No, I’m pointing out the concept of sampling bias. There are no doubt valid criticisms of the Iranian government as there are with every government.

When I hear Iranian immigrants on cable news being like “it’s good the U.S. is bombing the homes of people I used to live with” I’m like “that’s a crazy take”. more precisely “why would someone wish something so horrible on their former neighbor”.

Just cause you lived somewhere for a while doesn’t mean you know what is best for the people still living there. It may imply a certain level of knowledge. But those people can still have bad takes --just like Americans can have bad takes about America-- and those bad takes can be biased by the particular experience they have had and that’s worth considering.

That seems like a biased sample set.

You’re telling me all the people who have had problems with the government think the government is bad? I’m shocked!

One of the ways the Soviets lost the cold war was that the USSR was just straight up a smaller country than the US. The US just had more resources to throw at whatever dick measuring contest they decided to engage in.

With the new cold war with China that shoe is on the other foot.

The steam machine will be about as powerful as your PS5. It’s unfortunate with pricing being where it is.

I always just upgrade my PC piecemeal. The biggest component for you to upgrade first would be your GPU. Even a RTX3060 or a RX6600 would be an improvement over what you have there.

If you went with the AMD option and installed bazzite/linux that would be pretty close to the specs for the upcoming steam machine. You would probably benefit from some of the optimizations Valve will inevitably do for their hardware over the next couple years… That is if you don’t need Windows for anything.

On your CPU you have a ton of options on the AM4 platform and 16GB of ram is still very usable.

Or just see what the actual steam machine does on pricing. But I’m no longer as optimistic about that given what Valve just did with pricing on the steam deck.

All right we just need the rooster. Does even one single lemming have a single shred of swag?

Who am I kidding, I think our team is fucked.

Which member of this gang would you be?

I feel like rooster is their leader, so I probably don’t have the swag to be rooster, though I wish I could be… After careful consideration, I think I’m goat.

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Just let me enjoy one thing.