Unfortunately, it’s quite difficult for AMD and Intel to make any big difference in the short term.

On the Intel GPU side, bluntly, they are far behind in tech, so they have to mitigate that with more aggressive pricing.

Don’t believe me? Look at the process node they use and the die size of their chips, now look at the performance and power efficiency they get compared to similar node/die size Radeon or Geforce cards. That means Intel has to spend a lot more on manufacturing but can’t charge anywhere near as much. In other words, they have to use more raw materials to make the same performance.

Intel doesn’t make money from their GPUs yet. They literally don’t want to sell too many cards because they generally lose money on each one sold. That’s why their launch was a paper launch. They’re spending right now to build expertise and expertise before doing a bigger push later.

On the AMD side, there’s some good news in that their latest generation is pretty great and has massively outsold their previous generations.

The bad news is that even if AMD has doubled sales or whatever, they were already such a small part of the overall pie that Nvidia (85%+ of the market) shitting the bed isn’t something AMD can suddenly fix.

It’d be like if all carmakers except Mazda shat the bed, Mazda can’t suddenly expand and fix the market. They could increase it a bit, probably, but filling the orders that the VW or Toyota group usually do? Impossible.

Also, whenever there’s excess demand for CPUs, AMD would prefer to service that market. It’s far higher margin.

Nope. I’d still say social media/social media algorithms.

Imagine if social media didn’t exist (beyond small, tight-knit communities like forums about [topic], or BBS communities), but all these AI tools still did.

Susan creates an AI generated image of illegal immigrants punching toddlers, then puts it on her “news” blog full of other AI content generated to push an agenda.

Who would see it? How would it spread? Maybe a few people she knows. It’d be pretty localised, and she’d be quickly known locally as a crank. She’d likely run out of steam and give up with the whole endeavour.

Add social media to the mix, and all of a sudden she has tens of thousands of eyes on her, which brings more and more. People argue against it, and that entrenches the other side even more. News media sees the amount of attention it gets and they feel they have to report, and the whole thing keeps growing. Wealthy people who can benefit from the bullshit start funding it and it continues to grow still.

You don’t need AI to do this, it just makes it even easier. You do need social media to do this. The whole model simply wouldn’t work without it.

Yes. One of the only benefits of FPTP is that for most of its history it has stopped tiny, insane, extreme, populist parties getting a foothold, and instead encouraged relative stability. For all the issues we have, the UK has been a phenomenally stable democracy over the years.

That is no longer a protection against Reform, as they’ve broken past the “not being popular enough to gain any traction under FPTP barrier”.

Set fire to his house, a flat “linked” to him (family member perhaps?), and his old car.

We live in an unhealthy democracy when people are being this extremist and violent over a political figure so bland he makes Gordon Brown look fun and care-free.

Nonce? I think if Starmer was a paedophile our press would be having a field day.

Where I live there are frequently people that come into pubs to sell things that were clearly stolen from the nearby Morrisons.

I’ve found blocks of cheese to be an extremely frequently stolen item.

Makes sense. Fairly easy to conceal, surprisingly expensive (depending on what you get, like £8-16 per kilo), doesn’t usually come with security tags like steaks often do these days, and there’s lots of potential buyers for cheese since it’s used in a lot of things and it’s bloody lovely.

And yet they’re the only demographic who gets a pay that always matches or exceeds inflation. Seems weird that they’d see a disproportionate increase in shoplifting.

Ah yes, there’s famously never been fires in brick buildings.

You knew your actions could easily lead to a massive fire and loss of life, you said so yourself, and still you chose to do it repeatedly anyway.

Now you don’t seem to be showing much remorse, which is unfortunate. I guess I just hope you’re a bit less of a piece of shit.

The content of your reply to me was the weird thing, not the fact that you replied itself…

Weird reply, in that case.

I never said he was a piece of shit.

John Lennon admitted to hitting an ex girlfriend. He came out, apologised for it, and said he was trying to better himself but he had a whole load of problems.

Bizarrely, his ex later came out and said John didn’t beat her and that she didn’t know what he was talking about.

Ringo has also admitted to hitting a girlfriend before.

You literally said you nearly burned the school down multiple times.

That’s true. And I’m not usually a massive fan of Doombar but it was £1.49 in a spoons (relatively) near me recently, so I couldn’t say no.

I’m not surprised. All my costs are going up and I have to make cutbacks. When a single pint is £5-6.50, that’s something I can’t justify.

I do agree that the supposed justification for this change sounds quite daft and chest-thumpy… almost to the point of sounding like political satire.

He’s definitely playing it up in that way because he’d be crucified by the tabloids and Twitter for saying anything less on VE day, which is unfortunate, but I guess it’s the political climate we live in.

But the actual law itself seems quite standard. It’s not unusual at all for climbing on statues and monuments to be an offence, here or anywhere else. It’s particularly touchy when it’s one related to WW2, and it wouldn’t be completely unreasonable to argue this one is.

I guess it shows why I could never be a politician lol. I’d probably say something like ok, ban climbing these statues, fair enough, but piss off with the putting words in my mouth. Churchill was a complicated man and I should be free to criticise him until the cows come home, and then I’d immediately face immense backlash, the usual GB News ghouls would be calling for my head, and I’d be ousted from [party].

It’s already illegal to climb on a bunch of statues, memorials, and the like, and that’s not just a UK thing, that’s a most places thing.

I’m somewhat surprised people were allowed to climb this one.

Chlorinated chicken isn’t happening, it’s been ruled out time and again.

Food standards and animal welfare is something that’s taken quite seriously by both our politicians and our populace. The EU has strict food standards and yet our minimum standards are substantially higher than theirs (somewhat surprising, I know, but it’s true). So to be blunt, I’m not worried at all about food standards.

I’m far more worried about other things. Regulation of big tech, data/privacy laws, further rigging IP laws (especially software patents, which are mostly banned in the UK) in a way that benefits US giants.

This damage limitation is, I guess, a good change. Although I’m more pleased about the other stuff going on, we’re shifting to become more self-reliant on some things (particularly defence), and cooperating with continental Europe more again.

I just hope that by next election there’s serious calls to do things like rejoining the Customs Union.

Correction: they’ve been doing it since Windows 8.

Windows 8 came out 13 years ago.

They literally do not lol

In game purchases in steam games don’t have to pay Valve, nor does Valve prevent you from uploading your game to other stores, which is what this ruling was about.