WaltJRimmer

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[–] WaltJRimmer@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I guess they're trying to insinuate that there's a conflict of interest because he worked for a government agency and Wikileaks leaked documents pertaining to that government agency.

But, like... That would be like saying no judge could oversee the case of someone who attacked a courthouse because they work for the same legal system. That would be a real loophole in the law if by breaking the right ones, you just couldn't be tried anymore.

[–] WaltJRimmer@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Would you be more comforted to know you weren't alone?

[–] WaltJRimmer@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I can almost understand the Personal Liberties Libertarian, which I think is what the philosophy was originally supposed to be about. But we often see Corpo-National Libertarians or Totally-Not-An-Anarchist-I-Swear Libertarians, and both of those are baffling to me.

[–] WaltJRimmer@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

The alternate history where Caeser spent the end of his life in horny jail.

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

Yeah. If this hadn't been banned already in Canada, it makes me wonder what other laws I just assumed were common in Western republics and democracies actually aren't.

[–] WaltJRimmer@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

THAT HITS HARD, RIGHT HERE, IN MY EMOTIONAL PROCESSING UNIT.

[–] WaltJRimmer@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Most people don't actually know what logic is. I would ask him to define logic to see where he's coming from. Because most people either don't have a definition or if they do it's different than the one the person they're talking to has. But to do that, you'll also want a definition you could explain to someone else going into asking the question.

[–] WaltJRimmer@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I agree with you. But it's important to still point out and want to fix problems even in the "better party." We can't simply be accepting of "be less bad." We need to always strive to improve. And weakening the connections between Wall Street and Washington is a big progressive goal that the old guard of Democrats have directly opposed.

[–] WaltJRimmer@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Does the bill specify who they're going to be paying the money to, though? Because an infrastructure bill saying we're going to spend a certain amount of money on these projects can predict changes in certain industries, but being on a committee and saying, "We're going to hire this specific company with this huge government contract to do this work," can tell you exactly what company is about to have a huge boost to their value.

[–] WaltJRimmer@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Well, time to fill my life with meaningless debauchery, because it's not like there's a future to plan for.

[–] WaltJRimmer@lemmy.world 74 points 1 year ago (17 children)

Wait, wait, wait... The average middle-class voter who is struggling to get by is starting to turn away from the Tories and their leader's suggestion is to reduce taxes on the wealthiest people? Not to improve services or perhaps address the issues that drove former conservative party voters to Labour. No. Cutting the taxes of the elite, further reducing funding for services that the majority of voters use or rely on is the obvious answer.

[–] WaltJRimmer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I wonder how they'll choose who gets crushed to death at every screening.

 

I know it's not normal. It's something that needs therapy that I can't afford or get to fix. Most people don't sit there when there's a quiet moment thinking about how horrible of a person they are, pulling examples from throughout their life to reinforce just how much worse they've made the lives of everyone around them. I know it's not normal to need constant noise to try and keep your brain distracted enough to quiet those thoughts as much as possible. But I just wonder, what must that be like? What's it like to be normal where you can just enjoy a little peace in the silence without going through your biggest hits: regrets edition?

I know part of it's just being born broken because I was doing this shit when I was a little, little kid. But these days, I can't even blame bad luck when the reason there are so many examples at the ready is because of my history of terrible decisions and bad behavior. I had opportunities many beg for handed to me, and I squandered, wasted, or rudely refused every one of them until I got where I am now.

Every problem I face today is one of my own making. Every time I vent about it I'm reminded of that as people will come in and tell me how they were, "Just like you once, but I fixed myself up and got out of that, so you can too." But I can't. It's doable. Just not by me.

So instead, I sit here, day after day, just trying to make enough noise to drown out the regrets. But sometimes there isn't enough noise, it all boils up, and I'm left stewing in my regrets until it all runs dry and the process starts all over again.

 

So, I had (have) a strange issue that my local PC repair shop diagnosed as probably my CPU, so I'm wondering if you've ever heard of this kind of thing before.

Full story: I bought (supposedly all new components) the things to build a new PC (my first build), made sure they were all compatible, all that.

Here's a link to my parts list from PC parts picker: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/bKpwwc

I originally bought a GIGABYTE Z790 AORUS Elite AX motherboard, but when I plugged everything in and tried to power it on for a pre-install boot test, it hung at the CPU light. I tried everything I could to troubleshoot and diagnose the issue. I unplugged everything and plugged them back in. I jiggled the wires. I looked for scorch marks where something might have shorted. I checked the pin array (THREE TIMES!) I reseated the CPU, GPU, RAM, AIO cooler, and M.2 SSD. I took every component that was connected off one at a time including the CPU before powering it back on, all to no effect. It always had the same problem.

I figured that the motherboard was most likely faulty, though wasn't certain, returned that to my vendor (Amazon) and ordered the Aero D as a replacement (because it was around the same price point but had a hex display which I thought would help the next time if I needed to troubleshoot). The Aero D came, this time I went to a PC repair shop and built my PC with the person running it to make sure I didn't do anything wrong. This time, the motherboard wouldn't power on at all. Well, not quite true. We could get the Q Flash Plus to work and updated the BIOS, so there was power getting to the board. But when jumping the reset or power pins, there would be nothing. It didn't give an error code, it didn't pull power from the PSU, which was tested and seems to be working fine, it didn't do anything. I tried resetting CMOS and trying to power it on again, nothing.

And this was repeated for troubleshooting. We could always get Q Flash Plus to run where there was definitely power to the board, but the board wouldn't power on when the power or reset pins were jumped. The PC repair technician diagnosed it as "most likely" the CPU since he didn't have any spares on hand that he could test, either compatible CPUs or MBs, and because there was SOME (though not the same) problem twice with the same CPU/PSU combo and different MBs, they figured CPU as the most likely suspect.

I have never heard of a motherboard that is receiving power and can update its BIOS but that then won't do ANYTHING when you try to turn it on. And it doesn't make sense to me that it just wouldn't draw power at all because of a bad CPU. I would think it would need to draw power to know that the CPU was bad in the first place. Intel has offered a replacement unit for the CPU based on the repair technician's diagnosis, but while I'm satisfied with their willingness to try to make the problem right, I'm not satisfied with the answer that, "Oh, the CPU is probably bad." So I'm coming here to see if any of you have heard of anything like this before or have any further insight as to what might have gone wrong with both of my build attempts.

I will note, I will not have the hardware to do further troubleshooting as I'm sending the CPU back to Intel and am trying to get in touch with Gigabyte (though they haven't gotten back to me yet) and may be returning the motherboard to the vender just to go full clean slate on it and try the build again with a new manufacturer.

 

Hello! I just joined Lemmy and am checking things out and noticed you fine Aces over here, thought I'd pop in and say hello, meet the neighbors kind of thing. I'm hoping I'll see my best friend around here if he decides to leave Reddit. He's how I learned about Aces and started getting involved in the community. Without learning about you guys, I would have never discovered my own sexuality.

Well, I do feel a little like I'm invading, so I'll keep this short. I hope to see you around!

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