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if you want to know what Apple took away from everyone
i now have a HP Pavilion from 2011 with more RAM than a new MacBook Air, more than the older M1 Macbooks, and I can put in up to 32GB of RAM...this is despite having a Quad Core CPU that was cheap in 2011.

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Inflation is a particularly nasty tax. Most people don't even notice that it's happening. They think that inflation is caused by greedy companies when really it is the direct result of bad monetary policy permanently decreasing the relative value of the currency. It's a tax.

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We’ve now published the details of the security issues which we addressed in Monday’s coordinated security release of Matrix: read all about Project Hydra at matrix.org/blog/2025/08/projec and please upgrade your servers and rooms where applicable.

Apparently, Windows 7 doesn't work with VirtualBox folder sharing.

Women when it comes to their own belongings: :ancap:
Women when it comes to the belongings of their male housemates: :disability:

Fuck it. I'm just going to buy a used Windows laptop to compile a Windows port of my game.

Though ideally, I would like to use something either with Windows 7, 8, or maybe even 10 (just to know that it works on older versions of Windows), but every used laptop I come across has Windows 11 on it. Though this is to be expected when Microsoft made upgrading to the next Windows free.

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Re Meyer, I'm about 80% sure at this point that what he was doing is explained under Quantized Inertia theory. Though I have strong suspicions that he himself did not understand it. If my suspicion is true, then that means what was before a search for a needle in an infinite haystack is now a matter of manipulating some equations that are found in publicly available papers.
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Made the mistake of trying to discuss politics on Twitter and now I'm starting to understand why people hate it so much. Never used the block button so much before.

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@deprecated_ii @lichelordgodfrey I mean you can't even make your own power infrastructure without government interference...
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A refresher, if you encounter someone who tries to use the "fire in a crowded theater" doctrine to try to argue away the First Amendment:

The line, often quoted by censorship advocates, is from a 1919 Supreme Court opinion (Schenck v. US) by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. It de facto outlawed trolling.

It was later overturned in a 1969 case (Brandenberg v. Ohio), which severely limited the situations in which speech becomes actionable. It added litmus tests like "imminent", and "likelihood".

The "fire in a crowded theater" argument is not only NOT a law (it came from the judicial branch, not the legislative one), it's not even CASE LAW. It's nothing. A historical note. An error by the Supreme Court that they corrected 50 years later.

The First Amendment is part of the US Constitution. It is the very first change made to the Constitution, once they realized that the government needed to be explicitly constrained from infringing on human natural rights. It is the law of the land. Do not believe a misinformed (or politically biased) authoritarian who thinks a Constitutional amendment can be overruled by a erroneous deprecated court paper.
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So it turns out that the reason why you aren't seeing that many restaurants switching to Beef Tallow, outside of Steak & Shake is that Steak & Shake actually trademarked "Beef Talllow Fries" which makes it harder for other companies to advertise the switch if they have also made it (or have been doing it before RFK's redpill drop).

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