Except the “classic” capitalism rode a wave of favorable demographics and exploited geopolitics. Unfortunately, too many US presidents were born in 1946 and never realized what the lifestyle they got used to necessitates. And the US presidency is just one of the influential posts that played a role in that unsustainable “no brakes” period…

Relax, only the card was hit. Even if it was broken, I have a spare 2008 VGA+DVI-D video card that does about the same thing and I imagine he can get one for cheap too /s

No, I just observe enshittification. The real art is to legally (or legally enough) collect the required data, process them automatically to calculate each customer’s tolerance, and maximize profit (through dynamic pricing, incentives and targeted ads) while internalizing the risk of backlash against these unethical practices if they’re too obvious. I know the steps and so does OP, but that doesn’t mean I/them could or would do any of them.

That’s a visibility bias, which obviously exists, but medical statistics that largely eliminate it also show a big disparity.

Also this only applies to people who don’t pass, which is most trans people at some point. And wouldn’t the stigma associated with male feminine crossdressing actually discourage people from coming out and trying to get over the dreaded non-passing period?

There is a Czech comic character named Fifi, and she’s a bitch.

Medical statistics say “there are huge error bars by methodology but it’s about 2:1”. Of course, this does include biases that make some people more likely to “find out” and “come out” but not the visibility bias (which plays some role on the former two but not as much).

Medical data suggests there is about a 2:1 ratio but sometimes as high as 3:1. In trans spaces, this gets further amplified by the network effect: a member of a minority is more likely to stumble upon another such person if the group is larger, and the number of possible connections grows quadratically, so people pointing out bias in other comments are not entirely wrong. Similarly, medical data is probably also skewed because it’s obviously self-reported and people are more likely to come out if they feel they’ll get support and to “find out” if their kind of gender questioning process is more frequently discussed. However, these biases don’t explain all the disparity. Research is ongoing but preliminary results suggest that of the recessive genes that correlate with people reporting medically as trans, more exist on the X chromosome and since the vast majority of AMAB people have XY chromosomes, they only have one X copy and recessive genes (incl. “trans” ones) are more likely to manifest.

Did you know silence can be detected in software? The volume can be normalized too across frequencies that matter. Requiring the dealer or manufacturer is room for enshittification.

The algorithm knows this and calculates exactly how much you’re willing to pay for the convenience of a button. As soon as you get a date, they know, the price triples and you receive a notification: “you wouldn’t want to explain the bucket to her*, would you?”

* insert appropriate pronoun here

GPUs that have their own proprietary network stacks and need cryptographic authentication when?

Where I live, they all do when out in the sun, and close their beaks in the shade

dedicated

The same way you’d say “dedicated heroin user”. It’s addicting.

Speaking of which, I don’t think you can take any drugs to make that holiday special make sense. It’s like if Darth Vader had a change of heart and summoned a Life Day dinner for the Wookie family. (That video is not the most out-of-place, but certainly the most “:3” scene)

I found a piece of shit Czechoslovak TV program on YouTube and wanted to link to this comment to point the German uploader who took great lengths to subtitle it to other bizarre stuff, and I needed to edit it a bit. I’ll upload a video with a bit of the Arabella Holiday Special soon, it’s worse than the Star Wars one at times…

It’s not Mézga Csálad, too early for that. Also, all of them have human main characters and no talking pigs AFAIK (although some Bolki i Lolki episodes do feature cops).

pig in the hat

That might be a specific cartoon but how could I know? The rabbit hole goes deeper but I’m not Hungarian.

At school but this was before chatbots. The teacher in question has probably changed her views since.

Yes but by reflecting >95% of the light, it does not get nearly as warm as what the light would otherwise shine on (typically gets dispersed all over the room, very little gets back out the window). Also, if placed outside a multi-layer window (which you should or the window may overheat and crack), the heat exchange to the inside via convection/conduction is stopped, only radiation remains, and the 80°C foil radiates way less than the 6000°C sun (also, shiny things are bad at receiving and transmitting black body radiation).

My laptop has some serious RAM reading errors. Sometimes the bad block gets mapped to VRAM and there is garbled 64x64 RGBA overlay on screen, otherwise programs or the kernel just crash. It is probably not actually the RAM, which I since upgraded, but a soldered-in chipset… It is rare enough (about 1x/day) to be usable though.

I thought it was obvious but A and B have to be 3-letter FIFA codes. For example JERsey × SEYchelles.

Did you run a script over the list of countries to find if other pairs can be used as A, B, C?