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  • Idiots, all the organizations, conventions and treaties were all to have more worldwide influence. Not giving aid to Africa means giving space to China and Russia. Not to mention that usually the aid given is food that can't be sold in the USA (government buys food from American farmers at a rate that allows farmers keep high market price, then donates the food in third world countries, destroying the local markets, as the local farmers can't compete against a massive amount of free food)

  • I asked my mom to tell me some plot, and I was like "wtf is that"

    After 30 years of not giving a single damn about her biological son (Finn), Sheila, a convicted serial killer who escaped prison, suddenly becomes obsessed with seeing him every day.

    After being told that she won't be able to join the family of his son as a loving mother because everyone sees her as a dangerous murderer, she proves that's not true by shooting both Finn and his wife, Steffy. Finn is pronounced dead and immediately cremated without an autopsy.

    Steffy survives, so Sheila disguises herself as a nurse to finish the job in the hospital. She fails for 20 episodes, gets caught, and runs away.

    Surprise! Turns out Finn isn't dead. A "miracle doctor" saved him and forged a death certificate/cremation papers just because.

    Sheila gets a genius idea to fake her death and escape prison: chops off her own toe, calls 911 screaming "A BEAR IS ATTACKING ME!", and disappears. The police find the toe and some bloody clothes. Their professional conclusion? "The bear ate every single part of her except for this one toe with a suspiciously clean surgical cut. Case closed."

    They take over 100 episodes to realize that maybe a bear couldn't have done a clean cut with the teeth.

    The "criminal mastermind" still needs to stalk the son and decides to go to her victim’s favorite restaurant with an obvious disguise (classic wig+brown coat). Nobody recognizes her with the "80s classic spy Halloween costume" in a luxury restaurant but she accidentally wore open-toed sandals. Steffy notices the missing toe, calls the cops, and Sheila is arrested.

    Everyone spends 100 episodes celebrating that she’s gone forever. Then, a judge vacates the sentence over a clerical error. Multiple murders, prison escape, attempted double homicide? Doesn't matter. She's free to go.

    Steffy lives in a villa on a cliff where people have a habit of dying by "accidentally" falling down the cliff during fights. Sheila stalks her for hundreds of episodes until they fight and Sheila falls off the cliff. Again: no autopsy, immediate cremation.

    Just as everyone is celebrating, someone remembers the body they just cremated had ten toes. But oops, too late, she’s already ash.

    Imagine all of this stretched out over hundreds of episodes with 80% filler and characters repeating the same three sentences every day.

  • You need to mount / as /mnt/disk in the VM to have the trick work

  • That movies are just excuses for Tom cruise to try the dangerous stunts

  • My mom stopped watching "the bold and the beautiful" for this exact reason. She was watching it from almost 40 years straight 😂

    When I went to their house for lunch I could hear her shouting "what? Need to explain again the conversation from the beginning?? It literally happened just 5 minutes ago!! Noooooo! Can we just go forward with the plot instead of explaining what happened one minute ago??"

    I watch one episode a month but indeed it's annoyingly repetitive. Not even "second screen" but something like "muted TV in a dentist waiting room with subtitles in another language"

    This is how my mom explained me why it is annoying:

    Before: plot twist happens => viewer is shocked

    Now:

    1. for 15-20 episodes before the "plot twist" is supposed to happen, characters insert "if [plot twist] happens it will be very bad for us" in their speeches.
    2. The bad guy is shown preparing the "plot twist" for another 15-20 episodes
    3. For another 15-20 episodes the characters still mention randomly in their conversations how bad if the plot twist would happen in their lives and let everyone swear that no, they can never let the plot twist happen.
    4. Obvious "Plot twist" happens in slow motion over the course of 5 episodes
    5. Characters talk about how the "plot twist" impacted their lives for 15-20 episodes
    6. After 30-60 episodes, when characters are gathered at a family reunion on the coach, start reminiscing how the "plot twist" was so shocking and unexpected
    7. For the next 15 episodes every single person present at that family reunion including some random security guard really needs to retell the "plot twist" from their point of view
  • What the fuck, here there are no algorithms to please, there's no fucking need to censor "freaking" or "burn".

  • The secret is writing the rules on some bullets. Then find a way to let him keep the rules in his head, despite dementia

  • I installed a browser without AdBlock especially for the screenshot and for checking if they intentionally wrote dozens of "paragraphs" only to optimize ads distribution

    The browser shown in picture is "open browser smart and safe", by a company called "adpulse" that surely hasn't designed it for maximize ad revenue.

    I have no idea how this specific browser has an average of 4.7 stars over 150k reviews because the first thing it does when open is to show a full screen unstoppable 30 seconds ads for mobile gaming

  • Adblocker user spotted.

    It's because they show an ad every 5 paragraphs

  • Preview of tickets incoming in the next days:

    “Do I have Copilot included?” “Is it the same as Copilot in Word?” “Do I need an extra license?” "Where is the Office app?" "Can you install Microsoft Office for me?"

  • They really have a massive talent. It's not easy to have such a consistent record in choosing stupid and confusing names, rebranding stuff with no reason.

  • Even the older Windows XP managed 50 tabs, and that's because it kept crashing past that number because of its paging file failing to keep up, not because it had hit the 5GB memory ceiling.

    Windows XP 32bit can't hit 5gb memory ceiling, the 32bit memory addresses don't allow that

  • The other instead is the genocide

  • yes, and I agree with it being TOTAL TRASH

    • it takes two boots to start, first boot can't see any drives connected (sata, nvme). If you boot from usb some OS installer, the installer won't see any drive until reboot.
    • it has no support whatsoever. BIOS update? LOL you get the alpha "if it compiles, it ships" version
    • the bios is in engineering mode and has like 15 pages of incomprehensible options
    • even if the bios has 15 pages of ultradetailed engineer-only options, it's missing basic options like "numlock on at start", "WOL", fan control, and other stuff that i forgot about (or maybe they're buried somewhere under some weird acronym)
  • I wonder also. I'm guessing maybe a bad lot?

    The story starts two years ago when I bought them in a kit with 4 16gb sticks from micron. When installed all four the motherboard, I installed Linux and it crashed (froze) when running a VM with KVM. Tested with memtestx86 and it will always fail at the 5th test (after around 20 mins of crunching) and at reboot the bios would reset to default. Because it was an AMD Ryzen and all the web results said so, I assumed it was some kind of incompatibility and removed two sticks. With two sticks, it passed the test. I swapped the two sticks and it passed the test again. So I left those 2 16gb sticks in the Ryzen and used the other 2 16gb sticks with the Intel. Both passed the test.

    Fast forward 18 months, in the Intel I'm copying a file from the nvme to the HDD and it tells me Input/output error.

    I start diagnosing the btfrs filesystem, find corruption in the counter, scrub finds uncorrectable errors in the virtio-win.iso file, the one I wanted to move. I assumed it was some btrfs bug, deleted the file as I could download it again, moved on. After a few weeks a flatpak app wouldn't start. Read the dmesg, see a btrfs message about some corrupted inode or something like that. I use find to find the file at that inode, it was the flatpak. Again assumed it was a btrfs bug, reinstalled the flatpak and moved on.

    Then yesterday the system froze. This time I tested with memtestx86. It failed immediately within seconds. Took out one stick, swapped them, no change. I went back and swap them with the other two sticks bought in the same lot, those would pass the test.

  • Even trump, for once, said the truth out loud

    We're going to have our very large United States oil companies (...) go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure, the oil infrastructure (...) Let's start making money

  • i wonder if it was the motherboard sending wrong voltage or something like that. What are the chances of TWO modules failing AT THE SAME TIME (although it's the same kit, identical memory, so maybe it could be damaged silicon and i never noticed before)

  • wow i'm running linux, so it might be perfect

    though i'm a bit scared that it will get worse over time. Today i got a freeze that forced me to test the ram with memtest86, but since september i got some random corruption in the btrfs filesystem (luckily always "useless" files like flatpak or docker stuff that i could delete and download again in seconds) and i assumed it was a btrfs bug, not hardware problem

  • No it's some kind of hybrid bastard mobo from AliExpress where they use a soldered mobile CPU but with desktop memory in microATX form factor

  • The computer worked fine for at least two years, then today it started to randomly freeze without me touching any hardware...