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Are there any initiatives to show support for Russia?

You are expecting businesses to pick a side, I don't think its particularly wise to do so because the only possible outcome is a massive decrease in potential customers. You might feel morally superior in your convictions but that is based on your assumption that your moral convictions are correct.

Facebook "fact-checking" isn't even about checking facts and displaying truth, it is about narrative control and telling you what opinions you are allowed to have and what you are not, what 'truths' you have to accept and which ones you should not. The "facts" are intentionally politically one sided opinions and has been admitted so in a court of law.

3 minutes ago, poochyena said:

Why is north america so dangerous that you need to be armed to feel safe?

*eyeroll...*

more thoughtless condescension dripping with smugness. Oh the world would be so great if we all just thought like you. Life has been so good you cannot even comprehend why anyone could possibly think differently.

I don't mean to be condescending, I mean to be insulting.
You want people to just accept things and comply. I want people to be left alone. Sometimes the only way to be left alone is to be capable of harming those who would bother you. Capability does not imply intent.

Hypothetically, if your question was sincere (which I know its not, but anyway..) then I would suggest you do some digging into history. legality and morality are not mutually inclusive.

13 hours ago, Kisai said:

a bunch of people waving hate flags among a bunch of others armed with weapons

Lol canadian flag is not a hate flag. There is nothing wrong with being armed. I encourage it actually. For everyone. Armed minorities are harder to oppress and victimize. That's the point. Anyone wanting to remove tools of self-defense should be assumed to have bad intentions, especially a government.
 

13 hours ago, Kisai said:

Looks like terrorism to me.

get your eyes checked then.

13 hours ago, Kisai said:

Terrorizing the residents by making noise constantly, that's the very definition of terrorism.

right.. making noise in defiance of authoritarianism is terrorism, but according to the official media narratives of the US and Canada, literally burning down cities, attacking citizens and chanting for the abolishment of the country is just a mostly peaceful protest.

clown world goes Honk Honk

On 2/15/2022 at 4:34 PM, poochyena said:

This has yet to be proven any more likely in a cash free future.

Lol didn't Canada just shut down their banks at the request of the government to stop people from making perfectly legal purchases that the govt didn't like?
Have you not noticed people had their bank accounts closed on them over the last few years because they did not tow the propaganda line?

Cash is the method of finances that you can have complete control over and purchase anonymously. I recognize no argument to take that away from other people as legitimate.

8 hours ago, poochyena said:

I, currently, have little reason to use cash.

yay great for you, so speak for yourself and stop acting like you assume everyone else similarly has little reason to use cash.

Just now, IkeaGnome said:

Hopefully you didn't fill out a W4 when you started working if you live in the US, or the comparable form for what ever country you're in.

The concern is not that they can view financial situations, the concern is that they would have direct power over those financial situations and also remove all methods of finances that they wouldn't be able to have direct control over. If you don't think that, given the chance, a government wouldn't close down your bank account if you refused to inject yourself with an experimental medicine, you should reconsider. No government should have the authority to rip your ability to live out from under you, they already do a liquid butt ton of terrible things to people and we can't do anything about it because they are the authority.

Digital currency is cool. Digital banking is hella convenient. I like these technologies. I use a lot of them. I don't like the idea of a government being in charge of running them with no other options.

3 hours ago, Kisai said:

You're not getting the same money back, and you know that. In many cases stores will charge a restocking fee, and require you to leave your contact information to do the return.

My experience is that lots of stores won't even do actual refunds they'll just do store credit on a gift card that you can use towards your next purchase.

20 hours ago, poochyena said:

Why not? There is absolutely no downside to it.

Thats your subjective viewpoint and my subjective viewpoint based on objective observable history is that governments should not just be blindly trusted. I don't want an unaccountable force to have its hands in my finances. period. you do you, but don't tell me how I must also do.

On 2/7/2022 at 9:35 PM, poochyena said:

uhhh, how does any of that relate to the topic, exactly?

I was responding with a point about privacy to a question about downsides to the government (which has a long list of terrible behavior without being held accountable) having total control over the medium by which we exchange goods for survival. People who are not concerned about privacy are welcome to share their info, but they do not get to dictate that everyone else shares their info too.

10 hours ago, poochyena said:

What is the downside to this exactly? It will be harder for people to cheat on their taxes. Oh no.

You are welcome to change your clothes by the window with your curtains open for all your neighbors to see, but you do not get to come to my house and remove my curtains.

Not having anything to hide does not mean that my business should be publicly available or that a government with a history of bad behavior has any right to watch.

Unrelated, if 'people cheating on their taxes' is of concern for you, look no further than the government officials ("Public Servants"... LOL!) that write the tax laws in the first place. THAT is supposed to be publicly available, with the sole purpose of being scrutinized by the public they are allegedly serving.

Right now I'm on a decade old 27" Dell 1440p 59hz screen. Its starting to show its age and regularly glitches the bottom 25% when turning the screen on or waking it up. This issue eventually corrects itself but the computer is mostly unusable until it does (can take up to 20 mins sometimes). My second screen is worse, a 24" Asus 1080p 120hz screen with absolute garbage color accuracy and terrible contrast even when manually adjusted; the higher refresh rate does not redeem it.

I've been wanting to upgrade for a long time now, but my increasingly failing main screen tells me I need to prepare for it. I don't mind spending a lot for quality and features, I obviously don't upgrade often, so whatever I upgrade to is going to be my screen for the next decade.

I've been looking at the Odyssey G9, it has pretty much all the features I like. I don't need super fastest refresh rate or response time, I'm a fairly casual gamer, but anything is better than 59hz and 15ms response time.. Gsync/freesync are huge upgrades too.

I've wanted an ultrawide for productivity for a long time (I do CNC programming and toolpath modeling, some autocad and a touch of photoshop and video editing) and a super ultrawide is even more enticing.

I am already very comfortable with 1440 vertical resolution at roughly 110ppi, and the higher end of color accuracy is a must.

What other ultrawide 1440p high-color-accuracy 'gaming' options are there that might be better value that have a good balance of these higher end features? looking sub $1200.

16 hours ago, leadeater said:

at least they are A) Independent (ish), B) Have published standards and guidelines, C) Somewhat consistent with their judgements.

lol across the board. they are literally being sued because these are not true.

16 hours ago, pythonmegapixel said:

If someone prefers they/them, just use they/them

no.

I'm not only under no obligation to do so, but I am obliged to tell you to fuck off if you try to compel me. I will not waste my effort trying to memorize everyone's preferences, nor will I misgender them by calling them something they clearly are not. Yes I just used They/Them to refer to a non-specific person of either gender, not a specific person of one of them; I was grammatically correct.

16 hours ago, pythonmegapixel said:

it's not that hard

its not a matter of difficulty, its a matter of principal. I don't intentionally upset people, but I refuse to live by the demands of their subjective feelings.

Google (and everyone else that uses feelings to demand certain behavior or other people) can fuck right off

On 5/10/2021 at 9:32 AM, thechinchinsong said:

allocate more resources

its not necessarily more that is necessary, more appropriately the correct resources need to be allocated. You can do a lot with less if the tools you are using are adequate. One major problem is that many tools have been mandated through law and its literally illegal to upgrade some aspects of infrastructure without it being approved by our wonderful overlords who despite their obvious superiority know very little about the subject in the first place.

3 minutes ago, curiousmind34 said:

https://www.xfinity.com/support/devices/#unauth use this to check comaptibility with xfinity and from there you can choose. 

well shoot that basically solves my problem. I had no idea this existed. Thank you much!

We have the 400 speed service from Xfinity (speed test shows us getting near 500, actually).. but we've been with xfinity for a few years now and we've decided to stop renting a modem and just get our own. There isn't a problem with the one we've been renting and we have no complaints, but renting hardware for $14 a month eventually gets more expensive than just buying a good one outright and we are more than a few months past that point.

I've cheaped-out on networking hardware before and to avoid that mistake again I'm willing to invest into a good one even if its on the pricier side. What are some good Modems that you guys would recommend that work fine with Xfinity?

14 minutes ago, MewMew said:

I mean if you're looking for a literal phone's worth of buttons there's always the NAGA.

I have one of those. I don't like it, the button layout of all 12 on the thumb is awkward for me. That's why I'm looking for the buttons to be spread around the mouse.

I'm using the Steelseries Cataclysm MMO mouse, Linus actually did a review on it just a few weeks shy of 10 years ago.

I got my first one almost right after they came available (I hadn't discovered LTT yet at the time) and loved it so much that when it died after 5 years of heavy use I replaced it with a brand new one of the same model.

well it's about five years later again and the buttons are beginning to feel their age, but it's obviously discontinued. I have a little bit of life left in it still but I don't want to wait until I am fighting the buttons if an 'upgrade' is required.

I like lots of buttons, but they need to be spread out over the mouse, rather than all on the thumb. I've used the razer mice with all 12 buttons on the thumb and don't like the layout regardless of how ergonomic the mouse is.

I've been eyeing the Roccat Tyon (or the wireless Leadr), the Asus Spatha, and the Steelseries Rival 500. all three have excellent reviews across the board, the main complaint is that the spatha is heavy but I am a casual gamer and do very little mouse movement or lifting. I've looked at other popular models (like the logitech 502) that are often recommended but I don't think I would like the button layouts. I want as many buttons as possible and spread out across the whole mouse not just confined to 1 or 2 fingers.

What are your guys' thoughts / experiences with the Tyon/Leadr, Spatha, or Rival 500?

32 minutes ago, lexusgamer05 said:

I didn't imply that. I meant there were more important issues at hand to use resources on.

It's not an unimportant issue, and it is not preventing necessary resources from other issues.

On 9/23/2020 at 12:59 AM, lexusgamer05 said:

why is the US govt wasting their time like this?

this implies that this is the only thing they are doing right now.

if it falls within their realm and it does not prevent other efforts then it is not 'wasting time'.

18 hours ago, handymanshandle said:

I don't have many nice things to say about Portland, but honestly, good on them for giving facial recognition the middle finger. It's a very scary and slippery slope that's almost guaranteed to lead to change society for the worse.

Amen to everything here, including the first part. I've been to Portland, have family and friends that live nearby. It's a really neat city split across the river, but the culture there is incredibly toxic and undesirable in pretty much every way. I'm still glad they banned this tech, even if the timing is suspicious, but I don't want that tech anywhere near where I live either so I'm relieved there is already going to be some precedent.

7 hours ago, Bombastinator said:

Just read an article claiming

Articles claim a LOT these days..

On 7/10/2020 at 10:43 AM, Radium_Angel said:

But you bring up a valid point, it must be pretty insulting to know you got hired to fill a quote, rather than on your actual capabilities

Diversity in the USA translates directly to "fewer white men."

I'm not trying to be political here, that is a legitimate cultural push that gets you labeled as evil if you disagree.

12 minutes ago, SansVarnic said:

no political discussion.

inherently impossible considering the nature of this.

On 12/4/2019 at 5:10 PM, BuckGup said:

If its $1000 or less I might get it. I love my current ultrawide but 34in and only 100hz is getting pretty dated. Wish the vertical res was higher though

When you replace it, can I have your current screen? I've been on this 27" 59hz screen since 2011 or so.

i'll pay in virtual high fives.