KamikazeRusher

Oddly enough, the way the text is spaced across SpongeBob and Patrick caused me to read it in a “don’t dead open inside” way but the sentence still works

“I’m an American and have a right to free speech, no matter what country the service is hosted in!”

One can hope. But the defense would need a very solid lineup of reputable experts who aren’t easy to slander as “radical” by the prosecution.

Yeah sadly I do. If there are doctors who believe vaccines cause autism, sell snake oil solutions as alternatives to medication, or believe liberals uses fetuses in satanic rituals, then surely some will be willing to testify on the stand to contradict the diagnoses and opinions of a peer.

The physician claims to have not provided any gender-affirming care since May 2023 prior to the bill going into effect. Paxton’s lawsuit alleges that the physician has prescribed gender-affirming/transition medication as recently as October 2024.

If the physician is being honest, sounds like the lawsuit is misguided by jumping to conclusions about the use case of some prescriptions. It will be interesting to see how it plays out if Paxton’s team continues to prosecute as it could be incredibly embarrassing for him and his office.

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In reading the lawsuit, they enumerate several patients who they allege were “falsely diagnosed” as having precocious puberty and were then prescribed blockers. They also note the age ranges (8-13 for girls, 9-14 for boys) that is considered normal for puberty and state that puberty occurring before these ages is considered precocious puberty. All patients enumerated are 11 or older when seen, diagnosed, and prescribed medication.

Independent of the morality of the law and the method of enforcement, it would seem they have a considerable amount of evidence already. Either the physician was indeed misdiagnosing, or there are medical caveats involved here that would require medical expertise (which I do not have) that would support the physician’s actions and will show that SB 14 is overly broad and may prevent proper care to be given to children. I’m hoping for the latter.

Yeah, I keep forgetting how much time has passed.

Bought my first GPU, an R9 Fury X, for MSRP when it launched. The R9 300 series and GTX 900 series seemed fairly priced then (aside from the Titan X). Bought another for Crossfire and mining, holding on until I upgraded to a 7800 XT.

Comparing prices, all but the 5090 are within $150 of each other when accounting for inflation. The 5090 is stupid expensive. A $150 increase in price over a 10-year period probably isn’t that bad.

I’m still gonna complain about it and embrace my inner “old man yells at prices” though.

I’ll throw in the “basic” choice of Fuck tha Police by N.W.A.

Maybe I’m stuck in the last decade, but these prices seem insane. I know we’ve yet to see what a 5050 (lol) or 5060 would be capable of or its price point. However launching at $549 as your lowest card feels like a significant amount of the consumer base won’t be able to buy any of these.

I wasn’t aware of that! Thanks for bringing that up. Those had mixed reviews, didn’t they?

I think the popularity of cryptocurrency mining just happened to save some of these cards as their compute power was very useful.

Yup, the Fury X. It was the only one to feature it and consumers weren’t very impressed given the enthusiast price-point but general inability to overclock the RAM.

It wasn’t a bad idea. The card did pretty well for 1440p and 4K gaming at the time. However it just really didn’t offer any truly solid advantage nor any innovative uses of the memory. I owned two of these (bought separately over the course of a year) and don’t regret the purchases, but certainly wouldn’t have repeated that decision if I went back in time.

I think the higher bandwidth was better put to use in data centers, primarily those of CloudFlare for DDoS mitigation.

They should also compare shrinkflation. If a burger price rises by 25% but it’s size shrinks by 10%, the cost is much higher as you’re paying more for less.

“Petah, what’s a helicopter doing in our living room?!”

“Shut up, Lois, I’m LARPing”