you should upgrade to a used or new 12900k with DDR4 since its still cheaper than dd5 even if it is up. then get a used 3080ti with 12gb. youll be able to do proper h.265 decode/encode with that for up to 4k (unfortuantly not 8k but hey no one really has that yet)

government appointed commissars eh. i see were bringing it back eh. bet they will make sure it wont criticize a certain group of people lol

should just switch to discord. each project can have its own server

Just more of the same

No improvement over Slack, just more gaming-focused

It is free, as I understand it, not 200k per year.

It is free, for now.

It already gives kinda creepy "You use this server, why not support it … or else" vibe all over interface.

How about not relying on a third party for your organization...

seriously. given how sellers and creators have had their accounts locked and sometimes not gotten their crap back. it would be unwise. if your going to buy crypto on paypal make sure they let you forward it to your own wallet.

the cobalt thing would only explain the 150 years but what about the ranges after that including 1 at 300? clearly something wierd going.

i knew someone who was QA his boss approved his PTO to go to the dentist. however that day turned out to be the layoff day so HR threated him to come to the office. was hilarious. god i hate HR. anyways if you ever go on PTO turn your phone off completely.

Threatened him with what? Being laid off?

I assume at the point he didn't know, so yeah, that could have worked (and was probably basically it).

meanwhile millenials had full reign over the internet as kids cause their boomer parents didnt know shit. back when everyone did the famous A/S/L questionare from randos online lol.

It's not just about internet access , it's about the medically recognized highly addictive and predatory nature of social media. It is designed with the same principles as slot machines, to draw you in and keep you engaged for as long as possible. The internet we grew up in was much less centralized and not yet optimized for this kind of manipulation.

I think you're right, plus there was a solid wall dividing online life from "IRL" back then. When I asked and answered "A/S/L" among randos, we were all anonymous. It was an escape from the social dynamics among my peers at school, sports, church, etc.

For a while, there was some consensus that anonymity and talking to strangers was the danger. So we got real name and photo policies, and the expectation that we'd have an online presence that was an extension of our real selves. Now that every kid's online persona is indivisible from their IRL identity, and their popularity can be measured with likes and followers and inclusion / exclusion from group chats, it just allows the social dynamics among their peers to play out 24/7 on steroids with no escape.

or there might not be any native species on there.

Even if the little apex predators annihilated all of the birds, reptiles and bugs, there's always hope some survived!

i wonder if this is better than just letting them go feral.since its an island you could argue you could make an ecosytem by putting some sort of plant eater that the cats can go after.