Yes, there’s room for discussion, so there’s no blind support for Israel. I’m not saying there is no support for Israel. Western Europe is walking the line between appeasement politics and reality. They all know that condemning Israel would create tensions with the US.

But if you look at citizens, pro-Palestine (so not necessarily pro-Hamas) protests are centered around ending human suffering, without actually taking a side in who has a claim to the land there.

The Netherlands is not participating in the Eurovision Song Festival, which might seem like inconsequential, but it’s a pretty big statement. Winners of the contest are returning the awards now that Israel is not banned from participating.

Plus the ICJ is located in the Hague, which isn’t recognized by the USA, but also show some moderate doubts towards what Israel is doing.

The entire situation in Israel is complicated with its roots going far beyond the temporal conscience of people. There’s no clear answer other than that nothing warrants bombing hospitals and blocking humanitarian aid.

The USA never really had allies after WWII. They did a lot to stop Germany from taking over the continent, but after that the USA was basically a playground bully, an enforcer, that believes it’s the boss and as long as everyone does what they want, they can be friends.

Now that they start doing things that don’t align with what the ideals of the European Union or Europe in general, suddenly we start seeing that ‘allies’ is a very relative term.

The USA just wants to be number 1. Now that they have started destroying their own economy, suddenly the EU, Canada, China, all of them seem like threats.

Basically the USA is just a market to Europe, and they provide the media we watch in the shape of TV shows and the like. They provide the arms we need to ‘keep peace’ where necessary. If shit is going to hit the fan (more than it did in Ukraine, maybe also tensions in Gaza since Europe doesn’t blindly support Israel), it’s not a given that the USA and Europe will be on the same side, but my point is it was never really a given.

It’s wholly possible these people are not bothered by loud noises. I have neighbors and especially their kids seem to have no clue what an inside voice is, how far bass travels or how to walk down stairs.

They shout, they blast music, they fall down stairs.

If I did that as a kid, my dad would tell me to cut it out. And I think that’s the key difference. You’re either raised to be considerate of others, or you’re not. And if you’re the considerate type, most likely you’ll go out of your way because you don’t want them to be bothered by you while they might not even register if you happen to fall down the stairs or fire a cannon indoors.

I used to be really careful with watching tv at certain hours, or announcing to my neighbors of I was going to have people over. It took me a while but I now don’t even really care if they hear me anymore. Because even if they do, it’s unlikely they’ll be bothered as much as I am when their preteen kids shout that they don’t want to go to bed at 10:30 PM when I’m trying to sleep.

I’m not familiar with how malware like that masks but you can pretty much find any traffic with a tool like WireShark. It’s just a matter of finding out how processes recreate themselves once killed.

If something lives in the storage of your router, specifically, I’d see about formatting the storage and flashing new firmware. As you stated, that may not solve anything.

Regardless of how they enter and what is installed where, once it’s inside your home network it can pretty much access anything. If you wanna be fully secure you’d need a firewall and just block any traffic you don’t specifically whitelist. As you can imagine, this is cumbersome.

Are you worried that something has infected your network devices? Do you have any reason to suspect something? In some countries, ISPs do some passive monitoring on what goes in and out of your home and if they see anything untoward they’ll disable that bridge device and notify you.

It shouldn’t really be the purpose of Big Tech either. It’s fairly difficult to define freedom if it takes the form of exploitation of human behavior for profit. Social media is little more than an addictive ad delivery system.

Same but I upgraded to 4x8 a while ago so I have 4x4 just sitting here and it’s worth like 20 western money units (pick a currency, doesn’t really matter)

I read the part on the website and I like the setup. I am correct in thinking this is a US based community?

In advertising as well. I noticed quite an uptick in the ‘annoyance’ factor of tv and radio ads somewhere between 2005 and 2010. People were more likely to discuss bad ads, or ads with a quirk of some kind. Hate is an easier strong emotion to coerce with an ad so they fully went with it and somehow the negative attention equalled more sales.

It’s hard to imagine some business exec coming up with this research, it’s more likely a team of psychology majors who would rather earn more money than actually help people.

It’s so weird that these days you have to almost bring a note from your doctor if you don’t want a constant barrage of sensory overload

Really don’t quite get why these sports games need a ‘new’ version each year anyway. All they really used to change were driver line-ups and some minute details about how cars handled on controllers. If you were to play with a wheel you’d not have noticed much difference since F1 2018 but they’ll expect you to buy it again and again.

Just sell the game at 70, yearly content updates at 20 and stop pretending you’re actually doing anything about issues in the game.

I go to the dermatologist every six months and they have to look at my entire body every time, I take extra care to be clean and smell neutral or faintly nice. Unless that one time I had to go by bike bugy that was outside my control. I feel pretty self conscious at those times.

Same goes for the dentist, I take extra care weeks in advance when I know an appointment is coming up. If you have stuff in between your teeth a brush won’t reach, one quick brush before the appointment has as much effect as taking a breath mint.

What’s the worst thing is that the rhetoric they keep spouting is just verifiably false. They say stuff like “the left has been destroying this country for long enough” even though the last five or six cabinets have been dominated by the largest right-wing party.

It’s a simple trick: take a general issue that is visible throughout the largest part of the population, pick a scapegoat, preferably one you can generalise, then promise a bunch of stuff you’ll never be able to pull off without dismantling democracy.

Currently, the far right is just blaming all kinds of institutions that are supposed to protect our systems. Their plans are all short sighted bullshit that’s so easily checked for its faults that’s it’s just easier to say it’s being criticized for ideology rather than content. Anyone who would take a second look at what has happened for the last two years should be easily cured from their far right views but these voters don’t take the time to actually look into the numbers and plans. Their attention span for politics doesn’t stretch much farther than yelling about immigrants and taxes.

I am not optimistic about the results of today’s election.

Even though I do think Amy Lee’s voice sounds way better on Synthesis and although I really like the album, I still really appreciate the originals as well since the music and the vocals seem to live up a bit better. Sometimes the orchestral arrangements feel a little forced to me.

But still great album.

Literally the only way they will learn. I really don’t understand how we as a society have accepted ads as a necessary evil. We all hate them, but we all also make them work. It’s horrible.

For some, this is not activism. It’s not protesting. It’s just about causing mayhem. They hate cops because they have a problem with authority in general.

You can lock them up, fine them, do whatever, it’ll never have any effect. They will just get out of jail and set fire to another police car given the chance.

I’m not saying the protesters are right, but I will always defend peaceful discourse and all opinions, even the most vile, unfounded bile can have their stage. But they must then also be open to reason and proper discussion. There is no situation where setting fire to police vehicles (paid for with my taxes, by the way) is part of a civilised debate.

Legend

I haven’t looked at the performance reviews per system yet but I recall the complaints for Borderlands 3 mainly came from people trying to run it on an old i5 with a 1060 or similar. You need a high end system, that much is clear. Or you need to get comfortable with 30 fps.

I’m not saying Randy is right to strike that tone, but you can’t deny there is a point to saying that some games are meant to be played on powerful systems and won’t accept anything less.

It was also on sale on PC, I’ve been getting lost in it. It’s amazing. It makes me wonder if I should be playing Alan Wake as well. I once got Alan Wake II with my GPU but I sold it

I’ve always maintained it’s for non-nerds who want to laugh at cultures they’ll never understand. For convenience, all known nerd stuff is crammed into all characters.

Have you played Control? It was on sale recently on Steam