Qwazpoi

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[–] Qwazpoi@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Here's what I got with duckduckgo

 

I've noticed that talking to people that some common tropes seem to come up when topics like socialism come up.

Basically I hear a lot of defense of capitalism that boils down to capitalism is good because "I personally benefit". As well as "I've heard bad things about socialism", ie taxes are too high in countries with good healthcare and social programs.

I wanted to know if other people have these issues come up in conversation and if people more well spoken than me have a way of getting through the road blocks and have some easy starting points for discussing things with people.

I feel like propaganda and fear mongering have placed a divide that make talking about things harder

[–] Qwazpoi@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

Spoiler for a later strip

The Borg don't want him

[–] Qwazpoi@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (9 children)

While I don't know much about video cards, the IBM Monochrome Display Adapter (MDA) is often called the first video card and had a couple of contenders for first that were either designed earlier or released at almost the same time in 1981 and were all for displaying text only. The first GPU card sold to the public was the GeForce 256 in 1999. I'm assuming there's some in between that were not really used by the public that would have been used in movies and whatnot.

The reason why nobody was selling GPUs before Quake was because quake was THE first 3D game. Doom and other games before Quake were 2.5D and didn't have 3D models only sprites. Games before Quake essentially mimicked 3D while Quake IS 3D

[–] Qwazpoi@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm fairly certain that the left one is Combat Evolved

[–] Qwazpoi@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago (15 children)

I'd argue that quake did far more for 3D graphics then it did for FPS. Like Doom is what got FPS into the spotlight even though Wolfenstein 3d came first. Like quake is pretty much what made real 3D possible and doable on the hardware of the time thanks to everything going on under the hood

[–] Qwazpoi@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

No but that's like a major red flag type of thing. I was wondering how they get away with that to begin with

[–] Qwazpoi@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

All right it says in the wiki that this all kicked off because a kid was getting disciplined at school for something they did in their bedroom and no details are given about that part. That alone seems really messed up

[–] Qwazpoi@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I get cheap hardware. A hardware intensive OS seems stupid to me. I want my computer running the programs that I want, not wasting memory and CPU usage on the OS instead.

Plus I've gotten a notification on every laptop I own from Windows telling me to upgrade followed by something saying that they are below specs for the upgrade

[–] Qwazpoi@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago

Maybe they believe that the supreme court is more influenced by money than ideology?

[–] Qwazpoi@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

This definitely falls into a lot of the same territory as most other gig work. A lot of the problems of the gig economy are showcased with jobs that pay like this. It lures in people who would be making $40-120 more in a week doing the same thing elsewhere

[–] Qwazpoi@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

There is zero mention of any antisemitism anywhere in the article. It's college kids being against what is happening in Gaza. I fail to see how criticism of a military occupation is equal to antisemitism.

The big thing that the article points to in quotes is Intifada which is kind of a call for civil unrest written on a sign. Intifada roots are from Palestinians protesting the occupation after Israel killed 4 civilians in what is many suspect was deliberate retaliation that went on for 5 years (1987-1993).

[–] Qwazpoi@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

In 1921 the first vaccine for tuberculosis came out. In 2021 1.6 million people died from tuberculosis.

The medicine existing is great, but something tells me the people who need won't be getting it.

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