As a Mercedes owner who commiserates with BMW owners over here, we all agree about one thing. Getting bent over and rammed with their wurst, as good as you would think that would feel, never makes up for the horror of the repair bill they hand you when its ready.
You're gonna piss old people like me off with that loud ass Challenger. Worse than a Harley, I swear.
2 27's are better than 1 54
It's like two dogs on each side of a fence. They bark growl and both act like they want to kill each other but pull a slat out so they can show the other what for? Their whole attitude changes instantly when there's no more protection so they just butt sniff each other instead.
@jon-nyc said in Are we in an AI bubble?:
AMD or Huawei in China but Nvidia has like 80-90% of the American market for AI compute which comprises 75% of the world’s total.
First the bubble bursts, then the missiles start exchanging. If your brains aren't already trying to prepare you for survival in the aftermath, I wish you the best. I'm already a crack shot as i've played first player shooters my whole adult life. Now I'm signing up for jujitsu classes. Gotta learn how to roll.
But mostly it's gonna be all about who's got guns. That's the new currency for a spell, bullets. Worth more than gold per ounce.
And we all worried that AI would be the ruinization of us. Terminator 2 unfolding, right? Well AI took us out but just in a bit different way.
When it happens, we will all point the finger at Nvidia of course. And Jensen Huang will self headshot with a single bullet. The least he could do for raping and pillaging us poor gamer boys for years. He just got $1000 from me for my latest upgrade of my GPU. Nvidia purposely screwed around with their gamers base with their latest release of the RTX 5000 series video cards. The grandaddy , the 5090, which is by far the faster gun in town, saw it's price skyrocket due to scarcity and today they can be had but not for its MSRP of $2000. No, no. Try almost double that price. Check it out....
I bought the step down card , the rtx 5080 and it too was going for almost double its msrp of $1000 throughout the year. But it has come back down to earth a bit and today can be had at msrp mostly. Add a little Black Friday spice and I personally kept the lights on at Nvidia for another 10 seconds.
You know what I think I'll miss the most in this aftermath. PC Gaming. No more danged electricity. Sucks.
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How did this song not become one of Styx’s greatest hits?
Styx hit it big with their album The Grand Illusion back in ‘77 with songs like Come Sailing Away and Fooling Yourself but it was their next album in ‘78 that is my favorite, Pieces of Eight, where this song resides, along with the hits Blue Collar Man and Renegade. This though, is my favorite song on the album. I have hummed this song many a time when life gets me down. It was recorded at the St. John’s cathedral in Chicago and utilizes the church’s pipe organ. Many say the person he found that he was searching for was God.
See my other thread. Farmers know! Aint no point in the almanac now. They’re all reading this instead…
Today’s nba has plenty of talent. With not one but two Great White Hopes, even if they are commies from eastern europe. Doncic and Jokic be making the brothers look silly out there. I’d bet those Soviets have been doping them with some good shit. Wait, what? There’s no more Soviets?
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That second to last one looks like a unicorn!
said in It's the End of the World as We Know It:
I realize that. I need to hoard what i have left cuz after the missiles start flying, like Chaka Khan said, Aint Nobody, makes my gummies, makes me happy, makes me feel this way…. Gotta think like that dammed ant.
I realize that. I need to hoard what i have left cuz after the missiles start flying, like Chaka Khan said, Aint Nobody, makes my gummies, makes me happy, makes me feel this way…
@jon-nyc said in Shutdown Length:
I identify as a federal employee. Where’s my pension?
Pssst! Jon. Over here. Don’t tell anyone. Hurry! As much as you can carry out. We have extra.
Those poor trans fed workers are our martyrs. They live and die on a cross.-
Living life as the grasshopper and not the ant, I had next to zero savings when this hit. I have been diligently paying down much debt these last few months to become debt free by the end of the year. I have negative checking account balance as we speak so am looking forward to the retro pay so that I can afford to leave my house one day soon. I stay positive with the knowledge that my financial situation will improve in retirement which is a bit odd but there it is. I have calculated my passive income come the new year and if the rental deal of my home to my godson goes as planned, I will gross the same amount as my working days. What makes future financial situation better is that my check won't have these items deducted any longer from my gross pay: Social Security, Medicare, Thrift savings plan (401k) contributions. The bummer on Medicare at 65 is that I won't be signing up for part B as they don't cover Americans living overseas. So I will have to make due with my federal employee health insurance which the government continues to contribute 75% of my premiums to for the rest of my life.
This video is a prime example for my theory that mankind as a whole is in the process of deevolving. This is the opposite of evolving. Man has gone through an extensive evolution process over millions of years and his brain has made a slow climb to help us create the advanced society we live in today.
This new “sport” has direct corollary to man’s future. I believe we have almost reached the apex of what mankind will achieve and our brains are much more powerful than we give them credit for and can instinctively read the future of things. And that future is the doom of society as we know it.
Whether it be mother nature releasing the kraken (raising the temperature, lowering the temperature, erasing the ozone layer, deadly virus, etc) or world war 3 with great nuclear missile exchange, our brains are actually redirecting their focus to survival and not enlightenment. Survival in the aftermath of any of the aforementioned calamities will count on one’s ability to navigate through a world of unforgiving brutality. Think Mad Max times. The changes may be so subtle, that they don’t register with our conscience, as evolution is a long slow process. But then again, we are talking about de-evolution and that process is something we have no idea of its timeline for noticeable change. Who knows, it may be a very accelerated thing and the brain if it has anything, it has an instinct for survival. My brain smells a great war around the corner, and it will be man’s undoing of himself directly and not necessarily the wrath of mother earth. Any idea where Sardinia lands on China and Russia's priority list of targets?
@Horace said in Fool me once...:
Not leaving the house is free.
Not being paid not to work for 33 days now. Let me tell you about not leaving the house and saving all kinds of money I don't have. I have regressed back to my gaming days hobby. You know what I just now noticed about all these games I play? I am a cyber murderer and I like it! You should see the firepower I have in these games, various Call of Duty's, Doom's Grand Theft Autos, Red Redemptions, Painkillers, Serious Sams. Then there is Batman. I wish he was real cuz he'd fix America within a 2 hour movie span and without any guns! Batman is a badass.
Marcus Aurelius would be proud of you.
@Renauda said in Friends in high places:
I wasn’t aware of that. Was it an aggressive form or a slow growing? Mine was caught very early although the second biopsy indicated a more aggressive type than was first detected. I was in surgery within a month. Five years now have gone by and PSA remains at the post surgery level of 0.1.
Congratulations Renauda! Keep those elbows up. You have always impressed me as man of few but wise words here. A hardy man unaffected by the drivel that keeps many up at night in this crazy world. A man who can open his front door one morning to be greeted by a hungry polar bear and wouldn't flinch. Prostate cancer is no match for my favorite Canadian Alpha.
I put down a chipotle burrito about once every two months and my only complaint is to the girl not putting enough meat in the burrito. Sorry you had bad experience, but your wife is right, DON"T EAT ARBY's!! IT'S NOT WORTH IT MIK! YOU HAVE SO MANY THAT LOVE YOU, DON'T DO THIS TO YOURSELF, THINK OF THEM! Here is a phone number to call, these people are much better than I to help you off this ledge. 1-800-273-TALK.
Awww nuts, I tried the number just now to make sure I got it right. I did, but DOGE axed it long ago. Maybe it's time for my own Arby's run. Sigh....
How did Germany get away without a peep from the WWI winners, building up that military machine violating the terms of armistice? It couldnt have been a mystery. Those films always make my jaw drop with the size of their army parading down the streets