But what about…

The 1060 is an eight year old mid-range card, lacking almost all of the features that are setting nvidia apart from AMD these days. It has CUDA, but on its own, that’s mostly useful only for non-gaming applications. AMD is lagging behind, but they are not lagging that far behind. AMD has trouble keeping up with 20xx cards and newer, especially when it comes to ray-tracing and upscaling. FSR, while supporting older cards and being manufacturer-agnostic (that’s why even your old Nvidia card is supported), is a crutch that comes with serious visual downgrades, whereas DLSS improves both performance and visuals. This matters in all market segments. Ray-tracing meanwhile is mostly a mid-range and up thing - and while newer AMD cards support it, their performance relative to otherwise equivalent Nvidia cards is lagging far behind.

I hope you are merely trolling.

-> https://i.imgur.com/PTq7u8a.jpeg

Now I definitely know you’re a Russian troll. This is exactly the kind of political apathy the Russian regime wants to establish in America after having done so at home years ago.

The two parties are nowhere near the same on this topic, there is no genocide being funded and the whole handler nonsense makes you sound like a Russian troll.

Voting for a third party candidate only helps Trump. They might as well just vote for him directly. The outcome is the same and if America and the world are unlucky enough to experience a second Trump term, then these idiots would strongly regret their decision. Palestinians wouldn’t be the only ones to suffer from this.

On one hand yes, but on the other hand, he also likes to cozy up to dictators to an alarming degree.

My mistake, I meant Al-Qassam. Thanks for the correction.

No. There are far, far more aid workers in Gaza than anywhere else relative to the size of the population. I thought I was pretty clear on that this is the reason. Aid agencies are by far the biggest employers for Palestinians. Now add in just how many aid workers in Gaza in particular moonlight at the Al-Aqsa brigades and you see why when Israel kills a few fighters, it’s not unlikely that they get someone who has a day job as an aid worker. It’s just like with “journalists” who are not just on Hamas payroll, but even imprison hostages in their household.

The percentage of aid workers killed corresponds roughly to the death toll among the total population of Gaza. The reason why in absolute numbers so many aid workers have been killed is that there is no other place in the world where there are so many aid workers relative to the general population, in part due to the fact that Palestinians are the only people in the world that have their own refugee agency, which runs many services that would usually be run by the local government, like school and healthcare.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/22/world/middleeast/israeli-hostages-autopsies.html

Interestingly, the IDF is less certain about their cause of death than the victims’ relatives. It’s worth stressing that relatives of hostages tend to be far more interested in explanations and solutions that are less, shall we say, negative towards Hamas. That they are not in this case is quite unusual.

Most dead hostages found in the strip so far were in shallow graves, with gunshot wounds from close up executions.

Thank you. I was seriously growing tired of watching you working yourself off on the strawman you fabricated in your mind. How on Earth you came up with the absurd accusation in this comment in particular is beyond me.

It’ll be interesting to see if you actually stay true to your words.

First a thesaurus, now a dictionary. Will you attempt to score with a collection of formulas next?

I guess if you run out of arguments and facts, switching over to using a thesaurus might in some circumstances mask this.

Thanks for the kind words.

It’s kind of sad though that an appreciative reply is the last thing I ever expected to receive here.

What you’re saying makes no sense. You’re rejecting evidence that contradict your conspiracy theory and instead make up a totally unsubstantiated “it’s just for appearances” fantasy.

Just to name one example as to why what you’re saying is absurd: Roof-knocking, which they are still doing, costs just as much as an actual air strike and is militarily disadvantageous, since it allows militants to get away with the civilians warnings like these protect. Israel is willing to increase the cost of air strikes and reduce their effectiveness at the same time, just to save lives. Based on how many self-proclaimed pro-Palestinians I’ve talked to, most are not even aware of what roof-knocking is, so clearly, if this was a PR campaign, it’s been a complete failure.

If this was the case, why did they fire two officers who were responsible for the air strikes that killed seven aid workers in a convoy a while ago - and why did they agree to a ceasefire so that polio vaccinations could be performed in Gaza? Neither of this meshes with your narrative.

Relevant: https://www.jns.org/israel-begins-shift-to-domestic-ammunition-production/

Small arms and their ammunition were mostly domestically produced already long before this war, dating back as far as the 1930s, before the nation was even founded. I haven’t been able to find any numbers, but I’m pretty certain that domestic arms manufacturer Elbit is responsible for the bulk of the IDF’s small caliber ammunition supply:

https://elbitsystems.com/pdf-category/company-brochures/land-systems/ammunition/

I know you were implying that it’s America who sent these over, likely in an effort to blame America, but in reality, in regards to ammunition, it’s mostly artillery shells, bombs and interceptor missiles that are delivered from the US. Israel can and does produce all of these things, but chose not to do so to the full extend of their capabilities in the past out of both convenience and because Uncle Sam insisted. Like the above article says, the issues Ukraine is facing with fickle allies makes Israel, just like Ukraine, look inward and, just like in the past (see the development of their own tanks, fighter jets, missile shield, drones, robots, etc. - many of which started when partners suddenly stopped being reliable) intensify efforts to produce weapons domestically. Some of Israel’s current dependency on the US in particular actually happened against at least partially their will: The F-16, the workhorse of the IAF, was practically forced onto Israel by America (because the American defense industry feared Israeli competition), resulting in the shuttering of an advanced domestic fighter aircraft program of their own that was meant to replace the ageing domestic Kfir. High costs were another factor, but who knows what would have happened if the Reagan administration hadn’t flexed their muscles.