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  • We (Denmark) helped USA in both Iraq and Afghanistan. In Afghanistan we even had the highest rate of fatal casualties among allies, compared to the size of our population.
    Now we are not buying American made defense equipment anymore, apart from contracts already signed, and we are working to get rid of Microsoft in government organizations and public services.
    Many European countries are doing the same, no more helping the American military industrial complex, or the American government when they have an F35 program with budget overruns. Which we actually did when we signed our F35 contract with USA.






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    Too bad USA doesn’t help Ukraine instead. USA even promised they would, when Ukraine gave up their nuclear arsenal!
    Even under Biden the help was only halfhearted. The amount was significant, but the abilities of the equipment Ukraine was allowed to get was very restricted. Obama too wasn’t any help in 2014 either, and let Russia take Crimea without issue!
    It’s not just Trump and republicans who are guilty of making USA untrustworthy. Democrats are part of the problem too.
    We need to kick USA out of NATO, and invite other including non Atlantic democracies to join instead. USA has stated they are not sure they will honor article 5 (The musketeer article), and if they won’t, they cannot be part of NATO anymore. Because that’s the whole purpose of NATO.


  • Buildings with just one emergency exit stairway are capped at three stories in San Francisco. Anything taller requires two stairwells.

    That text makes little sense, because if there is only one stairway, that’s the friggin stairway, and not an “emergency” stairway.
    I know most American buildings have elevators even if they only have 2 floors, but it’s weird to call a stairway that is often faster to use, when it’s just a few floors, an “emergency” stairway, just because it’s the only option when the elevator doesn’t work.

    Especially if the elevator and stairway are in connected shafts, it’s quite obviously not enough to only have 1 stairway, there needs to be a 2nd stairway with it’s own separate shaft in case of fire, because you can’t jump out the windows at 4 stories height.







  • Well yes and no, The RX 6600 is a 4-5 year old card, and absolutely low end by today’s standards.
    I’m not saying that to be arrogant, because I use a 6600 XT myself. And it works OK for me. Because I mostly play retro games.
    But if you look at reviews of the 9600 XT, the 6650 XT which is slightly better than 6600, is the bottom of the charts if it’s even included, at typical framerates more than 50% below the 16 GB 9600 XT.
    So yes you can get cheaper cards, but the price is higher per FPS. Maybe except for the Intel Arc B580.
    You can also get the 9600 XT in a cheaper 8 GB version, but that is STRONGLY warned against, because for some new games, performance fall off a cliff with only 8GB!
    So the 8 GB Radeon RX 9600 XT is not even recommended as an entry level card!

    But to be honest, I was positively surprised when I saw the 16 GB version is only $380 (USD) here in Denmark. Because that’s actually cheaper than what I paid for the 6600 XT when it came out. Back then that was $450 USD, and by far the best option on cost per fps.

    Prices have been crazy, but they are actually somewhat normalizing now.