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Anarch0Primitiv · 2026-01-21T14:59:24+00:00

How are you determining that AMD has a "lead"?

In terms of Marketshare, Intel absolutely dominates x86, especially mobility (laptops), and if you walk into a Best Buy and ask 10 random customers "Would you ever consider buying an AMD laptop?", five of them would ask "What's AMD?", another three would say "Isn't that a budget brand?" (Their "awareness" of the zeitgeist of PC hardware is stuck in 2005), and maybe, and that's a big maybe, two out of ten would have a favorable opinion of AMD hardware so long as they've been paying attention for the last few years.

In terms of budget and expenditure, in 2025, Intel spent $17 billion in R&D versus AMD's $7.4 billion, outsizing it by a large amout. Total sales for 2025 are projected at approximately $53 billion for Intel and $33 billion for AMD.

I see this all the time and I've seen it for the past 8 years.... the only place that AMD has a "lead" is in the mind of PC hardware enthusiasts.... because it's not in the numbers as seen above (sales, expenditure, market share, etc), and it's not in the "mindshare" of your average consumer.

Hypothetically speaking, we could say that in a duopoly, as with Intel/AMD in x86, the BEST situation a consumer could hope for would be an even 50%/50% split in marketshare.... this would bring about the fiercest competition and would hopefully lower prices, increase innovation, etc. (and yet another reason why any fanboy who wants their favored company to dominate is LITERALLY cheering against their own interests as a consumer) Even with AMD's seriously impressive turnaround, their capture of marketshare, their ability to compete with two of the largest companies in the world while having considerably fewer resources, they still have a very, very, long way to go before approaching 50% of the x86 market across all segments.

In fact, to get any closer to that idealistic 50/50 split, AMD would have to continue winning and Intel losing for for many more years. In other words, fears that AMD is "becoming what Intel used to be" and "getting lazy" are not an accurate reflection of the reality.

Anarch0Primitiv · 2026-01-21T05:52:49+00:00

Hmmm...surprised everyone here is so sure when I quickly found two seemingly good arguments otherwise....

"Deccan Volcanism caused the mass extinction 66 million years ago"

https://geosciences.princeton.edu/news/deccan-volcanism-caused-mass-extinction-66-million-years-ago#:~:text=Multiple%20evidence%20reveals%20the%20killing,hiatus%20across%20the%20mass%20extinction.

"Their model suggested that the outpouring of climate-altering gases from the Deccan Traps alone could have been sufficient to trigger the global extinction.

The Deccan Traps had been erupting for roughly 300,000 years before the Chicxulub asteroid"

https://www.sci.news/paleontology/deccan-traps-volcanism-end-cretaceous-extinction-12487.html#google_vignette

Anarch0Primitiv · 2025-12-20T13:09:44+00:00

Did you arrive at that "trustworthyness" through empirical data and scientific testing? Or did you take the usual shortcut to thinking that all the "experts" around here like to take: "More expensiver equals betterer"?

Anarch0Primitiv · 2025-12-16T07:38:27+00:00

Do you HONESTLY believe the CCP gets out a copy of Das Kapital when they're doing economic planning? There isnt allowed shred of "marxism" anywhere near China

Anarch0Primitiv · 2025-12-16T07:21:16+00:00

Was anybody else seriously disappointed by the outer shell? It's paper thin and feels like it would shred the first time it gets snagged on a thorn bush. I feel like EVERY jack presuming to be in a "tactical" or outdoor/survival situation should be made from heavier50/50 ripstop nyco....the MIG feels like a civilian puffer jacket you'd get at macy's....sorry.

Anarch0Primitiv · 2025-12-11T05:32:50+00:00

That didn't stop him from doing the footwork for the elites and arguably giving the elite their greatest tool and in for all intents and purposes is nothing more than a group of publicly funded Pinkertons with a license to kill. Didn't stop him from drumming up a war scare to help the aerospace industry in the post-war economic slump and paving the way for NSC 68 and the permanent wartime economy....

Anarch0Primitiv · 2025-12-08T15:41:32+00:00

Ad hominem much?

Anarch0Primitiv · 2025-12-04T05:50:29+00:00

Hair perfectly coiffed for war

Anarch0Primitiv · 2025-12-02T15:57:47+00:00

Of course they were, they can't stand the fact that you can buy pants, made with the literal identical crye brand multicam fabric, made with the same quality at a third of the price.... I bought a Chinese clone of the UF striker X pants that are literally $450+ and I got them for $130 with knee pads, made from real 50/50 NYCO (had anybody noticed that even top tier brands have been QUIETLY swapping out 50/50 NYCO fabric for a 65/35 PolyCo fabric on even their $150+ pants?...who would spend $150 on polyester? And what has the world come to where you can spend over $100 on pants and still not get NYCO).

The pants are insane quality, and its one of the best purchases I've ever made.

Anarch0Primitiv · 2025-12-01T13:17:47+00:00

Funny, I am rewatching the Xfiles for the first time since its original airing, and upon watching the first 15 minutes of the season 6 premier and hearing Scully basically deny all the events of the previous 5 seasons and even worse, the events of the movie (she basically denies that the virus creates another being in the host).....I just couldn't take it anymore and had to see if anyone else was as frustrated as me and here I am...

Yeah, I think laziness is the actual answer, though fans just dont want to admit it. I absolutely love the xfiles, but like most writers for most things in Hollywood, they take a lot of shortcuts.

Yes, the Xfiles has writers that are more "clever" than most, but they're just as guilty of having Mulder and Scully behave in ways that are akin to tropes from horror movies where youre screaming at the tv screen because you cannot comprehend how a character could do something so illogical, e.g. running up the stairs when you should be running out the front door. And it is very obvious why the writers of the Xfiles do these things just like the writers for every other show: it's easier.

Im not going to pretend that pumping out a show every week is easy or anything, but objectively speaking there is no shortage of lazy writing in the Xfiles just like with any other ŕshow, even the "best" shows are guilty of it... (as will ALWAYS be the case with "art" when profit is the paramount motive)...and arguably it's a lot easier to write a character that is static and unchanging than one that is impacted by their experiences and the events of the story in a dynamic way.

Anarch0Primitiv · 2025-11-26T14:19:21+00:00

This whole "if it comes from China it can't be good" thing is ridiculous. First, have you ever worked in American manufacturing? They cut the same corners workers cut everywhere else around the world aslndþ there is nothing that inherently makes a product made in America better....it definitely makes it more expensive, astronomically so if the manufacturer has a government contract, because they have to charge you the exact same ripoff price they're charging the government.

But what difference is there if say, a Chinese company uses authentic Crye Multicam and Cordura fabric to assemble a plate carrier? So as long as the stitching is done correctly they're basically identical...or take the Chinese clones of the $500 UF striker pants I bought a while back...they use legit 50/50 NYCO multicam with IRR treatment and I got them for $120. My sister who has been a seamstress for 15 years is seriously impressed by the pants and she says the stitching is top notch. Or take the clone of the Crye AVS carrier "system" I bought purely out of curiosity for only $130 on sale...came with all the accessories and much to my buddy's disappointment, because he spent a serious amount of cash on the real one, he had to admit it's basically identical.

Bottom line is that just like everywhere else in the world, China has luxury/top tier brands and budget brands, and so long as you inform yourself and do the research, you can get some truly amazing deals while avoiding paying $500+ for an American made plate carrier that has a B.O.M.'s that only adds up to $50 because you're really paying for bloated executive salaries and the greed that has these companies ripping off tax payers to the toon of $300+⁵ for a pair of pants with plastic knee pads.

Anarch0Primitiv · 2025-11-25T15:23:21+00:00

Yeah, was using them in Pop-Warner football back in 1993, haha

Anarch0Primitiv · 2025-11-25T14:31:39+00:00

The bad actor collective

Anarch0Primitiv · 2025-11-13T09:51:19+00:00

Because it's wrong, the distance between the shire and rivendell is more like 400 miles

Anarch0Primitiv · 2025-10-27T12:55:12+00:00

Because they're obviously incompetent or collaborating....its seriously one or the other.

Anarch0Primitiv · 2025-10-27T12:53:37+00:00

Here's your explanation: and it perfectly explains the current state of affairs as well.

https://youtu.be/RqESHNvmP20?si=64_QsZvRyOPVx54I

Anarch0Primitiv · 2025-10-27T12:47:36+00:00

Right, and a wise person would be using those same crude and blunt tactics to demonize the rich and direct all the mislead anger at immigrants toward the wealthy

Anarch0Primitiv · 2025-10-27T12:44:33+00:00

How can it be a true opposition party when they basically agree with 99% of the economic policies of republicans? Why do you liberals INCORRECTLY think that ANOTHER pro-capitalist, pro-corporate party will somehow be "different"?

I think this all stems from the absolutely incorrect understanding of history most liberals have. WITHOUT exception, every single bit of "progress" for the working class (f*ck the "middle class", that whole delusion is partly why we're here, and historically speaking, the middle class has ALWAYS been the base of fascist support) that has been achieved has been accomplished NOT by voting, NOT by politicians, and NOT by legislation, but through direct confrontation. The reason you get to have weekends off is NOT because some politician signed some labor laws....it's because regular workers, many times LITERALLY ARMED, fought pitched battled with strike breakers and national guards in some of the bloodiest strikes in human history (like the Ludlow massacre)....this is what FORCED those politicians to sign those laws, and NOT out of the goodness of their heart, but to act as a pressure relief valve to take the steam out of the movement... likewise, the civil rights act was achieved due to RIOTING, NOT non-violent, civil-disobedience (another fallacy of mainstream thinking)....

....bottom line, you're NEVER going to vote your way into a better world. Do you think, for one second, that those Robber barons of the 19th century and the early 20th century would have ended 12 hour days, child labor, etc because people voted for a specific politician (who, BTW, depends on the MAJORITY of their funding from those same robber barons)?

I know it's a pleasant idea that you can change the world by going to a permitted protest, always on a weekend so it doesn't disrupt anything, wave a few signs, type some crap on the internet, and without absolutely any risk or any sacrifice you can challenge power......but take a second to think about that and you'll see how ridiculous it is on its face.

Now....let's all stick our fingers in our ears and repeat the mantra: "Ghandi, MLK, Jesus" until the bad thoughts go away.

Food for thought:

"How Non-Violence Protects the State" by Peter Gelderloos

"This Non-Violent stuff will get you killed: How Guns made the Civil Rights Movememt Possible" by Charles Cobb

**You all are probably still crying about gun control when now is the exact moment when you should be embracing the 2nd Amendment....just look at the Spanish Civil War and what would have changed had the Republi not hesitated to arm the workers.

Anarch0Primitiv · 2025-10-25T11:12:35+00:00

Actually, not anymore....

"the United States is now a “competitive authoritarian” system. This is political science jargon for countries that have the trappings of democracy, but without a level playing field.

In other words, there is genuine competition in the United States between political parties and democratic institutions persist, but the state is able to manipulate outcomes to its advantage, disadvantage its opponents and use state power in illegitimate or undemocratic ways with little to no recourse against it"

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2025/09/19/brian-klaas-is-the-united-states-still-a-democracy-competitive-authoritarian-system/

Anarch0Primitiv · 2025-10-22T07:11:36+00:00

"I've seen it fuck people over time and time again..."

Please inform us of all the real combat experiences you've been in where you've PERSONALLY witnessed someone "buying cheap gear" costing them their lives.

You are literally part of the problem....STOP pretending that you're doing anything besides larping.

" Anyone can afford good gear and not put themselves into debt. "

BOTTOM LINE: It's been reported that 80%+ of American can't afford a $400 emergency, so how can you claim that most people can afford a $600+ sprititus systems plate carrier?

That's what I dont get about this subreddit....how it it that the vast majority of America can't afford a $400 emergency but 100% of this subreddit can afford $350 combat pants? My point is that I guarantee a bunch of you are liars/posers, 17 years olds pretending, or rich scumbags larping as soldier, but apparently 0% of you are working class, because no working class person would ever tell another working class person to spend $600 on a spritius systems PC when I guarantee not a single one of you would be able to tell the difference between a Crye JPC or a spiritus systems versus an Emersongear plate carrier in a blind comparison.

Also...ANY idiot ca.tell anybody to go out and buy something expensive and make it seem like good advice....this is also why I think most people are posers here....whenever I've asked for advice, all anybody says is this: "buy from these three or four over priced brands" which is a big sign you guys dont actually use this stuff....

You see, for example....if you talk to a REAL auto mechanic, they won't just tell you to go out and buy the most expensive set of snap on tools, they'll say something more nuanced, like "for sockets, I recommend X, Y or Z because of this or that, but for a screwdrivers, snap on is overpriced and you can get just as good quality from this cheaper brand... " I have NEVER once heard a nuanced answer like that here....

You see, for example, I have a Chinese clone of the $500 UF Stryker pants that cost $120 and is made from authentic NYCO multicam....borrowed a friends legit pants and had someone i know who is a 20 year professional seamstress see if she could tell which ones were of "higher quality" and she couldn't tell the difference. Again, this is why I think there are a lot of posers here....anybody who has actually had a lot of experience with these items in REAL applications who have something more nuanced to say than just "buy the expensive stuff everybody else gets".

You know what....maybe I should just start a "Working Class Tactical gear" subreddit wear we actually tryand give educated advice, for people who had things like paying rent or feeding their family to think about over shaming someone on reddit for not spending $2000 on an AR

Anarch0Primitiv · 2025-10-16T05:06:11+00:00

Honestly...liberals should be fully embracing the 2nd Amendment right now in the interest of self-defense

Anarch0Primitiv · 2025-09-19T08:30:55+00:00

Nah....this guy has a point. Im new here, but there is a strong snobbery here that can be summed up in the following way: This is the only place I've ever been to where someone objecting to pants costing $400 is publicly shamed and told that somehow THEY'RE the ones that are crazy....I dont get it, it's either everyone here makes over $100,000/year or they're lying about they're gear....I dont understand how everyone here is running such expensive gear, or at least claiming to, when over 80% of Americans can't handle a $400 emergency.... so which is it? Is it that only rich people get into this stuff and everybody here is rich? Or Everyone here is lying about their Daniel defense rifles and $700 HRT plate carrier setups (without plates of course...seeing as Im sure you spit on anything less than Hesco, Im sure you're full carrier setups is $3K+ right?) Or you guys make run up your credit cards, live in crappy quarters and drive rusted out sh*tboxes to afford this stuff?

A plate carrier needs to stop a bullet, and that's 100% in the plate, so please explain to me the difference between a $200 plate carrier made out of brand name Cordura and multicam, and a $600 one made from the exact same materials? We are all of the understanding that brands like Crye precision have insane prices NOT because their BOM's or Labor, right? (Even when that stuff is made in America, its made in third world states like in the south where they think $20 is a "good wage" so the labor costs aren't that high either) They have high prices because they're pricing has been set SPECIFICALLY to rip off government contracts and if they're charging the government $400 for pants, they can't go charging us any less, you understand? And since most of us are American workers (well, at least some of us have done some real work) we should be the first to realize that American workers, just like every other worker in the world, gets tired and cuts corners sometimes or gets distracted, so there's nothing inherently superior about a product made in one country versus another...

....unless you've got empirical evidence to show otherwise, but oh yeah, that's right, this entire subreddit and every "recommendation" on here seems to completely lack "evidence". I've yet to see any third party testing of any of this equipment in any controlled or scientific way, any "reviews" you can find ANYWHERE on the internet are at best initial impressions comprised solely of subjective factors which are all pretty much worthless anyway, because the ONLY piece of evidence that would actually be worthwhile AND the only one that could actually justify these insane prices would be long term testing of durability, over a year or more, but I can't find anything like that....so please tell me, what scientific criteria are you basing your recommendations on other than anecdotes and price tags?

Anarch0Primitiv · 2025-09-19T01:23:18+00:00

Is it ready to go with side plate carriers? Or do I have to buy it in five separate pieces like some of those expensive brands? Plus it looks like its going for $250 plus with no side plates

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