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@TFTCentral Can we expect a review of gigabyte M032U24?

[_phanky_ @WillyDiddly]

@TFTCentral $1400? That's way too much.

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@pcgamer I can't belive people are so blind and dumb to defend this. They made $1 billion and still have no finished game to show for it. This will be the biggest scam in gaming history.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The year is 1950. Your doctor lights a cigarette and tells you smoking is fine. He read it in a study. He is telling the truth about having read it. He does not know, or is not saying, that the study was funded by the tobacco industry.

The year is 1958. Your doctor tells you to eat less fat. The evidence is contested. The contestation is not in the public messaging. The food industry has been helpful in clarifying which findings deserve attention. Some researchers who published contradictory data have been quietly defunded. Ancel Keys is on the cover of Time magazine.

The year is 1962. Your doctor prescribes thalidomide to your pregnant wife for morning sickness. It has been approved. The FDA gave it the green light in Europe. Twelve thousand children will be born with severe limb malformations before anyone in an official capacity acknowledges the problem. The families are told the drug was safe. The drug was approved. Both of these things remain true.

The year is 1972. Your doctor prescribes Valium. Britain is in the grip of a benzodiazepine wave that will last two decades. The dependency risk is known internally. It is not shared. Your doctor is not lying to you. He was not told either.

The year is 1999. Your doctor prescribes Vioxx for your arthritis. It is newer than ibuprofen, well-tolerated, and Merck has a study showing it works. Merck also has internal data suggesting it roughly doubles the risk of heart attack. This data will not reach your doctor for four more years. Fifty thousand people are estimated to have died in the interim. Merck eventually settles for 4.85 billion dollars. No criminal charges are brought.

The year is 2002. Your doctor prescribes OxyContin. Purdue Pharma trained its sales representatives to tell doctors the addiction risk was less than one percent. That figure came from a letter, not a study. The letter was about patients with terminal cancer on short-term doses in hospital settings. Your doctor is a GP with a patient who has a bad back. Nobody draws a distinction. Nobody is required to.

The year is 2008. Your doctor checks your cholesterol. Your LDL is elevated. You are prescribed a statin. Nobody mentions that the number needed to treat for primary prevention is approximately 250. Nobody mentions that the muscle deterioration you'll notice over the next two years is listed as a rare side effect rather than a documented pattern affecting a meaningful percentage of patients. The trial that informed the prescription was funded by the manufacturer.

Now it is today.

Your doctor has new guidelines. New studies. New consensus.

He is confident.

He has always been confident.

The confidence has never been the problem.

The confidence is, in fact, precisely the problem.

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@AJamesMcCarthy Out of curiosity, how much money do I need for a telescope that can capture such images? Just so that I know if I will ever be able to buy that.

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@MKBHD I am starting to think that Marques sneaked on board of the spacecraft 😁

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@Zizaran @ShopifyRebels @pathofexile @Displate @OldSchoolRS @StarforgePCs As far as I know, nobody announced the winners of the other prizes last gauntlet. I checked the forum, website, nothing. What happened to the prizes for reaching specific levels? ... who won the mouse, the disk, etc? Where can I see the list of the winners?

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@NeverSinkDev Why is Light radius a stat in PoE? It's absolutely useless..

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@Tytykiller_ Why is blight of contagion on hierophant and not on trickster anymore?

[Paper Parrot @Puppieslover]

Ok this is funny 😄

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@elonmusk Don't know about affordable... basically like 100x more expensive than my ISP. Much faster, yes, but much more expensive..

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@NVIDIAGeForce GeForce RTX 5090

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@IGN See, @AngryJoeShow ? 47 million people turned off their brain. Why can't you? Shame on you! 😁 join the herd

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@dvorahfr Because people on Mars would be different than they are here on Earth? Just because you change planet doesn't mean you change the nature of humans..

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@HardwareUnboxed Well, in Czechia, the price for the 5070ti is 1500 usd.. so yea, apocalyptically bad seems accurate.. even more so, since I'm waiting to upgrade from 1060 🤦‍♂️

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@brittnaynay3 Well, mine is not exactly 2020 but 2015... nvidia 1060, intel 6700k cpu, 16g Ram, won't even let me install windows 11 😏..

[Vast @VastGG]

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@assassinscreed 🦅 PC

[New Scientist @newscientist]

The Pillars of Creation are one of the most iconic and beautiful sights in deep space - now @NASA has released a 3D visualisation allowing us to see inside.

[Farzad 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 @farzyness]

Neuralink's First Patient Leaves Us Speechless.

Noland Arbaugh @ModdedQuad, @neuralink's first brain chip patient, joins us for an in-depth look into some truly mind blowing stuff (pun intended).

You do not want to miss this one.

@HansCNelson @elonmusk @chapman_bliss