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But I have so many followers!

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Yes, that is generally true. But Elon has shown time and time again that he is an inherently malicious individual.

Is it implausible that a jackass like Elon would spend a small fraction of his wealth to destroy a company that hurt his wittle feelwings?

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Kroger said it plans to lower grocery prices by $1 billion if federal regulators approve the proposed $25 billion merger with Albertsons

Yes. If there's one thing that all corporations want, it's to MAKE LESS MONEY.

That's why they want to reduce competition. It's so people can give them less money.

Now, some people might suggest that this sort of selfless generosity might go against their fiduciary obligation to increade stockholder value. But those people would be wrong because of course they're only doing this to eliminate competition and gouge customers, you bunch of gullible idiots.

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AMD Ryzen CPUs fry twice in the face of heavy math load: GMP

My Ryzen 9 7950X3D died a couple months ago. I just tried rebooting one day, screen went black during startup, and that was the end of it. Nothing but two red POST lights on the motherboard after that.

I had been donating some CPU time to a couple BOINC projects (solving math, physics, and biology problems), so it's possible that might have contributed to its demise. Although, I typically had it throttled to not exceed about 25% of CPU usage, so I would think the CPU should have been able to handle it. But, ¯_(ツ)_/¯.

I've only seen one other CPU die in my entire life, and that was years ago when I was playing around with overclocking an old CPU. So, I was rather surprised when my 6-month old CPU went to an early grave.

The fine folks at AMD were kind enough to RMA the.dead CPU and replace it with a 9950X3D, which runs like a champ. But it also rarely gets above 5% CPU usage, which seems like a bit of a waste. But, I'm not in a hurry to use any of that excess capacity to run another BIONC project any time soon.