Serious CPU, From the outside looking in
I just bought a new PC a couple years ago, an HP Omen which was tagged as a serious gaming rig. I have been less than thrilled with the purchase as the system had cooling issues which required me to install a liquid cooler as well as a flaky video card that has failed not once, but twice. With adding the 360 camera to my arsenal the Omen’s ability to crunch video files, which is very CPU intensive, has been a bottleneck. I’ve decided to relieve some of that pressure with a custom built PC by a local company. For the first time I will not have an Intel CPU at the heart of my system. I am going with the AMD Ryzen 9 3900X, which when paired with 3600MHZ memory should chew up video editing significantly faster than my Omen does. As has been the case in the past, my Omen will then get transformed into Cindy’s PC which will be a sweet upgrade for her.
For some reason I have found myself thinking about the state of America and specifically the state of people that steadfastly, unconditionally, and lustfully support Donald Trump. I’m not sure why I even decided to think about it. At this point I have just written it off as a sad fact of life in today’s society, greedy, verbally aggressive liars are the new hot trend.
Still, I thought about this further. To pretty much every single person in the United States, Kim Jong Un is viewed as a ruthless and evil dictator that has moved North Korea back into the dark ages. His time in power has resulted in infinite amounts of misery for the population. However despite all of this whenever he is seen in public he is surrounded by wild enthusiasm by the same people he loves to oppress. Sound familiar?
I have absolutely no doubt that the the majority of the civilized countries beyond our borders look at the current state of the United States with similar levels of confusion and concern. How in 2020 racism, suppression, division, bullying, and minuscule vocabularies has become the accepted status quo in America is bewildering to me.
To imagine that we have a sitting president that would send this out over social media is embarrassing yet not surprising based on the prior four years. I would love to ask Trump supporters that are also parents a very simple question. As you are raising/raised your child, would you have encouraged name calling, bullying, lying, sexual predator, racist, or egotistical behavior in them? Of course you wouldn’t. If that is the case, why would you support a man that exhibits all of these behaviors in spades, as your president? It’s one of life’s mysteries to me. I can only hope the book of horrors can be closed in a few weeks.
In my most recent edition of AARP magazine, (don’t laugh), they had Q&A with both candidates. It was a crystal clear reflection on the mentality of Donald Trump, the ONLY thing he thinks that matters is a high stock market number. No matter what question that was posed to him, even a question about the racial conflict that has blossomed under his leadership, his answer was basically the same. We had the strongest economy in history before the “China Virus”. I kid you not, that was the gist of his answer.