You didn't expect this, I guess.


The news of this thread is so old that people had time to get bored of it causing them to go offtopic and then get bored of going offtopic.

If it would make you feel any better, I think we could dig up some old dead horses to beat and fire up yet another SoC/keyboard/color discussion for you. :)
 
I just hope ED is OK, and his shop is still able to do business.

But yeah, some news (however small) would certainly be most welcome at this juncture :)

My Speccy next is keeping me occupied at the moment......but I get bored of things easily :eek:
 
If it would make you feel any better, I think we could dig up some old dead horses to beat and fire up yet another SoC/keyboard/color discussion for you. :)
I am way ahead of you. And yes, it does help.

But I am getting worried about how ED is doing too. Even if he's still waiting for heat sinks or getting the case painted it would be nice to have a status update. Normally I would not be that worried but with COVID-19 measures wrecking the economy I'm a bit more worried than I would normally be.
 
ED posted some new books he's selling to the site and notifed twitter today. He's still up and running, just probably coronavirus delays means he hasn't much worth reporting. I note on his site now he's advising that some countries aren't delivering international mail, so you're limited to using couriers, which I'd expect to impact sales for the time being though.
 
covid-19 is also the primary catalyst for widespread abandonment of any form of confidence in governments.
Ironically, you can kind of observe the exact opposite in Germany.

The people have been consistently losing confidence in the big parties for years, especially the conservatives got the reputation that they would simply die out soon because more members kept dying of old age than new one joined - even the populists from the extremist right wing gained a worrying amount of support due to this loss of confidence in the governments of the past decade. However, ever since the government introduced the restrictions to fight COVID-19, the ruling parties started to get more support in the polls once again, while the suddenly very quiet populists of the extremist right wing turned out to be the biggest losers.
 
Ironically, you can kind of observe the exact opposite in Germany.

The people have been consistently losing confidence in the big parties for years, especially the conservatives got the reputation that they would simply die out soon because more members kept dying of old age than new one joined - even the populists from the extremist right wing gained a worrying amount of support due to this loss of confidence in the governments of the past decade. However, ever since the government introduced the restrictions to fight COVID-19, the ruling parties started to get more support in the polls once again, while the suddenly very quiet populists of the extremist right wing turned out to be the biggest losers.
Same in Finland. Usually the government parties increasingly lose favor to opposition parties during their term (then next election we get a different kind of government). The current prime minister party especially (Social Democratic Party) has usually been very reliable in this. According to recent polls though, they're again the most favored party. Most talk I hear of our prime minister and how the crisis has been handled on a governmental level is positive. It's only isolated incidences outside governement that get flak. The local populist party, True Finns, got to the most favored party spot before the crisis, but quite quickly came down after it started.
 
Just emphasises how this epidemic has another feature of a nature in a (just) war. Doesn't quite work out the same way, or at least bites back quicker if you engineer your own war, as Blair found out, or the Republicans with their War on Drugs, but a just war gives a positive and relatively long-lasting boost to the ruling party.
 
Let me guess: They keep demanding something in tune of their ideology but then vote against it, backstabbing the working class they are supposed to represent? Yeah, that sounds familiar.
Nah, they just usually get a boost in response to other parties reducing social programs on their turn, then when SocDems gain power they end up not getting much done at all. They're not actively harmful to their ideology, just disappointingly inefficient at going about it. People want quick resolutions, so they end up voting someone else the next time again.

(sorry about contributing to the derailment, let's get back on track)
 
maybe I shouldn't have de-de-derailded it... but there's no news... people are increasingly analytical and networked (due to SOCs) and at least here in the UK the policy waffling and subterfuge is overt and frankly embarrassing. history will judge the coronavirus to have been widely mishandled. If different decisions were made things would have been much better. triage of economics, lives and political careers. what a world.
 
history will judge the coronavirus to have been widely mishandled. If different decisions were made things would have been much better. triage of economics, lives and political careers. what a world.

History will judge it's been handled amazingly well.
The best any pandemic has ever had in the entire history of humankind.

You want history?

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death
"The Black Death, also known as the Pestilence and the Plague,[a] was the most fatal pandemic recorded in human history, resulting in the deaths of up to 75–200 million[1][2][3][4][5][6] people in Eurasia and North Africa,[7] peaking in Europe from 1347 to 1351."

https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/world-population-by-year/
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So, unless between 25% to 50% of the world population dies we're doing fantastic relatively speaking.

We're in an era where people can and do cross half the globe in a day spreading diseases way faster than in the 1300s

As I'm writing this we're at 184,643 deaths world wide according to google with a 2020 world population of 7.8Billion people.
The number death so far is currently at 0.0023672% of the world population
And we're way below the normal exponential spread of disease
Let me make a quick LibreOffice graph:

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There isn't a single pixel on that graph for COVID-19.
I could redo the graph for black plague at the 25% low-estimate and it still wouldn't register on history's scale.

Despite the CCP and WHO lying about it and covering it up for as long as they did.

We're not even at 1/400th of 1%


And yes, even governments have handled it fantastically well.
What's the point of government officials even trying if they still going to get shat on all day with people going all { oh "what a world" boohoo } even when not even 0.002% died so far of something that would have easily killed 25% of the world population by now if it wasn't for the world's governments (and people's) responses to it.

Historically we're kicking this little bitch of a pandemic's ass so much it's gonna have its plague card revoked and laughed at if it ever shows its face again at the disease bar.

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Can we get a little positivity in here?
 
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