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This assumes that you will have an income of something worth more than the US dollar to pay the mortgage with. If your income continues at the same amount of US$ then your mortgage payment will still cost you the same amount of income, regardless of how the global valuation of the US$ changes.

The plan is coming from inside the (white) house.

So it’s possible to have two different GPUs rendering content which is then output to a single monitor at the same time? Could I have a game rendered by a discrete GPU running in a window being handled by an Xorg session rendered by an integrated GPU? Do I understand this correctly? Would it matter if the video output was physically connected to the discrete GPU or the motherboard, or is that configurable?

My War Gone By, I Miss It So

This is, um… well it’s less fun than a meme. If you were ever curious about the Bosnian War, this is a firsthand account by a journalist who was there.

Place your tribute at the feet of the prince of the power of hot air.

They should labelled as female feet if you want sales.

I thought it was a perfectly peaceful and legal protest? Why would there be undercover FBI agents there?

“And thus I clothe my naked villainy : With odd old ends stolen forth from holy writ; and seem a saint, when most I play the devil.”

But it’s all stripey! the data is redundant!

It’s ok because the government is going to buy bitcoin.

A literal pipe dream.

Windows 11

It was last year. You missed it.

Meanwhile, the US is sending Ukraine *checks notes* 50 year old airframes…

Neither the US nor China has found reason enough to commit any of their fancy, expensive hardware yet… that’s probably a good thing. Both the US and China are happy to watch Russia burn out its military accomplishing very little (for different reasons, but ultimately the same goal). The US and China are still on trade dispute terms because a militarily weakened Russia favors both of their interests.

And comparatively, no other country’s military matters at this level. Sure there are other nations that spend high amounts of their GDP on military buildup, but none of them have global deployment capability at scale like the US or China.

So I guess the question is, when the Ukraine situation eventually ends, do the US and China square off for a fight? or do they go back to the quietly simmering economic tension that is the status quo? … with Putin’s control of the Russian nuclear stockpile as a wildcard.

Hmm, some part of this seems wrong…

The lower picture looks like RIM-7 Sea Sparrow with the wingtips unfolded, but this missile has a ground launching system so there shouldn’t be an issue.

The upper picture is definitely probably RIM-162 ESSM, not RIM-7, and afaik does not have a ground launcher so it would require some kind of adaptation.

*Edit: on closer look, the fin design in the upper picture doesn’t match anything made by the US. I think the missiles pictured here are actually 9M38M1:

The BUK launcher is designed to carry these missiles, so the upper picture is probably just a generic picture of a BUK with missiles loaded, not specifically one that Ukraine is using with US-supplied Sea Sparrow missiles.

Therefore, the reporting on the supply of RIM-7 to Ukraine is probably correct but they wanted to use it with a self-propelled launcher rather than the trailer launcher.

Edit 2: I found a picture of what looks like RIM-7 tubes mounted on a BUK platform:

But the source is a .ru website, so I’m uncertain of the authenticity:

https://en.topwar.ru/234880-upravljaemye-rakety-vozduh-vozduh-aim-7-sparrow-v-ukrainskih-zrk-frankenshtejn.html

There’s some interesting discussion on retrofitting mobile launching systems in that article, but it seems mostly speculative as to what might be done and I don’t know whether the picture is a real system or a photo edit done as an example.

They pick up a different whip.

The solution is not better cops, it’s better oversight and accountability for the cops. Authority without accountability always leads to abuse.

Exactly right.

Free speech means that the government can’t prosecute you for what you say (except in certain specific circumstances).

Free speech doesn’t mean that I can’t kick you out of my house for what you say.

What we need is a government-operated fediverse instance to serve as a public forum.

Probably not, he’ll just blame all the problems he creates on other people - that’s what narcissists do.

Oh come on, there’s nothing irresponsible or creepy about wanting to collect retinal images of every person on the planet into a single, Internet-connected database. You’re just being paranoid.