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According to our old friends anonymous US sources speaking to media. Officially: per Reuters Got to make sure everyone knows who did it before there's any evidence though. Really, what does he think is being used there? That's a tiny explosion considering the camera is IR. As one of the commentators suggests, likely to be a mine. Really though, this has brought out all the big brain types. Yes, it can't have been Ukraine because they couldn't blow up 200m all at once. Let's just ignore that every single cubic m of water weighs a ton, and there are a lot more than 1 cubic meter in that dam so a small hole will get bigger very quickly...

Hah, they had that as an email discount two weeks ago. Now that really is naughty, I feel like demanding my, uh, $1.90 back.

Laughable Centrist for steak cooking is probably using a microwave to cook it: pretty much guaranteed to unite everyone else in hatred. I think the thing that really annoys me about Kai Leng is that his problems are completely avoidable. Most of the other complaints are clunkiness, and problems due to ME2 not progressing the plot of the series except in its last dlc. Ultimately the traffic light choice is little different from the ending of Deus Ex (albeit that's often seen as the weakest part of Deus Ex too, but meh, ending things well is hard). Bioware can and did write decent antagonists, and some very good ones too even in ME. There is literally nothing good or redeemable about Kai Leng though, he's a terrible idea with terrible writing and terrible plot with equally terrible plot holes/ railroading. And definitely new sense terrible --> awful, worse than merely bad, not the old sense where it meant impressive but frightening. All made worse by the fact his creators seemed to think he was the most awesomest of things in the known universe. I'm sorry to say it, but Kai Leng is the Star Trek Discovery Season 3 of characters and I'm not even sure which one I'm insulting worse with the comparison. But still slightly better than WoT S1.

It's not like they could 'lose' Kosovo short of pulling their troops out, which won't happen. It's about as literal a vassal state as it's possible to get in modern polities, wholly dependent on aid, remittances and subsidies from all the NATO troops/ bases. If you started getting the same rhetoric applied to Bosnia it'd mean something more. I'd say they're trying to get a condemnation of Russia out of Serbia in exchange so they can say that Russia has no allies in Europe; and more of a long shot recognition of Kosovo so people don't continually point it out as an example of western hypocrisy. The former would be exactly the sort of ultimately meaningless feel good spectacle that von der Leyen and Borrel love, the latter would have more substance but probably be political suicide.

It's attached via small screws through plastic eyelets and the eyelets are all broken, so it will need a replacement. Looks most likely that the screws were overtightened during assembly since the box and card are otherwise pristine.

It has arrived, anticipation builds... and its shroud is snapped off. Literal lol. Serves me right for buying MSI instead of putting in the extra for a Sapphire I guess.

Knighthoods were abolished under Helen Clarke's Labour government and reinstated by John Key's National government a few years later- he's the politician Eleanor Catton had a very public spat with a few years ago. We kept the replacement Order of New Zealand as well because you can't have enough things to award to ex politicians, business leaders and judges (plus Sir Edmund Hillary when he was alive). Perhaps unsurprisingly John Key is now Sir John Key. AKA Sir Xian Qi after having his house bought for twice its market value by a Chinese government affiliated individual...

Australia sure*, but we get on pretty well with the Chinese. They'd never bother invading when our politicians would happily sell the place to them wholesale in the name of 'investment'. *well, not absolutely sure. They do have a notable predilection for sucking up shamelessly to the US in a manner that would make even Tony Blair embarrassed so it may well be that as main motivator rather than actual fear. One of the reasons we get on with China a lot better than Australia does is that so long as we have our anti nuclear policy we'll never be seen as a US stooge- same most definitely can't be said for our trans Tasman cousins.

Must have been horrible having such neighbours on your land borders. With much sympathy, Æthelred Unræd

Decided that this gen's actual mid tier cards are likely to be crap, so picked up a 6750XT for cheap. So it's now guaranteed that the 7700/7800XT will be the apex of efficiency, value for money and computing power.

I don't know why they'd regret it, they probably use dies that would go to the recycler otherwise, and AMD still gets their money. The 6700/10GB was the 'budget'* card I seriously considered getting when my V64 packed up (XFX version though, not sapphire). *Still more than twice what I paid for a 5770, and 50% more than I paid for the 580 I'm using now so air quotes very much deserved.

95% sure that conversation is from Downtown? But it's been a fair while since I've played...

The Intel cards also need resizable BAR, or you leave ~ a quarter of their performance on the table. Though I'd suspect most people have a resizable BAR capable motherboard nowadays.

Meh, don't employ sociopaths and give them a feeling of impunity, simple enough. And strangely enough, not talking about the guy who pulled the trigger, but the head cop. Yeah, I'll spare a thought for the poor police force in their hour of tragedy and how terrible it's been for them her dying.

That probably just means that Paradox got very little per sale for PoE1- not surprising since they were essentially acting more as a distributor of Obsidian's title rather than a publisher. Tyranny may have sold less copies, but they'd have got far more return per copy sold.

One suspects that the 4060 will be an absolute steal. Compared to the 4060Ti 16GB

6650XT, with about 10% lower clocks (excluding boost, which isn't sustained) and 10% less draw. Which would be fine (ish), if it were the 7500XT as it 'should' be and 50 bucks cheaper, as it should be since it's on an older node as well. Dropping the XT but still calling it a 7600 doesn't really cut it. Looks like the rumours of something Going Wrong with RDNA3* are pretty much borne out now. Very little improvement either in terms of efficiency or computing power. *even taking into account it not being 'proper' RDNA3.

Possums are generally too big for cats to hunt, but Australia has plenty of native lizards and the like that they go after happily. If they weren't too big we'd have a lot less possums here* where they're a pest species, unlike Australia where they're protected. We also have a lot of feral cats. I've only ever seen one of our cats kill a possum, and it was almost certainly its proudest moment on the planet. That's with 2-3 cats, for 30 odd years. *Indeed as a New Zealander it's almost impossible not to read "hit by cars" instead of "hit by cats" given the number of roadkill possums we get.

On the subject of Bakhmut casualties Prigozhin says Wagner lost ~20k dead with around 50/50 pros/ convicts. Then again he also says that Ukraine lost 50k dead and 70k wounded... I suspect one figure may get some traction, but not the other.

Quite apart from his roles in Rome and Black Sails the man made a post Lithgow season of Dexter tolerable. One of those guys where I never actually thought he was acting well because I kind of forgot he was acting.

Ah yes, the people who were wandering around bravely shooting up children a couple of months ago, led by the MMA enthusiast and self proclaimed neo nazi Denis 'White Rex' Nikitin. Do I need to repost the same links about them being an acknowledged part of the Ukrainian military as I did that time too? Probably not, since their 'liberation' video involved them, uh, wearing Ukrainian uniform.

Eh, Ukraine released footage of fighting in Soledar after it had fallen too. Pretty much every time Prigozhin has announced something territorial we get a denial from Ukraine, then pictures from Wagner then a lot of "doesn't prove anything maybe it's been retaken"* type stuff on Twitter. Well yeah, maybe. *or for Soledar, been staged in a Russian salt mine.

Prigozhin claims to have taken Bakhmut. He's been pretty much 100% with Wagner progress at least, and there's some ancillary evidence. Denied, at this point, by Ukraine. We also now have a Ukrainian equivalent of Shoigu/ Gerasimov is dead!?!?!?!???? with Zaluzhny and Ihor. About as likely to be true, too.

In the latest round of incredibly badly researched propaganda from supposedly reputable sources: China's Loans Pushing World's Poorest Countries to Brink of Collapse. Which then forms the basis for a lot of other people not checking the actual facts, including those who at least supposedly are actual financial journalists. But let's see what the statistics actually say, shall we? On average for the poorest/ most debt laden 3 times as much debt is held by western private institutions than China, and they charge more than twice the interest rate. But you say, surely the nice western institutions offer debt relief? Uh, yeah, nah. They want China to forgive their debt so that they get paid back and China doesn't based on... their debt being more expensive and thus more important to pay off. Actually dropping their interest rate though so their debt isn't oppressive... yeah, nah again. Far cheaper to feed ludicrous bollocks to inept- being generous- journos. But you say, surely you've got those figures from a Chinese source which is biased, or they're cunningly hidden away in some dusty tome. Well no, they're from the World Bank, and cunningly hidden on the, uh, internet. You'd think financial journalists at least might have heard of it. And as always, classic cite: The IMF's Role in Zaire's Decline

That wasn't exactly a risky prediction since every leak about Navi33 had a 128 bit bus. They may well have a 16GB version like nVidia does with the 4060Ti- whether they charge an extras 100usd for it as well, who knows.