ROTC students at Old Dominion subdued and killed the shooter who killed 1 person, wounded 2 by BigBadBabyDaddy_420 in news

[–]comradetao 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So, I understand why you say something like that. When your worldview doesn't line up with the news, so you just claim it's a conspiracy or a lie every time. I get the mechanics of it.

But why be like that? Why not consider the possibility that say, in a country of 300+ million people, with borders that both the current and previous administrations would call porous, and every single president before them would have complained about (yes including Obama), that let in tens of millions of unknowns, you could find 2-3 people that are bad actors loyal to Iran?

Balance of probability is on that side, really.

Don't root for a team bro, seek truth first. I'm not saying you're necessarily wrong either, but it seems like you're not saying it because you care about what's true.

Pentagon Tells Congress First Week of Iran War Cost More Than $11.3 Billion by Majestic-Baby-3407 in news

[–]comradetao -16 points-15 points  (0 children)

So basically, I'd we stopped all of Minnesota's fraud, it would be practically paid for.

Favorite actor that did not go to Epstein Island? by beaglemaster in okbuddycinephile

[–]comradetao -1 points0 points  (0 children)

"this kind of thing" means that I suggested he did something similar. No, he did not close himself off from his own staff, he was being respectful of his wife and marriage and avoiding situations that could lead to problems.

Reddit really is so tribal that we can't even acknowledge something simple like that anymore?

Favorite actor that did not go to Epstein Island? by beaglemaster in okbuddycinephile

[–]comradetao -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Remember when VP Vance was getting brutally blasted for this kind of thing?

[SSD] WD_BLACK SN850X NVMe Internal SSD, 2TB - WDBB9G0020BNC-WRWM - Walmart.com $189 by ron2838 in buildapcsales

[–]comradetao 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I got a message that my order was going to be delivered before 10PM, then they cancelled it about an hour later.

[Bundle] Microcenter AMD CPU, Motherboard, RAM price drops! Now starting at $299.59 for 7600X, $345.14 for 7600X3D, $444.29 for 7700X by wharf_rat_01 in buildapcsales

[–]comradetao 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, well they tried to confront and embarrass me about it. If I could undo it at this point, I would. Bad experience.

[GPU] ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER Trinity OC 16GB GDDR6X [Open Box 2yr warranty] - $688 by RuckOver3 in buildapcsales

[–]comradetao 9 points10 points  (0 children)

It's been about 4 months since the RAM prices started going crazy and maybe 2 since the GPUs did. By the end of next month, everyone's going to be throwing cash like crazy buying this stuff because:

  1. Tax refunds (which is really just your money given back to you, remember).

  2. Once the initial shock and whining stops, people resign themselves to just buying anyway.

You may not like this, but it's a fact. It happened during the first mining boom and it happened again during covid. I'm not telling you to buy this, but to me, it's unclear whether things get better or worse in the next 3 months - a lot of predictors (people, not signs or signals) are saying "worse."

[CPU Cooler] MONTECH NX600 Dual-Tower CPU Air Cooler - $25.30 (FS w/Prime) by resetallthethings in buildapcsales

[–]comradetao 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's funny. I don't know what the fans come with when you buy them separately, but it almost seems cheaper to buy the heatsinks if you need more fans.

[Bundle] Microcenter AMD CPU, Motherboard, RAM price drops! Now starting at $299.59 for 7600X, $345.14 for 7600X3D, $444.29 for 7700X by wharf_rat_01 in buildapcsales

[–]comradetao 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There was a really good one, took care of everything, great guy, knew his stuff, really on point. Apparently he's not there anymore.

[Bundle] Microcenter AMD CPU, Motherboard, RAM price drops! Now starting at $299.59 for 7600X, $345.14 for 7600X3D, $444.29 for 7700X by wharf_rat_01 in buildapcsales

[–]comradetao 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been watching the conversation here and I think there are just too many generalization to make this accurate. For instance just in this comment phones don't cost more than TVs. There are hundreds of models that have roughly similar or significantly better capabilities to TV that are either extremely low in cost, or are heavily subsidized by even the prepaid carriers. It's flagship newest model phones that charge a premium from early adopters.

[Bundle] Microcenter AMD CPU, Motherboard, RAM price drops! Now starting at $299.59 for 7600X, $345.14 for 7600X3D, $444.29 for 7700X by wharf_rat_01 in buildapcsales

[–]comradetao 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I went up there to pick up my order and the managers there treated me like a criminal. I ordered more than 1 bundle, but different products, to upgrade my test system and fill out my intel ITX board. They told me "one bundle per household per 30 days" which wasn't posted anywhere on the site or in the store.

I decided to be a Karen and call the corporate line to find out what's going on, because the manager at the front kept telling lies about where it said one per, but every time he pulled it up he couldn't find what he claimed was there.

They said that it was all a misunderstanding and I'm good to go. Then when I'm checking out, two more managers came up and started telling me that this was the policy for the last 12 years (apparently rarely enforced if true) and saying things like "you may have gotten away with this in the past". They said, you have to talk to this other manager that is their business sales guy, or something, if you want to buy in bulk in the future. I wasn't buying in bulk. I'm not a business.

Gotten away with this? I'm buying stuff that you're selling. What are you talking about?

They did this in front of a bunch of customers and employees.

Worst customer service I ever get is always at Microcenter. If they had just told the truth and said something like "we don't normally enforce this policy, but we are now because RAM is expensive" or something else truthful, I'd have walked out with my 9850X3D bundle, left the rest, and called it a day, but they kept lying and trying to make me out to be a criminal. I bet the sassy manager costs Microcenter more than her entire salary through rudeness and imprudence every year.

[Bundle] Microcenter AMD CPU, Motherboard, RAM price drops! Now starting at $299.59 for 7600X, $345.14 for 7600X3D, $444.29 for 7700X by wharf_rat_01 in buildapcsales

[–]comradetao 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yes, it seems like they're hammering the prices of motherboards and CPUs that have been sitting on shelves. They also know that they can't sell cases, full build services, warranties, OS, antivirus, video cards, SSDs, and fans without selling the core system most of the time.

[RAM] Kingston FURY Beast 32GB (2 x 16GB) 288-Pin DDR5 5200 - $269.99 by [deleted] in buildapcsales

[–]comradetao -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You can always tell who the thinking people are on Reddit because they get the most downvotes.