To your first paragraph, I would say it still doesn’t make a lot of sense. I do think your average conservative benefits from conservative rulemaking/enforcement in a “sundown town,” look-the-other-way-if-you’re-one-of-us sort of microcosm, but when you look at the effects of conservative policymaking on a macro-social and -economic level, it’s clear that middle-Americans are still getting a worse deal than they would under more progressive regimes.

taking financial advice from a bank teller

Bruh

Wtf, I thought that was just me. Although it happens less ever since I lost some weight, so my guess is it’s BP related.

My hot take is that this is practically irrelevant for the vast majority of desktop users, even hobbyists. Unless you have an absolute rats’ nest of cables inside the case or you are overclocking the chip close to its thermal limits, your chip should run just fine with a small form factor heatsink/fan, which an older, non-enthusiast case should have no problem fitting. As one data point, I’m cooling my CPU with a Noctua NH-D15 inside my Antec Three Hundred. A somewhat tight fit? Maybe, but certainly no performance issues.

Yeah, I’m not sure what would make a case obsolete other than not physically fitting your hardware. I’m using a janky mid-2000s Antec case to hold my i7-9700k / RTX 2070 build with no problems (although I fully expect to need a bigger case for any future GPU upgrades).

If you’re gonna spew, spew into this

Getting out of Macomb County was the best decision I made in a long time. Although I won’t pretend Oakland is much better outside of like 4 cities.

Would it make sense to find a new job? I hate American corporate culture just as much, and it frustrates me that we have such an unhealthy attitude towards leisure and enjoyment of life in this country, but as long as I have options, I’m not interested in working for a company where the expectation is regular weekend work (even if it means reducing my lifetime earning potential).

Feed me a stray cat

Considering the source, this is only news because it’s not a Tesla.

Meanwhile, my company (small/mid tech) is going all-in on remote because they pay so little and run it so much like a sweatshop that they have no hope of attracting even mediocre talent otherwise. I’m looking for something else, but fully remote is drying up and it’s been more mentally difficult than I expected to wrap my head around dragging my ass to an office 3+ days a week to do the exact same work I do at my house.

The only thing baffling about any of this is that somehow, millions of ordinary, working/middle-class Americans believe that this system benefits them more than the alternative.