Fascism should never be on the ballot, sorry.

So we cut the head off the beast to silence it and take those options off the ballot entirely.

But it only concerns the average voter because the Kremlin mouthpieces in politics and the media say it’s supposed to. I can almost guarantee that the average person who falls for this tactic has never had a meaningful interaction with an immigrant to even know what it is they’re supposed to be afraid of.

Immigrants are just a Boogeyman being used as propaganda to prop up Russian-backed conservative political movements.

This comment made me think that it was a statement of futility, as in “don’t bother trying to decipher it, there’s not enough there,” so I decided “Hell, I’ll give it a try” and stared at it for like 3 minutes trying to piece it together into something that made sense, only to then come back to this comment and realize that’s literally what it says.

Blocking users would actually probably be more efficient because the majority of those posts come from just one or two accounts.

Because they’re not used to people saying no to them.

Boiled alive

You’re not wrong. I answered in a reply to someone else but I have a gaming laptop with a decent enough GPU to play newer games. Not well, in many cases, but good enough.

It’s just that with prices of everything being so inflated again, I don’t want to pay more for older hardware than it’s worth, especially if it won’t be as significant a step up from what I’m using now.

I mean, I already have good. I just don’t need to waste money on something I don’t need if it’s not worth it.

Lemmy.blahaj.zone

I feel like this whole issue is getting overblown, but I do agree with the take that a blatant troll should not be humored, and that shouldn’t make one a bigot.

A lot. I don’t work for the government, but I work for a nonprofit which supports immigrant groups to connect to various resources and assistance. Just about everything we do is in some way affected by government policies: the immigration process, the state-sponsored aid programs that many of depend on, setting up public health insurance plans, and even a chunk of our own budget. These are factors that are always in flux so part of the challenge is just figuring out how to make the numbers work and making the most out of it to help people.

Previous gen is going for 1.5-2x as much as current gen due to shortages, even for used cards. They are at least available if someone has a dire need for a replacement GPU, but I am patient, not willing to pay current gen prices for older hardware, and not willing to pay more than MSRP at that.

I expanded elsewhere in this post, but basically it’s a combination of:

1. I do own a laptop I bought in the pandemic which has a 2070 mobile GPU, and between that and my PS5, I am not truly in a rush.

2. Older hardware is also being price gouged. If I do buy something, I don’t want it to be more than 1 gen old, but at current prices I’d be paying more than the new stuff goes for at MSRP.

3. I budgeted to be able to buy something good, not just good enough. Since I’m not in a rush, I’m willing to wait and keep trying to buy something closer to top-of-the-line. I can afford scalper prices, but I just refuse to support scalping out of principle.

https://youtu.be/jn3YjQSvDzA

Woah now, think of the poor algorithm!

Absolutely, I have been. I was looking at some last-gen AMD cards, but used 7900 GREs and XTs are going for almost as much as an MSRP 5080, and unopened ones are going for the same or more.

If I had an immediate need for a card, I’d likely settle for that, but I’m still willing to be patient while keeping an eye on in-stock listings. I’m fortunate enough to at least have a PS5 and a decent laptop that can run newer PC games on modest settings, so I’m not in a rush.

I’d like to go back to Fuzhou, but geopolitical tensions are making international travel less viable by the day.

To add a bit to the story, I did spring for a gaming laptop in 2021 because my 2013 MacBook was starting to show its age, and the model I bought came with a 2070 mobile GPU which has been fine playing newer games at modest settings at 1080p.

Laptops and prebuilts were basically the only affordable option in the pandemic, and I had a laptop need at the time. But for a while now it has still been a goal of mine to put together a good desktop. The last desktop I built was in 2010 (I snagged a GTX 580 GPU and felt like such hot shit then).

It is very tempting. Would definitely recommend for anyone who needs something.

My current laptop that I bought during the pandemic shortages has a 2070 mobile chip which still works fine-ish for newer games. I’m tempted to look at basically anything better, but I’m not truly in a rush to upgrade just yet and want to make sure whatever I upgrade to is worth the price.

The main reason for my impetus at present was to try to get ahead of the Trump tariff price hikes, but I’ve basically accepted that as unavoidable at this point.