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Text at top: "Everyone: 'Do you finally see that he's a pedophile?'" followed by "Trump supporters:". Below is an image of a hooded figure (wearing a brown hooded mask with eye holes, a black sleeveless vest with buttons, and a black bow tie) holding a blurred figure (with visible hair) in front of them against a dark background. Overlaid text at the bottom of the image reads: "I can't see fuckin' shit outta this thing".
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Savage.

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This is the US AG talking about people ignoring the stock market during a hearing on Epstein - https://youtu.be/a7yv4fpfDbs. Some of Epstein's victims are sitting behind her while she's doing this.

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If Iran still has a functional missile program, might hit an oil target in Saudi Arabia to restart peace negotiations.

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If you thought R&D can't or won't be outsourced...

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Seems like Bibi isn't as worried as he used to be. Not entirely unexpected.

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Nope, it's over 60% positive.

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Probably the only thing I was looking forward to buying this year was Steam Frame. That's also in danger thanks to these fuckers.

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You might be right. It's hard to say how things are gonna be over the next few years tho. We may be in a severe recession if component prices have normalized.

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Men in their 20s, 30s, and 40s—runners, CrossFitters, lifelong nonsmokers—were streaming through her door at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. They all appeared lively and strong—yet there they were, battling colorectal cancers

Well there's your problem. Don't run, drink beer with friends, smoke socially and you'd happily get to retirement! 🤭

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Phil's in need of some Marx.

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A shit move in the right direction. But even that's suprising from this government given their previous moves regarding higher education.

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The right direction as in increasing the funding for education institurions, which they have been starving for years with significant effects in those orgs. Right direction as in slowing the destruction of the system. Of course the way they did it was to fuck students - a shit solution. With that said, this is the better solution than slowly killing these institutions while keeping tuition low. Reason being that the students and their parents who are the bulk of the affected voters see lower prices while the degradation of the institutions isn't as obvious. This can go on for a long time hiding the damage. If however students and their parents see the higher prices, they may vote for a premier who runs on free tuition instead of Ford. We actually had a means-tested free tuition in Ontario for a little bit.

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Eat your free soup.

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Reminds of this one from around the same period:

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/a022490a-4708-4f39-a51c-16a6c7354adc.jpeg

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I think they were a clueless computer user so I just told them what the problem was and how we fixed it went over their head. But we laughed good with my colleague. Falling coolers were common on Intel boards at the time when the retention brackets used to be hooked with push-pins. Note this is the factory installed bracket on the board that's fallen. 😄 It's not a poorly installed cooler. This is prior to the user-installed push-pin design that came with the Core processors on the LGA sockets.

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Lol, unlikely. Either XP or 7. Don't recall exactly.

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Yup. It's a potato. I've taken it with a Nokia E51 in 2009.

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It's a 478, some Pentium 4.

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Pretty sure it's a P4 on a 478. 423 is significantly larger and the cooler retenrion clip goes directly on the socket. This socket has no retention protrusions. Instead there's a plastic bracket that the cooler is attached to, but the plastic bracket itself has fallen off the board. You can see it on the cooler itself in the other photo. 😄

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The little fan on the videocard is also disconnected.

That's how you turn on the quiet mode of the GPU.

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Was a long time ago but I think the push pins weren't broken so they did reattach well enough for it to get the customer some more mileage out of it. After clean and repaste of course.

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Pls do.

Here's one that came with "memory issues:"

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/24297116-1195-4e56-9165-711259579fb4.jpeg

The chips were visibly desoldered from the DIMM even before taking it out.

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about her cup holder one time and yes she was talking about the cd drive.

This shit used to happen often enough that we joked calling optical drives "cupholders!"

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It's really unfortunate how naive we (us in tech) still are about the employer-employee relationship and how much leverage we got. The talent/merotocracy propaganda we've been showered with since The Great Recession can't wear off soon enough. Labour organizing in Big Tech can really grind the machine to a halt, given its dependence.

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You're not wrong. I just think we may be a bit higher on our own farts than other fields, due to the chronic labour shortage in the 2010s.

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I feel for you so I gave you an upvote. Here's a hug too: 🤗

avidamoeba ,
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Compiz intensifies

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No, I've been GNOME peasant since Ubuntu switched to it from Unity. Now also using it on Debian. Some day when very bored, maybe in retirement I'll try Plasma again. 😆

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Oh Beryl jogs a memory too! There was also Compiz Fusion.

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I'm using Tailscale plus the built-in RDP in GNOME with the Remmina client.

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Wisdom, 39, has aligned herself with some of the positions Mamdani has taken on countering antisemitism, including opposition to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism, which considers most forms of anti-Zionism as antisemitic.

Brad Lander, a former New York City comptroller who is running for Congress and who has criticized Israel extensively, stated that Wisdom “is the perfect person for the job.”

A good move in the current context. The anti-zionism-is-anti-semitism zionists are already complaining about her. 🤭

He should also appt an islamophobia czar.

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Yeah, a single person/office would be better. That said I don't think he should ignore the material reality that he's mayor of a huge and very influential Jewish minority. Anti-zionism is growing, including in the Jewish community. His move would help that growth continue by shielding his admin a bit from fake antisemitism attacks. If he executes well on his other material agendas, there may not be a need for such shield by the next election.

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If this gets entrenched, maybe TO would copy. The temp patio installations during the pandemic were amazing.

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Yeah, I don't understand why they spent such effort to reply to the toaster. This was more shocking to me than the toaster's behaviour.

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When one realizes that anything useful a firm does is just a coincidence of it making profit. 💢

EU leaders to clash over ‘Buy European’ push at Belgium summit ( www.theguardian.com )

The French president, Emmanuel Macron, told European newspapers this week that European preference should be focused on certain strategic sectors, such as clean technologies, chemicals, steel, automotive and defence “otherwise Europeans will be swept aside”. ...

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Are some of these people really that ideological true believers in free trade? This looks irrational to me.

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No question. I feel like by this point the problems with free trade should be obvious to most economic managers. This is why I'm a bit shocked at some of their statements against Buy European. They sound like they're afraid making trade less free is a dangerous change.

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I guess there's something for everyone! :D

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Does not pass the smell test. I'm with Chris Hedges on this one.

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S0iX

avidamoeba OP ,
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I remember when T&T wasn't owned by Galen and when Longo's wasn't under Sobey's.

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Very nice.

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Didn't do it for me and my wife either. It felt unfocused with different bits being self-consistent but disconnected from each other, like an LLM wrote it. There's a lot of filler too, or at least felt like filler. I haven't played the game. I'll probably watch the next season just to see if it connects the dots or whether it was all just sloppy. :D