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They didn't actually enter its airspace, they entered its Air Defence Identification Zone. ADIZ are wholly self declared and have literally no legal standing; and in Taiwan's case actually extends over mainland China (!). 99% of the time when you see an article complaining about intrusions or entering airspace it's ADIZ related, and not an actual intrusion. 95% of the remaining 1% it's around St Pete's since there's a lot of traffic to/ from the Kaliningrad exclave and the territorial waters there are a mess. You do get a lot of articles about non intrusions though, because it makes for great click bait and too few people know the difference between ADIZ and territorial waters/ skies. (Not that Taiwan has nothing to fear from China, quite the reverse. But that article is basically propaganda level)

It shouldn't be a surprise, it happens with annual flu jabs sometimes and happened extensively when it came to the big PPE rush back in March. Bunch of countries had expired PPE, mislaid or other phantom PPE, not fit for purpose PPE, stockpiles that simply didn't meet what was claimed, and plain old distribution problems. And that's for stuff with years long best befores and no requirement for being kept at a specific temperature potentially including dry ice level freezing until use. It would be amazing if there weren't administrative problems.

The most prominent Russian nationalist wasn't even Russian. And Gromnir hasn't posted anything as offensively stupid as that claim that Russia would be bankrupt in 6 months which would provoke a reaction, yet. There isn't really anything to say anyway. They're small protests with some violence, but way smaller than in Belarus recently or in 2012 Russia. Sometimes such things get bigger, but it seems extremely unlikely since Navalny is only significantly popular outside Russia, and it would require the Liberals or Commies to mobilise protesters which they'd only do if they thought their guy would replace Putin rather than Navalny.

Ah, but that's what the 5g is for- it's no coincidence that we have 5g rollout and an 'epidemic' requiring everyone get a vaccine at the same time... All the longest lasting conspiracy theories have an aspect of the scientific about them as that's a great way to recruit more followers, and because even if you don't believe the conspiracy you cannot conclusively prove that, say, injecting RFIDs wouldn't work. Indeed, the 'beauty' of it is that you either have to lie about RFID injections being impossible or admit that they are; and either approach ends up reinforcing the conspiracy theorist's position.

Eh, it's based on the very real microchipping that is done to pets. The more fringe aspects like 'mind control' are obviously impossible, but a RFID microchip is not just possible but there would be a lot of people in power who would absolutely love to force everyone to have one, if they thought they could get away with it. That's also one of the reasons why there's a decent overlap between antivaxxers and cell phone conspiracies* because the easiest way to get the RFID signals would be... cell towers. Obviously there are other... problems with the whole idea, but fundamentally the idea of injecting a tracker/ microchip is far from impossible or even implausible. *well, the main one isn't a conspiracy though it does indicate why you don't really need to microchip people: the vast majority of people happily carry a tracker around with them wherever they go be cause they can call their friends and check facebook on it whenever they like.

Yes, it should definitely be 'could' above instead of 'would' as it requires a lot of things to fall into place properly, see below. The realistic estimate is 50% architectural improvement, HBM, tight binning and some node based improvement to get maybe as low as 350W. I don't think power draw will be close to the biggest problem faced though*. The doubling of efficiency above comes from recently AMD having significantly understated efficiency improvements. For 5700XT -> 6900XT the improvement was ~80% rather than the 50% claimed, once clockspeed and core counts are taken into account, and a bit more if you take the doubled VRAM into that account too; and from Vega to RDNA1 the gain was even higher. Add some node improvement from 7nm+/ 6nm and you can get to 100% gain and lower thermal density. There's still a lot of potential problems with that though; how VRAM will work, any interface chip taking up extra space and producing extra heat, the bus/ cache set up between the two cards, potentially even the physical size of the graphics card could be an issue too. *Fundamentally the thing about power draw is that it's relatively easy to lower by simply setting the clocks lower in BIOS.

I doubt Zhirinovsky himself actually believes half of what he says, but ranting is certainly a good way to get attention. I do find it hilarious how often you get journalists and the like who theoretically should really know better talking about the 'opposition' as if it doesn't practically consist of a raving fascist and an ossified communist either of whom would be every bit as bad as Putin when it comes to western relations; which is what those people really care about instead of the average russian. After all, they cheered on that drunken idiot Yeltsin when he was busy running Russia straight into the ground with the largest drop in standards of living and life expectancy ever, along with literally sending the country bankrupt. Which, unsurprisingly, is a large part of the reason Navalny supporters are almost exclusively young, if you're 30+ years old there's a good chance you remember just how very awful things got under Yeltsin when implementing all those western backed policies and don't want to see them repeated. It's not even like Yeltsin was better when it came to human rights either.

Meh, British police outright killed Ian Tomlinson in similar circumstances, and I'm sure a few cases of police brutality have made the press in the US too over the past year. Police gonna police, wherever they are. As always, western media is guilty of massive wishful thinking about both Navalny's popularity and exactly who comes out to protest. Khabarovsk being the typical indicator, voted in the Liberal Democratic candidate in a landslide which has to be good since it isn't United Russia/ Putin and the guy is a liberal democrat, two good things... except LDPR is Vladimir Zhirinovsky's party of ultra nationalists, not some nice safe progressive liberal democrat in the western sense. Mirrors the protests in ~2012 where there was a prevalence of Soviet and Nationalist flags and even if Putin went you'd get either Zhirinovsky or Zyuganov instead. Zyuganov in particular would have been amusing, given how much effort the US put into interfering in the 1996 election on Yeltsin's behalf and against Zyuganov. The ultimate problem with Navalny is that he has next to no appeal outside a very small set- young, educated, middle class, urban. Of course, they're the people that westerners typically interact with and who speak to/ use western media, so you get massive confirmation bias of some sort of grassroots uprising bubbling away. That's a bit of a threat to Putin since those demographics are concentrated in important places like Moscow or St Pete's, but not much of one- when only 0.1% of a city turns out to protest.

RDNA3 is meant to have another 50% efficiency gain over RDNA2, so in theory a 2x80 card would have exactly the same power draw as a 6900XT. Assuming they're using a not quite cutting edge node (ie using 7nm/+/ '6nm') the thermal density would actually be less than a 6900XT so long as they aren't using some sort of novel assembly method (eg 'stacking', which AMD has a fair few patents for though they seem more geared towards APUs than GPUs).

Rumours that RDNA3 will include a 2x80CU Multi Chip Module top offering. I'd be very skeptical of it being anything other than an absolute halo product, perhaps even done specifically so that they can beat nVidia's Hopper (rumoured MCM) and Intel to it. It makes way more sense to introduce MCM design to the Compute/ CDNA/ Instinct line first- better scaling, higher intrinsic CU counts, use HBM already- than consumer; though consumer lines' relatively puny profit margins would be more improved by MCM than the already hefty mark ups on the CDNA line and there's more tolerance for errors and teething problems in the consumer space. Plain old maths would suggest a USD2000 price tag- it is the equivalent of 2x6900XT, after all, and 2 perfect dies does not gain from MCM's implicit manufacturing efficiency improvement- even if they didn't have to use HBM. I'd also be very surprised if MCM wasn't brought in as part of a new generation with new branding rather than Navi/ RDNA3, though there's still plenty of time for that to happen. OTOH, the cache structure of RDNA2x is a pretty obvious intermediate step towards MCM, so it can't be that far off.

Daisy chaining is usually fine, it's just best practice not to daisy chain if you don't have to. No point changing it though if there's no problem. If you want a recent example of when it was a fairly big problem though a lot of the instability people were having with 5700XTs were not actually due to AMD's drivers, but due to daisy chaining the two 8 pins on the same cable.

Nuclear power in space has energy density as a major requirement while terrestrial plants don't. That means that all (?) space based nuclear reactors use highly enriched fuel, and highly enriched fuel == 'weapons grade' which is even more very tightly controlled than low enriched fuel. The Russian plants for example use 90-95% U235 in space, their ground equivalents use 3.5-5% enrichment.

Trump ~250 Obama ~1700 (included 330 on his final day) BushGW ~300 (Scooter Libby probably most controversial) Clinton ~450 (probably the best Trump analogue for a list that generated a lot of accusations and controversy, Clinton's likely more) BushGHW ~75 Reagan ~400 Carter ~500 So Trump's use was pretty standard proportionately with Bush sr being a low use outlier and Obama and Carter (given his was a single term) being high use outliers. Of course, if you go by rumours there are hundreds of extra secret sealed pardons from Trump sitting around waiting until they are needed by his family and friends.

Does he really need to? If you apply Leviticus or some of Saul's reactionary rubbish then homosexuality is an abomination and gays are going to hell. You could certainly label that as hate speech and ban the Bible, but then you're suppressing people's Religious beliefs instead and a large number of Christians effectively think Saul was a reactionary homophobic knobhead so you'd be lumping them all in together. And talking of what's good for the goose is good for the gander: "You dont have any right to discriminate against LGBT to the point where countries like Saudi Arabia made it illegal to be LGBT and members of these communities were murdered and arrested on the streets in Riyadh because of their sexual orientation", eh Bruce. [could also consider that if applied evenly and consistently if you banned the Bible for being anti LGBT you'd also be banning the Torah and Koran too, and thus be both an islamophobe and anti semite, so you'd have to then ban yourself for hate speech]

Companies can censor whatever they like. What they can't then turn around and do- without looking like massive hypocrites at very least- is claim that other entities censoring them is an awful crime against freeze peach and liberty. What's good for the goose is good for the gander. That's why Twitter got laughed at when complaining about getting banned in Uganda a few days ago as a crime against 'basic human rights'; (1) if you want to apply Jack Dorsey's standards don't be surprised if Uganda applies Museveni's standard's right back and (2) bans become matters of basic human rights, when you're the one getting the ban. It's ultimately completely self defeating to selectively apply free speech criteria based on an approved political slant as a social media outlet; if you have free speech applied impartially you can rightly complain about others censoring you, if on the other hand you're partial and selective in applying those measures you can hardly complain when someone does the same back- and be absolutely sure that it will be thrown back in your face by those you disagree with politically and who have the power to retaliate.

Don't be silly. Obviously the Moderna and Pfizer vaccine will turn you Republican as they contain RNA- 'Republican, North America'; it's in the name sheeple. OTOH the AZOxford and Sputnik vaccines contain DNA- that's why Soros/ Gates chose adenovirus, it's a DNA virus- and will make you vote Democrat.

I can see why some developers would want to use her. They can then use all the established characters of the series that a lot of people have grown attached to, have continuity with the previous games, plus it will be [future year] and it's CDPR so you know a set male protagonist is going to get extensive negative press; and under the canon there aren't female witchers until Ciri. Ciri as Witcher ending was pretty clear sequel bait too. Gameplay wise while in theory she should be ludicrously overpowered to take on nekkers or drowners you can just ignore that and give her whatever powers you want including more outright 'magic' than witcher signs, all with a lot more flexibility than a standard Witcher. Not really sure how much she was liked by most players, her gameplay sections are the most extensively criticised part of Witcher 3 by some way so far as I can tell and Geralt's tardiness in finding her the longest running joke except for Gwent obsession. The former is a bit of a running theme, considering how badly received the bits of Witcher 2 were where you played Roche/ Iorveth or that Kaedweni general. And I'd have to say, when it comes to characters being inexplicably liked I'd have to go with Yennefer; not sure how people think obsessive psychopathy make for likeability.

Just go with the theory that Moses ~ Akhenaten. Then we could have Trump be rediscovered 3000 years later, have a famous bust of Melania in a Berlin Museum, and extensive excavations of his palace at Amarna el Lago.

Liverpool would instantly become the most educated city in the UK if they did that.

Really didn't need to specify that that headline came from The Scum, you can spot their headlines a mile off. Colonial Anarchist SLAMS Headline Writing of Brave Spirit of Dunkirk Sun Reporter in Vile Online Rant!

Presumably vetting is extremely routine for Secret Service types, and it certainly ought to be done as a matter of course if outsiders have to be brought in for special occasions. I know there's probably a legal reason for it but National Guard fundamentally seems like a weird choice for extra security, from the outside.

After the Zumwalts anything would be an improvement, including the original Constellation. Got to say, reduced rcs warships are without exception really, really, ugly. Not exactly a massive practical consideration, of course...

Probably 90% of the stuff in that article had already been revealed. They'll be working pre development on WitcherTNG already much as C2077 had a lot of pre dev work done on it before entering full development in 2016... ...to be fair to Schreier though, while things like C2077 only entering full development in 2016 isn't a revelation, that fact was hidden away on an obscure site called, I think, 'wikipedia' (sp?) since like 2017, so it isn't surprising he thought it was news. He's also incorrect on a couple of matters of fact, eg since Raithe quoted it: there are car ambushes, just not many. End of the day almost every single thing written was either known previous andor is (in many cases sadly) standard industry practice. It's only news because it's CDPR doing it, in particular, the complaints about crunch could be leveled at a lot more developers including some that are journalistic darlings. Nope. They may well have not even made a final decision yet. (The rumours were that Ciri, younger 'Vesemir' or near-conjunction create-your-own were being considered. Ciri is a bad idea for various reasons such as requiring 'artificial' depowering but would allow use of popular known characters, 'Vesemir' would be a compromise using a known character somewhat connected to the prior games but set earlier with more flexibility than Ciri, and the last option has far and away the most flexibility but little to no connection to the previous games. Very outside chance: proper TV/ book series tie in)

It's weekly here too- and delayed, which is kind of weird considering how comparatively little TV they have to show with covid delaying so much stuff. Schedule is determined by whoever bought the show locally.

The weird laptop thing was a bit later, the gist is that Hunter Biden was stupid or greedy enough to take a position on the Board of a Ukrainian gas company (Burisma) which he had no qualifications to hold except for his father being VP. The prosecutor in charge of corruption investigations then got fired. Allegation is that Biden (sr) got that prosecutor fired to protect his son. There really isn't any evidence to support that, the prosecutor almost certainly got fired for being generally useless with the timing being coincidental. Hunter Biden taking that position was a really bad look though, with the absolutely best possible face put on it he was incredibly- unbelievably- naive. Then again, Trumpists can hardly throw about accusations of filial graft without appearing mildly hypocritical. Russiagate is the belief that 'Russia stole the election for Trump' was a big hoax embiggened by media as a way to deligitimise Trump. Effectively it's the reverse position from "Russia stole the election, Hillary would have won in a landslide without their interference". Neither position is exactly rooted in reality, just in political tribalism. Dunno about AOC, but I thought it was hilarious that her (analogue's) power in 'The Boys' was to cause people's heads to blow up, since that's her metaphorical power here as well.