I just watched a Ken Burns documentary about Lewis and Clark, the first American citizens to reach the west coast. It took them 2.5 years and ~8000 miles (13000 km) in total. That's quite mind-boggling for a European, maybe Russians can comprehend it.

The officials said that while the Ukrainians were likely to use the missiles first against Russian and North Korean troops that threaten Ukrainian forces in Kursk, Mr. Biden could authorize them to use the weapons elsewhere.

According to NYT it's Kursk only at this point.

domination shutdown mesmer such as myself

A man of culture. The number of elementalists who just kept spamming Flare after I put Backfire on them still astounds me to this day.

Always with the walls of text. Brevity is the soul of wit and they don't have wit, brevity or souls.

That's one way to stop abortions.

I thought that was Preach for a second but his hair isn't quite that thick.

Covid and the following permacrisis broke the perception of time and reality. Months feel like weeks, weeks feel like days, it's a blur now. And it's not just getting old, young people are noticing it too.

I swear just the other day it was early 2020 and I was out dining with a large group of friends, most of whom turned into rabid commies during Covid so we don't talk much anymore. Five years used to be a long time.

I noticed it years ago when my Goodreads book recommendations were suddenly 80% women - for science fiction that's dominated by male authors. I've missed the release of several good novels because male writers are being actively suppressed.

2000 years ago the place was called Judea. Jews lived there centuries before islam was a thing.

I was once murdered in Runescape by Alq, an infamous PK. Still my greatest achievement. I also saw Bluerose13x forge the best items in the game. I made a lifelong friend in Conquer Online and remember many people I played Guild Wars and vanilla WoW with.

Then matchmaking and realm phasing arrived and I never talked to anyone again, nor do I remember anyone.

Instructions unclear, bruh started meowing.

Why are Germans so serious? Because Americans invade every time they try to have fun.

I had to quit watching that when I heard "Uthred, son of Uthred" one too many times.

If you turn right there's a white piece of trash on the ground. The quality is low and it might be a rock but I wouldn't bet on it.

Reminds me of old people withdrawing their pension from the ATM in cash and taking it to the bank every month because it's safer there.

The annoyance of planning for travel is enough to tip the scales towards indefinite procrastination.

I've thought this for as long as I can remember. Traveling is an annoying job you get to pay for, the most overrated waste of money and time ever.

Oh great, the weather, food and plantlife are a bit different. Traffic, parking, payment systems, public transport, mobile internet, wall sockets, laws and customs are different too so have fun learning everything from scratch without speaking the language. You'll also enjoy paying quadruple for everything because you're a filthy gringo or farang or gweilo who gets a special price for you my friend. That'll be $8,000, six months of planning and being treated like an inmate every step of the way.

Driving for a few hours is not the same as international travel but it's still enough to destroy friendships. I've had friends move a few hours away and we never talked again. Out of sight, out of mind.

There are rumors of a season 2 coming next year that will connect it to the Rogue One movie. I also only recently watched it and was pleasantly surprised, I had thought Star Wars a lost cause.

Criminals use cars, arrest carmakers now!

If people get punished for nothing, they may as well commit crimes.

All of it well deserved.

There are browser extensions and hacked mobile apps like YouTube ReVanced for hiding shorts. No need to waste brain cells on them.

That's quite a list. Well done, sir/ma'am/attack helicopter.

Not just insane, not just stupid. Evil.

But currently i have a rtx 4080. Does amd have an equivalent for their cpus?

You can keep using your RTX 4080 on an AMD motherboard. It won't support Resizable BAR but other than that it should run fine.

competency

I'm not a native speaker but is this a Mandela effect where the word "competence" doesn't exist anymore? Same for "relevancy", the -y sounds like some weird zoomer slang to me. I'm waiting for "performancy" to show up next.