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Yes, and most were disciplined because they were describing medication that was not intended for nor effective at treating covid. Still, there were very, very few doctors who did so.

Honestly the presentation was very underwhelming. Improvements in raster seem fairly small and don’t warrant an upgrade. DLSS still lacks in visual quality and has annoying artifacts, and I worry that the industry will use it as an excuse to release poorly optimised games. Counting DLSS frames as part of the frame count is just misleading.

NVENC is cool, but I don’t use that often enough for it to be a selling point to me.

I’ve been enjoying the memes about the presentation though, because what the fuck was that mess.

The Netherlands isn’t a “fascist” country. Wilders’ PVV party is in government with three other parties, none of which are fascist. Before talks could begin they demanded strong protections for the constitution, which the PVV agreed to. They also agreed that the party leaders should not be in the cabinet, which is why Wilders does not hold a position in the cabinet, he’s still effectively a “house member” to use a US parallel. It’s why the current prime minister (Schoof) is a fairly apolitical bureaucrat and a former member of the PvdA, the Dutch Labour party.

One of the parties in government, NSC, is particularly twitchy about anything remotely fascist or unconstitutional. The initial PVV plan to use emergency powers to stop immigration was shot down by the NSC, and is now off the table. The PVV had to leave most if not all of their anti-Islam policies at the door. They are still fervently anti-immigration, but they’re not working on deportations or anything.

The PVV in government is basically neutered to just a very right-wing party. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not a good government and I foresee it falling fairly soon, but they’re not fascist and the Netherlands isn’t a fascist country. Claiming it is just demonstrates ignorance of the Dutch political situation.

No candidate for the Cuban national assembly has ever lost an election though?

Cuba selects a candidate for each seat, and voters can either approve or disapprove them (requiring a new candidate to be chosen). But this has never happened in Cuban history.

The horse dewormer thing iirc comes from the fact that ivermectin is a prescription drug, and doctors obviously wouldn’t prescribe it for covid. So people resorted to one of the very few ways you could still purchase it: as the horse dewormer variant.

Of course this version is much stronger and intended for horses, not humans. IIRC this led to a few hospitalisations and even deaths.

That’s why when people advocate you should take ivermectin, the counter claim is that they’re telling you to take horse dewormer, since that’s the only way to get it. It’s not out of a general ‘disrespect’ for ivermectin.

What fucking timeline, did anyone believe Trump had a concrete plan in the first place?

IIRC he’s extremely pro-Trump (probably among other things I don’t know much else about him.

Out of all nuclear-capable nations, France’s nuclear doctrine is absolutely the most terrifying one.

Most nations maintain a second strike doctrine, e.g. they won’t fire first but will immediately retaliate. Some states also allow themselves to strike in case of extreme threats, e.g. WMDs.

France allows itself to fire a nuke as a warning shot.

He would much rather burn Adams and then heavily advocate for him to be replaced by a more loyal Republican sycophant.

Unreal pushes a lot of “hip tech” that supposedly improves performance, but often it turns out that many example cases are just really poorly optimised. With more traditional optimization techniques more can be achieved.

Unreal can perform really, really well, it’s just that it won’t by default. And many devs are too lazy to properly profile their games to figure out how to improve it.

It’s a bit iffy. Byzantium originally was located a bit further west. After Constantinople was “refounded”, it was located a bit further east. Some historians consider Constantinople to be a new city that usurped Byzantium over the years, others don’t and consider it the same city altogether.

This is complicated by some sources referring to the place as one and the same, whereas others seem to be indicating distinct (albeit close) locations.

Ultimately it doesn’t really matter though. It didn’t take long for Constantinople to grow beyond where Byzantium used to be, so the time period where they could’ve been distinct is really quite small.

All of those are information people voluntarily submit. It is fairly trivial to make sure your address is no longer findable like that.

Byzantium iirc is a different place that is close by.

In the Netherlands at least it is considered personal private information by law. It is in many other jurisdictions as well, including the US actually. Just because few people take the steps to protect it doesn’t make it any less personal nor private information.

They can’t, their party leader isn’t in government and there’s three other parties keeping them in check (one of those is particularly twitchy about this sort of stuff).

Besides, Dutch law does not provide many executive powers that can infringe upon freedom of speech. There’s not a whole lot they could do even if they tried.

On 11 May 2021, Fact-checker First Draft News found that Chinese- and Cantonese-language versions of Radio Free Asia (RFA) published anti-vaccine misinformation regarding the Chinese vaccines, particularly the ones manufactured by Sinopharm and Sinovac. The investigation found the RFA articles amplified misleading claims about the vaccine programs, and its stories were reprinted by popular tabloid newspapers to reinforce the anti-vaccine misinformation.

From Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Free_Asia See the controversies section.

Mediabiasfactcheck is not exactly unbiased themselves.

They’re self-contradictory in their own assessment here. They find no failed fact checks, yet their accuracy is rated as “High”, not “Very high”. No motivation is provided for this. They also state RFA lists sources, but most articles on North-Korea especially only cite “Residents in the country”, thus not providing anything verifiable. It’s also why most major news outlets don’t use RFA as a source, their stories are not verifiable. It’s mostly sensationalist tabloids like The Sun in this instance that uses them as a source.

Additionally, Wikipedia does mention some failed fact checks, especially concerning anti-vaccine misinformation. See the article here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Free_Asia under Controversies.

RFA is not a particularly credible source for this reason. It’s basically impossible to prove many of their claims, so scepticism is warranted.

This of course doesn’t detract from the fact that NK is ruled by a nutcase dictator who brutally oppresses his people. But we don’t have to necessarily trust a story with as much credibility as some fanfiction here. This story could well be true, but I don’t want to assume that this is fact based on the nonexistent sourcing.

That has as far as I know always been a very optional thing.

What people publish online themselves of course becomes public.

I would consider them to be private information.

Those are already kinda shit. I have a washing machine that doesn’t let me disable the ridiculously long jingle that plays after finishing. If I want to do that, I had to have purchased a more expensive model…

Fucking Samsung man…