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Cesar Battistini Maziero said:

Why are people on the left so angry? 

I'm a lifelong Republican, a dyed-in-the-wool Reaganite back in the day and a door-to-door campaigner for Richard Nixon at my tender age of 13 as a Young Republican. 
Mr. Trump is not representative of my beliefs, nor hardly a shining example of the best America has to offer. We should have done so much better than this, and could have if my chosen party had the cajones.

One branch of our government will not be doing it's sworn duty in the short-term, but perhaps by this time next year Congress will have found where they left their backbone. We have three branches for good reason. 

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JFC_PA said:

Other than suspicions has anyone ever delivered actual proof of any PRC security violations involving TikTok? Relying on Trump, the originator of the entire jihad, is sAd. 

PRC is a total dictatorship that maintains an adversarial stand against the West.  Even if the PRC is not tapping into the TikTok network and  database right now, there is no institutional roadblock, such as an independent judiciary, that would stop Dictator Xi if he decides that he wants data from TikTok. 

China doesn't allow US-based social apps to conduct business in China because he doesn't trust the NSA and CIA.  Why should we trust Chinese social apps then, given that the Chinese security apparatus has even less institutional oversight than the NSA and CIA?

The fact that China doesn't seem to have tapped TikTok for intel and mass manipulation doesn't mean that they can't or won't.

Now do Russian disinformation disseminated in the US via Meta and Xitter.

And start with a couple members of Congress who are prone to repeating the Russian disinformation, all but word-for-word English translations in some cases passed off as being something the Congressional Representative came up with.  

braytonak said:

I have to disagree with such a favorable rating. 

Backlight banding when auto brightness is enabled? Unusable HDR over USB-C? Those two points alone should barely earn 4. 

Add in the unlabeled controls (unless the labels appear on-screen,) cheap plastic, and speakers that are most likely only good enough for notifications to really make it a pass-with-a-push. 

I know, the point is the display itself. I’ve waited almost ten years for a decent 5K. Maybe the next Studio Display will be the sweet spot. 

I have two ProArt's now, both 32" for graphics work. I would agree more with the author.

Speakers on a monitor are for users who don't care all that much about sound quality. Good enough for a few Youtube videos but not for great music. So that's not a ProArt fail IMO.

Banding with auto-dim only on a very pale background is another non-issue as far as I'm concerned. I have my monitors in the same place under the same lighting 24/7, and all of them with hoods to minimize stray light. Why would I want persistent auto-dim? My major objection is it changes my perceived color tones. That's the same reason I turn off auto-dim on my SmartTV. I would understand if the light was constantly in flux, like with my smartphone wanderings. For the limited want to dim my computer monitor. manually doing so once or twice a week as desired (or in my case never) isn't problematic. Again, not an Asus fail. 

Controls? Yes they are labeled on screen, but I will agree I'm no fan of how Asus incorporates the controls. It could be improved. Fortunately that's another feature that's rarely touched after setup. Dimming can be accomplished with a hot key.

Plastic exterior components? They're not hammers so what's the issue with a lighter build. You set it up and forget it. My current Asus monitors are solid. 

Built in KVM works for me. Both systems that use my Asus monitors are set up with two computers/one monitor, one for design and one for RIP, and we go back and forth regularly each day. Mine are set up with separate KVM's, another box to make room for. Built-in = better. 

For color accuracy and system compatibility, I could not be happier, and mine are only 4K. The value of this 5K monitor far outweighs the out-of-pocket cost. "You can buy two and still have money left over versus buying Apple's expensive Studio Display" means a whole lot more to me than whether a monitor frame is plastic. 

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hodar said:

Who said that LGBTQ or minorities cannot be qualified?  How about hiring the brightest, the best and most talented without regard to their skin color, their plumbing or things that have absolutely nothing to do with things unrelated to the job?  Hire by merit, that's how Apple got out of the garage.

Funny how “merit” wasn’t important when systematically refusing to hire certain genders and ethnicities was de rigeur. There was no meritocracy then. Now, as soon as anyone talks about systematically extending opportunities to the same people who were previously systematically excluded, we hear how there must be a meritocracy. There’s not much merit in that. 

Agreed. The way to fight hate, is with more hate!

DEI is literally the opposite of hate. Hate is exclusion. Inclusion is literally what the I stands for. Increasing the recruitment pool almost always yields stronger teams. 

Favoring one group or groups over another group is inherently exclusionary to the latter group. Thus, by your definition, DEI is hateful (which is obvious).

You don’t seem to know what the definition of “definition” is. 

Taking down the “whites only” signs in a public high school and escorting black kids in to assure they get the same books and same teachers as the white kids is not “favoring one group or groups over another group.” It is enforcing the opposite...

Lately I've found myself agreeing with you far more than not. Thanks for the rational, logical, and unemotional response to baiting.

charlesn said:

Ironic. All this panic over TikTok because, OMG, "the Chinese threat." Gotta shut it down RIGHT. NOW. Meanwhile, human excrement Zuckerberg proudly announces his plan to run unfiltered poison through the veins of America's internet 24/7, via his Facebook/Instagram/Threads applications, and this in addition to his long-standing practice of abusing consumer privacy any way that he can by monetizing your data. But all THIS isn't a problem apparently because he's on.... our side? Really? I'd rather take my chances with Xi. 

It's not panic driven, nor was the law insisting on "right now". They've had nine months to take care of it.
If anyone is in panic mode it is ByteDance. Their own fault for refusing to take it serious enough until the last minute.