Trump isn’t that much of a strategist. Mostly he just does whatever the person who most recently blew smoke up his as says.
the techbros want greenland for the minerals, and for the record, we already have a base there. (Pitufik, it’s in the hands of the space force, and is a communications base with equipment for missile defense stuff as well.)
Unless he’s building a custom loop because he’s really into building custom pcs, then liquid cooling isn’t worth it.
A decent heat sink on the CPU and several fans blowing correctly in the case will do just as good. The only real drawback is that they’re not as quiet under high load.
As for AIOs, it’s been a while but I doubt rather a lot that they re on par as far as price goes, and you’re going to be better off buying better (read: noctua) fans.
More/larger fans also can be ran at lower rpm’s for the same cooling and get even quieter. (And have that much more under high load.)
To the edit: you’re gonna find that there’s little more decisive than liquid vs air when it comes to building pcs. I like my liquid rig. But also, I realize most people won’t enjoy changing coolant every month.
No.
you need proteins. neither skittles nor the vast majority of multivitamins contain proteins. And in any case, the vast majority of “junkfood diets” suck for your health. Usually they’re a gimmick to teach you about caloric intake for weightloss (and maybe some chemistry.)
Unfond of the cold white shit!
You’re still wrong.
the M1 money supply is the vast majority of the m2 supply in 2020, it was 18 trillion and peaked at 21 trillion and then went down to 19.5 trillion. That’s not “80-90%”. That’s 16.67%
And once again:
So do you get the point yet?
Not sure who downvoted you, lol. You’re quite correct (I just didn’t want to get into the weeds, heh.)
and yes. it’s good to remember that not all debt is “bad” debt. Especially on a national level. I still think it’d be nice if they passed a balanced budget, though. (and one that covered everything that was important. like healthcare and housing and infrastructure and climate resiliency and stuff, and not bombs for genocidal maniacs)
This is factually incorrect.
the M2 money supply expanded from 15 trillion to ~22 trillion from 2020 to feb. 2022 Then 1 trillion or so was removed by apr 2023.
You’ll notice that inflation tacked that fairly closely. when there was an explosive growth of the m2, inflation was insanely high and then when some was removed, inflation began cooling off.
Also, Please go study some history.
This is what caused hyperinflation in the Wiemar Republic
This also caused hyperinflation in Hungary,
This is what triggered hyperinflation in Zimbabwe
Is it possible that there’s some wiggle room, where the effects won’t be so bad? sure. Does that make it good economic policy? not really. COVID wasn’t about perfect, or even good. If you’re on fire, it’s natural instinct to start patting the fire out with your hand. It burns your hand, and that’s not good, but it’s better than burning to death, right? Same concept.
except nvidia drivers.
fuck nvidia.
cash is largely minted by the government, and they usually aim to maintain “enough” (currently 2.3k billion dollars currently?)
Most of the money supply is not in physical cash, though- they call that the m1 supply which is found in things like savings and checking accounts, other kinds of deposit accounts, etc.
Currency is added to the economy by buying back government securities (think bonds). Specifically this is the Federal Reserve. we also pay interest on money held at by the Fed. (Banks invest the money.)
Printing more money doesn’t make more value- it actually reduces the individual value of a dollar.
That value needs to come from somewhere.
When a currency is backed by some commodity (we backed by silver and gold, historically.) that value comes from whatever is backing it (ie you could go to a bank and get that stuff.)
Today, the dollar is backed by the confidence of the people using it. Specifically, the confidence in the US government. The value is also affected by supply and demand for that currency.
If the US suddenly decided to print the trillions dollar coin, the market reaction wouldn’t be all that hot. There is some wiggle room but generally not a lot.
If you want to know what happens when you push it too far, check out the Weimar Republic (Germany), Hungary after ww2 and Zimbabwe in the late 2000’s
It’s very much not-good.
In the US, at least, the government has 2 ways it can fund itself.
Taxes, which are collected through a variety of means- income tax, for example, or import taxes, etc. these funds go into the treasury, which then get doled out to pay for things.
If taxes are insufficient, or there’s some type of emergency that requires an excess of funds more quickly than they can levy with taxes… the government takes on debt. Specifically, they use a number of different instruments including bonds.
The “national debt” is the the sum of all those bonds, loans and whosiwhats its that are taken out to pay for things. it’s the debt that the national government owes to others.
Yeah. Sun Crusher is… uhm.
Like. Why. even? Even the Deathstar serves no real functional purpose. That’s the problem with brinksmanship, and mutually assured destruction. Eventually, you’re gonna have to grab that other guy and jump off the cliff. And now, instead of a economically productive and valuable planet, you have an asteroid field. That, sure, you can mine for minerals, but that effort is now going to cost orders of magnitude more.
And lets be honest. If the goal was to keep people too afraid to try anything, eventually some dumb kid from a dried up backwater is going to blow it up. And then you look really fucking weak.
The economic loss of entire systems, though, is just bad for business.
I ignore that. I prefer the bullshitting scoundrel, to be honest.
Maybe Han came up with that when he got called on it. lol.
yup.
Han was bullshitting them. Remember, Han is a fast talking scoundrel who runs scams on rubes.
For people who don’t know Parsec… is a unit of distance. an object 1 parsec from the sun would be an object that has a parralax angle of 1 arc second. a second of arc is the easiest to explain- it’s 1/60th of a minute of arc, which is 1/60th of a degree. (arc second is 1/3600th of a degree.) it comes to about 3 lightyears.
It would be like saying, “I made the Chicago-NY run in less than [whatever miles]!” when talking about how fast his ship is. The distance is fixed. the kessel run is largely fixed.
There are stormtroopers, and then there are stormtroopers. The 501st legion is the best of the best. Most the riffraff were… not.
Like. Every planet probably had to source storm troopers for their own defense from local communities, and they were basically somewhere between Paul Blart: Mall Cop and Keystone Kops.
The stormtroopers on Tatooine were 501st. The ones on the Deathstar (at lest, some of them) probably were, as well, given Vader’s presence. DS-1 troopers wouldn’t have been there if they weren’t competent, at least.
You should see the other guy!
After following a star nobody else could see from (probably) Persia.
For the record, you can get myrrh resin for like 20-30 bucks a 4oz sack on Amazon.
A one pound sack of frankincense goes for about 20.
What was more valuable in the first century is anyone’s guess.
formerly called thule. it’s now Pituffik Space Base