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‘We’re here, we’re queer and we’re coming for your children’ – Democratic party Activists

August 12, 2025June 25, 2023 by Karmi

No secret that the Democratic party has been coming for America’s innocent children for decades. With help from the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the Democratic party has been indoctrinating young students from kindergarten thru high school.

Need proof?

Math & Reading scores have been dropping for decades, as public schools focused on politically indoctrinating innocent students rather than teaching them actual skills for their futures.

The Democratic party doesn’t care about children, minorities, or women—it only cares about gaining voters, or more chattel for its cause.

In recent years, the Democratic party has OPENLY moved to groom innocent children for sexual purposes, and to also gain more control over them as adults in the future.

ASUS Prime Z790M-PLUS D4 mATX MoBo – BIOS & Drivers

July 28, 2025June 24, 2023 by Karmi

I have found that finding the right ASUS Z790M PLUS D4 drivers can be frustrating for this one. Since 2005/2006 I have purchased $60-$90 motherboards for my builds, but decided to ‘splurge’ on the ASUS Prime Z790M-PLUS D4 mATX MoBo – $171.89 + $12.03 Tax = $183.92.

Requirements were – Micro ATX, Intel Z790, LGA 1700, and 1Gb LAN motherboard. Have moved away from the big ATX & small ITX boards, and prefer the mATX boards and cases now—fact is, I was going to be removing (intact) an older board from my favorite case, a APEVIA X-QPACK3 mATX case, and building a new Intel® Core™ i9-13900K system in it.

I didn’t find a huge mATX selection, and PCPartPicker only had TWO listed, and I went w/ the ASUS Prime Z790M-PLUS D4.

(*1/31/2024 UPDATE: new info in ASUS Prime Z790M-PLUS D4 mATX MoBo: Restore an Image and/or do a Clean Install post*)

Builds & Upgrades — Part 5 (FINAL – Before & After)

August 12, 2025June 13, 2023 by Karmi

Finished up new Build yesterday ‘n have it setup in my primary desktop spot – posting this from it right now. 👌👍🙌😁

Here are: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4.

‘Before’ as in the intact MoBo I moved out of the Apevia X-Qpack3 case, and ‘After’ as in this new Build inside it now. I name most of my computers after the cases I use to build them, and I’ll update the new components in ‘Apevia’ soon.

Here is a closer look at the new benchmark results – from UserBenchmark:

Builds & Upgrades — Part 4 (“Delivered Today” – NOT!)

August 12, 2025June 7, 2023 by Karmi

OK, ‘Thangs have slowed to a crawl – fortunately I am in no rush ‘n just keep spending more money whilst I wait. 😁👍 However, instead of four Parts there will be a Part 5: here are the links to Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.

Let’s get started…

‘Delivered Today‘

I knew that “$50 drop in the price of an Intel® Core™ i9-13900K CPU” mentioned in Part 3 looked unusual for the 2nd ‘Fastest average effective speed CPU‘ right now:

Enlargement of NATO: Putin is the “greatest gift to NATO”

August 12, 2025June 6, 2023 by Karmi

Russia has been an Imperialistic country for centuries – In Are Russia’s Enlargement Dreams Fulfillable? – Mikhail Khodaryonok basically says that ‘constant expansion‘ is in the Russian gene, and is the ‘true existential of our historical existence‘.

In their opinion, for centuries the Russian state, with its harsh and inactive political interior, was preserved solely due to the relentless striving beyond its own borders. It has long forgotten how, and most likely never knew how to survive in other ways.
External expansion, Russian thinkers believe, serves to defuse the internal tension that accumulates in society and which in no case should be released into the wild through liberal experiments.

Putin made a *HUGE* mistake reinvading Ukraine, e.g., he has reminded Nations just how Imperialistic Russia is, and at the same time exposed the weaknesses & disorganization of the entire Russian Military.