engine has some cool tricks that really makes it shine with water spraying and sloshing onto your vessel.

Every ISP I've dealt with thus far has kept me on the same dynamic IP for years on end.

Only once did it actually change for me, and it was seemingly random so I assume they must have updated the lease block range.

It kind of makes sense because if some 3 letter agency asks for a historical lookup, they have less data they need to store compared to constantly rotating IPs to everyone.

Yeah I remember the SCOTUS bong hits for jesus case where our failure of a chief justice asserted that students (and anyone not staff) do not get the protections of the constitution while in public school, a federally funded and owned system, because of the ol "screw you, that's why" explanation of overturning an already established precedent because "muh drugs bad".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse_v._Frederick

Also from the original case that the above case decided to ignore:

The substantial disruption test is a criterion set forth by the United States Supreme Court, in the leading case of Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, 393 U.S. 503 (1969).[1] The test is used to determine whether an act by a U.S. public school official (State actor) has abridged a student's constitutionally protected First Amendment rights of free speech.

The test, as set forth in the Tinker opinion, asks the question: Did the speech or expression of the student "materially and substantially interfere with the requirements of appropriate discipline in the operation of the school," or might it "reasonably have led school authorities to forecast substantial disruption of or material interference with school activities?" The case holds that to justify suppression of speech, school officials would need to show that the conduct in question would "materially and substantially interfere" with the operation of the school.

Can't wait for Roberts to use this case to undo the same FA protections for students bruh

c/Politics being a bunch of very obvious reddit migrants who stand out like a sore thumb in every other community, including c/WorldNews

China watching the Houthis fail to hit a single ship with a 30 missile salvo:

Even with supersonic anti ship missiles, successfully attacking the US navy is notoriously difficult, to the point that they've actually averted invading Taiwan unless some golden opportunity falls into their lap.

That assumes people actually buy it though. Everyone already has this game, so I would expect most of the sales to come from the upgrade pack and not the $90 switch 2 edition. Nintendo usually makes bank by selling old games at full price with a generational console gap.

Tons of the full price successful "remasters" on Switch were Wii games which people no longer used, and Wii U games which no one originally bought.

On the other hand, the last time I didn't see Nintendo make bank on literally zero effort was never, so I'm not that hopeful that people won't just shill out for this scam too.

Not to be that guy but both Biden and Trump wanted TikTok either gone or kneecapped to perform the same function as Facebook.