Going generic does make it a lot more affordable to a lot more consumers, so maybe that's part of the reason they're broadening their target market.
Could also be a tweak to the advertising campaign, not specifically to target younger consumers so much as to give the impression that the drug will make middle aged guys (feel) "younger" and appeal more to young hot women.
It's not exactly a new kind of advertising strategy either. Cigarette and alcohol ads in magazines used to do similar things.
This is also true. It's not much different from all the stereotypical email spam from the past 20 or so years.
Also, a big reason we've seen such a large resurgance is because some of the major ED meds went generic in the last 3-5 years (enough time has passed for the name brand patents to expire or whatever).
As well as micro plastics flowing through almost every section of the human body now. There's an endless list of things that seemingly add up to a cohesive and coordinated effort to destroy men, and humanity at large.
Aye, I think we all jumped into a blender of small semantic-level disagreements here. And no offense, I mistakenly had assumed you were talking out of your ass, based on your first two comments.
I occasionally see a handful of clueless takes on technology topics around here (and elsewhere really) so I jumped the gun quite a bit.
Alright, I agree, such scenarios are not only plausible, but actively occurring. And you already covered one of the points I was going to bring up, that even with closed source, your company can still be taken over by a board of directors or some such scenario.
I'll also agree that closed source can still be a very effective gatekeeping layer to keep invaders at bay.
And it seems like we're likely actually on the same page, mostly. Where the real cause of the problem is the entire clownworld leftist nightmare that allows trannies to successfully pull this kind of shit off in the first place. Where the media will actively operate as a propaganda mouthpiece for the trannies no matter the situation, and where governments are actively giving them special protections and privileges.
My main contention was with what at first sounded like wide-sweeping condemnation of open source as a concept entirely.
Because he fucked up. He either gave some same-level permissions to some retards he couldn't trust, or he created some kind of an outlined community/business setup that actually allows him to be ousted.
At its core, all open source is, is making a project or product's source code available for public use and redistribution. There are of course different open source licenses with different kinds of rules and conditions. And like I already said in another comment, what license is used is totally up to the project lead.
Exactly. Project leads also decide on what licenses they release their code/project under.
Generally, a project's only going to be taken over because the creators/managers of said project allow it to happen. Often through negligence, laziness, passing the project onto others who can't be trusted, and/or out of deliberately capitulation.
You can gatekeep just fine while still being open source. Just be restrictive in who you allow to actually work on the project, what you allow to pass through, etc etc. There's generally fuck all invading trannies can do if they're not given any power or influence.
Granted, there might still be a few avenues they could take to cause plenty of headache, but generally that shouldn't be too difficult to safeguard against so long as a project lead doesn't get lax.
The real issue I have with the entire notion is the retarded name that was picked for this nonsense.
Like yes, obviously there's a lot of things in life that can get in the way of being able to do x or y properly due to short-term circumstances. And sometimes it's totally worth bitching about at least a little. But using the word "disability" in the name is off the walls stupid, insane, and probably pretty damned insulting to people with actual disabilities.
Life wasn't "rough" on him. He brought it upon himself. By being a lazy retard who stuffed his face and refused to exercise and take care of his physical health. And then by choosing to follow in path of the tranny degenerate brigade.
And beyond that, I never found his commentary even remotely insightful. Even in his early days.
Easiest approach is to find a distro that has solid and reliable support for Proton, I think. Mesa is another factor to possibly to check on too.
There's a bunch of other details I'm coming across in a couple of reddit threads. It wouldn't be very sensible to try and cover everything mentioned in my own comment.
Worth noting that on a cursory glance at recent opinions, it does indeed seem like AMD typically more widely reliable on Linux than nVidia.
Pretty sure the Borderlands 1 remaster was solid. Mostly just updated some graphics and added more unique weapons afaik. Might've introduced a few new bugs here and there, but I guess compared to most remasters that's hardly egregious.
Bioshock 1 and 2 remasters are solid too as far as I'm aware.
Metro series enhanced editions have some mixed opinions from fans, but I thought they were pretty well done. Admittedly, I didn't play enough of the originals to know what some of the gameplay changes done with guns and other equipment.
As much of a mess as Skyrim Special Edition was early on, it made absolute sense to release an updated version to support 64-bit. The Anniversary edition however was an absolutely retarded cash cow that no even wanted.
Biology might be able to have some interaction with parts of the brain commonly involved in language processing. Which invariably could have secondary effects on how individuals, and maybe even a culture communicates and develops language.
Beyond that though you might be reaching a bit. And I don't think you're necessarily accounting for how distinctly different language rules can be, which can affect how strict or how flexible grammar, syntax, etc etc.
Not only that, but I think the military's been dumping a lot of funding on overbloated, fancy, new, and "high tech" equipment for the last couple of decades, especially in the Navy and Air Force.
Unsurprisingly, this does not end up being especially cost effective compared to what a bunch of persistent 3rd worlder pirates are going to throw into the mix.
What boggles my mind is why we haven't bothered to at least maintain a tiny little combat group with the flexibility and cost effectiveness to properly deal with enemy combatants using more (or less?) conventional means.
Pretty sure guided missiles require more expensive (and expendable) resources than most ballistics alternatives.
Not only do you have the fuel and payload, but also the circuitry, computer bits, sensors/guidance systems, communications, etc etc.
Especially when considering the ranges that naval vessels are usually firing from compared to say, tanks or infantry. Likely has to reach a moderately higher quality threshold than your average computer-controlled setup.
Honestly, I've heard a few other Republicans spouting this same idea, so I don't think it's just a loose thought. I think they're seriously considering it as yet another fallback position to an issue they don't think they can "win".
Problem is, anyone paying any attention to Canada already knows what a fucking stupid idea this is.
Depends on the AI/LLM model.
Encyclopedic training data is not as commonly used in some of the open-source ones afaik, but I know there's work being done on a few specialized ones (like medical knowledge-based), likely without government or corporate backing.
But I'm not sure about which ones train on broader encyclopedic knowledge. It's not something I've specifically checked into. If I had to guess though, only larger LLM's might bother with a solid coverage of knowledge-based information. IE 70b or 8x7b.
Overclock.net used to be a pretty solid place for some info. Bios/UEFI versions and updates can get pretty messy and convoluted at times, and some of the info I got off there probably saved my bacon. Can't vouch for interactions, but definitely had some top tier enthusiast research.
Taking a glance right now, it's possible that activity's been dropping off a fair bit. Not totally dead but might be lingering now. Could have something to do with with the weird forum UI-redesign. That's really off-putting.
It's about DEI optics. I just did a quick search and came across multiple articles trying to peddle DEI to Christian churches about the so-called benefits of adopting DEI. It's no different from what financially failing companies have been doing for the last decade or so as well.
One of the most telling signs that this is what's occurring is specifically when such businesses and organizations keep making odd PR obsessed choices that have absolutely zero practical and make almost no rational sense.
Like sadly, it only just recently dawned on me how a good majority of commercials and ads are in-fact NOT about selling the product to the consumer, but instead about making their company look more appealing to investors.
Which I'll admit, in some small ways, this would seem to make sense in business, but given how much advertising is regularly spammed everywhere we go, it's remarkably depressing, disgusting, and frankly insulting in a way, because of how much of a nuisance it is for consumers who are just trying to watch something or use a website.
There's also a lot of other variables that tend to fly under the radar too. While testosterone is certainly one major benefit of regular exercise and physical activity, improved blood flow, enhancing the cardiovascular systems (especially with regards to oxygen in-take), etc etc all improve just about... everything. For both men and women.
But then the left has thoroughly taken the narrative of discouraging physical fitness and activity to the point of outright gaslighting and lying.