JP meme trivia via @tikumiya4774_JPN:

[0:27] "gikogiko ha shimasen" ("There's no need for a sawing motion")

This meme comes from a funny moment on a Japanese TV shopping show. A man was demonstrating how sharp a knife was by cutting bread, confidently saying, "Giko Giko wa Shimasen" ("There's no need for a sawing motion"). But ironically, he was moving the knife back and forth like a saw.
People use this meme whenever they themselves are sawing back and forth.

You are now certified in Japanese meme culture, congratulations!

Ft. Ina, Kiara, and Bae

chat, probably: I wish I was the cat

[AMD] asked me if I was testing with an Administrator account [as distinct from a user account with administrator rights]. [...] As far as I can tell, if the Ryzen processors aren't run on an account with these elevated privileges then they don't function as intended for bursty workloads, so that means gaming in particular. AMD told me this bug -- if that's indeed what it is -- won't impact sustained all-core workloads.

Across our 13 game sample, the 9700X saw a 4% performance improvement when compared to the day 1 review data. Meanwhile, the 7700X saw a 3% improvement. [...] So we've improved the 9700X's position [compared to the 7700X] by 1% - that's it.

This Windows bug -- which AMD has told me should be addressed in a future Windows update -- seems to be more of a general Ryzen bug, at least based on the testing we've been able to do so far. So, it's not an issue that specifically affects Zen 5 processors - I need to make that clear.

It's very possible that the Administrator account will also boost the gaming performance of Intel CPUs. [HU chose to publish before doing Intel testing in order to get the information out that it wasn't a Zen5-specific problem]

Celilia Notgreen

The audio is from a variant of pls rember that wen u feel scare - interestingly Internet Archive has a copy

Melbourne's population continues to grow, but there are growing calls for services such as public transport to be expanded to match the boom.

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Queensland’s Labor government turned heads last week with a bold new election promise. If returned to power, it would set up 12 state-owned petrol stations and limit fuel price rises to just five cents a litre on any given day.

The proposal certainly tapped into a pain point for Queenslanders – Brisbane topped national petrol price rankings last year.

But it was quickly met with a predictable pile on from opposing political commentators, industry bodies and some economists, attracting labels like “risky” and “dumb and stupid”.

Mark McKenzie, chief executive of the Australasian Convenience and Petroleum Marketers Association, called it a “wildly bizarre intervention” in the retail fuel market.

So is the Queensland premier really out of his mind, trying to win votes less than three months out from an election? Or is there actually some merit to this proposal?