This is because they get to still be Important People even if they lose, like how Hillary is still being interviewed like her opinions matter in 2025. It doesn't matter if they win or lose, policy is for the donors. Being Important is why they're in the game.
What they're doing right now is just sanctions on steroids, I suspect that's all trump has interest in. I think even he understands this isn't a war that would make him look good or victorious.
She's really selling herself short there, I'm sure anybody asserting that blowing up fishing boats will result in Maduro capitulating isn't any smarter than her
If Obama had actually done some of the popular things he had promised, the political landscape would be incredibly different today. He captured a huge amount of support across the spectrum because he, like trump, was saying out loud that things weren't great and change was needed. He burned the whole thing down by being a standard ass neoliberal and disillusioned millions of people.
If it's just a storage drive I wouldn't even spin it up except to store or retrieve data, but you're certainly correct that they're riskier. You can test drives, of course, but there's a risk.
If you've got the space in your desktop case, an SAS card and used enterprise drive is a solid bet but probably not the cheapest if you're only adding a single drive
Depending on what you're doing with them, used enterprise SAS drives are a good buy. I built a NAS a few years ago around 4 6TB SAS drives I bought used off ebay. I had to buy a SAS card, but I was still only out like $450 for the entire machine including power supply, case, card, and motherboard. I went with a fanless industrial board which limited me a little bit but I still have 24TB of deep storage running Unraid for cheaper than an off-the-shelf solution.
edit: actually it's six 6TB drives, two of them are parity drives. One of the parity drives is new, for extra redundancy.
Based on pictures of Trump in the WH, it seems like he has had a dedicated social media person to whom he dictates his posts. Maybe they got swapped out for a more ideological nazi instead of the fox news-faced blonde that had been doing it?
What could it possibly matter where FT is based if they're publishing an article about a specific trend in a specific region?
The point is, if we want to continue to raise the floor on poverty and wealth in the world, this trend must continue because GDP is still too concentrated in the west.
You can thank China for the global reduction in poverty, without China poverty would be increasing globally.
This is because they get to still be Important People even if they lose, like how Hillary is still being interviewed like her opinions matter in 2025. It doesn't matter if they win or lose, policy is for the donors. Being Important is why they're in the game.