Yeah, that's my main take away.
Not only did she put it back in the fridge in this completely fabricated story, but they did so without washing it?
Who does that?
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I want to point out, that.... for communism, even on paper, to be a lovely idea and/or successful, the person in charge needs to have two things:
- Absolute loyalty from the population by some method that doesn't require oppression, coercion, intimidation, or the use of force. They basically need to believe that they are the right person for the job and stand behind them.
- Basically be absolute and exclusively altruistic. The selfish nature of humans, being the flawed creatures we are, basically makes this an impossibility.
I would add to point 2, that anyone who is that altruistic, would not desire to have, or hold, any power over others.
The combination of these two things will keep any rosy ideas about communism, as just ideas. In practice, it will be, or become corrupt, and the people will suffer. Pushing it into a downward spiral of violence against the people, until an inevitable revolution occurs and the communist dictator is removed by any means necessary (often involving them no longer living).
Don't get me wrong, there are different issues with capitalism, socialism, any monarch based society.... Pretty much every system is flawed. The key differentiator is whether we have the ability to deal with the challenges of a system as it arises. So far, communism has the least methods by which to do this.
Oh no!
.... Anyway.
Foxes are like that though.
They look cute and cuddly... The trustworthy kind, then they bite your hand off and laugh at you.
It's lady gaga.
If you've followed her at all, even indirectly, this is NOT the weirdest thing she's done, and bluntly, the weirder stuff wasn't justified (to the public at least).
I'm not trying to throw shade at Gaga at all. Lady, let your freak flag fly all day long. You don't need my permission to do it, but if you want it, you got it. Weird isn't bad, it's just weird.
IMO, at this point, gaga doesn't need a reason to be weird.
This is something that simply, should not happen. This kind of mishap should have been weeded out during R&D.
I won't say any more on it right now, and I definitely won't excuse the behaviour. I do, however, want to give advice to anyone affected.
If you can RMA, then do it. If you just don't want to deal with all that, and you want it fixed, whether you're directly affected, or if you just have a hot/slow GPU, I strongly recommend redoing the thermal material. You don't have to go all out with fancy phase change material or anything (though, that is definitely an option if you want to spend the money on it), but repasting shouldn't be difficult.
My recommendation is to do a small amount of research and try to find something that's not too expensive that is hopefully non-conductive, so any screw ups don't end your card. If you can get thermal pads that are the right size, you might as well replace those at the same time.
Most of the time, getting the cooler off is simply a matter of taking off the backplate, unbolting the cooler from the GPU chip location (remove the tension bracket), then carefully pulling it apart, and disconnecting any fan cables/RGB as you go.
Clean existing thermal compound off with tissue/paper towel, etc, then clean and polish the surfaces (both the GPU and the cooler side) using alcohol, generally isopropyl, and either a microfiber cloth or something else lint free. In a pinch, q-tips work. Both sides should be a near mirror finish when you're done, though, depending on the cooler, it may not have been machined to a near-mirror, so just clean it until your cleaning cloth/qtip comes away mostly or completely clean.
Once cleaned, apply new compound, fix any thermal pads and reassemble (reverse of disassembly). Be very careful when reattaching the tension bracket to move in a criss-cross or "x" pattern, always go opposite of whatever one you just tightened, and tighten everything just a little as you criss-cross the plate to ensure equal pressure across the cooler. Everything else should be trivial in terms of order.
Once everything is tightened and secure, reinstall the card and test.
Wasn't that the strategy with COVID?
Just don't test anyone so the numbers stay low?
I believe I've seen this movie before.... Anyone remember Ontario Hydro?
Not paid enough to care.
I think it's most notable for the conservative American censorship.
Being the first on American television was a significant achievement considering how they deal with censorship there. Americans have always been a bit stunted when it comes to accepting diversity.
I liked the purity of quarks character. Always after whatever provided the most opportunity and profit. He frequently was thwarted in his shady dealings in the pursuit of profit, but that's capitalism baby!
Not to imply I'm a fan of capitalism, far from it, but he was portrayed so perfectly as the embodiment of pure, unfettered capitalism. Regulations were little more than a suggestion and if breaking them didn't result in a loss (of profits), or if it had a fairly low chance of affecting his profits, in his mind, then he would simply ignore rules and do whatever the hell he wanted.
Looking at the world today, that's exactly what capitalism is doing. If you have laws but no enforcement, corpos will do it because the punishment is basically non-existent. If you have laws and enforcement, but they can hide/relocate/obfuscate that they've broken any of those laws, then they'll do whatever they damn well please, and just hide it. If the punishment for the infraction is less than the profit to be made by ignoring the laws, they'll do that too.
One notable example I like to go back to frequently is relating to tobacco. The laws are there but enforcement is stretched so thin that the chances that you'll be caught are pretty minimal. So many places, like corner stores and gas stations, don't give enough of a shit to enforce the laws. They make so much from just selling to whomever asks regardless of how old they look and whether they have ID or not (within reason, I don't think anyone is selling to 10 year olds), they'll just do it anyways. When/if they catch a fine for it, they'll easily pay for it with all the profit made from not giving a shit about identifying people. As long as you look old enough, or choose enough to old enough, you can buy some. I'll strongly express that not every place is like this, but there's a nontrivial number that are.
If you take that same approach with everything, you get corpos just eating EPA fines for polluting that are a fraction of what they would need to spend to properly dispose of their industrial waste. There's probably thousands of examples, but I won't waste everyone's time to dig them up and cite them.
He was the perfect embodiment of this profit-first mentality. Easily one of the best ferengis in any of the trek universe.
If it does, can someone tell me where I can buy one?
Edit: asking for a friend. Obv.