i feel like rtx for gpus is like 3d for tvs.

it's nice, but it's not worth the upgrade.

and the popular games (fortnite, apex legends, dota, counter-strike, league of legends) have no ray-tracing whatsoever. that ai machine-learning ray-tracing premium you're paying isn't even in that game that you'll spend 40 hours a week playing. apart from BFV, no major multi-player game supports it, and there's only so much of a single player game you can play (metro exodus and rise of the tomb raider (which still has no ray-tracing) are no witcher).

That's exactly what i'm talking about. clearly, you and your wife believe teaching is very valuable (you called it "far more nobler... that actually make a difference") but whoever pays public school teachers (the state, presumably) doesn't value it as much and therefore pays low salaries.

so, even in financial terms from your perspective, you're coming out on top because you receive greater benefit from having your spouse stay at home with the kids compared with the salary of a public school teacher. compare this to someone who would rather receive the salary but then spend it all paying for someone else to raise their children, provide nurturing, entertainment and everything else that stay-at-home parents do.

obviously both parents couldn't stay at home if they wanted (if they didn't have other sources of income) but you get why sometimes this arrangement is undervalued.

people underestimate the value of a stay at home parent.

a lot of skills can be picked up by kids whose parents have all the energy to pour into them, compared to kids who have both parents working full-time.

for example, i know someone who learned to play a musical instrument, 2 languages, gardening, cooking, various art skills and first aid from stay at home parents (both parents stayed at home for long periods depending on their jobs). some skills he would never have learned (his parents are both multilingual with only english common) and others would have cost a fortune to pay for classes.

on top of all that, it's even harder to put a price on the relationship and bonding experiences shared by stay at home parents and their children, and how it can affect the rest of their lives. people seem to view children as merely a financial burden, and that they don't carry the responsibility of teaching them, giving them the training and advice they need to live out the rest of their lives and maybe do something good for other people, and even (outrageous, i know!) for the rest of humanity?

is it so hard to believe that some people don't have the time/energy to care for and be with their children AND work at the same time? i'm sure lots of people can do both, but it's not for everyone.

i'm with @tryit here, @blackballs. Success has more to do with opportunity than hard work. there's literally a term for it, it's called social mobility.

Check out socioeconomic mobility in the US. Socioeconomic mobility in the United States refers to the upward or downward movement of Americans from one social class or economic level to another,^[1] through job changes, inheritance, marriage, connections, tax changes, innovation, illegal activities, hard work, lobbying, luck, health changes or other factors.

I don't know if you're in the US, but either way, the US is a great example because americans tend to believe in the "american dream", ie everyone who works hard is successful, and as a result tend to greatly overestimate it.

i could paste the whole wikipedia article here, but i want you to do some hard work.

i read a lot. i started the wh40k series a while back, and i'm on book 40-something. hoping to finish the series one day. i used to read a lot of fiction of all sorts when i was in school, but now i feel like i'm more into sci fi.

as for non-fiction, i like to read news, current affairs, longform writing on technology, politics, stuff like that.

"there are more guns now in australia than there were in 1995": proportional to the number of people in australia, gun numbers are down. US: other way round.

there's no excuse for the FBI. but other countries reduced mass shootings without FBI help, so they must be doing something right.

"gun crimes have been steadily declining" "majority of gun crimes are comitted with illegally obtained firearms. How would more regulations help?" just look at australia. They did everything you claim won't help, and yet it worked for them. i gave this example so you could look at it, compare it with the US, and then tell me why it wouldn't work in the US.

instead, you gave me one statistic with no context, another that doesn't refute the statistics i provided, and then told me i need education on reading statistics.

yeah, an amnesty 22 years after implementing serious gun control shows just how effective said gun control has been, not to mention the rarity of mass shootings (Australia's deadliest mass shooting was in 1996(35 dead)). the deadliest mass shooting since then killed just 5 people.

if america is serious about gun control, it can get rid of the guns. it's not going to happen tomorrow, but merely restricting guns is going to save american lives.

right now, what's happening is that mass shootings are getting deadlier and more frequent. the deadliest mass shooting in US history was last year; the 2nd deadliest was in 2016. by all reasonable estimates, if nothing is done, these attacks will continue to get worse.

what's crazy is that americans are ok with this. they just don't seem to be too motivated enough to do anything about it all.

A recent australian gun amnesty yielded 57,000 guns. australia had a mass shooting 1996, and after proper gun control, they don't have any more.

if you want to go in the other other direction, look at pakistan. they had terrorist attacks (with AK's and grenades) on schools with over a hundred dead and moronic politicians decided to train and arm some teachers. it's now part of life for students and teachers to get accidentally shot.

i have a question for americans: how do you feel about countries like australia, england, and germany, which are considered some of the freest western countries in the world, but don't have your 2nd amendment and school shootings? do you feel the people in these countries are any less safe or less free than americans?

let's all say he's a terrorist and call it day.

i got it. i'm enjoying it so far. i've only ever tried one total war before, the naval one, and i didn't like it. i'm not a strategy fan.