They’re also using self-reported loneliness, which I would guess that people who’ve been alone for decades accommodate and feel less lonely.

…hanging from their cables…

It’s the Black Friday price gouging model. Remember when gas prices went from $2 to $5 in…2008? Everyone was so excited when they came back down to $3 that no one noticed we had a permanent 50% price hike.

It really depends on what your data is and how hard it would be to recreate. I keep a spare HD in a $40/year bank box & rotate it every 3 months. Most of the content is media - pictures, movies, music. Financial records would be annoying to recreate, but if there’s a big enough disaster to force me to go to the off-site backups, I think that’ll be the least of my troubles. Some data logging has a replica database on a VPS.

My upload speed is terrible, so I don’t want to put a media library in the cloud. If I did any important daily content creation, I’d probably keep that mirrored offsite with rsync, but I feel like the spirit of an offsite backup is offline and asynchronous, so things like ransomware don’t destroy your backups, too.

55% of Georgia lives in Atlanta - she can’t win statewide without doing at least OK among the people she’s spent the last 4 years denigrating. Her kind of politics really only plays in the specific rural district she represents.

Is he attacking America until we burn?

Remember that half of Americans are dumb enough to vote for Trump. A lot of the other half are also just voting for their favorite letter, without any thought of who’s holding it. Even with RCV, there’s an enormous amount of work to convince people who’ve been voting for their favorite letter for decades, who’ve been told for decades that politicians are all the same, to even pay enough attention to realize there’s another option.

RCV would be a start, but the start of a similarly decades-long process. IMO, it would be easier and faster to reform Dems from within. Recruit properly progressive candidates to primary the tired, old corporate Dems, inspire some of our younger non-voters, and change the party direction. Still take a few election cycles, but you’d keep the people who just vote for their favorite letter.

With only 15U, assuming devices don’t stick out the back, I’d move it face-up, so devices are more hanging from their ears than cantilevered. A full, 42/48U rack is extremely top-heavy and tipping during move is a serious risk, but 15U is fine. It’s still very dense, and OP should try to ratchet-strap it to hard points in the trailer.

And yet, the 3rd parties themselves don’t seem to do anything until the Presidential election year. If they were serious, they’d be out there now, putting up candidates in the much-easier-to-win midterms, talking about how they’re really different from the entrenched parties. They don’t. They only come out of the woodwork and put up spoiler candidates for President.

How is this man in charge of anything?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0Z9IpTVfUg tl;dw: people confuse action with leadership.

My mom will still tell you that things would be much worse if Harris had won. Can’t say how, but she doesn’t hear the sarcasm when I suggest we’d all be learning Mandarin online while recovering from forced gender reassignment surgery and seems to consider that a legitimate possibility.

I’m sure the argument goes that these aren’t “real” citizens, but only some gang member’s anchor baby.

Qualified immunity applies to the executive branch, not to the judiciary. Cops aren’t getting arrested for this.

Thinks it’s scored like golf.

TSLA is around 1.5% of broad market index funds, like S&P 500, so if you’ve taken the general advice to put your 401k or other savings into index funds, you own TSLA.

When I was young and naive, I figured I should be able to buy a tool or jig, take it out of the box, and use it. The longer I play, the more I realize almost all of those things benefit by some hand tuning. This is a great example.

Don’t be afraid to scratch alignment marks or drill holes in that expensive new tool. It’s yours, and you know better how you work than some engineer in Indianapolis.

Yuri Gagarin’s flight was entirely automated. He went a bit higher and made a full orbit, but I’m pretty sure everyone agrees he’s an astronaut.

It’s pretty much the same strategy Trump used to avoid serious penalties from his New York cases: just move to Florida.

Going to be a beautiful, sunny day here. Nothing better to do than go hang out with some like minded humans.

Gitmo is expensive, like $10M/prisoner/year expensive, and still at least nominally subject to US laws, though watered down by being a military facility. Outsourcing to El Salvador gets them massive cost savings and complete liberation from judicial oversight. They may still work on Gitmo, but I expect El Salvador to be the go-to camp now. Discount Gitmo. All they have to do is get you there - get you in the air to there - and you become a stateless, rights-less slave.