"this is extremely dangerous to our democracy"

This video allegedly is causing an outrage all over the internet - showing the scripted language throughout the mainstream media.

The real question is: What political force is calling the shots here? (FCC? ... on whose orders?)

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Will US dominance on the international stage grow or shrink in the 21st century?

Pure speculation- but what do you think- will the US continue to be the worlds leading superpower and leader in all areas for the rest of the world this century, or will the US collapse and fragment like the Soviet union?

Do Truthers regard the air traffic controller recordings as fake?

From the moment the 4 planes that crashed on 9/11 departed the airport, their paths were tracked and recorded. There were countless witnesses who saw flight 175 crash into the WTC-and plane debris was scattered everywhere. yet Truthers wave away eye witnesses accounts saying nobody really saw planes crash into the towers. How does one have intelligent conversations with such people? How does one help them see reason?
Here is a good video with the ATC recordings:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiIc...22579325534164

London murder rate now exceeds New York City

London murder rate overtakes New York for first time ever after spate of fatal stabbings and shootings

Quote:

Originally Posted by Evening Standard London's murder rate has overtaken New York City's for the first time ever, according to a new report. February marked the first month the UK capital saw more murders than New York, with 15 dead (nine aged 30 or younger). According to the report in the Sunday Times, London also suffered 22 fatal stabbings and shootings in March, higher than the 21 in the Big Apple. Both cities have similarly sized populations of around 8.5m people. New York City's murder rate has decreased by around 87 per cent since the 1990s. Meanwhile, London's has grown by nearly 40 per cent in just three years, not including deaths caused by terrorist attacks...

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crim...-a3803566.html

Breaking News

Trump's just resigned.

Social media leads children to violence claim. Any evidence?

The chief of the Metropolitan Police has claimed "social media sites "rev people up" and make street violence "more likely"."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43603080

"Ms Dick says she believes social media "makes it harder for people to cool down", adding: "I'm sure it does rev people up."
"There's definitely something about the impact of social media in terms of people being able to go from slightly angry with each other to 'fight' very quickly," she said.
A trivial disagreement could escalate into violence "within minutes", Ms Dick added, with disputes on sites such as YouTube identified by detectives as partly to blame.
Linking the "incredibly abusive" language online to street violence, she said: "I think it certainly makes it more likely, it makes it faster... it allows a conversation of a 'show off' sort that involves violence."
Ms Dick also told the paper that gangs who post on social media or share videos provoking rivals can glamorise violence."

Is there any evidence to back her up? Is it not that already violent youths and gangs are just also posting on social media?

AMD Ryzen line

Anybody had any real world experience with them yet?

So the cost of anything that even resembles a halfway decent gaming GPU skyrockets while availability of them even at the inflated prices continues to plunge with no end in sight.

But my ancient mid-range Asus laptop (Intel i7 at 2.40, 8 gigs of 800mhz DDR 3, two 500 gig 5400 rpm hard drives and a 2 gig NVIDIA GeForce GT 635M) is reaching the end of it's practical life as a gaming machine (and is starting to develop a worrying crack on the bezel near the hinge and several pieces broken off the vent on the side where the heat from the video card is vented) and while I've gotten fairly good at wringing halfway decent performance out of it (I'm a not much of graphics or framerate snob within reason) it's finally starting to come up against games it literally can't run at all. So before too long I need to slap together something.

And while I can always just go the easy route of buying a cheap Dell or HP off off Ebay and slapping a low profile GPU in it and getting something that's at least technically functional, that's a short term solution and even crappy GPUs are over priced right now.

So AMD has a new line of CPUs with integrated APUs that they claim can give halfway decent performance. They aren't miracle workers but several hobbyist online have built sub-500 or 400 dollar machines that benchmark to the same level as a very low budget (GT 1030 or so) GPU build.

I'm toying with the idea of dropping 400-500 bucks on build using this architecture.

Now I am not trying to build some sort of blow the doors off, PC Master Race, 4K at 60 FPS on 3 monitors at once while streaming post-singularity ultimate liquid cooled, gaming PC.

I want to build a decent gaming PC that will physically just play the new release Triple-A titles for a few years until this stupid mining craze finally bursts or something else happens to stabilize the video card market back down to something resembling sanity. I'm completely fine with Lowest settings, 720P, 30 FPS for now if it means I can at least play all the stuff that comes out.

Here's what I'm leaning toward building something like the one shown in this* article. Basically a solid budget Micro-ATX case, a Ryzen 5 2400G, a fairly large while still being affordable SSD, a motherboard, two 4 gig sticks of DDR4, and a power supply with enough juice left over for future expansion. Several builds online have done this in various price ranges around this ballpark.

I've still got a legal Windows 10 Key sitting around from a previous project and can use one of the generic keyboards, mice, and monitors I have sitting around for now.

That should give me something that's functional enough for now without wasting any money on a bunch of temporary compromise parts I'll wind up replacing down the line.

Then as time goes on I can add a couple of big multi-terabyte 7200 RPM mechanical drives for storage, add some more RAM, and/or some better peripherals as they go on sale or whatever and if through some miracle a decent legit non-shady deal on a proper high end video card I can add it to the system without having to rebuild the whole thing from scratch or wasting the parts I've already invested in it.

*https://www.forbes.com/sites/antonyl.../#25f5658e3c1d