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I feel exactly the same way. I occasionally need to use reddit for a few hobby subs, and every time I do I get sick of it faster and faster. You know how Hexbear can sometimes be a bit antsy and rude when a new user comes in to ask a political question because it's at times hard to tell if they are genuinely curious or if it's actually a wrecker doing the "just asking questions" thing on a sensitive issue here?
Well, reddit is billion times worse than that because this same type of interaction happens on every subreddit on any topic you could possibly think of no matter how low the stakes are. If you don't know something, you better keep that to yourself because asking about it is going to produce a flood of reddit cretins downvoting your post and talking about how much of an idiot you are. And lord help you if you have a disagreement about something with them, they will rip apart your argument with literally zero charitable interpretation, assuming you meant everything you said in the literal worst possible way, often to the point they are shadow boxing with shit you clearly never said.
That makes it even worse. Imagine putting in all this effort and taking all this supposed risk to create a new social media platform free of the pitfalls that come with a for profit site like reddit only to slowly adopt the exact same corporate friendly code of conduct while purposefully curating a community of annoying shitheads who are nearly indistinguishable from the horde of cretins on reddit.
If making a new reddit is legitimately the best they can do, then they should absolutely just scuttle the entire project.
Even if I took for granted the horrible lib assumption that Democrats and Republicans are not fundamentally two arms of the same party, this rhetoric still wouldn't make the slightest lick of goddamned sense. All the Blue MAGA "vote blue no matter who" shit is incomprehensibly poorly thought out. Why the hell would you be actively telling the Democrats they unconditionally have your vote? Do you think they are your friends? Do you actually believe they care even an iota about your rights and well-being if you aren't rich? You are literally just loudly telegraphing that they do not need to worry about actually representing your interests.
Absolutely correct. I'm really pissed that Putin is once again getting away with election fraud in the US. He used his vast bot network of Russian trolls to propagandize just the right people, resulting in Hillary Clinton being kept off the ballot for 2024. I will not allow genocidal Russia to dictate the course of our democracy, so I'm going to write in Hillary Clinton when I get my ballot in November. If all these genocide denying tankies on Hexbear weren't positioned next to conservatives on the fish hook model, they'd all do the same.
And most importantly, buying on the DNM allows you to actually read reviews from other people who purchased from the same vendor. Not on the market itself, but on some of the onion drug forums set up for reviews and discussion. You have the opportunity to check if some vendor's "Heroin" is actually just fentalogues and xylazine. There is no chance to do that IRL unless you're friends with your dealer or something.
This shit is literally life and death for a lot of opioid addicts, and I'm kind of disappointed in Hexbear for this thread labeling everyone caught up in this as just another cryptobro to make fun of. In my experience, neither the vendors nor the customers are using the crypto for any reason other than to facilitate the sales without exposing anything about their identities.
Important to note here that Agora wasn't just a weed market, it also had vendors selling meth, heroin, coke, and fentanyl just like any other DNM. That makes it all the more surreal how they shut down so gracefully.
Helping people buy a house by only helping people who could already afford to buy the fucking house
I agree, I said marketing in the post, but I should have been more specific because I didn't intend to include advertising under that umbrella. I was referring to just intel's change in branding that I really can't imagine will be effective. In particular, there's no way that creating an association between the general term "Intel Processor" and their shittiest CPUs will do them any favors.
Someone else in this thread brought up another example in that time Pepsi paid a marketing firm a million dollars to redesign their logo and received a hilariously terrible portfolio with nonsensical and borderline incoherent design justifications.
Incognito and virtually all drug black markets in general are necessarily ancapistan writ small without even being ideological on either the market's or customer's end. It's just the natural outcome of a black market that can't possibly be regulated. If the US government ever wants to stop the flood of fentanyl deaths, the only way forward is to legalize pharmaceutical heroin and distribute it for free without a profit motive to people suffering from addiction. Too bad that'll never happen.
There was one market that packed up and left gracefully without exit scamming: Agora.
The administrators announced it was shutting down in 2015, I recall their reasoning was they found a security vulnerability and decided maintaining the place wasn't worth the risk. They gave everyone a couple weeks to withdraw all funds before going offline for good, and that was that. Absolute legend of a market, probably the best there ever was. It kind of boggles my mind that someone in the position of those administrators running an illegal drug market would do this out of the kindness of their hearts when they could have just as easily taken the money and ran.
I smoked weed for my very first time after buying it from a vendor on Agora before my state legalized. I'll never forget it.
Yeah the numbers in desktop CPU and GPU names are usually pretty straight forward. I think it's the suffixes after the numbers that tend to trip people up, the new RTX 4070 "Ti Super" takes the cake there.
On the other hand, it's usually mobile chips where the naming get ridiculous.
Nvidia was good about it for the most part until around RTX got started, at that point they dropped the m suffix from their laptop GPUs. This misleads a ton of people into thinking they are actually similar to the desktop parts in performance. For example, the desktop RTX 4070 has 12GB of VRAM and has comparable gaming performance to a 3090. Meanwhile the laptop RTX 4070 has 8GB of VRAM and performs between a desktop 3060 and 3060 Ti. It's very scummy the two chips share the exact same name.
AMD does this thing where the third digit in their laptop CPUs denotes architecture instead of relative performance, misleading people into thinking the first number indicating generation also indicates architecture. The 7420U and the 7640U are in the same generation despite the former being all the way back on Zen 2 and the latter on the latest Zen 4.
And I have no idea what the fuck Intel was doing with their mobile chips even before the meteor lake rebranding. My laptop contains an 11th gen i7-1165G7, it's built on Intel's 10nm node. Its 10th gen predecessor, the i7-1065G7, was also on 10nm. Here they decided to use the suffixes G1, G4, and G7 to indicate iGPU performance tiers. Before those two CPUs, the equivalent product segment used the more traditional format, an example being the i7-8650U where the U denotes low power. But at the same time there existed the i7-10610U. It's in the same generation as the i7-1065G7, but built on the older 14nm node. Something about that name is apparently supposed to denote the process node but I have no idea what it is.
After just two generations, Intel decided to drop the iGPU suffixes. The i7-1165G7's successor was just the i7-1265U. For impossible to comprehend reasons, they didn't return the fifth digit that the G7 suffix originally pushed off. Then the 12th and 13th gen mobile chips end up easily mistaken for first gen chips because their model numbers start with a 1 without any context for whether the second number is also part of the generation number.