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DIY Steam Machine for Under $200 [Project]

Is this the best value for your buck right now in terms of price? Looks like I can get one for like $450 or so is that the best deal on a gaming PC right now?

Trying to get a buddy of mine who is tired of subscriptions on consoles to get one so we can PC game together but the high cost of entry in most PCs is the only barrier right now.

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An 81-Year-Old Grandma Streaming Minecraft To Pay For Grandson’s Cancer Treatment Has Been Swatted

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Its all about money. Its all the people in charge here care about. I'm serious.

The cops have a chance to "civil asset forfeiture" your stuff. So they come in and kill you or whatever but oh, looks like you were commiting a crime citizen (whether you were or not dead men tell no tales) so now all of the stuff you own is proceeds from that crime and they keep it all and auction it off on websites or sometimes you will dee the local police department driving around a nice vehicle they stole from someone like that.

That cancer treatment shit costs money, they will think to themselves, and it keeps alive people who are in bad health and that will cost us even more money.

So they don't care that they die. I bet if you took away polices ability to civil asset forfeiture then the murder squads would ease up a little too. No incentive.

Its all about the money, at its core.

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US destroys Iran reservoirs, leaving thousands without water in searing heat

Why wouldn't other countries just not sanction us?

seriously this and the killing random people in fishing boats with no due process in international waters are war crimes.

If China, Russia, EU and everyone else said nah fuck you we won't buy any of your shit or sell you any of our shit would that not fix the problem in like, one months time?

Seriously why isn't this happening?? Couldn't the ICC make its members do something like this? Or is that not how that works?

I'm just trying to understand. There must be something the world can do that doesn't involve war why don't they do that?

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‘Running out of money’: Kraft, McDonald’s, Whirlpool CEOs all issue same dire warning about US consumers. Get ready now

"According to the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (9), $100 in 2026 had the same purchasing power as just $11.74 did in 1970."

Now I'm no economist, but it seems like there's a way to fix this problem.

"We've tried bleeding them dry for more and more and it isn't working we're just completely out of ideas!"

Also gotta love how the article says these companies are "lowering prices" and then in the same sentence talks about them selling smaller package sizes for less money.

THAT IS NOT LOWERING PRICES THAT IS GIVING YOU LESS AT A TIME FOR LESS MONEY AT A TIME TO LOWER PRICES THE PRICE PER OUNCE HAS TO DECREASE