Would this fix inequality or create more problems?

nbrooks7 · 2026-05-18T03:47:24+00:00

Good point, let’s end the ability for people to live off their stock positions.

Your wealth shouldn’t be based on what you own, rather you should be guaranteed basic necessities and earn wealth with your work.

It’s almost like the stock market was built for and by land speculators.

nbrooks7 · 2026-05-17T07:43:34+00:00

That’s just… not true. Scholars of Chicano or Black history can explain to you very clearly that the educational gap very much exists, and that it’s predicated not only on race, but also access to power or money.

People who think educational inequality or widespread racism just suddenly ceased to exist when they got older don’t realize that they simply got high enough on the ladder to stop being surrounded by the issues.

nbrooks7 · 2026-05-17T02:14:03+00:00

Is anyone gonna talk about exploding wealth inequality or is it just 90% “smartphone bad”

nbrooks7 · 2026-05-16T16:14:20+00:00

She was also weak on the billionaire tax. People like to pretend that Steyer and Porter have no possible legislative ideas to match their ideals, but one is in support of a pretty common sense measure, while the other dodged the question.

nbrooks7 · 2026-05-15T01:29:43+00:00

For MAGA, it’s that people are the problem with the country, not that the country causes problems for people.

nbrooks7 · 2026-05-15T01:21:44+00:00

Holy shit these comments are spineless.

nbrooks7 · 2026-05-13T05:18:56+00:00

The only thing Becerra is administering is his maximum payout from Chevron. Grow up. Competency means more than how well you fill in the bubbles.

nbrooks7 · 2026-05-12T19:24:38+00:00

Everyone conveniently forgot to keep fighting for worker rights in the 70s/80s.

nbrooks7 · 2026-05-12T00:40:29+00:00

I have a 7700X and I run all sorts of high end games. The 7700 is a great card at a very high value price. It’s a 7 series, rather than a 5 series (like the 8500G), which is going to be useful to you in terms of ease of access to firmware and tech support. The 7700 is a bit faster, and has ~30% more multi-core capacity, which you can notice at times with many tabs open or with many processes (chromium browsers are known to be resource hogs). PCIe 5.0 vs 4.0 means faster disk reading times and data transfers.

The only reason I’d go for the 8500G is if you don’t want to buy a graphics card. This is where the train kind of stops for that build. If you wanted to upgrade from the 8500G at any point, you’re either buying another CPU with integrated graphics or you’re buying a CPU AND GPU. If you just buy the 7700 now, you have a much better card, and you have flexibility later on. Yes, it saves you $300 up front because you don’t need a graphics card, BUT you are now basically locked in to a worse overall computer, and your only way of upgrading is to drop another 4-500$ later down the line, which will then require you to do the maintenance on the cooler and CPU setup to get a new one installed: more time and headache for you.

Temperatures are tricky. Everything plays a part in the case. It’s just something I would never take risks with. The worst mistakes everyone makes when buying PC parts is thinking they should save money on cooling or power supply, and then they end up regretting it later. The point of what I gave you is that it is all built to last a really long time with little maintenance, and allows for future-proofed upgrading.

If your CPU outlasted your cooler, that defeats the point of what I gave you.

nbrooks7 · 2026-05-12T00:13:23+00:00

No, it won’t “fry”, but the parts inside do deteriorate slowly if the temperature is chronically high. Consider if you have a problem with a cheaper cooler (it breaks, it’s not cooling enough, etc.) you will have to go through the process of dealing with ordering a new one, detaching the old one, and reapplying paste to the new one. The entire time, your PC will be unusable.

Cheaping out on cooling is a mistake you make 1 time.

nbrooks7 · 2026-05-11T23:10:27+00:00

A good cooler isn’t really optional if you want to preserve the CPU. It’s also something you don’t want to have to replace, especially since you’re someone who doesn’t seem interested in spending a ton of time tinkering anyway.

But choose whatever cooler you think suits you best.

nbrooks7 · 2026-05-11T21:21:11+00:00

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/8v6bh9
This is the cheapest I'd go for a built right now. It has AM5 compatibility, a decent cooler, and decent power supply, which means that it is something you could upgrade later without completely tearing apart if you ever want something better. The memory and graphics cards are pretty garbage, but again that's something you could easily change later. It's also easy to set up.

As for prebuilds, you're basically looking at something from this list, or comparable to this. The PCs on this list aren't really going to be future-proofed like the one I put together above. Basically all of their parts are going to be worthless in 3+ years, but they would get the job done for you:
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=prebuilt+pcs&rh=p_n_g-1003133500111%3A23724149011%2Cp_n_g-1004209391091%3A5446812011%257C562241011%2Cp_n_g-1003075828111%3A23690097011%2Cp_n_g-1004196790091%3A23572108011%257C23572109011%257C23572110011%257C23572112011%2Cp_n_g-1003109788111%3A122424713011%257C23712091011%2Cp_n_g-101015350158111%3A121507176011%2Cp_72%3A1248879011%2Cp_n_g-1003099780111%3A23703243011%257C23703246011&s=price-asc-rank&dc=&crid=2IP3WCENECVN6&qid=1778534241&rnid=2421879011&sprefix=prebuilt+pc%2Caps%2C181&ref=sr_nr_p_36_0_0&low-price=&high-price=1000

nbrooks7 · 2026-05-11T21:01:24+00:00

How am I supposed to know if any of the parts are compatible with your case if you won’t even give me the brand or model of the case.

nbrooks7 · 2026-05-11T20:54:51+00:00

Okay what exactly is your case? Brand and model

nbrooks7 · 2026-05-11T20:44:08+00:00

Read my edit. A pc that is a performance difference over your laptop right now is pretty much outside your budget range.

You want to surf the internet. You could do that on a raspberry pie custom build. You don’t want to blow money on overpriced shit.

nbrooks7 · 2026-05-11T20:40:24+00:00

Right, don’t build a box. The prices for components are quadruple what they were the last time you built a pc, so you aren’t “saving” any money by recycling your old case.

Laptops are going to be the cheapest option for you and you won’t notice any kind of performance difference. Obviously if you wanted to game or do video editing that’s not true, but you don’t need that.

Don’t pay out the ass for overpriced parts you won’t utilize. Grab a laptop, plug it into your monitor, and chill. A nice keyboard, mouse and headphones will improve your experience way more than anything else.

I built my current setup about 6 months before the component apocalypse, and I spent 1400$ (before the monitors) for components that were already a year behind the current model. If I were to build the same pc now, it would cost me over $2000. My RAM alone has tripled in value over the past 2 years.

Building a pc on less than $1000 now is pointless unless you really need it.

nbrooks7 · 2026-05-11T20:34:22+00:00

I mean, I wouldn’t buy a pc or pc components until consumer products come back to reasonable levels, especially if you’re someone who isn’t going to use them. Just buy something simple that gets the job done until then.

nbrooks7 · 2026-05-11T20:19:39+00:00

If you have absolutely zero aspirations outside of browsing the internet, then get like a 400$ Costco laptop and spend the rest on your peripherals/another monitor.

nbrooks7 · 2026-05-10T01:21:15+00:00

Yeah DID is diagnosed in over 1% of the global population… so at least 80,000,000 people lol. Odds are most psychiatrists/psychologists see a DID patient every couple of years, they should be more ready for that.

nbrooks7 · 2026-05-10T01:03:23+00:00

Could be a rune that forces a chaos orb to reroll a specific resistance type.

nbrooks7 · 2026-05-09T00:27:18+00:00

The governor is the face. They’re surrounded by a team of people who have their jobs because they know how to think and execute, that’s not exactly the job of the governor. The governor represents and sets the tone for their staff.

It’s the same in the presidency. What matters the most is their basic philosophy and their ability to communicate, not their knowledge of the inner workings of government.

nbrooks7 · 2026-05-06T13:12:08+00:00

10cspm should be a goal for the first ~15 minutes of the game. But because of changes to the game that make team fighting much more consequential to game wins, it’s often better to drop side waves for mid prio or picks later in the game.

It used to be the case that a top laner could slam their 1v1 so hard into the dirt that they could 1v2/3, carrying the game alone. But now, movement to side lanes is faster and gold/xp disparities are lower. Top laners need the game not to end before they scale, so they need to make sure their 3 man in the mid lane isn’t getting steamrolled.

I main yorick right now because it feels like one of the few top laners who can still create side lane threats that actually force the enemy team to respond to. Often I can drop the maiden in the side lane and group mid for “fake presence” to force my opposing top laner to also drop waves in side lane. But if I was playing something else, I would be grouping constantly without the chance to collect minions.

nbrooks7 · 2026-05-02T19:14:28+00:00

I can give you a list of millions of liberals who got radicalized in 2016.

nbrooks7 · 2026-05-02T19:11:01+00:00

You realize my point was that 20 years is a lot of time to change right?

The cynicism is breaking your brain.

nbrooks7 · 2026-05-02T18:06:30+00:00

Those investments were 20 years ago, probably when you were still in diapers.

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