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Amazon letting sellers post ads for ~$3K graphics cards, and then the seller ships them fanny packs. Confirmed multiple times and in reviews.

Almost too tempting...

EDIT: 🤣🤣 Look at seller reviews: https://files.catbox.moe/wg1oqi.png

DONT DO IT.

Per a previous post, I actually tried it due to the FBA return policy, cause I was putting it on an empty amz card, and cause I was bored. 🥱😏

you get a Fanny pack

I recorded the shit out of opening the package and reported it as fraud. A few people were doing the exact same thing (ordering it it case it was real, and recording opening of the package to CYA) cause we were also bored 😂

out of the norm, you have to take detailed pics and the charge stays on your card until they receive Fanny pack (yes you have to send it back 😂🤣) and ‘inspect it’ I guess due to the massive number of returns and fraud reports+ add to that the normal refund period. Not even a credit to your account would be instant once you return it to a drop off. 😕

Clearly a waste of time but will mess you up serious if you use a debit card or if there is any sort of delay that results in them receiving it late, and taking too long to process it.

Amazon will not make you whole on this. Maybe they give you a shitty coupon (some people reported a $10 credit 😒) and it’s not worth your time.

https://imgur.com/a/dHlrKnh

https://imgur.com/a/tYKVyHz

You'd think Amazon would suspend the seller or remove the listing the moment 20+ people all reported it and returned it for the same reason instead of removing the reviews and letting people get scammed (and then dragging their feet getting the defrauded people their money back)

I just received my AORUS RTX 5090 from Amazon, sold and shipped directly by Amazon as brand new. When I opened the box, it was clearly an open-box item and contained only a PCB with no GPU chip or VRAM installed. How does Amazon ship something like this as new?

I saw that the other day. Was tempted, but then when I checked the store all the reviewers were 1 stars saying that they got a fanny pack instead of what they ordered. Amazon, being Amazon had removed or crossed the review out because it was fulfilled by them not the store, basically allowing them to defraud people

One day the mighty data centre could be toppled into obsolescence by the humble smartphone, said Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas on a recent podcast.

Apple's AI system, Apple Intelligence, already runs some features on specialised chips inside the firm's latest range of products.

Microsoft's Copilot+ laptops also include on-device AI processing.

a few years ago I heard about a tiny data centre, the size of a washing machine, that was being operated in Devon, UK. In addition to its computing power, the heat it was releasing was warming a public swimming pool.

He thinks every public building should instead house a small data centre, working in a large network with each other where required, and providing heating as a by-product.

In just the past week, President Donald Trump has ordered defense companies to halt dividends and stock buybacks, and limited executive compensation to $5 million a year; ordered Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to buy $200 billion of mortgage-backed securities; ordered an array of energy firms to invest in Venezuelan oil infrastructure, called for a 10 percent cap on credit card interest rates; announced steps to ban institutional purchases of single-family homes; and opened a criminal investigation into Jerome Powell's handling of Federal Reserve building renovations in an attempt to influence monetary policy.

good 12v battery replacement vid

We used the Remy 12V Battery AUX18L

In the US it's important to know that you can use the: Energizer TX24HL AGM Motorcycle and ATV 12V Battery​ as a replacement for the 12 volt. It costs $105 at Amazon. Its been working flawlessly since November of 2023. It may be important to note that in my 2014 the entire car went dead and I had to watch a YouTube to find the emergency hood pull. I had bought the car from a dealer in 2017 so my original 12 volt was between 7 and 9 years old. Absolutely amazing.

I’d caution slightly. This battery seems to be a different physical size than the OEM, and the terminals look different as well. I like this one, because it is a one for one replacement: https://remybattery.com/start-stop-aux18l-auxiliary-battery.html

I worked with Ohmmu to ensure that its LFP battery would work well with an i3. The i3 DC-DC converter's output voltage is ideal for an LFP battery. The 0.5V higher resting voltage of Ohmmu's LFP isn't a problem with an i3's 12V electronics because 12V components are designed work well with the 14.0+ output voltage of the DC-DC converter. The higher resting voltage and the much more flat voltage vs. charge level curve of a LFP battery means that the risk of all of the spurious DTC's being stored when the OEM battery's voltage drops too low when it fails isn't as great with a LFP battery. My Ohmmu LFP battery has been in our former 2019 and current 2021 i3's for about a year without any problems.

If your car still has its original 12 volt battery, your problems may be caused by a 12 volt battery failure. They tend to fail within 4 or 5 years, and, when they do, the car becomes completely inoperable.

You'll need roughly 12" of space per bike, plus 12" on either side of the bikes on the ends. For example, my 5 bikes needed ~7 feet of wall space. For my area, I used two 8 foot long 2x4s and cut them each down to roughly 84". The upper 2x4 should be mounted roughly 14" above the lower 2x4. This will stagger your bikes so that their handlebars don't clash.

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Trump has been impeached twice, though the Senate acquitted him both times.

In December 2019, the House voted to impeach Trump on two articles, one charging him with abuse of power by asking Ukrainian officials to investigate his political opponent and another that he obstructed the congressional investigation into the matter. In February 2020, the Senate voted to acquit the president, and Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, was the only Republican to cross party lines in voting to convict.

In January 2021, the House voted to impeach Trump again, charging the president with "incitement to insurrection" related to the events at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. 10 Republicans broke ranks and voted with Democrats to impeach Trump. Only two of those 10 lawmakers are still in office, and one of them has said he will not seek re-election in 2026. The others retired from Congress or lost their races.

The Senate trial occurred after Trump left office, and some Republicans found it unnecessary since he was no longer in power. A majority voted to convict with seven Republicans crossing party lines, but the 57-43 vote fell short of the two-thirds majority needed for a conviction.

Republican Sen. Thom Tillis (N.C.), a senior member of the Senate Banking Committee, is questioning the “credibility” of the Department of Justice’s investigation of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and threatening to oppose President Trump’s nominees to the central bank until the matter is resolved.

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The peer-reviewed Journal of the American Medical Association looked at 74 articles on studies on the links between IQ points and fluoride. Authors of the JAMA article determined that there is a high risk of scientific bias in 52 of those studies and a low risk of bias in 22. Forty-five of the articles originated from China.

The links between fluoride and loss of intelligence show up when the fluoride levels in water are above 1.5 milligrams per liter, the JAMA review found.

“There were limited data and uncertainty in the dose-response association between fluoride exposure and children’s IQ when fluoride exposure was estimated by drinking water alone at concentrations less than 1.5 mg/L,” the JAMA review said.

“That’s much higher than what we use for public water fluoridation,” said Washington state health officer Kwan-Gett.

The CDC says the recommended level for fluoride in a public water system is 0.7 milligrams per liter. Dorow pointed to the centuries-old concept that the dose of a substance often dictates whether or not it is poisonous, not the substance itself.

“There are no negative impacts at normal levels,” Kwan-Gett said.

To some "free speech" means you're free to say only what they want you to say.

The State Department is instructing its staff to reject visa applications from people who worked on fact-checking, content moderation or other activities the Trump administration considers “censorship” of Americans’ speech.

First Amendment experts criticized the memo’s guidance as itself a potential violation of free speech rights.

“People who study misinformation and work on content-moderation teams aren’t engaged in ‘censorship’— they’re engaged in activities that the First Amendment was designed to protect. This policy is incoherent and unconstitutional,” said Carrie DeCell, senior staff attorney and legislative advisor at the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, in a statement.

Even as the administration has targeted those it claims are engaged in censoring Americans, it has also tightened its own scrutiny of visa applicants’ online speech.

On Wednesday, the State Department announced it would require H-1B visa applicants and their dependents to set their social media profiles to “public” so they can be reviewed by U.S. officials.

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