“That’s a challenging wank.”

RIP Sean Lock.

The tragedy is that more of these rich people don’t test that belief against reality.

Yes, I think that’s reasonable. The midrange CPU in the Beelink you linked is already significantly more capable than the Intel N150 etc., though it has a TDP of 15W compared to the N150’s 6W. I haven’t dug into which specialized features they support (hardware codec support etc.) but for a general-purpose computer I’d definitely prefer the one you linked to those N100/N150 minis, even if it uses a little more power. Others might have a different opinion but that would be my choice.

The COVID vaccine wasn’t bungled though. It was a remarkably speedy and successful use of mRNA technology, and a great proof of how effective that approach to vaccines can be. If anything was bungled about it, it was leaving it in the sole possession of for-profit drug companies so that rich countries would have better access to it.

What bungling did you have in mind?

I’ve found that you don’t need to go that far above the $200 cost of an Intel N100/150 system to get a mini PC with a significantly more powerful AMD processor. It won’t be the latest generation but it will be capable of a lot more than those low-power Intels, and from my measurements many AMD processors of the last three generations or so are good at saving power when they’re idle, so it won’t use a ton more electricity. Sometimes you find used ones on eBay at a decent price because someone upgraded.

Seems like you’re well on the way to zero sets of laws. Just corruption and thuggery.

If the Trump fascists hate it, it might be worth checking out.

He may not have had much of a choice. It looks like they were about to fire him for not being a yes-man.

Yes, was it a coincidence that Trump was employing just the kinds of underage girls his best friend and neighbor, pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, was looking for?

Winning is tiring. It’s nice of Trump to give the USA an extended break from it.

The UK passport used to give you the ability to live and work anywhere in Europe. Not any more, thanks to idiots.

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Back then we hadn’t fully realised how unrelentingly they project.

The notion of a social contract is a little beyond these dumb fascists.

Well, if you go faster than they can move, you maim or kill them. Slowing down and keeping moving is how you get them to move. And although ICE may deserve what they get, an ambulance driver is probably not into hurting people with the ambulance.

I don’t know much about it but Venezuela has long had a left-wing authoritarian government that is not well disposed towards the USA, being exactly the kind of government the USA always tries to overthrow. It also has a lot of oil.

Fascists believe that only the strongest should survive and everyone else must die. So if you get sick and die it proves you were inherently inferior and didn’t deserve to live. Eugenicism and the abuse of evolutionary theory are rife among the far right. And they all assume that they themselves are the Übermenschen whose genetic superiority will protect them from disease, so they have no need for government protection, unlike their inferiors. They’ll believe this right up until they’re in intensive care with bird flu, whereupon they’ll start panicking and changing their minds, just like Republicans did under COVID. But this message won’t get through to their peers because their peers too don’t care about it until they themselves are in trouble. Unless they’re wealthy, in which case they’ll buy themselves the care they’re denying to others, and consider this very fact proof that they are superior and deserve to live.

The only reason is that more is known about cancers than about the physiological basis of different psychological conditions. Psychology often has to work at the level of grouping symptoms because it’s difficult and takes a long time to discover any neurological and/or genetic causes behind them.

I do like the idea of a National Shitbag Registry, so when these people move to a new neighborhood they have to go door to door warning the neighbors that they are a registered shitbag.

This was an update to the entertainment system that somehow had the side effect of disabling the power train while driving. You’d think these would be two entirely separate computer systems, but they must be sharing something.