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...because the Law of Unintended Consequences is a biiiiiiiiitch.

Josh Hawley said the quiet part loud, AGAIN, when he opined that today's ruling would strengthen Republican presence in the electoral college, because by his logic, pro-choice people in red states would move elsewhere. Except...hey, asshole, do you think they wouldn't have already if they could have?! No, what this is going to do is produce very large blocks of very poor people who have a very obvious and well-known set of villains to blame for their misery. This, in other words, is a recipe for turning red states blue, NOT vice-versa. I am looking forward to the collective freakout when this moron realizes he's forbidden people from, essentially, aborting future Democrats :)

Exhibit B: Justice Clarence ("Uncle [Ruckus]") Thomas sees today's destruction of Roe vs. Wade as the thin end of the wedge to dismantling other recent rulings like marriage equality, and even not-so-recent ones like access to contraception. In other words, this is the full-steam-ahead signal for the hideous theocracy the Birchers and their ilk want to implement. This wholesale slaughter of precedent, however, is...let's say, extremely inadvisable. Why?

Simple: Loving vs. Virginina. Brown vs. Board of Ed. Hell, Plessy vs Ferguson! Maybe we can save time and money by trying these cases "separately but equally," hmm...? If Thomas really believes that his white colleagues won't throw him under the bus the instant it becomes convenient and he's no longer needed, he's an even bigger fool than I thought he was, and I already thought he was such a gigantic fool that he visibly bends light around himself with the sheer density of his malignant judicial incompetence.

Karma is a bitch. Don't say you've not been warned.

Let's do something adult men sometimes do.

$ openssl speed -seconds 5 rsa

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core Processor (3700.16-MHz K8-class CPU)

Doing 512 bits private rsa's for 5s: 133516 512 bits private RSA's in 5.00s
Doing 512 bits public rsa's for 5s: 2263323 512 bits public RSA's in 5.01s
Doing 1024 bits private rsa's for 5s: 60957 1024 bits private RSA's in 5.00s
Doing 1024 bits public rsa's for 5s: 962391 1024 bits public RSA's in 5.02s
Doing 2048 bits private rsa's for 5s: 8854 2048 bits private RSA's in 5.02s
Doing 2048 bits public rsa's for 5s: 304281 2048 bits public RSA's in 5.00s
Doing 3072 bits private rsa's for 5s: 2932 3072 bits private RSA's in 5.03s
Doing 3072 bits public rsa's for 5s: 146217 3072 bits public RSA's in 5.00s
Doing 4096 bits private rsa's for 5s: 1302 4096 bits private RSA's in 5.01s
Doing 4096 bits public rsa's for 5s: 85254 4096 bits public RSA's in 5.02s
Doing 7680 bits private rsa's for 5s: 139 7680 bits private RSA's in 5.00s
Doing 7680 bits public rsa's for 5s: 24942 7680 bits public RSA's in 5.01s
Doing 15360 bits private rsa's for 5s: 28 15360 bits private RSA's in 5.11s
Doing 15360 bits public rsa's for 5s: 6439 15360 bits public RSA's in 5.02s
OpenSSL 1.1.1o-freebsd  3 May 2022
built on: reproducible build, date unspecified
options:bn(64,64) rc4(8x,int) des(int) aes(partial) idea(int) blowfish(ptr)
compiler: clang
                  sign    verify    sign/s verify/s
rsa  512 bits 0.000037s 0.000002s  26703.2 451958.4
rsa 1024 bits 0.000082s 0.000005s  12191.4 191580.2
rsa 2048 bits 0.000566s 0.000016s   1765.3  60856.2
rsa 3072 bits 0.001716s 0.000034s    582.8  29243.4
rsa 4096 bits 0.003846s 0.000059s    260.0  16997.7
rsa 7680 bits 0.035971s 0.000201s     27.8   4980.6
rsa 15360 bits 0.182478s 0.000780s      5.5   1281.8

Show me yours.

Beware of equinine attacks on latest millimeter waves technology miracles...

F-35 tracked from a pony farm

I know it's old news. But I missed this fun in 2019, not reading enough of politically correct Asiatic outlets.
Now it makes better sense why Turkey preferred buying S-400 instead of F-35 that year.

Hensoldt

Sharks with lasers, ponies with radars... what next?

Yale is the epicenter of the woke mind virus attempting to destroy civilization.
— Elon Musk, May 18, 2022

I can't disagree with the freak. Embraced.

Now I understand his predestination and fate much better.

I, For One, Welcome Your New Next President!

I had an idea earlier today: why not just...*give* all the racists and white supremacists and various other pants-pissing demographic whiners the ethnostate they want so much?

Let's take some shithole state in the middle of the US that's already whiter than the inside of a jar of mayonnaise in the middle of a blizzard -- I'm thinking Wyoming, for preference -- and just...cut it off from the rest of the lower 48 politically. Let all the Ku Kucks Klanners and their ilk move in, free of charge. We can call it "White-oming" if they want.

Build a wall around it (and make them pay for it). No one leaves, because why would they want to? Only white people can enter, so no more, for example, Latina housekeepers. White people will be the entire society in there. No more paying taxes to, or getting ANY sort of aid FROM, the fed.gov. We can even let them secede if they want to; we can change the US flag to have 49 stars and a single burning cross on it.

Thoughts? Seems like the most efficient way to give everyone what they want. All the sheet fetishists get their much-ballyhooed white ethnostate, and the rest of the country gets their poisonous influence removed from politics so we can concentrate on civilizing ourselves.

https://www.theonion.com/man-who-lost-everything-in-crypto-just-wishes-several-t-1848764551

Man Who Lost Everything In Crypto Just Wishes Several Thousand More People Had Warned Him

Out of curiosity has anyone here actually made money with the likes of Bitcoin?

I tried mining once upon a time. My connection at the time was so horrific, it couldn't do anything, so I just gave up.

I have 32 Google voice contacts. I exported them to vCard (Apple contact format) to import to iCloud.

I logged into iCloud and imported the vCard file from Google. Everything imported fine on iCloud, looking at it on my computer. My iPhone is a different story! Only 19 contacts imported. Why?

There must be something different between the contacts that import and those that didn’t, so I started digging. All the contacts that weren’t imported had a physical address field.

So I went back on iCloud and edited one of the contacts with an address field by putting the number 2 after their name and saving the contact. Then I edited the same contact and deleted the number 2 after their name and saved it again. Bam! The contact appeared on my iPhone. So I had to do that with every contact with an address.

It’s really weird how the contacts import to iCloud properly, but not the iPhone. Hopefully this helps somebody that runs into this problem or has ran into this problem and couldn’t figure it out.

I feel sorry for people with hundreds of contacts that don’t import with an address field… Yikes!

I'm surprised no one's thought of this yet, actually.

Logically speaking, a single man can cause a lot more pregnancies than a single woman can carry to term. The vast, vast majority of rape is also committed by men against women. The best way to avoid abortion is to avoid pregnancy in the first place.

Sooooo...my proposal is mandatory vasectomies for every American male at or over the age of 12, to be reversed when said males are capable of supporting a family and have proven themselves stable and financially solvent. We should of course freeze a sperm sample in case the vasectomy reversal process runs into trouble, we're not monsters here, but if we're really serious about preventing abortion, we should -- pardon the turn of phrase here -- cut the problem off at the root.

As it were.

Thoughts? You have to admit this would be stunningly, supremely effective in cutting down unwanted pregnancies. And as long as we're ignoring bodily autonomy and medical privacy, why not? Now hold still and let me go find the scissors, boys, 'cause this is gonna hurt you a lot more than it's gonna hurt me :)

Just noticed a sweet refurb GTX1650 4GB going for $15 less than original retail value, with a $40 discount that Newegg is offering for a limited time. As in, the $40 discount makes it $15 cheaper than the same price as the brand new GPU 2 years ago.
https://www.newegg.com/gigabyte-geforce-gtx-1650-gv-n1656oc-4gd-rev-2-0/p/N82E16814932488?Item=N82E16814932488

I mean sure, it was released 2 years ago and is a refurb, but it's a semi-okay GPU price still a price gouge I guess!?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_16_series

GeForce GTX 1650[7] April 23, 2019 [...] $149[8]

Edit: (Was looking at what I assumed was a release price.)

Sometimes the comedy writes itself:-

• ?Atlas of the Future presents: Fixing the Future Festival
• ⚡ "People never see the future coming"
• ?Fixing the Future Festival: Postponed

Unfortunately, this means the future will be broken.