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What a time in history...

Ok, but before pants, humans wore robes, kilts, loin cloths, all kinds of coverings besides just pants.

Also, fun fact, the reason why it's called a "pair" of pants is because each pant leg used to be a separate garment; they were held up together at the waist with a belt.

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Cool Japan 🌸

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"I'm tired of all these immigrants coming over here and not even being able to speak the language. This is [country] and we speak [language] here!"

That's what you sound like.

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Being poor is expensive

This is what I point out whenever someone tries to tell me, "The only fair thing in life is everyone gets 24 hours in a day."

That doesn't mean shit when someone with a private jet can be on a different continent in hours.

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2027 RAM Capacity Has Reportedly Been Sold out

My prediction:

  1. Investors continue to fuel demand, choking supply
  2. Plans to monetize LLMs don't pan out
  3. Eventually, lenders call their margins
  4. Investors see the called margins and get spooked; demand fizzles
  5. AI companies desperately try to liquidate their positions. Seeing the price of components, there's a rush to sell while prices are high.
  6. PC components flood the market
  7. Record high supply, record low prices
  8. PC gaming golden age

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Two anus facts in a row.

The horse rectum and anus are a marvel of engineering. Together, they're capable of expelling waste, segmenting waste, and cleaning themselves, with one contraction performed by a single muscle.

As the sphincter contracts, it pushes out the waste, while also tightening to divide the waste into precisely segmented portions. If you weigh the individual pieces of waste, they weigh the same, within only a half ounce or so of each other.

After the waste is expelled, before the sphincter relaxes, it squeezes the rectum in the direction of the anus, effectively cleaning the rectum of any remaining waste.

This design has been replicated mechanically and applied to countless manufacring processes. Just about any time some amount of fluid needs to be precisely portioned out on an assembly line, it uses a device that was designed to be basically a mechanical version of a horse's asshole because it does such a good job of dispensing consistent quantities while minimizing waste, requiring very little maintenance and upkeep, and being very simple to build.

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It's becoming widely accepted that it's not safe to put pictures of your children on social media... (cont. in post)

It's not the desired outcome people are against, it's the implementation.

I think you'll have a hard time finding anyone who disagrees with the idea that children shouldn't be exposed to the full power of the unfiltered internet, and that's what makes these laws so insidious.

The issue lies in how governments hope to achieve this goal. Current laws propose that users provide the private company hosting the site (Facebook, TikTok, etc.) an image of their government-issued ID and/or other identifying information. The primary concerns are 1) these companies will have even more access to private information about their users, and 2) any security breach of these companies would risk the identities of their millions of users.

Imagine being able to apply for millions of stolen credit cards because of one successful hack. That's the risk being created.

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Sony doubles down. Only responds to their investors, not the consumers. I've never bought a digital console title. That will continue.

Nintendo churns out the same slop franchises year after year and aggressively sues anyone for anything.

Sony (somehow) believes that investors are what give their company value, not customers, and certainly not employees. They're abandoning physical media and not backing down on their anti-consumer practices that only continue to get worse.

Microsoft has become the new EA, aggressively buying up every single schmedium-sized gaming studio they can get their hands on, mismanageing them all into the ground, then selling them off for parts to save their own asses while leaving talented studios to die on the vine. They're basically buying the right to scrap their competition and they'll get away with it because they have enterprise IT subscriptions to absorb the losses.

AAA gaming is dead. And greed killed it. I'll be playing indie PC games and emulators for the foreseeable future.