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indieshack said:

They lost me at 27”

By far the most popular size.  I was hoping for at least 30", but I get why they stuck with 27" for this one - the $1500 price point is pretty amazing and I'm sure they wouldn't have been anywhere near that if they went with a larger panel  

KBuffett said:

Does anyone know if this can be used with a PC?

Sure - whether you can get 5K will depend on your video card and motherboard.  If you don't have a video card with Thunderbolt built in, look closely at your motherboard - many motherboards have a display port input so you can get the output from your video card through the Thunderbolt controller on your motherboard.  Many people don't realize their motherboards can do this - heck I have an Asus Maximus board that I didn't realize had a Displayport input for this; I just assumed it was an out if you had a CPU with integrated graphics.  Ha!

nicholfd said:

And "figure it out for yourself" doesn't work when people choose to ignore real facts, truth & science.  Persuasion doesn't work when people act like this, either.

And trying to "fix" that is worse than butting out and minding your own business. 

nicholfd said:
Based on your reply, I don't think you understand section 230.  You should read it.

Again - it's their platform/company.  It's their choice to run it as they see fit within the bounds of the current law, not the government's or the public.

Oh I understand the mess that is 230 and how the big tech companies are abusing it for all they are worth.  Indeed, if you go back and read/watch the discussions around 230 and what it was originally intended to do, to call what is going on today abuse is being overly kind. 

Will anyone have the balls to fix it?  I guess we will see.  The next three years should be very interesting...

nicholfd said:

W(here)TF did you get that idea?  I never made any statements about what is real & what is fake, or wanting to be the "source of truth".  I have no desire to be involved with the general public or control anything or anyone.  Maybe you need to take your tinfoil hat off (based on your reply to my simple comment).

Just look at what's happened in the US alone, in the past few years.  Science, facts & common sense don't seem to apply anymore, to a lot of people. 

Well you are seeming to advocate (yet again!) that people are too stupid to think for themselves - you typed out "Science, facts & common sense don't seem to apply anymore, to a lot of people."  Those are your words - thoughts that you have repeated **twice** now.  

So if you aren't going to be the arbiter of science, facts or common sense for those of us too dumb to figure it out on their own, then who is?  

Me personally, figure it out for yourself.  I don't need anyone else telling me what is science, what is factual or what common sense is.  Someone can argue their position, but anyone who declares they are the truth and the way is going to get nothing but scorn and skepticism from me.  Will I alway get it right?  Nope - thinking that anyone is always going to get it right is a pretty dumb and unrealistic standard anyway so I don't know why people like you spend so much time going on about it.  

Do I think the yahoos running any of the media or social media companies are going to be any better at discerning science, fact or common sense?  Hell no!  Just look at the idiots they rely on to "fact check" - it's laughable.  

Here's a wild thought.  Stop obsessing about all those science, facts and common sense everyone else gets wrong - worry about your own understanding of things.  And if you think someone else got it wrong, work on your ability to persuade them to maybe see things like you do.  And if they still don't then maybe you don't have as firm a grasp on the facts as you think you do - or maybe they just like being ignorant.  I sure as hell know the answer isn't some quasi all knowing cabal dictating what the approved thought of the day is.  If you like that totalitarian shit just move to China already.  Maybe you too will get a cushy paid job to gaslight in the forums like some of our fellow posters apparently are. 

Our system may be messy, but at least it's the good kind of mess.  I'll take a free mess over tyrannic oder all day every day.