Lyssa Greymoon

Hopefully they're better at upholding their oaths than the police are.

The Minneapolis police arrested a CNN camera crew covering the protests before they arrested Derek Chauvin and he was only arrested after days of protests. I think that says what anyone needs to know about how cops are held to account.

I would never have guessed.

In case I didn't make my point yesterday about "all lives matter" being a garbage phrase no one should use anymore clear enough, there you go.

Four cops, not one. Three of whom are still walking free today. It is also far from certain he will do jail time. The American justice system has a track record of not convicting cops for brutal crimes. This is hardly an isolated incident. It's the latest in a long string of them that are a symptom of a broken society.

This has me curious, I wonder how many of the police at those haircut protests felt the need to tape over their badge numbers before going to work.

I don't think so, but for the sake of argument, let's go with that. The endgame is still the same. Using the same phrase that racists use to dog whistle to each other is probably not the best way to express the sentiment.

I mean the phrase and hashtag all lives matter were invented to downplay black lives matter. It was started in bad faith and comes with too much baggage to serve any positive purpose now. Anyone using it innocently should stop.

Downplaying Black Lives Matter is why all lives matter was coined in the first place. It did come from good intentions.

It's more the privilege of being able to do nothing and feel good about it I was thinking of. Every July 4th we celebrate our own revolution over the taxes on tea being too damn high. We have absolutely no problem justifying that. But violence born out of centuries of systematic racism and oppression? Yeah, that's a bit iffy. What would MLK say? Now go home, and if you behave exceptionally well for another sixty years, maybe we'll think about letting that boot off your neck just a little bit more. All lives matter! How can we pretend to treat everyone equally if we acknowledge the fact that we very much do not treat some people equally?

I support your struggle from here in cartoon land seems a whole lot like apex white privilege. Don't fall for that garbage about Antifa from the idiot king. If it was true he'd have done it three years ago. It's a cynical ploy to make the passive racists not feel guilty about dismissing centuries of being awful to other human beings. Protests over people being murdered with impunity turned violent ?!? Why I never! *clutches pearls* what would MLK say? "What did you expect? I don't know why we're so surprised. When you put your foot on a man's neck and hold him down for three hundred years, and then you let him up, what's he going to do? He's going to knock your block off." -LBJ If this is the kind of thing it takes for us to finally treat our fellow Americans like our fellow Americans, then so be it.

Fight the power!

I'd go with nVidia as well, but AMD has really improved since the release of the 2020 edition drivers. With the last update I finally feel like my RX550 wasn't a complete waste of money.

Get off your damn computer and go to the doctor. I have never blocked anyone on an internet forum before, but that's changing tonight. I don't know if you're serious and just out of your mind, or you're trolling. If you're serious, you have no business lollygagging around on internet forums instead of getting off your ass and going to a doctor. I refuse to help enable that behavior by engaging with you anymore. Go see a doctor now. If you're a troll, well, that should be self explanatory. Until someone tells me you've either gone to a doctor on your own accord or a family member has forced you to go, goodbye.

I only hope you are as motivated to vote as you are to go to a doctor.

Do us all a favor and read that out loud to yourself and see if you think it sounds sane. I think I can assure you no one reading it does.

I see you came here from an alternate reality similar to the one I was in until about five years ago. I would very much like to go back.

You'd better worry about us a lot more. I'm concerned The Sun King might not die of COVID-19, or enough of his worshipers will vape themselves to death with bleach between now and November and we might get stuck with four more years of the idiot.

You don't have that positive COVID-19 test either, do you?

What's the date of your positive COVID-19 test you're going to provide your attorney?

Indisputable facts that can be looked up by anyone. They were all widely reported. Can you do that or shall I get the receipts for you?

What did I say that was wrong? Everything I said is an indisputable fact. Yes, I do understand the difference between Trump and a doctor. One of them is the president of the United States, the other is not.

K, here's some more explanation. Ambient occlusion doesn't matter if ALM is off, so checked or unchecked makes no difference. I leave atmospheric shaders on because I consider them essential. They make a tremendous visual difference for minimal if any performance loss. Anisotropic filtering, in my experience, is practically free and particles are not, but YMMV, feel free to see if that trade off works on your hardware. Max complexity and max avatars, yeah, these can be run down on slow computers. I don't like to because that uglifies everything. But running them down will definitely help. I think I'd prefer Firestorm's show friends only over bottoming out the sliders and populating the world with jellydolls though.