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NVIDIA Puts 100-Hour Monthly Limit on All GeForce NOW Subscriptions

i am the ideal customer for this type of service. i don't have a gaming computer, and I don't want to own a gaming computer, but I want to dip into new titles as they come out and indulge once in a while.

i tried geforce now and the waiting rooms and the time caps make it unusable to me. i am paying for convenience here, and yet I can't play when I want to play, and I get kicked if i play for too long or if I make a coffee. and then I wait again. im paying money to wait in a line on the internet.

im trying to sneak video games into the small amount of time that I have, and it's not letting me do that. there's actually no ideal customer for this service. it's a product that doesn't make any sense. they can suck my balls with this shit

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36-year-old left the U.S. for China—now pays $1,000 rent and $100 for groceries for family of 4: It's my 'version of the American Dream’

working at a chinese company would be fucking awful and the salary would match your super fun cost of living noted here in the headline. some of these people are my friends. I've lived in similar countries

if you are retired, it's great. if you work remotely for a European company, it's great. if you work for a local company it could be great or it could be a seriously awful life. if you're doing business it could be great or it could be a kafka-esque hell

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Trump voters angry at ‘chaos:’ ‘Not what we signed up for’

Trump voters don't care about these things. they have a completely different rhetorical frame. this article is bullshit. trump voters are liking the chaos a lot because they think its good because they think liberals are bad. all you need to do is follow the usual conservative talking heads if you want to know what they're thinking.

I hate this clickbait feel good happy toxic optimism shit. it doesn't do any good to anyone. this article was only written to keep leftists stupid. downvote this fake garbage.

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I think there's a pretty good case to be made that NATO would be effectively dissolved if the United States attacked Greenland.

the attack would likely be tolerated by the other NATO members, and so the agreement would no longer have meaning.

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Anon explains scam callers

this is the first post I see mentioning this. gambling debt is the driver for all kinds of criminal activity in these countries. men will get drunk and gamble their motorbike, their fucking house, their parents house. they burn money as an offering, hoping their dead ancestors will show them more clues about lucky numbers.

loan sharks will call their place of work and harass them, threaten their wife and children. the guy will steal from his family members, maybe gamble some more hoping to have better luck. they have a dream about a goat turning to the left and stamping its foot a certain number of times and then turning to the right and taking a shit.

this is completely normal. it's culturally accepted. so many of these guys are completely fucked, and have completely screwed over their wives and their parents and their brother's families.

the other thing that gets them into trouble are blatant cheesy scams that no american would fall for unless they were like 90 years old with dementia. the level of effort required to lure these people is unbelievably low. they send a little bit of money to the scammer and then they send more and then more and the scammer just eventually bleeds them dry. pyramid schemes and shit like that. they borrow money from the friends in order to get their money out, and then their friends money is gone too. and of course his friend lent him money, because friends in these countries always lend each other money. everyone is lending money to everyone else.

my family members that live here are being scammed constantly. my mother-in-law has fallen for scams on facebook multiple times this year. she is spending retirement money on scams. it's like they've got a scam budget. money is switching hands between family members and then flowing out into scams. "hey look at this I think you should try it" and then the scammer has multiple people in the same family sending money.

they didn't really have the internet until just a few decades ago. other cultures grew out of this shit, but these guys have no idea. they're extremely vulnerable. I think multiple generations need to pass before the population has any immunity to this sort of thing.