My Ryzen 9 7950X3D died a couple months ago. I just tried rebooting one day, screen went black during startup, and that was the end of it. Nothing but two red POST lights on the motherboard after that.

I had been donating some CPU time to a couple BOINC projects (solving math, physics, and biology problems), so it’s possible that might have contributed to its demise. Although, I typically had it throttled to not exceed about 25% of CPU usage, so I would think the CPU should have been able to handle it. But, ¯_(ツ)_/¯.

I’ve only seen one other CPU die in my entire life, and that was years ago when I was playing around with overclocking an old CPU. So, I was rather surprised when my 6-month old CPU went to an early grave.

The fine folks at AMD were kind enough to RMA the.dead CPU and replace it with a 9950X3D, which runs like a champ. But it also rarely gets above 5% CPU usage, which seems like a bit of a waste. But, I’m not in a hurry to use any of that excess capacity to run another BIONC project any time soon.

ISO 8601. This is the way.

Yes. Because Trump’s transphobia pales in comparison to big bad evil Newsom? Are you for real?

This reminds me of when so many left-leaning people were tricked into not voting for Harris because things are terrible in the middle east. Yes, Biden/Harris wasn’t doing much to stop the murder in Gaza. And yes, they weren’t doing anything to stop aid or weapons sales to Israel.

But, did they think Trump would do better? Did anybody think Trump gives a damn about some poor brown muslims? Of course not! Everyone should have known that Trump would gleefully help to burn Gaza to the ground to make room for a new casino resort and a 200 foot golden statue of himself. At lease with Harris, she’d be under a lot of pressure to do SOMETHING to help the Palestinians. But, do you think Trump is going to be swayed by protests? Get real.

So what was the plan? What was the point of hoping that Harris would lose? Was it to teach the Dems a “lesson” so that in 4 years they would get back into office and actually help Gaza?

WTF?!? There are two GIGANTIC flaws with this “plan”.

1. Project 2025 made it clear that if Trump won, the US would never see a free and fair election ever again. So even if the “lesson” was learned, it wouldn’t matter.

2. Even if the Dems DID somehow win in 2028, what would they be able to do after 4 YEARS of genocide? Gaza (and possibly the West Bank) would be completely destroyed by then.

Great friggin plan, genius!!

The problem is not with Dems. It’s with organizations like AIPAC, who will spend millions of dollars to unseat any Democrat who dares to suggests that we should cut off Israel. (just look what happened to Cori Bush in Missouri’s 1st district). US politicians are scared shitless of these groups, and of being called anti-semites for disallowing Israel.

So, to get back to the original point … If it does come down to Newsom and Trump/Vance in 2028, I will be sad. But I will vote Newsom, because at least I know he isn’t going to declare that all trans people are sex criminals, round them up, and send them to “re-education” camps for “treatment”. Or, something even worse.

That is what these fascist will do if they have the power do it. And they are doing everything they can to wear down our constitutional rights in order to do it.

So, don’t be stupid. Don’t vote (or non-vote) for the worst possible outcome. Because you are going to absolutely destroy people’s lives. Including your own.

Werewolves, obviously.

True. But they have more trucks. And if you arrest/deport/shoot the people burning the trucks, there’s a chance that the trucks will eventually stop being burnt. Donnie would love to escalate this all the way to a fascist racist police state.

Grandma’s blocking ICE arrests gives off real tank-man-of-Tiananmen-square energy, and it’s hard to justify shooting "normal americans"without looking like the fascist goons that they are. But, shooting a guy waving a Mexican flag while looting and buring down a shoe store … some might agree that it’s justified to stop this “foreign invasion” with military force.

I can’t blame people for wanting to stop ICE from kidnapping innocent people. But, we don’t want to serve up justifications on a silver platter either.

Does anyone think that Donnie is going to be sad if someone burns a truck? Or a Home Depot? Or an ICE officer?

Don’t follow the provocateurs in pointless vandalism. Protest, and save the rocks to throw at the people who are directly responsible for this blatant fascism.

I should call her.

Yes. If there’s one thing that all corporations want, it’s to MAKE LESS MONEY.

That’s why they want to reduce competition. It’s so people can give them less money.

Now, some people might suggest that this sort of selfless generosity might go against their fiduciary obligation to increade stockholder value. But those people would be wrong because of course they’re only doing this to eliminate competition and gouge customers, you bunch of gullible idiots.

Then it wasn’t very final, was it?

$5.29 near me. And you can get 25% off if you use the app.

Yes, that is generally true. But Elon has shown time and time again that he is an inherently malicious individual.

Is it implausible that a jackass like Elon would spend a small fraction of his wealth to destroy a company that hurt his wittle feelwings?

I’m beginning to think that destroying it was the whole point.

Tesla, too.

Oh good, i’m glad that I’m not the only one that instantly thought of this comic somehow involving his desire for an elephant cock.

People who laugh are inherently evil.

We need leaders who never laugh. Ever. Some may say that an inability to laugh may be an indicator of some sort of deep psychopathology. But that’s just fake news, or something.

Back us off, ensign. Nice and slow.

Zug

What a tragedeigh!

This meme is almost old enough to vote.

Good thing we have the Logan Act to protect us from this sort of treasonous villainy.

Yeah, kinda, i guess.