Things in the southeast are very bleak
CW: Death, Trauma
The deposits formed 380 million years ago when Africa collided with North America.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/rescue-crews-rush-to-north-carolina-mountain-towns-cut-off-by-helene-floodwaters
!yea
Quick google search shows that China has its own Quartz mines, so I'm not sure if those are unsuitable for certain semiconductors or if the use of "world" here just means !international-community-1
Beware if you have any pets, especially cats, minoxidil is extremely toxic to them
Lmao the r/news thread got locked by 
mods because users kept making and upvoting comments mocking the death by using the same language media uses to describe cops murdering civilians. Honestly surprised to see it, maybe the bootlickers and their bots are away for the holiday weekend.
for this "person."
Actually I assume the second Chinese CPUs and GPUs become a competitive threat to Intel and AMD, they will be tariffed to hell. But unlike Chinese EVs, gamers would largely know what they're missing out on, as benchmarks are easy to share. I wonder how they'll handle knowing they can't max their framerates due to huge tariffs or maybe even complete bans 🤔
Gamer discourse will only get more confused and contradictory as China inevitably begins dominating the video games industry. Even if, hypothetically, none of their games ever reach mass appeal in the west, it's only a matter of time before the best available hardware is Chinese.
I'd like to say it will be fun to watch the chuds grapple with their sinophobia and anti-communism getting in the way of their rabid consumerism, but tbh I think most chuds will just quietly rationalize it and, at best, rant less about China. Maybe we'll even get some cursed synthesis like "China is only good because they're anti-woke!"
Yes,
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Every day I think "I can't possibly hate the zionist entity more" and every day I'm proven wrong
I'd be tossing fists full of ninja rocks off my balcony every night
Trying to transition to mid-game in the new Oxygen Not Included DLC. Accidentally released a pocket of several hundreds of kilograms of oxygen into my base. At least I don't need to worry about breathability for many, many cycles 
Live reaction of my duplicants (the little dudes that run my colony) looking at all the decor items I built to counteract their long-term perma-"popped eardrums" stress debuff: 
I was following along until I got to this paragraph:
It is no secret that a number of pro-Palestine members of the US government had common cause with the Jamaat, and certainly benefited from funding and lobbying support among the small but influential Bangladeshi-American community, particularly on the East and West coasts of America.
They must have meant "pro-Pakistani", which would make way more sense given the surrounding context of the article discussing relations with Pakistan and India. The alternative suggestion of even a single individual, much less some significant faction, being pro-Palestine within the CIA etc is obviously ridiculous 
I still want the American left to be able to organize than to suffer from Trumpian fascist violenc
Don't fall for the liberal myth that organizing under a Democrat is any better than Trump. Democrat controlled states and cities are more than happy to enact violence against their political enemies, which includes anyone against genocide. The Democrats just make it easier for the average American to ignore, because they hide their fascist violence behind masks of civility and playing up the optics of relatively minuscule crumbs of concessions.
In burgerland tech news, the CEO of Bungie invited an employee to see his new cars and then laid her off 2 days later
Israel just bombed Beirut.
https://x.com/aldanmarki/status/1818329359591076167
Israel takes responsibility for airstrikes in Beirut.
Battlefield 1942 was the first FPS I got really into. Its first expansion, Road to Rome, was meh, but the second expansion, Secret Weapons of WWII, added some really unique and exciting weapons and vehicles. I especially loved flying the Goblin and the HO-229 around harassing infantry and light armor.
Looking back on it, it's pretty 
and 
that they made an expansion focused around wunderwaffen weapons and a stand-in for the fucking SS. But damn if adolescent me didn't have hours of fun pew pew'ing around with a jetpack 
Don't worry I play less-overtly-fascist games now, like Helldivers II.
Mykola Sokalskii, who moderates a popular subreddit on Ukraine, said his role has helped him prepare for being in on the frontline.
Real good sign your side is winning when you're conscripting a 39yo, especially someone who is arguably way more valuable left helping run your propaganda war on !reddit-logo !zelensky-pain
> Cojab said her addiction stemmed from stress. > > She was the president of a Zionist student group called Realize Israel, at odds with other student activists and professors calling on the university to sever ties with Israel.
It's so incredibly disgusting seeing a puff piece about a Zionist crybullying over a cheese addiction, posing with large blocks of fancy cheeses, and talking about expensive rehab far out of reach of the average person, all while her ideology is responsible for ongoing mass starvation and genocide against Palestinians.
Also, I feel like there's a slammer meme somewhere in here !zionist-despair 🧀🧀🧀🧀 !qin-shi-huangdi-fireball
Electric vehicles may be the way of the future, but many EV owners are having trouble dealing with Chicago’s bitterly cold temperatures.
> "Nothing. No juice. Still on zero percent," said Tyler Beard, who has been trying to recharge his Tesla at an Oak Brook Tesla supercharging station since Sunday afternoon. "And this is like three hours being out here after being out here three hours yesterday."
> "Like any new technology, there’s a learning curve for people," said Mark Bilek of the Chicago Auto Trade Association.
Lmao, no my dudes, it's pretty well understood that you need to keep the battery warm enough to be able to charge. This is not some fucking unexplored field of science!
I'm absolutely cackling at the radio silence from Tesla + dozens of Tesla owners just sitting around cluelessly wondering why their car hasn't charged at all in over 3 hours. Maybe another 3 hours will do it, keep trying !stalin-approval
Also, a cursory Google search leads me to believe that the Model 3 has no dedicated battery warmer that could be used for this very situation, but instead some system that "runs the motor inefficiently to heat up the battery". Doesn't sound like this can work when the car is stationary, I guess tesla engineers forgot about the Midwest when cutting parts to save on production costs !michael-laugh
