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>This has nothing to do with socialism or capitalism. Capitalist states often have the same social programs, but they have well made economic policy that can generate the wealth to sustain it without forcing everyone into poverty (see Denmark, Canada, Australia, etc)

No, it has to do with socialism and capitalism, it is not capitalism that generates that wealth, resources and labour generate wealth. If it was capitalism, then why are Somalia and Liberia so poor, their capitalist wealth generating magic should protect them, shouldn't it? They are being exploited out of their resources, so they cannot generate wealth, also, Cuba is just as poor as these countries, but it fares much better, I wonder why.

It is convenient to only talk about Europe, North America and Australia when you have to defend capitalism.

And Australia doesn't even have that big of a welfare state tbh.

>Venezuela was only doing "fine" because they were filthy rich from oil.

Yes, so?

>Compare them to singapore which didn't have said luxury of ridiculous wealth under their land.

Singapore? Have you ever heard reports of people actually working there? It's rich because their workers are controlled and alienated by the state, again, you are reinforcing my point (which is Keynes point, which is everyone with a brain's point), it is not capitalism that creates wealth, but it is labour and capital.

>Imperialism is entirely separate from capitalism (mercantilist nations relied on it the most)

I am not only referring to classical imperialism, but especially to economic imperialism, which includes the exploitation of resources and of cheap labour from other countries.

>are you really fucking implying USSR / PRC didn't kill innocents what the fuck.

When did I imply it? Just saying that capitalism kills mostly innocents, also, numbers are definitely inflated, the 60 million figure for Stalin is a meme by itself, and it is literally backed up by nothing.

>Read a book

>Exploitation tends to harm the imperialist nations, and nations become wealthiest by providing the means to success to all their citizens. It just so happens that private property and free enterprise does this the best.

I love it when people tell me to read a book, when they do it's probably the only book they've ever read, and they usually feel so triumphant when they have actual literature backing up their claims, no matter the context, also, it is always by some American economist.

Anyways, I do love me some Acemoglu (studied him pretty intensely in university, and I am rather fascinated by his theory of institutions being a fundamental driver in a nation's development, with the whole inclusive v. extractive discourse), but data is against the fact that exploitation harms imperialists, it might harm the nations that imperialist companies are located into (I would need data for this though), but it does not harm said imperialist companies, and how much cheap labour and resources are exploited in both Asia and Africa should tell you figures about it. You are confusing trading with exploiting, it's the former that gives theoretical gains to the poorest nation in some macroeconomic models.

Also, if you'd like, Read a Paper, even for a capitalist right wing economist such as Allen the centralised functions of the USSR are finely designed to bring about economic growth (and the USSR was the fastest growing nation for 50 years), so your "most efficient" meme which originates with the neoclassical school is just empirically wrong, and what I already said about Cuba (thanks to the embargo it's just as poor as some African countries, but it fares much better) further cements it, and I'm saying this without even supporting the Stalin-driven USSR (guilty of following aggregate results more than worker benefit, like capitalists do).

And, alas

>Marxism is a meme. That's why it will never be taken seriously by people outside of New School or UMass (besides internet memers and autocrats), sorry son.

I don't want to be racist, but this is the final showing that you are an American kid stuck in your own all-American Neoliberal bubble; Marxism is taken seriously (very seriously) everywhere except for the country that has a strong propaganda against communism, a right wing skewed government where the """"left"""" is composed of liberals and a government and education system which are quite literally controlled by big corporations, I wonder why.

And fun fact, in the rest of the world your economics literature (not all of it of course, some of it is good, mostly from the salt lake schools) is what is being made fun of.

And since we're talking about the US, lolefficiency, more than 5 times more vacant homes than homeless people, truly a fair and efficient allocation of resources, wouldn't you think?

I liked The Celtic Myths: A Guide to the Ancient Gods and Legends as a nice intro, and its on kindle which is nice and easy. Magic in the Middle Ages is heavy reading, and not about directly about mythology, but its super interesting. I got some pretty nice but also quite heavy books on welsh mythology too in physical form, but not closeby. I can check their names if youre interested tho!

EDIT: The Arthur of the Welsh: The Arthurian Legend in Medieval Welsh Literature this one I really enjoyed

as others have said, prices suck right now, but 1.5 years back I got this card for my friend's build for just 90 USD, it only runs the latest games nowadays at 50fps, but it was a great budget card at the time and has served him well.

too bad its unvailable right now, but there are other cards like it you can get. as others have said as well, it is best to currently wait, do research, learn the power points of GPUs and what is important, and then when the market stabilizes, do a good build.

for your needs, anything alightly more powerful than that one will do, and theres a ton of options. a good thing to compare cards is to use websites like userbenchmark to compare cards and see what cards are at what level.

Soldering is really cool, but it does take a lot of practice to get decent at. Also, to actually get much out of your soldering skills you're going to need a cursory understanding of electrical circuits, as well as some familiarity with coding. You can obviously learn these as you go, and there's limitless resources available online, but it is a bit of a hurdle. I would highly recommend the book Make: Electronics by Charles Platt. It's cheap and very well-written. It gives you a ton of information as well as detailed projects through which you can apply this information. It assumes you have no prior knowledge of electrical circuitry, but it is clearly written for adults and does go quite in-depth. Also, be prepared to spend a couple hundred bucks to get started. And if you really get into it be prepared to spend a lot more. Individual projects are generally quite cheap, but equipment costs and ordering a bunch of random/spare parts to fuck around with can really add up. Also, don't cheap out on your soldering iron. Get an adjustable one with a base, you'll thank yourself later.

It's really fun once you get the hang of it though, and being able to come up with your own projects and then make them yourself is awesome. Let me know if you have any other questions!

Target doesn't really sell laptops on the higher end, you'd only be able to get like a $300-400 HP office laptop that's not very good for gaming. Amazon and Best Buy would be your best bet.

Personally I can vouch for Asus laptops. Before I built a pc I used a Republic of Gamers brand Asus laptop that ran WoW and Skyrim great.

You could get something like this https://www.amazon.com/8th-Gen-i5-8300H-processor-GeForce-FireCuda/dp/B07BP9QG2J/ref=sr_1_6?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1526435583&sr=1-6&keywords=asus+gaming+laptop

Or something slightly more powerful and expensive and with an SSD like this

https://www.amazon.com/FX503VD-Powerful-i7-7700HQ-Quad-Core-Processor/dp/B076H2J8ZV/ref=sr_1_5?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1526435583&sr=1-5&keywords=asus+gaming+laptop

The 1050 is a pretty good budget card and probably will do fine with WoW. Plus you can still get windows 10 and whatever you need on it.

Probably should look around more for better reviewed ones or one with a bigger screen if you want it, but something similar to those 2 would be fine.

>Spot the guy that don't know shit lmao.

Bruh. I paid for this shit for 9 years. I know. First result in a search, that's $4.16 a mon on sale.

And if you don't have a card already from a sale and just want to play on Christmas Day? That'll be $10. Ouch.


>More like 2.5 bucks a month for online and free games, and $30 digital games thanks to gameshare.

Free games? Roflmao. Stop paying for that PSN and tell me where those "free" games went. At least on PC you can play offline. Shit you can buy a Steam game and return it for free (and still play it offline if you are a real cheapass).

TL;DR: Currently have i3-6100. Looking at i5-6500 and i5-7500. Would like an upgrade recommendation so I can run games like Tarkov and PubG.

I'm very sad to say, I built this rig in late 2016, and I still feel like I don't know what the hell I'm doing. I got by with a lot of help from redditors and Youtube videos so I have no idea what's good and what isn't.

Currently, I have an i3-6100. I skimped on some parts due to being on a budget. In addition to upgrading my RAM by 8GB (Currently have 8GB) I'm hoping to upgrade my CPU. I also have an EVGA GTX 950 in there.

If it matters This is my motherboard

So what I'm looking for is an LGA 1151 slot, right?

Here is the first option

Here is the second option

What confuses me, is the second one is one generation newer than the first one, right? Why are they the same price? I'm also told if I go above a certain gen I'd have to upgrade my BIOS? I'd like to avoid that if possible. I've also read that in reality, an i5 is plenty sufficient for games, and i7 isn't worth the extra money unless you're video editing/rendering, etc. Lastly, the stock cooler that comes with the cpu should suffice, yes? I don't care about overclocking.

I'm looking to smoothly run Tarkov, Hunt Showdown, PubG, things like that. I don't care about 4k or 1440p or anything really. Ideally I'd like to at least keep it to 60fps though. Smooth gameplay is primarily what I'm after.

I'm also open to AMD and such if there's a comparable option that's more cost-effective, the intel i-series was just a bit easier for me to tell the difference between the different tiers (3, 5, 7)

I know it's a bit verbose, so thank you for reading.

Almost got scammed today.

There's an online marketplace site that I frequently use, in which anyone can create be a seller on this site and create listings for their own items. The site provides a payment platform where you pay the site first when you want to buy an item, then the seller ships it out to you, and you click on "Order Received", and the site will release your payment to the seller.

So today I found a listing for a cheap monitor, and so I use the built-in chat function to talk to the seller. Strange the seller cannot be contacted on the site, but left a number on his listing for anyone interested in buying to contact him through Whatsapp. So I did, and he told me the condition of the item, then followed by "do you do online banking or cash deposit?"

At this point, I tried to tell him I prefer to pay through the site, but he keeps trying to convince me he's a trusty guy and gave me his guarantee. The only thing I need to do is transfer him the money, then he will ship out and provide me with the tracking number immediately. Once I didn't reply for 5 minutes, he told me that I can opt to pay half of the amount first, they pay the other half upon order delivery.

So I was pretty skeptical at this point, and so I asked my brother who bought many more stuff online and he told me this is "100% a scam". In hindsight I should've seen that it is a scam since the seller only wants to deal outside of the site, and needs me to pay the full amount first. I guess this is a lesson learnt for me and luckily I didn't decide to pay first then ask questions later.

If anyone's interested the monitor I'm planning to get is the HP OMEN 27. The seller was selling it brand new at ~$289 (after currency conversion), while other listings shows it at ~$480.

> Wat, the whole point of Cuba is that no one dies of poverty and starvation, everyone has a right to a home, food, schooling and medical treatment, no matter which medical treatment (changing sex is free too for example, if you were born with the wrong one for your gender). And all of this with an embargo (lifted recently, thankfully) that hindered its imports considerably; can the same be said for the US, for example?

This has nothing to do with socialism or capitalism. Capitalist states often have the same social programs, but they have well made economic policy that can generate the wealth to sustain it without forcing everyone into poverty (see Denmark, Canada, Australia, etc)

>Which has been fine until they decided to specialise too much in a single good (oil) which has many shocks in price, more of an incompetence problem than a structural one.

Venezuela was only doing "fine" because they were filthy rich from oil. When shit hit the fan they had no way to mitigate it. So instead they hire idiots who claim inflation is a capitalist conspiracy. Compare them to singapore which didn't have said luxury of ridiculous wealth under their land.

>I'm a huge critic of both Stalin and Mao (more of the former), but it must be clarified that

>1) The numbers are hugely inflated

The numbers are not inflated. Are they misleadingly thrown around? Yea. It wasn't murder, it was just the end result of elementary economic policy.

>2) It is true that capitalism and imperialism kill more, and they kill innocents.

Imperialism is entirely separate from capitalism (mercantilist nations relied on it the most), and are you really fucking implying USSR / PRC didn't kill innocents what the fuck.

>The richest countries are capitalist, it's easy for them to trick you into thinking that it's because "their system is superior" but it's actually because they exploit their workers and workers in other countries, which work in inhumane conditions to create their richness.

Read a book


Exploitation tends to harm the imperialist nations, and nations become wealthiest by providing the means to success to all their citizens. It just so happens that private property and free enterprise does this the best.

>Funny, because this description fits both neoliberalism and anarchism pretty well, but if you think that this describes Marxism, I think you should study a bit of Marxism, and not from memes.

Marxism is a meme. That's why it will never be taken seriously by people outside of New School or UMass (besides internet memers and autocrats), sorry son.

Wow, that’s a lot of really neat stuff! Is that build better than this with this monitor?

+a nice keyboard and mouse, either the one you suggested or a different one, not too worried about that.

wow R.I.P my inbox haha! Sean is so excited to see all the people here interested in his game so i'll leave a link to it here.

you don't have to buy it! sean says the attention alone makes this the single happiest day of his life!

My video card crapped out on me out of the blue (granted, I've had it for 4 or 5 years at this point), in spite of my best efforts to keep my rig well-maintained. This is bad because video cards cost money, but also good because this is a hell of a deal and packs significantly more punch than my old card. It was so reasonably priced that I actually consulted with a friend of mine who builds computers as a hobby to make sure there wasn't some scam between the lines. Needless to say, I'm pretty excited for it to arrive on Friday.

We have 6 cats. While it does not get that bad actually, I suggest getting a portable carpet cleaner. Also it's expensive but the Rocco & Roxie brand cleaner liquid really works. If they are peeing in a specific spot then puppy pads help.

Also if you are cleaning up lots of barf then either

A) feed less cause they might be gorging

B) get bigger kibble food so they actually have to chew it (one of ours was swallowing the smaller stuff whole) or get "slow bowls"

C) give them hairball medicine (it's basically a fiber supplement so they poop out the hair)

D) comb them frequently (esp if they're long-haired)

E) try different food that agrees with them better.

There has been a lot of different Venom series, and not a lot of them are really well-regarded. My personal recommendation would actually be the recent 2018 series by Donny Cates. It's pretty accessible for new readers, and takes a deep dive into the mythos behind the symbiote. The first collected volume comes out in December. If you want to read digital single issues, you can buy them off Comixology (a digital store), but they'll be a bit expensive.

Another popular but unconventional pick is Venom Collection by Rick Remender, in which a crippled Flash Thompson bonds with the symbiote and becomes an agent of the government.

If you're looking for the original versions of the Venom stories you see in movies or cartoons, that'll be a bit trickier, since adaptations often consolidate and prune long-running storylines that sometimes have too many crossovers and a lot of outdated 80s writing. You can try asking /r/comicbooks for more information. Also, if you have a library card, I highly recommend making an account on Hoopla Digital. You'll be able to borrow old digital comics on there.

It's $17.16, new for PS4, on Amazon right now. I picked it up last week.

They came out with the 'Foundation' update a couple month ago that essentially added a quick menu system that lets you quickly 'recharge' your tools, ship systems, shields, etc. by pressing down on the d-pad, you can build save points, signal boosters, and comm relays anywhere on a planet by pressing up, and if you find an abandoned base on a planet, you can build on to it and stuff. You can also purchase a large Frigate that acts as a mobile base/storage area that follows you to each system. You can hire aliens to work for you and maintain your bases and develop upgrades for you. I haven't done much with it yet, but I know it's all there and apparently working pretty good.

What about fallout 76 😌?

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https://www.playstation.com/games/fallout-76-ps4/

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they sell em but theyre japan excluisive

the switch is fully region free so they should work on any switch (source: i have japan pink/green joycons)

Like this: https://www.amazon.com/Joy-L-Red-Japan-Nintendo-Switch/dp/B075LN6SCS

They are nice