Uttar Pradesh: Because the American South doesn’t have a monopoly on worthless filth.

Creative labs made shit audio chips, at least post isa, they never figured out pci at all. Haven’t forgiven them for killing aureal either.

Turtle beach was quality, but overpriced and they completely focused on the pro market after a while, ignoring gaming.

Realtek makes garbage, I always bypass it with a good USB DAC (fiio usually) because the mobo manufacturers always route lines so it buzzed when the GPU started using power.

You are right that they killed the market, but only for people who don’t care, and you can pick up a banging used mellanox for cheap that gives you excellent sriov.

If only they were also monsters of incrementing the pcie device id when their chip revision breaks compatibility.

So you don’t spend forever trying to Google on your phone or other laptop that you have to pull and rebuild the latest kernel, without an internet connection, because only that one knows that revision K needs power management set before the link will come up.

So, you have excellent points.

Here si where so much of that falls down:

This is worse in the south, but Appalachia had it too: any federal or external program is seen by the ruling elite as a cash cow that they rightfully deserve, and often they genuinely believe that by taking the money they are protecting their community from being bribed into dependence on outsiders.

That’s an odd rationalization, but it’s what I’ve seen in many rural areas.

What you need is a true grassroots movement, and that article suggested as much, I’m just skeptical because you’re asking them to go against a decent chunk of what they consider heritage, as the Virginia lowlands were the rich tobacco farmers that originally mistreated the Appalachians and lead to their oppositional identity.

True, but it isn’t cheap, the effort costs more than you’d save in labor.

Couple that with the nightmarish logistics (lived there, it takes 4-6 hours to get in and out of the mountains over tiny roads not meant for trucks, that’s a lot of refrigeration), and the region just isn’t good for much economically.

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Firstly: the soil is poor. Lots of issue with soil runoff, and it’s not viable to irrigate basically at all.

Secondly: they don’t want to.

I think people forget how much mining paid for a while, even if the cost was the miner’s lives. It’s like the oil workers in the Dakotas, they like that work for the pay.

The only way you could agriculturalize that region would be having a mid to large agribusiness come in and industrialize it, which makes no sense because it’s cheaper and easier everywhere else.

They’re orphaned by geography. The tunnels helped but nowhere near enough.

The peace treaty was for 10 years.

And they made that treaty so they could partition Poland and invade and brutalize Finland, no other reason.

The secret protocol was very clear.

Also ends federal judicial contempt enforcement when the government ignores a ruling or injunction.

Good news!

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/us/louisiana-republicans-school-desegregation.html

One of the major jobs of the department of education was to enforce desegregation, now scotus has cleared the way for a new wave of segregation academies, like under Jim crow.

They have to be religious, but if your church is all white then your school can be too!

The south has finally risen again :(

Interesting parallel:

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/german-soviet-pact

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov–Ribbentrop_Pact?Secret_Protocol

Russians loved the nazis, and agreed to split Europe with them too!

But then again, they’d been genociding jews, Ukrainians and everyone else for centuries by then, I suppose they saw kindred spirits.

I need to explain to people why this is so amazingly stupid:

You are literally giving Europe an excuse to put tariffs on American goods and services, which they want to anyway, to encourage domestic producers.

Also, you’re making it easier for them to buy directly from south Korea, Japan and even China, especially since those countries can’t sell as easily to the US.

For Europe this is an absolute win/win.

But honestly, this sounds like a way for Trump to put pressure on Europe to back off on Ukraine, as he probably thinks the EU is reliant on US LNG, which is kind of isn’t really.

Not in the south.

Their dedication to racism eclipses even their sexism, everything else is just in service to the greater goal.

Yes but the christofascists are literally the dumbest morons in the country.

There are just so damn many of them, and they’re too stupid to be stopped.

When I was young we had a term for this: ‘r-word strength’

Live on the west coast of sweden, we have huge container ships going by all the time.

TIL they have the right-of-way.

The reason the right are desperate for religious charter schools is that they want to build state-funded segregation academies again.

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

The south only has and only ever has had one political issue: racism. They switched parties when the democrats stopped letting them be as racist as they wanted, and they will do literally everything (they attacked America itself) to get their ‘Proper Order’ back.

It also means Firefox loses another revenue stream (that nobody ever used) keeping it going.

Yes, and they were hijacked by religious fascists.

Nobody has a problem with the good people of Iran, I don’t have a problem with the good people of America either.

But the religious fascists in both countries just trying to hurt everyone else to see the pain? They need to go.

They’re suffering the consequences of religious fascism, like a lot of other countries right now, including the US.

They came into this world, and damn if they aren’t taking it out with them.