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CommentRe:Why? (Score 1)99

I've found that when something includes an original stereo or 2.1 audio track, the levels are fine even on shitty TV speakers when I switch to it. No reason not to have these tracks. too many things have only Dolby super big dick 7.1 and Dolby big balls 6.1 as the two English tracks, when millions just use their shitty TV speakers.

CommentRe: What's better than... (Score 2)213

As a liberal who wasn't convinced it could be ruled out, especially when people who knew better promoted lies like any sort of human intervention in development could be ruled out because one particular method could, or that WIVs level 4 facility being far from initial cases was solid evidence when the lab director herself said CoV research was conducted at BSL 2 and 3 prior to the pandemic (*that* facility was quite close to the initial cases)... and played nonsense semantics games about whether it was gain of function research...
Your claim is revisionist horseshit. Accidental or not *any* explanation involving the lab was being dismissed as baseless conspiracy theories. It filtered down from people who had a substantial motive to lie by having directly funded what they invented some ridiculous hair splitting hyper technical distinction between "gain of function research" and "research intended to add function but not increase virulence" to deny it was the former, and you're an uninformed moron for saying there was gain of function research going on.
Believe me it makes my skin crawl having to side with the right on anything, but it's a complete lie to claim an accidental leak wasn't treated just the same as the nonsense theories that it was a deliberately released fully synthetic bioweapon and anyone suggesting the odds weren't 0 or millions to one against wasn't dismissed as a far right conspiracy theorist or Russian bot.

CommentRe:How does that work? (Score 1)34

Because SCOTUS justices on both sides have agreed that the constitution applies only so long as it doesn't make it too difficult for cops or interfere with the sacred cows of law enforcement ideology.
Justices from both sides won't hesitate to blatantly reject objective fact to ensure this... "Well every independent study shows and every independent expert agrees drug dogs don't work... but the police say they do and the company selling them says they pass their tests... and it would sure make things hard on cops... we'll take the word of the cops!" (Harris v FL)... or "Well, the government's own study here shows sex offenders have the 2nd lowest recidivism rate; but the cops say they have a uniquely high rate and everyone knows it's true, so studies be damned, they lose more rights because of high recidivism."
And don't forget the insanity of "Ignorance of the law is no excuse. Unless you're a cop. Then you need only think something is a crime. Whether it is doesn't matter for the purposes of detaining and searching someone, and if you find evidence of an actual crime, fair game!" (Heien v NC)

CommentRe: Lol (Score 4, Insightful)303

The god damn insane brainwashing in this post shows how difficult it is to break through the delusional ignorance of Trump supporters. Democrats are the party of speech policing? Neoliberal moderate who shit on progressives Harris a left wing radical? You're fucking gone dude. She could have said Trump was right on everything you'd still call her a far left radical. The fucking idiocy of thinking the radical left has any power in the party meanwhile Twitter is censored to hell and back while firing for political speech and revenge are now the norm.

CommentRe:Planned obsolence as a business strategy (Score 2)91

You've missed the point entirely. It's not about how long they've been supporting the old version. The biggest problem people have is they've deliberately made Windows 11 worse. The UI is shit, nobody wants their AI crap, and they've added numerous abusive, anti-consumer "features" like aggressively forcing use of an online account for your local OS, even more advertising and telemetry that's even harder to turn off, making people buy unnecessary new hardware just for their dumbass TPM almost certainly planning to use for DRM and arbitrarily making some CPUs too old... I could go on and on.
And unlike in the past they've doubled and tripled down on the bullshit instead of backing off.

People wouldn't be so against upgrading something "outdated" if Microsoft wasn't spitting in their faces by making the new version a major step backwards and forcing abusive features down their throat. Windows 11 has zero benefits besides hardware support representing collusion to force updates. Funny how the Enterprise LTSC versions make TPM optional when you're trying to tell me they need all these new minimums.

Making it better, or at least not massively worse, is exactly how they could get that revenue stream you seem to think they're morally entitled to just because it's been so long. Like we fucking owe them no matter how much they shit on us. Well fuck that. This is abusive monopoly tactics they should be punished for. Meanwhile here's you promoting all this enshittification.

CommentRe:To be fair? (Score 1)95

They're slowly choking perpetual desktop versions to death and you're a fucking moron if you don't think the subscription will rapidly escalate to a loss even vs yearly perpetuals once they're confident they can finally kill any alternative. And that day is coming sooner than you think. You seriously think they're cheaper now out of the goodness of MS' heart? Nevermind the absurd proposition they're not going to abuse their access to your data.

CommentRe:Security features? (Score 1)95

Cloud office = no VBA, so they do get marginally more security by crippling it *and* get to continue the blood oaths they took to wage a vendetta against all things VB. Instead of, you know, improving the things that were major contributors for their success. They're slowly crippling VBA in desktop office too; disabled by default with more and more hoops, policies to block all API calls... then once desktop is just as useless, why not switch, conveniently paying them more for a subscription!

CommentRe:How would this work? (Score 2)40

This research looks like another way to further restrict pain meds, because their chart now says you're "objectively" lying if you don't meet their no doubt highly skewed model. Like that bullshit research "proving" opioids weren't needed by comparing a near-placebo opioid dose to a liver busting NSAID dose for well each *slightly reduced* pain (major relief no longer being a clinical goal).
That line about being shocked you were awake was bullshit too. They weren't shocked, they were conveying they weren't giving jack shit in the way of stronger meds and probably writing "drug seeking behavior" into your chart, by falsely giving the impression it was medical safety issue rather than a legal risk policy driven by law enforcement and politician opinions. They're not morons, they know damn well that tolerance is a thing. The only safety issue was the organ damaging doses of non-opioids some unethical quack was giving you to avoid more strong opioids. 20 T4's is *way* over the safe acetaminophen limit, nearly double.

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