This was the most interesting and informative thing I've heard so far. Long but worth it. Do something else while listening why don't ya? I'm baking.
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350 Dead in 10 days.
The terrible air quality has forced authorities to close schools, universities and offices to reduce exposure. Hospitals are reporting rising numbers of cases of respiratory and cardiac complications across the country.

#Climate #Pollution #FossilFuel

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The Lord of the Rings trilogy returns to movie theaters in 2026, with a 4D twist

Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings movies are coming back to theaters for Fellowship of the Ring's 25th anniversary

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Ο Παύλος Σατόλιας: “η κρίση αυτή έφερε & έβγαλε τις παθογένειες του παρελθόντος” αλήθεια είναι αλλά θα έπαιξαν ρόλο για αυτήν την δήλωση του σίγουρα & οι συναντήσεις του με τον πρωθυπουργό που ήταν & πιο πυκνές από εκείνες με τον Ανδρουλάκη 🤡

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Garage Fridge Gets New DIY Controller


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Experts say US boat strikes are illegal killings. Can they be stopped?
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Famed for sculptural structures, architect Frank Gehry dies at age 96
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OK, so, PC prices are going to be insane next year (they have already started getting insane). Tech Jesus from Gamer Nexus is saying it's all a ploy to make home computing unaffordable to people and push everyone to use live services in all those fancy datacenters they are building.
And, honestly, I think he's right.

I'm on AM4 now, with a Ryzen 7 5700x. I had decided a while ago that I wouldn't be migrating to AM5 so soon, so a few months back I bought all the RAM I'd be able to fit in this thing before DDR4 stopped being produced and the prices went to shit. And it seems it was the right decision, because RAM prices increased over 200% in a month.

Now I was thinking about upgrading the processor, even though it is not needed right now, just so it can hold until the AI bubble explodes. But there is no 5800x3D available anywhere, and the 5950x is pretty expensive, at R$ 3.600,00 (which would be about U$700,00, our currency is worthless and our taxes suck ass).
For comparison, upgrading my mainboard and processor to AM5 with a 9800x3D would run me just about U$ 100 more. But then it would cost me about U$ 400 just to get about 64GB RAM ($800 for a 128GB kit to have the same RAM I have now). And I really doubt I'll be able to sell my current kit for the difference.

So, I guess I'll just say "fuck it" and stay as I am. I'm confident the 5700x is enough to hold until everything collapses. Maybe I can find a 5950x for $300-$400 in the future. The good part of rambling like a mad man in a fedi post is that I can take this time to think more clearly.
Except I just found out there is a processor called Ryzen 9 5900xt which is basically the same thing as the 5950x but it costs just $400 so I'll take one of those, then I can just sell the old 5700x and the 32GB DDR4 kit I had before to make up for it.

TL-DR: everything is going to shit, personal-computing wise, and I'm upgrading what I can while I can, to then hold onto it forever.

I'll probably also be buying disks to pirate everything I can, it seems SSD prices are also going to increase next year.

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Marvel Is So Out Of Ideas It’s Bringing Avengers: Endgame Back To Theaters

Ahead of Avengers: Doomsday, Marvel is dipping into the nostalgia bucket
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Suzanne Vega - Gypsy
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@RepKiley
Californians have been charged extra fees on their phone service the last six years to fund a "Next Generation 911 System." Yet after spending $450 million, Newsom just scrapped the whole project because the technology doesn't work. Our government is broken.

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4 Corrupt California Families - Newsom, Brown, Pelosi, & Feinstein

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Judge Signals Win for Software Freedom Conservancy in Vizio GPL Case

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Sign-on letter for Texas Defendant Des Revol
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"Des Revol’s support crew is trying to get 100 organizations this week to sign onto the support letter for “Free Des” (they currently have between 55 and 60 organizations signed on). Any outreach to liberal, mainstream, normie, nonprofit, progressive, and/or radical/anarchist organizations is greatly appreciated! Here’s a case:theintercept.com/2025/11/23/pr…"

Egypt’s economy stabilises, but poverty challenges persist
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DOJ tries to shut down Pfizer clinical trial whistleblower after FDA admits COVID vax killed kids | Just The News

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Ordered several things frombWalmart for a pick up later in the day. I get to Wallyworld and 80% of the pick up spota are taken. I sit in my vehicle scrolling and playing only to realize that I've been there 30 minutes, and that the cars that were there before me are still there. I cancel my order and go inside to "shop" for my items. I use their app to quickly locate the items, then I see they are cheaper if I order online with either delivery or pick up. Saved $15 by having stuff delivered

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Eidos Montreal Worked on Kojima’s ‘OD’ Before Being Asked to Move to Japan

Eidos Montreal was once working on Kojima Productions' OD but stopped following a request to remove to Japan.
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West African culture takes center stage at Dakar’s ECOFEST 2025
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Dark Souls isn't a particularly or uniquely difficult video game, to the extent that it is relevant to discussions of difficult video game it's as an example of how difficulty is mostly an aesthetic experience rather than an objective fact.

It's not that hard to make a difficult game, just make a level that requires 5000 frame perfect inputs in a row and if you fail you have to start over. Is that unfair? Yes, but if something is fair it is by definition not as difficult as it could be and that's what I'm getting at.

Games are defined by how not difficult they are, some games offer more resistance than others, but by and large most of your design time is gonna be spent making sure it's not difficult, often to the point that you cheat in the players favor.

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It's all in how you frame it, any game that have different builds have difficulty levels, easy mode is called "picking the optimal build". The only functional difference from standard difficulty levels is that it is a little more obtuse to figure out. If you gave the difficulty levels vague thematic names and put them in a random order, you'd more or less have the experience of a build system, it just wouldn't feel as much like you are the clever one for figuring the ststem out.

Washing big items (especially towels) in the tub sucks so much🤢

But now that that's done - made mashed potatoes, taking a break with Hosono 😀

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Random thought: are some parts of the evangelical spectrum trying to recreate something like early modern Catholicism?

You know. Big, impressive churches. Rich pastors showing off their wealth. Celibacy pledges. Trying to wield political power. Art commissions. Constantly asking for money. Selling Christian-themed stuff. No women in leadership roles.

The art doesn't seem to be as good though.

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Today is St Catherine of Alexandria's feast day!

St Catherine, patron saint of the 'splained, help us deal with the reply guys, help us deal with the concern trolls, help us deal with the ones risen to their level of incompetence.

Swiftly and decisively, if we may.

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Metroid Prime 4, Marvel Cosmic Invasion, and More | The Game Informer Show

Winter's here, the snow is falling, and the last big games of 2025 are debuting. It's a packed week on The Game Informer Show, as Kyle Hilliard discusses his review of Metroid Prime 4: Beyond and Marcus Stewart dives into the super-sprites of Marvel Cosmic Invasion. After the break, Charles Harte joins the dynamic duo to discuss more Kirby Air ...

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Researchers used diffusion MRI to track water movement in brain tissue across nearly 4,000 people, from infancy to age 90.

Turns out that the brain doesn't age like a slowly ticking clock. Instead, it goes through a few major "upgrades" and "reconfigurations" at key life stages which define how we grow, mature, and eventually decline.

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You can already grab Destiny 2 Renegades, Bungie's Star Wars expansion, at a huge discount

Destiny 2 Renegades is full of lightsabers, blasters, scoundrels, and other Star Wars mainstays, and here's how to get it cheap

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