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The North American Economic Union is a part of the NWO agenda (and also includes Mexico, generally), by the way. The conspiracy theory usually goes that this would be done through free trade and negotiations, but adding Canada as the 51st state would work just as well. As we can see Trump is doing NWO work, even though we elected him to oppose the NOW and the Deep State. It is all very frustrating for me. They really rigged the system. Who would have thought that someone who has been part of the elite his entire life isn't fighting against the elites in a way he claimed he would be? I am very disappoint.

Andrea Dworkin might have been onto something when she said the right wing conservatives (men and women alike) define womanhood through the ability to whelp. Since trans women are by definition unable to do so, they're basically a threat to the definition of womanhood, and through that, women - wich means for the conservative men that they threatened their women, who no one else is allowed to threaten their women but themselves. That's a bit like why conservative Christians dislike Muslims even though they basically want the same thing: for the womanfolk to stay at home to cook, whelp and rear their children. Since they cannot deal with the cognitive dissonance, they don't even notice or double down on their viewpoints. Hilariously exemplified in one of the interviews I saw with an avid MAGA cultist who stated, on camera, that he's with President Trump on the Muslim ban, because Muslims don't respect American women. All the while wearing a t-shirt with Hillary Clinton's likeness on it, reading: TRUMP THAT BITCH. Meanwhile anti-trans thought also finds purchase in feminist circles because they're seen as men threatening what they fought for. This is history repeating itself insofar as feminists originally tried to exclude lesbians because they were seen as a bunch of butch dykes and feminists did not want women who look and behave more like men than women to be part of their group. Ultimately, even modern feminists still struggle to define womanhood outside of what tradition dictates. Sure, the more radical elements have their girl bosses, which are basically women who adopted toxic masculinity, which is an incredibly self-defeating solution for a movement of a gender suffering immensely from toxic masculinity, hence the rise of various counter-definitions (including the tradwife, which loops neatly back to traditional role models). Then you have, of course, the elements who chafe under homophobia no longer being acceptable in modern society and simply supplanted theirs with transphobia. That is why you get exactly the same arguments against transgenders as there were against homosexuals (and lesbians). Verbatim, even, at times. They make all our children gay when they're allowed to teach. They pollute the children's minds, making them want to transition. Now that we have accepted homosexuality, there's suddenly so many of them. Now that transgenderism gains acceptance, people identifying transgender suddenly tripled. Now you might want to say: but, but, but @majestic, you only talked about trans women, what about the trans men? Yeah, what about them. They get caught in all the negativity and anti-trans legislation, but let's be real, it's the trans women who are the targets. They tickle fears of being trapped in conservative men, they are visible reminders of the self-loathing of conservative men who wank to shemale porn and are ashamed of it, they're seen as a threat for women and they're the targets of feminists who see them as encroaching on what little they can agree on that defines a woman, and by extension, that also garners the attention of the moderates. I mean, honestly, if a lot of well known women like J.K. Rowling think that trans women are just men wanting access to women's toilets and locker rooms to rape them, there just might be something to it, no? Meanwhile the trans men, they're seen as what? Taking the girl boss a little too far? At worst, they're targets of more radical feminists who see them as traitors to their gender.

I have, uh, on occasion, posted strange music videos in this thread, but what YouTube suggested to me right now is, and this isn't the usual @majestic hyperbole, I would say, like, probably, totally, like... I mean, there's no way around this, this is worse than anything Scooter made. Excuse me while I'm trying to stem the blood flowing out my ears and gouge my eyes out.

No, just proof that the average American is even dumber than our stereotypes make them out to be.

As expected, the 9070 is a nothing more than an upsell card. 14% slower but only 8% cheaper than the 9070 XT. Marginally less useless than the RTX 5070, but that's marginally less useless than a card that shouldn't even exist. In more fun news, the XFX cards seem to have sold out, and local street prices for the RX 9070 XT are now up to 1200€, which means they're now 10% more expensive than the overall (arguably) superior RTX 5070 TI. The RTX 4070 TI Super still costs below 900€, making it by far the best purchase at the price range. If anyone's interested, the RX 9070 is currently about 50€ cheaper than a 4070 TI Super.

Local street prices are in: the one available RX 9070 XT model (the XFX Mercury OC) costs 821€, and while the RTX 5070 TI goes for a significant premium at ~1000€, the RTX 4070 TI Super being available for ~850€ means both of those cards are in a bit of a tough spot with that pricing. Although RTX 4000 series cards are price trending upwards pretty fast right now and the 4070 TI Super is seemingly going out of stock. Dunno if they're generally running low or if people who held out on upgrading for the 5000 series are now buying last gen.

TL;DW: Pure rasterization performance sits, as expected, somewhere between the 4070 TI Super and the 5070 TI, with some outliers where even the 5070 is better and others where it encroaches on nVidia's 80ies models. In RT, at least in titles where RT matters and visually pays off to use, AMD has caught up to, uhm, the 3000 series, posting a pretty good generational improvement. Relative scaling at 4K is hurt by the GDDR6 memory, the 9070 XT tends to proportionally get better the lower the resolutions get. Steve has included FPS per $MSRP charts that don't really mean anything as the 5070 TI can't be found at MSRP and we have no idea if the 9070 XT will be, but the results are generally in favor of AMD, as expected, since they put the 9070 XT at 80% of the RTX 5070 TI's MSRP (for anywhere between 80% to 102% of the 5070 TI's rasterization performance, much less in RT, of course). Yeah, so, uhm, as much es every tech channel seems to like the card, that's probably wishful thinking. I don't think these cards are really going to make a dent in nVidia's market share, but I wouldn't mind being proven wrong.

TL;DW: Ballpark of the usual 10-30% faster than the not-super 4070, in line with, well, every other nVidia release this generation. Steve's insinuations throughout the video would put AMD's 9070 XT somewhere in the ballpark of the 9700 XT, right where I "extrapolated" (lol) it to be from AMD's marketing claims. Which, assuming it is available for the MSRP and doesn't die whenever you turn on RT, might be decent value compared to the 5070 TI, but probably not good enough to dissuade anyone from buying nVidia.

You put too much stock in our ability to remove our collective heads from our asses, really. But yeah, would be nice to see.

Hot take: I had more fun with Veilguard - gameplay wise, I mean. Both the combat and the parcouring feels weightier and better in Veilguard than it does in Awoved, where everything is floaty and weightless.

Sunrise? Oh my. Does it look nearly as good as Love Live!? Is it worth watching? On average, I mean. I watched a bit of the newer DC animated universe stuff and thought it was fine (Gotham by Gaslight was a novel concept, at least), I guess I could watch some more Batmany stuff.

Uhm, so, extrapolating the 9070 XT performance based on AMD's own claims it will land roughly at the level of an RX 9700 XT non-second-X, with better RT performance. Makes sense, since the name's almost the same. MSRP - if it holds, that is - would put it at the same street price as the 9700 XT too, at least in Central Europe. And as always, a useless upsell card in the 9070 that no one will buy until AMD drops its price to 500$ or lower. Well, at least they're not trying to sell it for 650 and 700 respectively. Don't think it'll make much of a difference though - 4070 Ti Supers aren't much more expensive, at least if you're happy with buying a cheapo Palit card, which regularily go for ~850€ and will probably have the same performance (and better RT, presumably). Eh. Hey, Intel, where's the B770/B780? Come on.

The reason why you can't get any 9800X3Ds is because Der8auer is hogging them for resale.

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AMD already said in their own marketing materials that it's just going to compete with the RTX 4070 TI (Super), so that's a bust right out of the gate, unless it also has 4070 TI Super levels of RT performance. Which seems rather unlikely.

To be fair to poster guy, the movies all look the same as well, and from what I've gathered, they're also all a bit samey. Like I mentioned before I watched Weathering With You a while back, and it left me not wanting to watch a whole lot more of his films.

TL;DW: RTX 5000 cards will randomly be missing rendering pipelines. Kills ~5% performance (or maybe more), so if you happen to get an affected 5070 TI, it's basically a 4070 TI Super in terms of performance. Good job nVidia. Ey, Intel, where's the B770/780? Hurry up.

We have 25 more years of experience with this situation. You can bet your ass powerful lobby groups will push the conservatives towards working with the AfD, and eventually, the conservatives are going to give in. It happened back in 1933, it happend in 2000, 2017 and almost in 2025 here in Austria and it will happen in Germany, because at the end of the day, Merz can yell "it is time to go back to politics that benefit the majority of Germans again!" as much as he wants, but both the CDU/CSU and Merz in particular are not up to the task. You can't be bought and paid for by the new monyed nobility and make politics for the majority. There's a reason large and powerful corporations support the CDU as much as they do, and a reason why they're heaping money onto the AfD. A CDU-lead government isn't going to help the situation in Germany at all, because - as you already noted - it is by far and large their fault that you're in this situation in the first place. When I look at the more prominent figures of the CDU and CSU, I feel like throwing up. Merz is a multi-millionaire raking in more and more millions every year and considers himself to be a part of the middle class, Philipp Amthor is dangerous and has highly unsavory connections to shady foreign companies and Jens Spahn is as incompetent as he is corrupt. Eh, and I really don't want to talk about Söder, or any of the talking heads out of Bavaria. Where have the times gone when the weirdest thing coming out of Bavaria was a quaint little fellow talking about how much time you are going to save when you board the railway station in Munich. In a way you're lucky that your social democrats stopped being social democrats with Gerhard Schröder and simply became a vehicle to carry on the CDU agenda even without the CDU, which means as long as the SPD has enough votes to form a government with the CDU that will be a more acceptable version - mark my words, once that is no longer possible, or there's a move back to more traditional social democratic values in the SPD, that'll change. In a way, it is not. Having the FDP drop out of the Bundestag while BSW gets in would have put Merz in a fantastically problematic situation insofar as that he would have had to include the CSU's go-to punching back, the Grüne, in his coalition (Hell would freeze over before they'd work with Sarah Wagenknecht or Die Linke), or look directly towards working with the AfD. It would have unmasked him a lot sooner, because it would have been really easy to claim that they tried to make it work with the SPD and the Greens, but just couldn't. At least Christian Lindner got what he deserved, that underachieving little weasle. Bye bye, and hopefully you Germans aren't going to elect the FDP back in like it happend in 2017. The sooner this party of CDU pilot fishes burns in hell the better for everyone.

It Takes Two, with my nephew. Game's kinda fun, the story is... uh... yeah, somehow I doubt having to coop through a magical episode of a weird book with a Spanish accent is going to save any marriages, but I guess stranger things have happened. Co-oping isn't so bad because it's been pretty easy so far. Some sections drag on a bit too long, and some puzzles are more fun than others, I guess, but overall, it's a co-op game I play with a 12-year-old and it is not making me want to pull my hair out, which is quite an achievement.

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You silly leftists and your Trump derangement syndrome. /thread

Like it happened with Iron Sky. Sure, no Moon Nazis (yet), but everything else did come true, just much worse than in the satire was.

I once made fun of George W. Bush saying: "I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully." I once made fun of George Lucas making the prequel trilogies. I was once a fool...