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If one takes her justification at face value, it seems odd. Even if she wanted to avoid the primary, she could simply announce that she's not running in the next election. She didn't need to resign to do that.

Still crazy as a shithouse rat and a true beliver of terrible and stupid things.

My understanding from reading past analysis of things she said is that it's safe to say that she hasn't actually believed everything she's said, but saw it as politically-useful to take those positions.

Which I think is something of a sad statement about the voters in her congressional district (in northwestern Georgia, as I recall). But I don't think that it's necessarily that she personally is uniquely crazy.

EDIT: Yeah, Georgia's 14th district, and it's up in the northwest corner of Georgia. I was originally looking it up because I was commenting on the fact that Georgia has had some of the craziest Republican and Democratic House Representatives that have wound up getting national press time and I was curious how far apart their districts were.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia%27s_14th_congressional_district

It looks like her predecessor, Tom Graves, also resigned and left the seat vacant for some time, rather than just announcing that he wouldn't run in the next election.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loaded_question

A loaded question is a form of complex question that contains a controversial assumption (e.g., a presumption of guilt).[1]

Such questions may be used as a rhetorical tool: the question attempts to limit direct replies to be those that serve the questioner's agenda.[2] The traditional example is the question "Have you stopped beating your wife?" Without further clarification, an answer of either yes or no suggests the respondent has beaten their wife at some time in the past. Thus, these facts are presupposed by the question, and in this case an entrapment, because it narrows the respondent to a single answer, and the fallacy of many questions has been committed.

I think that all sensible people know that the Nacho Cheese Doritos are more addictive than the Cool Ranch Doritos.

have a gtx 6700 gpu which should be plenty overkill for cs2. But ive heard cs2 is processor heavy.

I don't know which game you're playing, not sure what CS2 is, as some other folks mention. However, if you install mangohud and run it via mangohud <gamename>

if this is Steam, in the game's Launch Options, that'll be "mangohud %command%"

it'll show you CPU and GPU load in an overlay on top of your game.

EDIT: Example:

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EDIT2: Note that by default, it shows "composite CPU load", same as top does by default. So, say you have a 32-core CPU and a game uses only a single thread, then it'll only show it running at 3%, even if the game is bottlenecked on the single core that it's using. MANGOHUD_CONFIG=full mangohud <gamename> will show all CPU cores independently (along with some other data). E.g.:

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It sounds like you're using Counter-Strike 2 from other comments, and that CS2 only really uses 1-2 cores:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/730/discussions/0/594026537713459453/

CS2 still heavily loads only 1–2 CPU threads, even on modern CPUs with multiple high-performance cores. Other cores remain mostly idle while one thread runs at 100%.

I mean, they did make a lot of money, but they also had an extremely high valuation.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/NVDA/nvidia/pe-ratio

NVIDIA PE ratio as of November 20, 2025 is 48.45.

Something like 20 is typical for a mature company. Tech companies have, in the past, often had higher ratios, but that's based on their expectation to grow a lot rapidly, and expecting NVidia to dramatically grow from their current

already very high

valuation is asking a lot.

If NVidia were a small tech company that was doing well and clearly had a lot of market to expand into rapidly, that would be one thing.

I think that in general, the market has been pretty good to NVidia. Their share price is up 31.22% since the start of the year. 1,247% over the past five years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taurus_KEPD_350

Germany apparently has 600 Taurus air-launched cruise missiles.

They apparently have a next-gen longer-range variant coming out in 2029, and are ordering 600 of those.

If I had to make a guess, the second batch

exactly the same size

presumably is to replace the first, which means that they're presumably not gonna need (all?) the first batch in four years.

Ukraine apparently also requested some.

In May 2023, the German Federal Ministry of Defence said that Ukraine had requested the missile during the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine.[16] In interviews in June and July 2023, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Minister of Defense Boris Pistorius said that Germany would not supply Ukraine with long-range missiles.[17][18][19] In January 2024, the German Bundestag voted against the supply of the Taurus missile to Ukraine.[20] In February 2024, the German Bundestag and Chancellor Olaf Scholz again expressly refused Ukraine's request while agreeing to deliver longer range weapons.[21][22] In May 2025 newly elected chancellor Friedrich Merz made more ambiguous statements regarding Taurus, that their delivery to Ukraine was within the 'realm of possibility' and that the discussion about their delivery to Ukraine would not be public.[23][24]

The "See also" section on that article is bonkers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Fronczak_triple_disappearance

There's Mono. I don't know what portion of .NET compatibility issues that addresses in 2025.

https://www.onpointcontractingusa.com/blog/hail-damage-in-colorado/

• During 2023, reports of baseball-sized hail (over 3 inches) in Colorado surged nearly threefold since 2019, climbing from 12 to 34, pointing to more frequent extreme hail events.

• Similarly, reports of softball-sized hail (approximately 4 inches) increased to 13 in 2023, according to NWS Denver, nearly tripling earlier counts and signaling a worrying escalation in storm intensity.

Aside from property damage, I imagine that it kinda sucks to be caught outside if softball-sized hail is coming down.

Thanks for adding it!

It's also possible to make homes resistant to disasters, but that also costs money itself. A lighthouse is an extreme example

it can ignore wind-blown hurricane debris and flooding.

But they are not cheap to build.

Meta’s chief AI scientist and Turing Award winner Yann LeCun plans to leave the company to launch his own startup focused on a different type of AI called “world models,” the Financial Times reported.

World models are hypothetical AI systems that some AI engineers expect to develop an internal “understanding” of the physical world by learning from video and spatial data rather than text alone.

Sounds reasonable.

That being said, I am willing to believe that an LLM could be part of an AGI. It might well be an efficient way to incorporate a lot of knowledge about the world. Wikipedia helps provide me with a lot of knowledge, for example, though I don't have a direct brain link to it. It's just that I don't expect an AGI to be an LLM.

EDIT: Also, IIRC from past reading, Meta has separate groups aimed at near-term commercial products (and I can very much believe that there might be plenty of room for LLMs here) and aimed advanced AI. It's not clear to me from the article whether he just wants more focus on advanced AI or whether he disagrees with an LLM focus in their afvanced AI group.

I do think that if you're a company building a lot of parallel compute capacity now, that to make a return on that, you need to take advantage of existing or quite near-future stuff, even if it's not AGI. Doesn't make sense to build a lot of compute capacity, then spend fifteen years banging on research before you have something to utilize that capacity.

https://datacentremagazine.com/news/why-is-meta-investing-600bn-in-ai-data-centres

Meta reveals US$600bn plan to build AI data centres, expand energy projects and fund local programmes through 2028

So Meta probably cannot only be doing AGI work.