on behalf of Israel

Not exactly a good argument to discredit them saying it is not a nazi salute. An organization working on behalf of israel is unlikely to support nazi behaviors, no?

I’m not making any claims about the ADL beyond having some serious doubt that they would go along with nazi-ism.

Doesn’t work because the legal body is republican controlled. Only republican choices are above the law.

Too bad he’s not around to testify. They did a great job of murdering him behind bars.

Come on, there’s the press releases and public relations and then there’s reality.

The reality is that businesses want employees to leave so they can avoid paying severance and because the banks will give them preferential rates for utilizing office space, keeping commercial properties artificially inflated despite major changes in the perception and reality about how work can be performed.

It’s easy to downsize at very large companies, it just piles on more work for those that remain. During booming times like most tech companies had in the pandemic they hired like gangbusters at the behest of middle management, now it’s austerity time so they can focus on massive profits while corporate taxes are at an excessive temporary low.

Tim Cook has made it a point to kiss the ring privately on his own while keeping apple neutral so that money keeps flowing in.

Think about the priority of the community wealthy community members.

Fires cause insurance payouts. This means big paydays when those ‘priceless’ works of art go up in smoke. You sell the land and buy somewhere without the insurance hikes. Win-win-win for the wealthy.

Crime causes property values to decline. A break in is harder to deal with. Rabble protesting for fair treatment can get violent. The homeless need to be driven from the wealthy areas so the wealthy can enjoy their champagne and caviar in peace after snorting coke off of a trafficked sex slave’s tits. Police are so very valuable for keeping the wealthy safe.

They know exactly what the right priority is… for the people who actually matter (not us.)

It’s because they were told they can’t cut VA, SSI or Medicare, I promise.

The rich assholes always think they can just cut healthcare and retirement payouts but politicians know they will never get re-elected if it happens on their watch. The old people who rely on this shit are the only ones voting anyway.

It seems clear as day to me that all tech companies and leadership are kissing the ring right now to keep profits flowing and avoid being targeted or to collude with schemes to increase profits in the future, so like you’re saying that’s the most likely rationale. This could very easily be part of whatever scheme was negotiated verbally.

I’m not so sure. Companies were definitely buying many up, but they typically stick to business purchasing channels like CDW/Dell/HP etc.

Consumer boxed cards sold by retailers might have went to some small businesses/startups and independent developers but largely they were picked up by scalpers or gamers.

I work in IT and have never went to a store to buy a video card unless it was an emergency need to get a system functional again. It’s vastly preferred to buy things through a VAR where warranties and support are much more robust than consumer channels.

Those genres aren’t really known for having brutal performance requirements. You have to play the bleeding edge stuff that adds prototype graphics postprocessing in their ultra or optional settings.

When you compare non RT performance the frame delta is tiny. When you compare RT it’s a lot bigger. I think most of the RT implementations are very flawed today and that it’s largely snake oil so far, but some people are obsessed.

I will say you can probably undervolt / underclock / power throttle that 4090 and get great frames per watt.

I hate fuckerberg but there’s a possibility he’s playing 3d chess this time.

The amount of backlash and outrage that letting all the bullshit through because politicians are spewing it and being cheered might cause the politicians doing it to have to change. Generally no one wants the new policy.

They clamor for “free speech” but once they see how it devolves the public sentiment will say “OH GOD WE TAKE IT BACK”

The 4090 basically never went for MSRP until Q4 2024… and now it’s OOS everywhere.

nobody scalped the 4080 because it was shit price/perf. 75% of the price of a 4090 too… so why not just pay the extra 25% and get the best?

the 4070ti (aka base 4080) was too pricey to scalp given that once you start cranking up the price then why not pay the scalper fee for a 4090.

Things below that are not scalp worthy.

The far cry benchmark is the most telling. Looks like it’s around a 15% uplift based on that.

He wants him to piss on him. That’s been the fetish right?

That’s not how it works. The CEO is so wealthy that the insurance companies treat them for free because of all the business they bring in from enrolling their workers.

We don’t hear stories about the soft privileges of being in a position of power very often but they tend to be immense. We’re just not in the club so we would never know.

I’ve been paying $30/year for like a decade now. Totally worth it.

They want them to breed.

They think blocking porn sites one by one is going to stop guys from getting access to porn. Haven’t they heard of bit torrent? tor? proxies and vpns? What are they going to do about foreign sites and sites that have mixed content like reddit?

Ridiculous law.

Hey, he’s a billionaire. Being gay is only illegal if you’re poor like everything else.

You’re literally foregoing pay for time off so that the MSP owner can have a bigger paycheck.

You should be thinking about this each and every time you look at what you make for what you do. All they did was get an agreement signed (probably) and you’re doing a giant portion of the work. Their cut should be proportionally miniscule for the labor given… but instead I can promise that for every buck you make them with billable hours you are probably making 25 cents or less… and then they have the flat fee contract on top of it that they are pocketing as well.

Spotify is an evil company. They’ve started adding fake songs in to pay themselves instead of paying royalties to real artists.