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Victim of Communism

  • Chinese memory can now match the speed and latency configs of the RAM in our gaming PCs

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  • GOP Senator Ties Inflation to National Debt He Voted For

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    Texas families have two more weeks to apply for the state's school voucher program. That's because of two new lawsuits that claim the state is excluding Islamic private schools from participating.

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    The state comptroller's office runs the voucher program. In January, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said the agency has the right to exclude schools from participating.

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    TIL that in 2025, Americans spent roughly $166 billion on gambling. That’s more than the entire U.S. movie, music, book, and museum industries combined.

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  • over 90% of what is wagered gets returned to bettors in the form of winnings

    As someone who has gambled once or twice, this seems like a wild overestimate.

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    TIL that in 2025, Americans spent roughly $166 billion on gambling. That’s more than the entire U.S. movie, music, book, and museum industries combined.

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  • Okay, yeah sure. That looks bad. But how much did those Americans win back?

  • GOP Senator Ties Inflation to National Debt He Voted For

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  • I mean, the “we can’t afford domestic spending” is also their way of transitioning domestic spending to privatize industries to enrich themselves and their buddies.

    Curious to see how we never have a dime to spend on public school, but we've always got another million for vouchers to church-owned ones.

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  • We can't afford domestic spending, but we also can't to afford NOT to spend $1.5T on the Pentagon (plus hundreds of billions more on NSA / DHS / FBI / etc).

    It's an Oops, All Cops federal budget going forward, folks.

  • Time to hit the ol' dusty trail

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  • You can just hit the bricks. You're an adult. Nobody is stopping you.

  • Christian metal band sues netflix because google won't show them anymore.

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  • its frankly a miracle they were even able to trademark “Demon Hunters” because it’s so generic

    Far easier than you'd think. The patent office is understaffed and the rules for this kind of thing are fairly loose.

  • Christian metal band sues netflix because google won't show them anymore.

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  • If you point at someone on a site like Lemmy and say "Christian", you can gin up a lot of reflexive hate with a headline. "Christian Rock Band" is an even more target rich source of ire.

  • Christian metal band sues netflix because google won't show them anymore.

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  • Sometimes you can just issue a lawsuit and collect on the nuisance value alone. Sort of a get-rich-quick secret of the pharaohs. If you have a lawyer in pocket and your time is less valuable than their money, filing in a friendly court with a plausible case can be worth five or six figures easy. The defense attorneys will cost more than that anyway.

    For the next-level shit, go check out how the Westboro Baptist Church makes money. They effectively thrive on lawsuits by being as annoying as possible and then filing claims against anyone who takes a swing at them.

  • Republican who backed death penalty for pedophiles faces child sex charges

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  • Only in Heaven. And even then, everything I've read about the guy upstairs suggests he's fine with this shit.

  • Chinese memory can now match the speed and latency configs of the RAM in our gaming PCs

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  • Chinese memory can now match the speed and latency configs of the RAM in our gaming PCs

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  • Gray market imports into the US from China have already been big business, especially among counterfeiters and drop-shippers. Idk about getting a full-sized SUV over the border. But designer bags, electronics, and the like have been coming over for at least a decade.

    Idk how much retail buyers save, though. Much like with the drug trade and human trafficking, there's inevitably an enormous mark-up for this kind of smuggling. And because it is functionally unregulated, you get a ton of refurbished, low-grade, and outright fraudulent sales. Smuggling tends to accrue money to the smugglers and the various officials you need to bribe to move the merchandise. You rarely see retail level discounts, unless the market is so glutted with knock-offs.

  • Chinese memory can now match the speed and latency configs of the RAM in our gaming PCs

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  • they keep the good stuff for themselves.

    Do they? If anything, I believe China's been exporting the high-end luxury items because they have absurd margins in western markets. Meanwhile, the good-enough goods stay at home, because it isn't worth the time or effort to sail them across the ocean and market them.

    I guess Temu and its peers have changed that, to a degree. But so much Temu crap just gets bought up by local American drop-shippers, marked up to American prices, and rebranded as western equivalent merch that it feels like much the same.

  • Chinese memory can now match the speed and latency configs of the RAM in our gaming PCs

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  • They won’t sell it to you

    China is a major consumer of RAM. If they can supply it domestically, that has the potential to reduce the volume of global imports and subsequent price pressure.

    If their competitors can't keep up, you will eventually see Chinese RAM get out onto the secondary market in the same way Chinese EVs and Chinese cell phones and Chinese solar panels and Chinese steel have depressed global prices for these commodities.

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  • Whenever the tariffs come down.

  • Chinese memory can now match the speed and latency configs of the RAM in our gaming PCs

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  • Sort of the joke in the modern US attitude towards Taiwan. They see a break-away province and have no actual respect for their sovereignty. Independent small nations are just colonies-up-for-grabs in the eyes of the US State Department.

  • Dating tutorial

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  • You: "Uninstall DS3"

    Me: "I can't hear you, I'm gooning to Sister Friede feet pics"

  • Best Buy 'repairs' customer's gaming laptop by simply removing half the RAM— claims unit in question only accepts 32 GB of RAM despite listing a 64GB configuration

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  • Hey hey, this wasn't a buy it was a repair

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    New York Democrats fear abortion-rights amendment is faltering

    www.politico.com /news/2024/09/03/new-york-democrats-abortion-rights-00176916
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    Huawei is starting to look unstoppable: US sanctions and political efforts have failed to kill Huawei, which now looks in much better health than its main western rivals.

    www.lightreading.com /5g/huawei-is-starting-to-look-unstoppable
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    Muslim voters evenly split between Jill Stein and Kamala Harris, new poll finds

    www.middleeasteye.net /news/most-muslim-americans-are-voting-jill-stein-or-kamala-harris-poll-finds
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    Today, we’re all MAGA

    www.spectator.co.uk /article/today-were-all-maga-trump-shooting-assassination/
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    Military spending is up, social and economic funding is down since 2022

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    Project 2025 was supposed to boost Donald Trump's campaign — but now it may be backfiring

    www.salon.com /2024/07/05/project-2025-was-supposed-to-boost-donald-campaign--but-it-may-be-backfiring-instead/
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    Undecided voters say they now support Joe Biden after debate

    www.newsweek.com /latino-voters-donald-trump-joe-biden-debate-election-1918795
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    The dying gasps of NY Public Library Social Media

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    Gen Z influencers who supported Biden in 2020 turn against him

    www.washingtonpost.com /technology/2024/06/13/influencers-biden-tiktok-ban/
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    You sorry son of a bitch, you're about to find out why this country can't afford healthcare

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    Big Bad Wolf Thought

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    Blinken says he asked Qatari PM to rein in Al Jazeera war coverage, per sources

    www.axios.com /2023/10/25/tony-blinken-qatar-israel-hamas