ComradeYellow

It wasn't always like that, I believe there was a time when GPU tech increases could coexist with thermal and power consumption remaining the same (relatively). I think it just boils down to lack of architecture innovation over the last few years, and the natural consequence being bulkier, hotter, and phatter power requirements. Technological innovation is extremely difficult so I don't mind cutting them some slack but hopefully sooner rather than later we'll see improvements in the performance vs. power + heat department.

I'd say something like Dark Messiah of Might and Magic + Skyrim but with a far more intelligent leveling system would hit the nail on the head.

https://asiatimes.com/2021/07/tiny-terror-armys-new-smg-packs-a-compact-punch/ Army wants some subby action, after decades of hiatus, but mostly for security personnel.

Of course, it's easy to blame your countries problems on minorities rather than you know, targeting the financial institutions and corrupt politicians who started it all. I dunno it's just hard to tell the difference between the American flag and the Confederate flag these days, so my level of Patriotism probably isn't where it should be at the moment.

Happy B-day to my country! Hopefully we'll get our s--t together soon so we can have another prosperous 245 years and not go the wayside. Even so, if we wind up a 2nd rate country in the near future, I'd say it's better to be a happy and peaceful 2nd rate country, then a miserable and violent superpower. The next few years will determine our future.

It's not even 4th of July yet and the morons are already lighting fireworks.

Well, U.S. intelligence agencies are pretty nasty, and they are working hand in hand with the media in their quest to maintain global domination. Anyone else watch the CCP 100 year centenary? I thought it was pretty good, though there's some mistranslations flying around about what Xi actually said but all-in-all I was pretty impressed, even if it was kind of "more of the same".

Nothing...yet. However, if I don't like the outcome of the 2024 election I will probably move out of the country. I enjoy my freedoms and lack of censorship but the U.S. is kind of a mess culturally and lacks cohesion and a united vision for the future, so I wouldn't mind the tradeoff. Also:

Yeah they should be nutjob anarchists instead right. Also, speaking of North Korea https://nypost.com/2018/06/02/inside-my-haunting-year-as-the-first-american-to-study-in-north-korea/ It takes a certain courage to travel to North Korea four times, millennials don't screw around with international political piss flinging BS. I mean I wouldn't mind traveling to Beijing or Shanghai as an expat but North Korea...yeah I'm not that brave.

Sure, I suppose I can fire up hairbrained pixelated classic RPG for $1.49, certainly no harm in that! Let's see if I can actually beat one this time, without amphetamines electrifying my brain.

I would laugh if the 21st century turned out to be literally 1984 come to life (but with better living conditions hopefully!). 3 major powers competing with each other, having occaisonal military contests in remote seas/small 3rd world countries, and switching alliances periodically, and gaining combat experience and awesome Youtube videos in the process. Could be worse, right? I suppose it would be the better alternative to nuclear devastation on an existential basis.

https://www.rt.com/op-ed/527402-russia-t14-armata-wonder-tank/ Wahahaha! (Well, to be fair, Ruskie budget isn't exactly Midas gold and they're new so the mechanical kinks and combat experience hasn't been ironed out yet but still, it's good to give the Americans a run for their money alwaysxD)

China does not need to be like Western democracies, as they have a very different historical trajectory than we do. If you worry more about stopping others than fixing yourself, you've already lost.

I guess that makes her a great actress when you can't tell the difference. And then you got your Jack Nicholson's....

John McAfee on Twitter: "I've collected files on corruption in governments. For the first time, I'm naming names and specifics. I'll begin with a corrupt CIA agent and two Bahamian officials. Coming today. If I'm arrested or disappear, 31+ terrabytes of incriminating data will be released to the press." / Twitter The plot thickens....

Well it was only a matter of time, guy seemed like an eccentric manic depressive. Some of his takes were amusing though, especially when he was running from the CIA in Cuba a few years back, even complimented the Cuban government for its services. RIP yo.

"I've studied Mao Zedong, I've read Karl Marx, I've read Lenin, that doesn't make me a communist.." Ha, we'll make a comrade general out of him yet, especially as the right keeps getting more and more confederate/nazi as progressives score victories. Just keep backing them into a corner...

I'm eligible for government healthcare even though I am currently still on unemployment. Some of these plans are actually pretty good. Now I can get my drugs and also got a hot doctor lined up (which I hand picked lol). Not a bad deal! The U.S. has tons of problems but it's medical community is quite good I must say, despite bad health insurance policies (I got lucky on being eligible).

Didn't realize there was competition between the series'? Ok well... To battle!11

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jun/20/the-uss-greatest-danger-isnt-china-its-much-closer-to-home As always, Mr. Reich does a good job putting a magnifying glass on the real issues. If the U.S. tears itself apart with ala 1860 foreign rivals win! Proto-fascism is a real thing here (Though I prefer to call it "libertarian-fascism")

I like how all these once considered leading companies which demonstrate the superiority of western private market lassaire faire consumerist ultra supremacy are starting to take the socio-dirt nap. I may have been on board with that nonsense once upon a time as an American brat in the 1990's but it kinda feels good to be on the 180 as the ship sinks. I'm just wondering how many of these once liberals of my generation are taking the diametric opposite approach and clinging to American exceptionalism in business and....everything under the sun. (Good kids grow up to be bad guys and vice versa etc. etc.)

EU: Socialist China: Communist US:....sinking ship? xD

What's funny is most Putin fanbois aren't even Russian. A growing number of people living inside Russia's current borders see him as everything his critics accuse him of, but not as some kind of moral flaw but a flaw of ineptitude, weakness, and indecisiveness. They wish he was more like...Stalin!

Yeah that was political strategy thing from the Clinton camp, as he couldn't be seen as the "President who re-lost the Cold War" if the Communists retook power, which was a very real possibility, but perhaps maybe not because Gorbachev was about as inept a Communist as Yeltsin a liberal, so Russia got a raw deal in that time period which seems like ancient history now, whilst the U.S. was flourishing on the dogma of wealth and individualism. I think as competition between China and the U.S. heats up, there will be less focus on liberal arts and more focus on STEM fields that promote technological innovation. The U.S. needs an adversary or else they just get silly and contradictory.