That’s a whole nother can of worms. Classism exist everywhere. I don’t consider it as bad, but it’s still bad. It’s just way more subtle than racism usually is. It’s there but if you’re looking for cartoon villains who look down on people then no.

I grew up and live still in what’s considered the south. I have also lived up north. The south was bad during jim crow and the forced segregation. After the gov put a stop to that shit, the south desegregated to a point that it is heavily mixed now. HBS (historical black schools) exist but they’re not some segregated deal, it’s more for the history side and scholarships for people who can’t afford the school. Yes there are areas that are more black or white, but this has nothing to do with some sort of force segregation. I went to school in a rural area, I am a minority and played football on a heavily mixed team. Coaches where black/white/latino. My teachers were black and white, it was a completely normal thing growing up. Contrast that with my wife who is from the EU…she saw her first black person when she immigrated here to the USA when she was a kid. As I said before, the south was very segregated but that was 70+ years ago now. The forced integration by the gov. helped everyone to drop the black vs white here in the south. Is there still racism here? Sure, where isn’t there racism? But it’s nowhere near what some people seem to think it is.

The fuck are you talking about…have you ever been to the Southeast? Segregated it is not. The southeast is probably one of the least segregated parts of the usa.

Stalker 2 is not buggy as hell. I’ve been playing it since launch. It’s got euro jank for sure but nothing that has stopped the mass majority of us from enjoying it.

Helldivers 2 has some stuff you can buy but doesn’t require it at all. I’ve only bought the game and not spent another dime on it and have been having a blast with friends.

V rising is top down coop rpg. It’s a ton of fun as well.

I’ve got almost 100 hours and have only had 1 bug. I broke my don’t preorder rule for it since its Ukraine…but even day 1 I had no serious issues.

Stalker2? Helldivers? V rising?

Some good stuff has come out this year

Batteries work great in a city, anywhere else they don’t. This is why hydrogen ICE makes sense.

Hydrogen is still being developed by everyone, it’s just more low key than what Japanese car makers are doing. It’s still a much better means than battery is in the long form. Getting it from renewalable ways is what is taking a lot of the wind out of its sails.

How does pictures of owning it show you have disabled or destroyed it…which is btw a terrible idea, seriously they’re already fire hazards with this recall, are people supposed to take a video of the damn thing on fire?

Wait…a recipt directly showing you ordered this isn’t enough? You have to take pictures and write a note as well. This is like those rebates requiring you to mail parts of the box in. All designed so you don’t deal with the hassle.

So it’s now, can it do anything a human can do?..sans emotional traits.

Why is it getting an AGI stamp now? I was under the impression humanity has not delivered a sentient AI? Which is what the AGI title was supposed to be used for…has that been pulled back again?

Truth

%100 fact.

Before trump, I’d have agreed with this. After trump, it’s now increasing at an incredible rate. It was like 32% owned a firearm. Latest pew from this year is 40%. Now with trump back in power, I’m betting you will see us hit 50% or nearly 50%.

Maxstor… that is a name I have not heard in a long time lol

Nice, I agree, I’m sure there is an opposite of me, telling their story of a bunch of failed WD drives and having swore them off.

I have heard good things about their ironwolf drives, but that’s a enterprise solution drive, so hopefully it’s worth it

About 10 years ago now, at a past employer, had a NAS setup that housed a bunch of medical data…all seagate drives. During my xmas PTO…I was lead on DR…yea fuckers all started failing one after another. Took out 14 drives before the storage team said fuck this pulled it offline and had a new NAS brought in from EMC, was a fun xmas restoring all that shit. Seagate used to be my go to, but it seems like every single interaction I have with them ends in disaster.

I stopped buying seagates when I had 4 of their 2TB barracuda drives die within 6 months… constantly was RMAing them. Finally got pissed and sold them and bought WD reds, still got 2 of the reds in my Nas Playing hot backups with nearly 8 years of power time.