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"Melting Pot" is a term that was used to describe Americanization in which immigrants adopt American culture and abandon culture from their home country. Modern terms include "salad bowl" or "mosaic" or "kaleidescope" in which different cultures mix but retain distinction.

It's a text based choice game meant to simulate someone's life from birth to death through seven stages of life. The game plays out through several episodes as your choices change your character's personality and status. Like a older version of Bitlife

I feel bad for the rest of the world who don't get to enjoy the penguins, kangaroos, and countless plant species that we do here in Australia. I feel like moving the tectonic plate to the north by clawing to the soil and fartng violently southward is the only solution, because zoos don't keep crazy people like me for all to see.

I'm considering to maybe buy an external monitor to somewhat artifically extend the lifespan of my gaming laptop. I have HDMI 2.0 port, so the above options are what I can aim for; I don't have DisplayPort and I think my USB-C port is too slow, so the refresh rates would be halved RIP. Not even gonna bother have HDMi-DP cable.

My laptop is Acer Nitro 5 AN515-54 and the specs are Windows 11 23H2, i5 9300H 4C/8T, GTX 1050 MaxP, Intel UHD 630, 3GB GDDR5 96-Bit, 16GB DDR4 2666MHZ, 500GB SATA SSD, and FHD IPS 60HZ. Kind of broke atm and too stubborn to upgrade to a new PC, so buying a monitor and maybe external keyboard are most I'll do.

Already have a cooling pad, undervolted my CPU and iGPU, and disabled overhead crap like VBS/Core Integrity. I sadly can't modify certain dGPU settings without modifying the vBIOS, but that can potentially brick my GTX 1050. I know GPU bound games will run worse at higher resolution, but CPU bound won't.

By going for an external monitor, aside from larger viewing for increased productivity and reduced bodily injuries, I can have overall better display specs. I can also bypass Nvidia Optimus completely as my UHD 630 displays everything for laptop screen, while GTX 1050 if active renders which brings additional latency.

I currently have FHD 15.6" IPS 60HZ 20ms SDR laptop monitor for my Acer Nitro 5 AN515-54 and FHD 6.6" Super AMOLED 120HZ 8ms SDR phone display for my Samsung Galaxy A34 5G. I'm looking to get an external desktop monitor for my gaming laptop, but I don't know if I should settle for IPS or OLED. I know that going from IPS to IPS isn't significant, but laptop monitors are vastly inferior to phone, tablet, desktop, and television displays. Ok well, television displays are only superior in fidelity but performance is garbage to compensate for them being cheap lol.

Since OLED has superior color accuracy, contrast, saturation, etc., I don't give a damn if it's HDR or not. I want the monitor to be FHD 240HZ Curved 1ms GSync/FreeSync 24"; I can settle for 180HZ and 5ms though. Since my HDMI port doesn't support beyond 144HZ for QHD nor above 60HZ for 4K, I'll pass on those when I can upscale with DSR anyways. Sadly, my laptop doesn't have DisplayPort for the dGPU (only for iGPU) and I'm not sure if I can even use my USB-C 3.1 port for external monitors. I probably can but the refresh rates will probably be worse than HDMI, which I don't know for sure but I suspect it's 2.0.

I’m not a fan. I’m voting C

Wonderland seems like a really beautiful world with bizarre, fantastical, yet charming characters I'd want to interact with, like the March Hare and the Madhatter. Oz just seems like another beautiful and fantastical world as well.

Danica Patrick is a former race car driver and current sports commentator. She has publicly called for women to be able to have the same freedom to show their nipples that men do during a recent appearance on The Sage Steele Show.

She said: "I know that nipples are these things that we're not supposed to show as women, but I think that's crap."

Do you agree or disagree with Danica?

Please vote in the poll.

Here is a complete article on this...

'I DON'T CARE' Danica Patrick fumes ‘I would like to free the nipple’ as driving icon stuns in outfit at Indy 500

This has been occurring for three decades now when we go out together and it never fails!!!

And while I'm here!!! Here's My Take:

School staff, doctors, child care, coaches, emergency contacts, EVERYONE HAS TO STOP 🛑 calling "Mom" cuz of their own fucked up sexist default!! CALL THE PRIMARY NUMBER THATS LISTED!! Yes, it's 🫨 😲 🫨 DAD!!! YES DADS ARE INVOLVED IN THEIR KIDS LIVES TOO AND MAY HAVE MORE FLEXIBILITY & AVAILABILITY!!! It's tiresome. Truly! Thanks for coming to my TeD Talk!!