And it is why we are starting to see so much more unrest regardless of what country you’re in.
Global communications are now such that it is impossible to hide a worldwide trend like this. It is also becoming easier to make direct comparisons between conditions country to country as a side effect of globalization.
The trend itself is not surprising, but it does highlight a need for action which is not limited to a single place.
RDR2 was a beautiful game and one of the few that gave me a serious emotional response at the end. But it was a bit long winded along the way, so I’m OK with this.
The US had plenty of chances to avert this.
Don’t sell weapons to terrorists.
This is one effect of a general lack of real consequences for corporations and those that run them.
The company has already determined their likely fine after being caught doing something egregious. The profit from being early to market is significant, and so long as it is considerably higher than the likely fine, they go for it. The expected real earnings are the difference between the profit and the fine. It’s all made worse since so often the fine is absolutely nothing compared to the profit, since the numbers these companies are dealing with are so damn big.
This is why you won’t see real change until we stop slapping corporations with fines and start slapping executives with jail time. That is literally the only way to break the cycle.
Sounds like they want a round of layoffs but don’t want to pay severance.
The US has a problem of representation. Specifically and especially since the Citizens United decision, corporate interests can easily flow money towards politicians to make them do just about anything they want. This exacerbated an existing problem with the corporate tax rate and has now brought it into laughably low territory.
That’s all an oversimplification of course, but it’s not that Americans haven’t “figured it out”. It is far more complicated than that.
Yes, and he still lost handedly. That extra time was all rambles and nonsense. I think in the end it was better.
(Yes, I still would have preferred they muted him, ultimately).
Maybe you have just ended up with a lemon CPU. Though for random crashes like that, I’d almost always look to RAM first.
I did have some stability issues early on when trying to enable Expo. Never quite got that working right so it is currently disabled. I keep my 7600x in Eco mode since it is air cooled and the performance difference is not that great anyway, so I haven’t noticed any major differences with Expo off.
The Expo issues were also with a very early MSI BIOS. I haven’t tried it again after upgrading, but I probably should.
Unfortunately not.
My AM5 has been pretty good, the boot issue notwithstanding. It has been quite stable at least. For me it’s a 7600x.
…yeah, I’m an idiot. I hadn’t thought very carefully about it yet. Won’t help me since the delay is before POST.
I have an MSI motherboard. Memory Context Restore shaves significant time off of boots, but it is still extremely slow. Just a hang before I see POST complete.
Boot times on AM5 are soooo slow due to some memory training feature of DDR-5, even after following many suggestions for settings. It appears to be a general issue with the platform, so hibernation is very much back on the menu for me.
Duh, it won’t matter since the delay is before POST.
It does but only because of the default Steam executable. It can be run directly without the launcher.
Same. It can’t even work correctly when I try and put it into a specific box.
The ultimate issue is a distaste for giving any corporation any control over hardware that I, alone, own.
Huge, HUGE red flag. Even without it being I9 stuff.
I have worked remotely for 8+ years at this point. Sometimes I don’t even turn my camera on for meetings. It depends on a lot of factors. If my employer cared about any of that, they probably wouldn’t be a good employer for remote work.
As veils drop we should expect to see a whole lot more mental gymnastics by those who have been sitting in the back for a loooong time
That’s just a by-product of how Steam works. Playtime is counted as long as the Play button says “Stop”.
For games without DRM (e.g. KSP), you can launch it from the Steam install folder without Steam running. Everything works perfectly but your playtime won’t be counted for the same reason.
Mom looks in the mood
Dad pulls out the beans
“Ooooh” she says, eyeing the can
Dad opens the beans and caresses their surfaces
Mom starts to move slowly back and forth
She looks him straight in the eye, regaining composure.
“Beanboozle me.”
I appreciate that. I probably should have put a /s tag on it.
The only honest answer in the whole thread