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  1. AdrianS

    Domestic consequences of the 2024 US presidential election: the quickening

    The problem with billionaires isn't their money, it's the power it gives them. Especially in the US, where buying politicians is legal.
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    Nvidia CEO tries to explain why DLSS 5 isn’t just “AI slop”

    You are aware that they are comparing theit dual-gpu AI skin with a version of the game with the quality turned down to "potato". So your whole "the improvement is amazing" is based on potato.
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    The mild annoyances thread!

    There are a lot of words I only know from books, and have to work out / guess how they are pronounced. And I'm a native speaker of the Queen's English, as interpreted down under.
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    NASA kills lunar space station to focus on ambitious Moon base

    The US runs largely on fear to get things done. So FEAR CHYNA!
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    Project Hail Mary (movie)

    The only really long movies* I have enjoyed had an intermission, so you could stretch your legs, have a piss, buy a drink etc. *Napoleon (Ganz), Hamlet (Branagh)
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    Jury agrees that Musk’s tweets during Twitter takeover constituted fraud

    Do we really need pro-Israel war propoganda in this thread?
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    There’s no sudden acceleration problem with Tesla, feds say

    Lots of ABS based traction control systems do exactly that- brake the spinning wheel so torque is transferred to the other.
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    Blockade and Potential Invasion of Cuba

    I read it. Some of it it reasonable, some of it is ranting, some of it is racist*. *Every "racial incident" he reports is presented as black soldiers attacking whites.
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    Jeff Bezos throws his hat in the ring for an orbital data center megaconstellation, too

    We've had quite a few uncritical "press release as news" space articles recently. It is what it is.
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    In this episode of 'Things That Piss Me Off'.........

    So that's why the bloody things bounce around like that.
  11. AdrianS

    Afroman keeps trolling cops after winning “Lemon Pound Cake” defamation case

    Anyone else notice how similar Lemon Pound Cake is to Under the Boardwalk?
  12. AdrianS

    In this episode of 'Things That Piss Me Off'.........

    They'll drink ground roasted acorns and weep for the past that was lost.
  13. AdrianS

    Project Hail Mary (movie)

    Ok, so I'll take earplugs if I go see it, and hope not to need them past the intro.
  14. AdrianS

    The mild annoyances thread!

    Backing in requires the cooperation of the idiot who's glued to your rear bumper.
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    In this episode of 'Things That Piss Me Off'.........

    Preppers - stockpile guns & ammo. Arsians - stockpile tea and coffee. I know which group I want to be in.
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    FCC lets Nexstar buy Tegna, creating Trump-approved broadcaster reaching 80% of US

    Once this deal goes through, that bad news will just disappear.
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    You need to make some serious changes here or else I will renew my subscription

    Did you know that in Opera's dark mode, moderator yellow becomes a mild chocolate brown? Much less jarring.
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    Dogfighting in space? This company builds satellites for “high-tempo engagement.”

    Right now, the US is one of the global bad guys.
  19. AdrianS

    Project Hail Mary (movie)

    How was the volume? I've pretty well given up on going to the cinema because I find the volume level borderline painful.
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    In this episode of 'Things That Piss Me Off'.........

    A perfect target for typosquatting?