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Do you donate money? How, why, why not?
  • Yeah, it's tricky that, especially with international stuff. When something kicks off internationally and suddenly a bajillion charity groups appear, it's troublesome.

    And it's my rule of thumb to just disregard anything from a religion, I won't even bother checking into them. Whenever there's been a charity called out for being evil, it's ironically Christian-based.

  • Do you donate money? How, why, why not?

    I was thinking about it. I donate to quite a few charities, but they specifically mean something to me. Others I don't really think about, though they're good. I guess we all have a threshold or we'd be broke and for many that could be no donations at all or just a fiver the the street guy.

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    Do your homework.
  • That's a mind struggling to get out ideas that may or may not be fully forming anyway. Kind of like a transmission going out at reduced power, so only parts of the message can get out, being mostly incoherent. Literally broken by the read of it.

  • Don't fall for it
  • I wish my mother was like this,.I'd.actually read her messages. She just uses my phone number as her personal journal. I get dozens of messages a day about nothing. I have to mute her and check every now and then, scrolling through useless shit about—hang on, I'll look at the last three topics; dogs and horses going to heaven, liking nature and not suburbia, the sermon at a mid-week church event—and make sure nothing important happened. I've told her to chill, it doesn't work.

  • Utterly fucking bizarre
  • Well it seems most self-proclained "lefties" here have an appalling understanding of what that is and below the shallows they are quite misaligned with that side of the spectrum. Their words they one thing, their behaviour and outbursts a much more truthful thing. The term is nothing more than a Get Out of Jail FREE card for them.

  • WordPress.org bans WP Engine, blocks it from accessing its resources
  • I haven't done web work for well over a decade and recently was surprised to learn that Wordpress is still very relevant. I remember back then, seeking alternatives as we expected it to become more of a legacy thing a few years down the track, so we were on the lookout for future-proofing client sites with a better foundation. At that point it was a decade old and annoying af because it morphed into a messy way of doing websites because people misused it's original purpose. Brain had to think like a blog and then trick it into doing what you want, kind of like using tables to structure pages before CSS-P saved the day.

  • Trump-Zelenskyy feud escalates as Republicans demand envoy’s removal
  • Ironically,.not many people would've known about this. Now they do and hiis behaviour paints the Republican Party poorly. it is such a very normal and inconspicuous thing,.and then he does this,.making me wonder wtf is up with him and that party.

  • Insanity
  • Where I recently moved to, everything is a 10-20 min drive away, but buses can be over an hour because how poorly they're done. Apparently they used to be quite bad, but recent changes made them awful and no one understands how the new routes and timetables managed to be approved and implemented.

  • What music do you use for concentration?
  • Usually electronica or classical. Both just fill in with tasty noises that blend into the background. Most music composed with some sort of a music theory background tends to do this well without relying on lyrics, repetition or distractions fighting for your attention.

  • when AI tries to get in my way
  • Yup, that's standard. If you're about three responses in, give up, it's already lost and incapable of focusing on the requirements. It will also lie to please. There is zero admission of confidence score. You only pick up on the things you know are wrong and considering how often that is, the rest can only be taken with a grain of salt.

  • It really is though
  • That's the question. It's the perception of others and conformity of traditional social stereotypes. The more someone has bitten into old gender stereotypes and roles—or just gender in general—the more it's of concern to them. It's the same as buying into hair colour, tit size, height, etc. and thinking these define you somehow, based on old sociial opinions of them. But the truth is, it's all faux. Man-made. Nothing in the universe cares about it except human society. If there were no society, you would not know what these concerns are. You would wear whatever the fuck you want because it's all about practicality,.not having an identity projected toward stranger's opinions and society.

  • A Finnish Lapphund dinner

    It's an interesting diet this breed needs. Basically small frozen scraps, but very rich in content. Their digestive systems evolved as nomads north of the Arctic Circle and know nothing else, so a bit of care needs to be taken. His body will do a lot with the vital scraps of tundra animals, and doesn't know how to handle big foreign diets which make him unenergetic and unwell after a few meals.

    Tonight's menu is sheep and beef tripe—their organs go well, but their meat and fat doesn't.

    Frozen salmon cuts—these dogs know fish as well as reindeer and love frozen meet. They extract all the goods from them.

    And a rabbit foot—Fur and bone is common in their diet and helps clean. They can start to poop bad without fur fibre.

    One of the more tame dishes considering the other weird off cuts of bits and pieces he gets. Thought some may find it interesting for a bit of an unusual breed outside of Finland.

    Edit: And yeah, the photo makes the meal look big and him small. But he's 20kg and that dish is about 3/4 a banana in diameter.

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    Oh yeah, King Gizzard &The Lizard Wizard dropped yet another album recently

    Just in case you're like me and forget to pay attention for a moment and three more albums slide on by without realising. It's also excellent, as usual. Probably a top 3 of their disco for my personal taste.

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    The 4th Gen Mitsubishi Delica

    Because some genius in Japan wanted to know what would happen if you put a 4×4 drivetrain into a van.

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    Skid marks on Eau Rouge

    The elevation change and subsequent plank scrape made eau rouge look like it had a shit stain.

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    This has to be a joke...

    And no, you cannot find the original post anymore. At least it's missing for me, the OP, unless I locate it through inbox history.

    Coincidentally, the meme was about mods on shitposts lol. I'll be banned soon 🫡

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    What do Canadians think of Stroll?

    Seeing him wave to the Lance Stroll Grandstand, I got wondering on his popularity with F1 fans from his home country.

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    Advice on current direction of build (Gaming + Data Science)

    Gaming

    • Mostly a huge array of co-op games, performance doesn't matter much, just good 1440 frame rate with high settings.
    • HOWEVER, sim racing is my exception and I'm wanting to upgrade from a single 27" to something more immersive. Considering I'm on the most minimal, a TV, triple 24s, or VR are all big immersion upgrades, but each with their pros and cons. But all demanding more of the GPU,ideally keeping rates at 120, even 90 maybe... 1080 for triples, but ideally 1440 all-round to make use of FSR better.

    Data Science

    • I need my PC to be a workhorse. Many hours of my week are ETL of big datasets and complex models. Lots of calculation time and lots of loading tables/arrays into memory for queries and transforms.
    • Ive recently gone up to 32GB DDR4 3600 (going to go to 64) and an R9 5900X. It's done nothing huge for gaming, but it's increased my data crunching tasks significantly.

    What I have right now...

    Guts

    • Asus PRIME X570-P ATX AM4 Motherboard
    • AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 3.7 GHz 12-Core Processor
    • MSI MECH 2X Radeon RX 6700 XT 12 GB Video Card
    • Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 32 GB (4 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 CL16 Memory

    Storage (This is way behind)

    • Samsung 860 Evo 500 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive
    • Silicon Power UD90 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive
    • And some ancient 2TB 7200 HDD that's a dying archive only drive

    Primary display

    • Acer Nitro XZ272U Pbmiiphx 27.0" 2560 x 1440 165 Hz Curved Monitor

    Cooling

    • Lian Li Lancool II Mesh ATX Mid Tower Case
    • Deepcool LT520 85.85 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler

    Where I'm stuck...

    • Should I go up to AM5 even though I just got the 5900X?
    • Do I then go DDR5 instead of 64GB DDR4 or am I getting too many year's ahead of myself?
    • The 6700XT is not overclocking friendly, for sim racing I may need to bump up if going for more display.
    • For storage, what's the best way to go for a bunch of games installed, but also not having stuff get in the way of data crunching applications and calculations? Should I reserve a drive purely for data? Can I dedicate anything to it on top of the 64GM RAM coming in?
    • Lastly, the display conundrum for sim racing; VR, TV, triples... 49" UW on top of any above upgrades is just way over budget.

    I'm basically just after ideas of what to prioritise next, what can wait a while, and what path I should be starting on for future-proofing without spending the budget on future gear too soon while it's all expensive.

    Advice much appreciated.

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