Gotta say, the US Army has made major progress.

50 years ago our weakness was really any STDs whatsoever.

Dude, fucking spoiler alert man, wtf?

Hey, easy there.

They also don’t give a shit about the genocide of Mexicans in America either.

I wouldn’t normally consider antisemitism, but maybe that’s why they only care about Palestinians and literally nobody else. Or maybe it’s just their own special version of racism.

As a brown person in America they clearly don’t care about genocide here.

Maybe it’s like champagne, it’s only genocide when in the genocide region of Israel, when Russia does it it’s just sparkling ethnic cleansing.

Putin says “Deeper”

Trump says “Hlaotheep-larg-larg?”

https://youtu.be/_gGppFLNaio

We will have peace for our time.

Rural island off the coast of a european country:

10g fiber for $65/mo (I don’t even think they cared, I asked for more and I think they made up a number).

House literally down the street from google in silicon valley:

Comcrap $100 for shit cable, I’m paying $250 for actual upload speed.

This country is ruled by the corrupt.

This isn’t blackmail, this is just expressing clear dominance.

The blackmail happens behind closed doors, and blackmail is such an ugly word: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xG6vgzAswgE

That’s just adorable.

edit: Putin to Trump: https://youtu.be/a7-eoiY4bOo?t=290

Btw, I lived in the south, I wasn’t a citizen there either.

If I’d hung around another year I would have been a muslim terrist from the Iraqi Taliban or something.

Google is pushing av1 because of patents, but 266 is just plain better tech, even if it’s harder to encode.

This same shit happened with 265 and vp9, and before that, and before that with vorbis/opus/aac.

They’ll come back because it’s a standard, and has higher quality.

Maybe this is the one time somehow av1 wins out on patents, but I’m encoding av1 and I’m really not impressed, it’s literally just dressed up hevc, maybe a 10% improvement max.

I’ve seen vvc and it’s really flexible, it shifts gears on a dime between high motion and deep detail, which is basically what your brain sees most, while av1 is actually kind of worse than hevc at that to me, it’s sluggish at the shifts, even if it is better overall.

I know, and I don’t doubt that.

But my wife is white (like, blond, blue eyes, Galadriel white), so they won’t touch her citizenship.

I guess I was an anchor baby in the end anyway.

edit: Oh, I’m rich too, so I’m golden either way.

Fucking privilege, man.

Yeah, using the a750 the same.

Can’t wait for next Gen arc with vvc (x266) support.

Intel has excellent transcode, even in their igpus.

I use an arc750 specifically for transcode, av1 runs at ludicrous speeds, but don’t do an Nvidia, they kind of suck because they dont support vaapi, only nvenc/nvdec and vdpau.

I was born here, but I was clearly an illegal immigrant in the south.

Think that’s epinephrine, ie adrenaline (as a hormone, epinephrine when a neurotransmitter or when affecting the heart and vasculature).

Edit: actually adrenaline was the first European patent name, while the US discoverer used epinephrine thinking it was a different compound, interesting.

Am brown.

The south was intolerable, it’s weird to see such naked racism in America.

But it’s a fundamental part of their culture, it’s why Obama was clearly a Muslim, because Christian means white to them.

I was born in New York, but the south was the only place where I wasn’t an American to anyone there.

The problem is: most people never have to face the reality of the south, so it’s easy to pretend it’s just an exaggeration.

I lived in the south, man, I lived in most of the country, but the South… I do not see any hope for redemption there whatsoever.

100 years after losing the civil war they still had Jim Crow and the KKK, Hitler himself wrote about them as an inspiration in Mein Kampf, lynched returning black GIs, and even today they do everything they can to stop black people from voting, or minimizing the effect, when they aren’t just beating brown people for kicks. And they still consider themselves proud of their “Heritage”:

Personally, it’s us or them now.

Btw, the reason the south had a massive opioid epidemic? After the welfare reforms the 90s, they realized that meant white people welfare too, so they all applied for SSDI for “back pain” (came out of the SS budget which rich people didn’t care about), which came with free opioid pills they could sell for more money.

Until we fix them, we’re doomed as a country.

Wisconsin is nice, much better than Michigan or Indiana, highly recommend. My only visit to Minnesota made it seem even better.

Dude, when I was a kid I moved from the midwest to the south.

It was like going from a decent, but backwards place, to living under the fucking Taliban.

I warned everyone to get out of the south while they could, but I know it’s not always possible, I just hope most made it.

The South will NEVER forgive our unimaginable crime, we elected a BLACK MAN over them, that is an evil they can never get over, and they genuinely believe we did it just because we knew it was the thing they hated most.

FS, I’m so sorry, I’m not trying to be an absolute dick here though it will sound like it.

I saw this coming miles away, hence sending my family to Europe.

I desperately hoped I was wrong (and Kamala taking over made me dare to dream), but I knew the worst bits of my country too well.

I really fucking wish I had a better plan right now, this is like the end scene of Empire, but with so much less hope. :(

Am I crazy, or did we feel less helpless the first time around?