Someone else in this thread mentioned TizenTube, that sounds like what you’re looking for.
But personally I just grabbed an Nvidia Shield. It works great and if you swap out the default launcher you’ll never see a single ad on it (with the right apps). Plus the pro is beefy enough to run some decent emulators too.
Also, the motherfucker wouldn’t get it that its a pisstake. Do you seriously want to hear him going on and on about how Canada loves him so much that we named a bridge after him?
Ah, but you see that’s a problem for future people.
That genuinely would not surprise me in the slightest.
See, I think this is a mistake people make a lot with Trump. They start at “Trump doesn’t follow norms” which is a completely true and correct statement, and continue to “Trump has proven that a lot of our assumptions about politics are incorrect”, which is also true and correct, but then they seemingly progress from there to a position that tends to land somewhere around “Trump is an eldritch being unbound by all laws of reality.”
Obviously, I’m being hyperbolic there, but it really does seem like a lot of the thinking about Trump skews that way. People over-correct from our assumptions and norms to this world where nothing will ever affect Trump because he’s got some kind of magical power to warp reality.
Trump exists in the same physical universe we all do. When something happens that breaks our understanding of reality, it’s not magic, it just means that our understanding was based on faulty assumptions. Trump is forcing us to update and correct a lot of our assumptions about political realities, but he’s still bound by political realities. We just need to understand those realities better. His support is steadily crumbling, and we can see that in both how his poll numbers are falling, and how he is panicking about the mid-terms. Whether Iran will meaningfully affect that support is an open question, and whether or not Iran can be judged as a strategic success does not necessarily have any bearing on that question. Whether or not the Iran war is a political success, for example, would be an entirely separate question.
But just because the question of strategic success or failure in Iran doesn’t necessarily matter to the question of political success or failure, doesn’t mean that we can’t still ask the question. It’s not about trying to fit Trump into any kind of box, it’s just about judging him, and his administration, by all of the criteria available.
It’s important to ask these questions, and be clear about the answers, because there will be a myriad of defenders of his who will parrot any claim he makes that Iran was a success, however it goes down. There’s no reason for us to allow his lackeys to freely rewrite history.
They keep trying. The adblockers keep winning. I’ve had my fair share of videos sometimes not loading, or regularly needing to update apps to keep up with Google’s latest bullshit, but the minor glitches and headaches are worth it for all the time I don’t spend staring at a greyed out skip button.
I mean, if you could actually solve that problem, it would be worth a LOT more than 1 billion. I just don’t remotely believe that you can solve it for 1 billion. Training costs alone would eat that and more.
Firefox with ublock origin for desktop and mobile. Grayjay for mobile (integrates Nebula too so you can get both your feeds at once). Android TV with FCast and Smart Tube Next for your TV. Never see ads again.
Yeah, Nebula is awesome.
This is a completely valid point, and I don’t disagree with the idea that Trump simply did not have any strategic goal in mind when he started this war. I nodded in that direction in my previous comment. I’m definitely not presuming long term thought. Not sure how you would have gotten that impression from my describing him as a being of pure id, incapable of long term planning. You did read far enough for that part, right?
Anyway, I’d still contend that “Bomb shit and feel powerful”, while objectives, do not qualify as strategic objectives. Its certainly possible those were Trump’s only goals - and it does look like he mostly got dragged into this by Isreal anyway - but if that’s the case then we have to conclude that it’s impossible for the war to be anything other than a failure, strategically, because you cannot achieve your strategic goals if you don’t have any.
Trump struggles to understand the most basic question of warfare, which is “What are my strategic objectives?”
To put that in simpler language, “what do you want to get out of this?”
To put this in context, it’s important to understand that, in purely strategic terms, the second, Iraq war war successful. Keep in mind that “successful” doesn’t mean “a good idea”. It was horrendously immoral, did serious longterm damage to the US’ global standing and reputation, cost far too much in lives and dollars, and caused untold harm to the people living in that region. But the goal for the US was to install a compliant government and gain access to military staging points in the region. They succeeded. The cost was far too high, the execution was an endless series of blunders, and they shouldn’t have done it for numerous reasons, ethical and practical, but they did technically succeed in their objectives.
If we were to hazard a guess at Trump’s goal with this military action against Iran - and we have to guess to some degree, because Trump has offered so many different justifications - probably the most consistent goal would be “Regime change.” This has been a fairly standard goal for US policy; replace a hostile regime with a compliant one.
So far they have not achieved anything remotely close to that. The exact opposite, in fact. Arguably, the Iranian regime is now more strongly entrenched and more firmly anti-American than it has been in years. There is little hope for a return to the negotiating table, and the nascent revolution that was brewing prior to the war has been severely damaged, especially by idiotic, self-defeating actions like bombing a girl’s school.
If this war is complete, then it has been one of the least successful wars America has ever prosecuted. Not the most costly by any metric, but the degree to which they have managed to damage their own interests in such a short period of time might be unprecedented.
Many Iranians and some Americans are dead. A lot of military hardware has been expended and destroyed on both sides. But none of those things constitute a goal, or meaningful progress towards one. America’s actual strategic goals in the region are now significantly further away.
Do I believe that Trump will try to declare victory and walk away anyway? Absolutely. In fact I think it’s probably the most likely outcome. This is a consistent pattern with Trump. He doesn’t have the attention span for long term projects, and war is very much a long term project. He loves military power, but he loves to exercise it in brief, explosive orgies of destruction. He’s a man of instant gratification. Pure, unbridled id.
But what it will take to get what he wants out of this - if he actually focuses on his goals for long enough to recollect what they are - is boots on the ground, and that will be one of the hardest and bloodiest military campaigns the US has seen in a very long time.
Nah dude, this is legit, I lived through the tail end of the satanic panic years, those FBI raids were no joke. We used to scatter a layer of d4s along the stairs leading the basement, right before the tripwire that releases a full paint can on a string. Every player was issued a smoke bomb before the start of the game so we could make a clean getaway while the officers were distracted.
I do, but it’s more out of laziness than anything else. I hate having to remember sixteen different ways of doing things, so I tend to configure all my stuff as identical as reasonably possible. Is this the best way of doing things? Probably not. But it keeps my blood pressure down.
Yeah, at this point they know they got conned, and they either have to admit that or double down and act wildly impressed at its ability to, like, drive on an unpaved road.
I mean, if the US goes ahead with boots on the ground the cost could be immense. Like Afghanistan, Iran is extremely mountainous. Unlike Afghanistan, Iran has a population of almost 100 million, spread across an area almost 3 times the size of Texas. And you can bet the Iranians paid very close attention to the tactics that worked in Afghanistan, on both sides. Tunnels and caves are extremely effective at nullifying air power, and tanks and IFVs don’t do well in mountains. That means you’re mostly left with grunts and artillery, fighting in terrain they don’t know, and which their opponents know intimately. And that opponent has been preparing for this fight for quite some time.
Oh hey, look, it’s an object lesson in why being a reliable partner on the global stage actually matters.
OK. And Epstein said he wasn’t fucking kids. I don’t know why we would trust the public statements of the Russian government on the subject of whether or not the sanctions are hurting their economy. Seems like the least credible source possible in the circumstances.
Yeah, we’ve been through this exact same game with multiple iterations of Intel and AMD chips. When AMD first started doing consumer CPUs they badged them according to their equivalent Intel clock speed because one to one comparisons were misleading.
What’s the L1 and L2 cache? What are the bus speeds? How many cores and how are they architectured? Multi-threading? How many steps is the instruction cycle? There are so many factors beyond just clock speed that play into real world performance.
Are you running Ublock on Chrome or Firefox? It works significantly better on Firefox. I’ve never seen an ad get through it.