This is a joke, but I have unironically seen and known a number of short kings / queens who...
... pretty much actually do need a child seat to be able to safely operate a large SUV or truck.
If you can't or can just barely actually see around you... you shouldn't be driving that car.
This was my first thought as well, this... this has to be taking place in Utah, in some way of another.
Gideon Dunster is such a Mormon name that it is actually comical to me.
Ok, rare to see such an explicit kind of Great Filter / Idiot Test play out at scale, but here we go!
Anybody who is still using Discord after it requires you to personally directly link your drivers liscense or w/e to it, well, they're fine with every government apparatus of any kind knowing everything they say and do on Discord.
Good luck to those glorious morons, truly, good luck.
You are going to need it.
Super, duper hope you're not queer or trans or neurodivergent.
... you... think the 23 concentration camps currently being built by ICE / FEMA are ... only for migrants?
Brown people?
Well you trust the current fascist regime a lot more than I do.
Ok, so, no, you don't care for the nuance or distinctions I was making, got it.
Yes, many things are considered memes, with our modern vernacular, looking backward, anachronistically.
The concept of domesticating dogs, agriculture, wearing shoes, having a language, writing that language down...
Those are all memes.
Common and historically persistent symbols and artistc motifs...
All memes.
But, the history of how a particular meme propogates, that is its own thing.
And the idea of the particular word 'meme'... its etymological history, how it became to have the meaning and usage that it currently does, to describe a kind of replicated packet of information of some kind... that is also its own thing.
And then it is another thing to describe how the word has now morphed from its original academic meaning, to its modern meaning as specifically a kind of replicated image that is some kind of a joke.
Do you see the nuances here?
The word 'meme' ... is itself a kind of meme.
If you time travelled back to 1974 and described 'Kilroy Was Here' as a meme... no one would have any idea what you meant with the word 'meme', because it had not been invented yet.
It absolutely 100% does make sense to do that.
It is called crafting a cover story.
Have you ever done something for one reason, but told people you did it for another reason?
Have you ever been in a scenario where you were considering whether or not you would do something like that, but realized you would need a convincing false narrative for other people first, before you considered actually doing the thing?
It very much benefits a group of people or an organization that is doing something like this, to get all their stories straight, before they proceed.
If your cover story works properly...
... no one will ever know, or at least not untill so much time has passed as to make being caught not really matter any more.
... This is just the logic of how all kinds of people and organizations who need to maintain one kind of outward public image or reputation, while actually doing things that do not match their outward appearance, how they act.
Them writing the report especially in advance would take away their plausible deniability and just bring more attention to the scene
... assuming that it can be determined conclusively that that happened.
Which, it often cannot be, in a bureaucratic system that normally has some kind of subordinate to do those things of things, but where sometimes the superior person just directly does it instead.
So ok, you clearly have not worked in a large bureaucratic organization before, or ... this would be very obvious to you.
The report had no urgency to be done so having it done in advance especially considering in a murder details could have changed seems pointless
This is just nonsensical.
The entire ... thing here is a statement that was released urgently.
The entire contention is that it may have been so urgent that it was actually pre-planned and drafted prior to the actual event.
You are just entirely dismissing this possibility, to prove that this possibility did not happen.
I am not saying 100% either way that it was a clerical error or a premeditated construction.
I don't know for certain either way.
But you are using very bad logic to argue that it was a clerical error.
ITS MAN FUZZ OK?!?!
lololol
... Or, the message was not drawn up by some random lowly typist, and was drawn up by somebody in a much, much higher position.
Not sure if you've ever worked in any kind of large bureaucratic corporation of other kind of organization, but that happens all the time, when somebody wants to specifically handle something personally, and also have the plausible deniability of 'random clerk made error.'
The nature of bureaucracies is to a large extent that those best at establishing as many avenues of plausible deniability as possible, those who can set themselves up with the ability to throw other people under the bus... they tend to 'win', persist longer and get promoted higher in said bureacracy.
... Why would there be a template or version of an existing document specifically dated to ... the previous day?
As opposed to ... just a blank date field?
You know, a template?
Did something else happen on the 9th, that required a document of this format to be drafted up?
Also... how often is such a template used, for a pretty uncommon, special statement to the general public, actually used?
Probably not very often.
Your argument is not very good.
You're layering in a bunch of assumptions, adding more complex conditions that would have to be met, you know, the opposite of doing Occam's Razor.
Strap some IR LED lights and a small battery and toggle to your glasses.
Decent chance your face is now is big white blob to many cameras.
True, but... unless they've changed substantially since the last time I looked at them, they seem to be basically completely different things, very corpo, more or less wearing the brand names as skin suits.
Thanks for that a lot to think about
Happy to have an infodump/perspective appreciated, thank you!
=)
I should note that the Steam Machine unfortunately does not appear to be designed with an eGPU in mind.
(Err, well, thats kinda sorta not true. The way a Steam Machine and Steam Frame, the VR headset work together... well the Steam Frame has an ARM, cellphone stype chip, built into it, and it can run less intense games just on its own. So, it is arguably technically the case that... that is a kind of wirelessly connected sort of eGPU for the Steam Machine... or the Steam Machine is a wirelessly connected sort of eGPU for the Steam Frame.)
It may be possible to... somewhat substantially hardware modify the Steam Machine, to get something like a physically connected eGPU working, people did figure out a kind of 'janky but does technically work' way to do that with a Steam Deck...
But basically, we'll have to wait for the thing itself, or detailed schematics of it to come out, to see if that's possible with a Steam Machine.
Alot of Steam Deck type devices, not made by Valve, other handheld-pcs (have controller and screen built in, vs mini-pc which is basically a small box or closer to the size and shape of a console), they do have usb4/thunderbolt ports that more easily support an eGPU set up... but they tend to be significantly more expensive.
So yeah, we shall see!
Its very unfortunate that the AI/RAM-pocalypse is happening at the exact same time that... well what could potentially be a bit of a revolution in the entire concept how to build a pc/gaming machine seems to be possible.
It may be the case that it ends up making more sense to have a new paradigm where you just have the cpu+ram+mobo+minor integrated gfx as one physical thing, and then some kind of an eGPU as another thing, and treat them as two modular components of a total system.
Yes, that's all true.
It is not just a console, it is a full-on PC.
Run your own home media mode, browse the web, make stuff in Blender, write and compile code, etc, I do all of that regularly with my docked Steam Deck.
But I went with Mini PC rather than Steam Deck for comparison because, though it very much literally is a Steam Deck 3.0, in a lot of ways... I think its closer to a mini PC than anything else.
MiniPCs are basically small boxes often comparable to, I dunno, a large jar of pickles, in size. They... also do not have the functionality of a gamepad controller, or built in screen, as actual physical parts of them.
And they basically always have integrated cpu+mobo, RAM is usually laptop SODIMM form factor, and then either the cpu they use is actually an apu, or an npu, as opposed to laptops often having a discrete but laptop sized gpu, or full-on pcs typically having full-on gpus.
Or, its becoming more common for a mini-pc to juat be designed with either an oculink port, or a usb 4.0/tbunderbolt port, with the idea being that its a decent general purpose work pc in its own, and if you want to game on it (or do some other kind of more intensive work like video editing/rendering, complex 3d model creation, etc), you get an eGPU cradle, stick a power supply and desktop GPU in it, and then connect it to the miniPC, which can then use that GPU nearly as efficiently as if it were just directly plugged into it.
Unfortunately, you'll have to tell me about that, graybeard, as I ...
... I am part of the one of the first eternal Septembers.
Except I was like 8, or 10, not a college student.
I... think the dancing baby gif is significantly older than demotivational posters, and the other two you list.
All good choices though.
I'd go with StrongBad 'The System Is Down' rave, or All Your Base Are Belong To Us, personally.
I mean...
They could be using it on his eyebrows.
... Ear hair? Nose hair?
Its ok.
Life goes on, people and things grow and die.
... but Minazo, Minazo will always can haz bucket.
Do you know if the name has some kind of double or joke meaning, in German?
Uh, nicht spreche deustch, or something.