History didnt start on Oct 8.

Hezbollah […] started firing rockets on northern Israel

This triggered an absolutely devastating war

Zionist logic. Hezbollah didnt start this war.

Laughably unreliable source. First, does the article even link to the report?

The report blatantly states that it only pulls from two sources: defector testimony and “North Korea focused news outlets”

Included in their sources are Radio Free Asia, Freedom Chosun, and Daily NK lol. Propaganda sources.

On top of that, defector testimony is useless when trying to understand the country.

Cash payments in return for interviews with North Korean refugees have been standard practice in the field for years.

Initially, the payment was to cover the cost of meals and local transport, which was approximately $30 in the late 1990s when I first began interviewing in China and South Korea. However, the fees had risen to $200 per hour by the time I attempted to interview people from North Korea in May 2014.

A government official from the South Korean ministry of unification told me the range of fees could vary wildly, from $50-500 per hour, depending on the quality of information.

But this practice raises a difficulty: how does the payment change the relation between a researcher and an interviewee, and what effect will it have on the story itself?

The Finnish Air Force swastika is such an interesting case to me, because the moment you do a google for “Finnish air force swastika”, you are blasted with rationalizations: “predates nazism”, “good luck charm”, “innocent”, “unrelated to Hitler”. You get blasted with rationalizations before you can even see the history: which is that the innocent wholesome chungus dude who brought the swastika was Hermann Göring’s brother in law lol.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_von_Rosen

falling from the the sky and burning is a good thing

Jury is still out on this one.

“We’re really changing the composition of the stratosphere into a state that we’ve never seen before,” said John Dykema, an applied physicist at SEAS, who warns that scientists today poorly understand many of the impacts.

https://salatainstitute.harvard.edu/burning-satellites-in-the-stratosphere-emerging-questions-for-climate/

Iran is far better equipped to repel an invasion than Cuba.

Cuba doesn’t have the people, infrastructure, preparation time, mountains, electricity, productive capacity, or weapons that Iran does.

Assuming the US would fail in trying to take Cuba is a bad assumption.

But I don’t have to hear Harris’ laugh though

What does this mean? Who is this critiquing?

Two things can be bad.

Two things can be bad.

Some 30% of Burkinabés are Christian or Catholic. It could be argued that homophobia in Burkina Faso is a result of western colonialism via mission trips and schools.

NSFL tag please

Starlink is a front - it is actually designed to induce Kessler syndrome so that Musk can try to sell a solution.

Thr moment US boots hit the ground, WWIII has begun.

Except no, they literally do.

The Epstein strategy was one where people were hoping that a Trump-led DOJ would release material necessary to take down Trump - who runs the DOJ. It’s a baffling, failing strategy.

China is still the world’s leading polluter

This is a rhetorical sleight of hand that conveniently glosses over the actual history of polluting nations.

Tenuous, unsourced statement alone - that has no bearing on automotive batteries which use different battery chemistry, design choices, and validation processes. Apples to oranges.

Hey, you basically defined my system.

Truenas scale machine running 4x 16TB drives. I use a cheap rosewill 4u server rack case. It has hot swap drive bays in front. Big plus.

The brain is an amd 5950x running on an asrock x570 steel legend w/ 128GB of the cheapest crucial DDR4 ECC I could find. Also running an rtx 2080 for jellyfin transcoding.

My consumer mobo is the bottleneck. Given how my end goal is to have a 10gb nic and an LSI card for more sata ports, I’m going to have to get creative with m.2 ports. I might plug a 10gb nic into an m.2 port.

PSU was a 1kW fractal platinum rated. Way overkill, but the high efficiency is key.

You’ll notice my build uses a lot of gaming parts - i simply harvested my old parts when I upgraded my gaming PC. Despite this, it still idles under 200 watts. My point is not that you should seek out gaming parts, but if you happen to have any on hand, they could be effectively leveraged given price increases on new parts.

The biggest thing is: Use ECC. This is non negotiable for your setup. ECC saved me a couple weeks ago when my 5950x shot craps, randomly. So far no issues after increasing to a set voltage. ZFS and ECC go together like peas in a pod.

The US slaughtered 20% of the country’s people. “Invasion” is putting it lightly.