For work, we got some of the HP AI Ryzen Max 390 laptops with 64 gigs of soldered on 8000 MHz DDR5 memory, and holy shit, I have never felt such a snappy, responsive computer.

Like the comparison between my laptop with the 13950X and 64 gigs of memory at 4800 megahertz and this Ryzen ai 390 feels very much like when we first started getting SSDs and making the transition from spinning rust to SSD.

And I know that a huge portion of that is due to the fact that the ram is twice as fast. But still, it is simply snappy. It’s nice, and it makes me jealous that these are not computers for me, but for someone else.

I swear to god if you fuck that cat

Nothing. It’s not our individual fault. It’s going to keep going no matter what you or I do (short of terrorism) until the whole thing crashes down around us.

I saw a movie that had the actress that played Rita Repulsa in it as the mail order bride of a random side character who would occasionally sneak away to the bar across the street from their house and shoot ping pong balls out of her pussy.

It’s not really relevant to this conversation, but every single time Rita Repulsa is mentioned in some thread somewhere, I always go back to seeing the ping-pong balls flying from between her legs.

I think it was the movie about drag queens going across Australia.

I want wealth because I lack self love and wish I had enough money to buy it

If your car ever gets spray painted, WD-40 is also very good at removing that. Just spray it on a lint-free rag and gently wipe the spray paint and the WD-40 will dissolve the spray paint and whisk it away with a minimum amount of effort.

The ruling class of America have gone so far past hubris they are touching on surquedry.

Would be a shame if some sort of Greek tragedy would unfold.

They just wanted to immigrate and pull the ladder up behind them, freely say the n-word, own people, and be the only ones that are allowed to vote or own houses!

How can there possibly be consequences for that line of thinking?

Why didn’t anyone tell them that this was a bad idea?

/s

I don’t know. My sister is a psychopath. She cannot understand the feelings of the other people around her, no matter how clearly or explicitly or adamantly they are explained to her.

We have a lot of psychopaths out there running the government and in positions of power and in positions of authority and serving as megaphones for their interests.

No amount of explaining empathy or extending hands or teaching will ever get through to these people.

They are fundamentally broken in a way that cannot be fixed.

Hey! That is adamantly not true!

He also understands jobs where black people are not paid for their services!

Get it right.

Facebook: makes a system where the only way to get engagement is to hatepost.

People on facebook: hateposts

People: “How could this happen?”

I have a friend who went through something pretty similar, ended up spending ten years alone except for when people would come over to see him.

Eventually he pulled out of it and is married now, And if everything can work out for him, then it can work out for you too.

And also, like, don’t worry about your opinion of yourself and thinking that you’re gross, because it really doesn’t matter. Like, the things that you’re concerned about are never the things that other people are concerned about.

If you are clean and somewhat presentable, everything else can take care of itself. No matter what you look like or what you think you look like, there is going to be somebody out there who sees you as the most attractive, beautiful, desirable being on the planet if you give them the opportunity.

I bet most of them are affiliated with a Christian church of some variety, at least 60%

Because of this reply, I went and double checked myself, and it turns out I said the phrase backwards. I did not change the meaning, just the order.

https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/Where+ignorance+is+bliss%2C+'tis+folly+to+be+wise

There’s this concept called circle of influence, which is basically what things can you actually do about the things that you know.

99.9% of politics are outside of any of our individual circles of influence, And news profits immensely off of sharing every single bit of misery inducing sad and dreadful knowledge they can peddle.

So if it’s outside of your circle of influence, then feel free to completely fucking ignore it, because you can’t do a goddamn thing about it, and knowing about it only makes you sad.

Like the saying goes, where it is folly to be wise, ignorance is bliss.

That being said, if there are things that are local to you, or things that you or your friends are passionate about, that are inside of your circle of influence, take the energy you would have spent being sad about the stuff you can’t do anything about, and direct it to the things that you can do anything about.

Chances are, since this is a 15 year old, that they’re going to stick with the default install of Windows. Not a lot of people start off with Linux.

That being said, I would also recommend the AMD processor over the Intel processor just because it’s a better processor and why not, Especially if it will make transitioning to Linux easier and the future should the kid choose to do so.

People are still on Facebook?

But also technically women, little extra trauma for the boys

What is a sissy hypno mode?

Probably wouldn’t be a bad idea to do something along the lines of stating upfront that “if anyone in the company does anything to offend you, please report it to the appropriate channels. You’ll have our full support. We’re here to get work done, not to make people feel bad”

You’re not likely going to say by accident something they haven’t heard before, or to offend them in a new and novel way, But establishing and occasionally reinforcing the fact that they don’t have to tolerate it, that putting up with abuse is not part of their job, and that they have the boss’s backing at the same level of the non-LGBTQ employees should they find themselves being abused or offended, would probably go a decent way in minimizing the risk of something actually bad happening.