Ahhaha, good joke.

No the future is everything is more expensive and worse quality.

Its a pretty strategically and economically impactful piece of legislation pushed by, and then signed into law, by Biden, in 2022.

It basically sets up a bunch of tax incentives and funds to go toward building out domestic computer hardware research and manufacturing.

Its the kind of thing that would lay the foundation for the US building a lot more of its own computer hardware, instead of importing it.

So when the Trump tariff apocalypse hits… assuming the CHIPS Act does not get repealed, it will be the only saving grace in terms of possibly lowering computer hardware costs.

Trump and Republicans are likely to try and take credit for this, if domestic chip fabs start coming online before 2028, pretending it is something they came up with.

CHIPS Act? Never heard of it.

I just said they would freak out.

Who they end up blaming is between them and their god emperor, I guess.

It will at least be extremely funny to watch all the right wing gamer bro chuds freak the fuck out when an immediate consequence of their actions will be that gaming pc components instantly inflate 50% in price.

Glad I already got my Steam Deck, fuck.

I will only use this if it uses Clippy’s animations.

Thats… what this is, right?

Clippy 3.0?

(keikaku means plan)

Unless they’re synthetic.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_diamond

Apparently, ‘grown’ diamonds made up as much as 17% of the cosmetic diamond market in 2023, and by 2017, they were 15 to 20% less expensive than traditionally mined (almost always blood) diamonds.

Now now, Elon does technically have one patent to his name personally.

Its the shape of the charging port for Teslas.

He patented this with the idea that if he ever did actually build out that massive EV charger network, he would basically be owed royalties if it successfully became the USB C of EV charging ports, so himself personally would be owned royalties if other car companies wanted to use that charging port shape.

But that was like a decade ago, and last I heard he fired the entire team at Tesla dedicated to the charging network.

Unless you really want to split hairs on a per article basis, in general, it is both.

If your subject for parody is ‘news about current events’, then you can argue that anything presented in the format you would expect from a newspaper, but comically exaggerated, counts as parody.

If a certain Onion article is fairly clearly a modification or exaggeration of a specific news event, it fulfills another common attribute of parody by having a specific thing it is parodying.

But sure, some of their stuff falls more into satire.

Satire more often has a more … thorough and deliberate alteration of a base material or style, with the intention of conveying a more intentional critique of or commentary on the source, a fairly obvious prescriptive moral message, by subverting it in specific ways…

… as opposed to parody, which, by itself, doesn’t really need to have a ‘message’, it can be just a level of exaggeration that is humorous in and of itself.

Generally, most of the Onion’s produced content is both parody and satire.

No.

The Onion, and parody in general, aims at being an exaggerated caricature of the truth, something that has a kernel of plausibility in its core, but has elements or scale that is blown out to ludicrous extremes, or is framed in an unexpected way such that it inherently juxtaposes a social approach to a certain realm of topics with another realm of topics, exposing a double standard that larger society has.

Parody is not just ‘plausible, but fictional.’

That would … just be a hoax, mis or disinformation, or realistic fiction if not presented as news.

… The fact that it is so difficult now to tell many parodies from a person’s or group’s actual actions or statements, or complex events… this speaks to an increasingly extreme world, it speaks to … basically the death of a general concept of ‘normal’ from which parody can grow.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/21/world/singapore-airlines-turbulence-bangkok/index.html

This is the incident you are probably referring to.

I ran PopOS on linux for years, every game I had worked, and actually performed better than on Windows, once Proton got to version 7.

• with the exception of games that run multiplayer kernel level anti cheat.

** oh and almost all of those games use anti cheats that are compatible with linux/proton, and have been for 3 years, but the game devs/management just refuse to enable that support, even though its already included in their contracts with AC providers for no extra cost.

You can get a dock and plug in a mouse and keyboard, a monitor, etc…

Its fanboy/girlism.

If you pirate content from their favorite author/artist/producer/whatever, basically all of their screeching comes down to a hysterical emotional response that you are hurting a person or group that they worship as God.

They just learn rhetoric to justify their emotions as a side effect, a consequence of wanting to be able to argue against the bad mean people that are hurting their favorite creatives.

They are naive, ignorant or misinformed, immature… usually believing in some kind ‘just world’ type worldview where everything is fair and square actually if you just follow the rules.

They don’t understand that the actual ‘losses’ from piracy are far, far smaller than whatever the RIAA or game studios say it is.

They don’t understand that the people who actually create or perform the art basically get paid a tiny fraction of what their labels or corporate overlords make.

They don’t understand that some people are actually poor, and the poor deserve art as well.

They don’t understand that when a reasonable cost forma product with reasonable ownership rights exist, a great, great many will prefer a streamlined but slightly costly method over a complex but monetarily costless method.

They don’t understand that you don’t really own anything which you can’t use or view or listen to as you please without relying on some proprietary other system which may just poof that ability out of existence one day, without refunding you.

Every single time I mention that Krita is basically an older version of photoshop, someone appears and says this.

I never said its a photoshop clone, as in it has parity with modern photoshop.

I said it can basically be used as one would have photoshop from a decade ago.

This is true, no matter whether or not it was ‘designed with drawing and digital media creation in mind.’

If you need something with more options and features than GiMP, or you don’t like GiMPs user interface… Krita works quite well.

These tortured metaphors take a Sisyphean Effort to parse… it’s like trying to figure out which parts of a Ship of Hercules are the original.

Fucking incredible.

I’ve used Shotcut on PopOS.

Worked pretty well for doing something about as complex as a editing together a typical youtube video.

Hell I even managed to get it to support h.265 after some tinkering. h264 and hevc worked as well.

Also, in a similar vein… Krita is basically Photoshop from about a decade ago in terms of functionality, less outdated UI and more functional than GiMP, though its a bit chonkier (memory / CPU intensive).

This immediately reminded me of ‘ear candles’

https://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/ear-infection/what-is-ear-candling

… I have been berated and belittled as a closed minded fool for pointing out to a former friend group that uh, ear candling is a scam, there’s no way it can work, the ‘experts’ doing in person ‘treatments’ are unqualified, charge an absurd amount of money, and can actually harm you.

… This was the beginning of an insane series of dramatic bullshit whereupon I learned that this friend group consisted of a 350 pound person who demanded everyone find them attractive and healthy, and has panic attacks/seizures whenever someone doesn’t, an antivax nurse, a ‘professional’ astrologer and tarot reader, and a self described ‘leftist socialist’ pursuing an MBA.

This group of people decided I was an asshole for not paying $300 for one of them to get their… ear… candled…