Hamas was also left to run amok for 5 hours and at the end of that were able to cross back over the border with hostages.

How on earth is one of the worlds most powerful militaries caught with it’s pants down that badly and how were they not able to organize some kind of a response in 5 hours?

At the very least you’d have expected them to ambush them on the way out and rescue the hostages. They have fleets of drones for pete’s sake, they could have taken out every single one of those terrorists with drones to spare.

It makes no sense whatsoever, unless of course they let it happen as a casus belli to once and for all deal with the Palestinian problem.

True, should be more like exponential growth in perpetuity or something but you get the idea.

Exactly, capitalism is economic perpetual motion, you can’t have exponential growth in a finite system.

I have civ 3 running on my tablet through an emulator, could possibly even do civ 4 but haven’t tried that yet. It takes up next to no space, the graphics are light enough you could run it on a potato and it’s one of the best civ iterations I reckon.

Haha I was thinking along similar lines, my R5 1600 is either going to take to it with it’s usual shrug while it rolls up it’s sleeves or just explode, it still punches way above it’s weight so hopefully it won’t explode but she’s getting a bit long in the tooth.

I disagree about the publishing side somewhat, every now and then the publishing team hits a home run. Like I’ve been playing Ghostwire: Tokyo recently which is published by Bethesda and it’s a pretty good game, and let’s not forget Prey which was an awesome game also published by Bethesda.

So tbey do get it right sometimes.

Have you tried turning off chromatic abberation, motion blur, film grain and all that other extraneous fluff?

I have a 3060 and Control is one of my favourite games so I’ve put a lot of time into it with DLSS on but haven’t noticed what you’re describing.

I tend to fiddle with my settings until it looks and handles well but the aforementioned settings are always turned off first thing.

Ye definitely hit or miss, they’ve been excellent for me. I got the 970 EVO last year or the year before and it’s been rock solid, my RAM is also Samsung chips albeit B die so higher bin which probably explains why I’ve never had a single issue with them in 4 odd years.

Samsung, bit more pricey but both my ssd and ram are both Samsung chips and I haven’t had a single problem with either.

E. Seems that further down the thread someone is saying Samsung is having issues too, which is dissapointing as I’ve always trusted Samsung.

If you have the system always running most of the cartage back to the top could be handled by the siphoning effect, like draining a washing machine or siphoning patrol.

You’d need energy to get it started but after that it should keep siphoning as long as there’s liquid to siphon.

Ancient Minoan would be the place, chilling on the sunny island of Crete in the reasonably calm Mediterranean sea with abundances of food and water as well as trade goods from all over the Mediterranean. And they weren’t crazed militarists like most of the other Greek tribes, so don’t have to worry too much about war either.

See and this is how I know it’s all bullshit, what man in his mid to late thirties still has twelve friends? I’ve never even had twelve friends at the same time before.

Same with Te Reo in NZ, it’s kind of standardized now but when I was a kid living in the BoP I learnt a lot of Maori but when we moved to the south island the dialect was quite different so I lost a lot through atrophy.

corporations being into every piece of the pie: a logical extension of the trend to privatization or “wanting government to be run like a business” is the replacement of nation-states by corporations or zaibatsu-like alliances of multiple corporations

I personally think corporations are going to kill each other off (most likely culminating in a global corpo-war where the last two duke it out) with only one surviving and becoming something akin to the catholic church in the medieval period, plunging the world into a new dark age.

It’s the profit imperative biting them in the ass, you can’t have exponential growth in a finite system so expect these megacorps to get more and more desperate (and draconian) as the bottom of the barrel draws ever nearer.

Jerboa also matches the font size of everything else in my UI better

This has been my biggest annoyance in all the apps I’ve tried so far, I’m using thunder at the moment and it’s extra large font is juuust big enough, but still way too small to be called extra large.

Quite a few of the others don’t even have that though, liftoff was terrible for it with no option to change it and Jerboa is easily the best in this regard but with it scaled up to match my UI it’s a too much scrolling and weird formatting.

Can’t wait for Boost, it was my reddit go to for years simply because of all it’s toggles, I could customize pretty much every part of the UI. Which is probably why it’s taking a while to come out, there was quite a bit more to it than pretty much any other of the alternatives.

You, sir, are worse than Hitler.

Give Vivaldi a try, it’s a chromium fork but with a strong focus on privacy.

No love for Iain M Banks? The Culture series looks like it will tick all your boxes and instead of following a single protagonist the Culture itself is the protagonist so each book has it’s own cast of interesting characters.

I’ve tried everything to try get rid of google’s voice assistant on my phone, stripped it right back and disabled it and then went into the settings in google and my phone but still every time I turn on my wireless headphones it always pops up. It’s doing my head in, why can’t I stop it!