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People routinely use worse options because of familiarity

Me rn fr literally

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Plausible deniability to not get sued by not themselves making the claim but instead quoting the victim. A lack of integrity from the editors.

Ships with windows or blank disk (selectable). Ubuntu/mint/fedora are officially supported but you could install other distros like arch

1-40ms - good

40-70 - less good but playable

70-100 - can have affects depending on the game

100-150 - not great

150+ - unplayable

Having been on a jury,

People are dumb and have no empathy

Certain TLD (e.g. .com, .net, .xyz) will cost a different amount per year to register. I use porkbun as well. A .com or .net may be $12.50+ per year. The cheapest domain is 9 numbers and .xyz from porkbun at 1.22/yr (e.g 123456789.xyz) but isnt as memorable. I use one of those just for external access otg with a cron script for updating the dns entries.

Also remember to hide the whois info because you will immediately start getting calls from scammers that scrape the phone number and call you telling you that you need to pay them to finish setting things up

Generic process is to register the domain, set up the DNS entries to point to your server IP, and if theres any dynamic DNS setup in your software, to enter the api key from your registrar and the domain so it can update it if your IP ever changes.

I wonder if this includes the promise of or absorption into political or military positions in exchange for disarmament / dissolution, especially if president Aoun wants to avoid conflict or civil war with a group that doesn’t want to cede power

According to usnews.com (maybe not the most reputable source but),

64% of the voting-eligible population in the U.S. voted in the 2024 election.

Of those, who voted, 49.8% voted trump and 48.3% voted kamala.

That means 31.8% of eligible voters voted for trump, 30.912% voted for kamala, 0.012% voted other, and 36% didnt vote at all. That makes it 62-63% 68% of eligible voters didnt vote against him.

Which isnt much better

Guyana would disagree, given the US and CIA backed Burnham who became a dictator

Washington, DC, April 6, 2020 – Cold War concerns about another Communist Cuba in Latin America drove President John F. Kennedy to approve a covert CIA political campaign to rig national elections in British Guiana, then a British colony but soon to be independent, according to declassified documents posted today by the National Security Archive.

U.S. intelligence concluded that Prime Minister Cheddi Jagan, one of the main presidential candidates in the upcoming 1964 elections, was a communist, although not necessarily under the sway of Moscow.  Nevertheless, Kennedy decided Jagan would have to go and urged London to cooperate in the effort.  As early as mid-1962, JFK informed the British prime minister that the notion of an independent state led by Jagan “disturbs us seriously,” adding: “We must be entirely frank in saying that we simply cannot afford to see another Castro-type regime established in this Hemisphere. It follows that we should set as our objective an independent British Guiana under some other leader.”

https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/intelligence/2020-04-06/cia-covert-operations-overthrow-cheddi-jagan-british-guiana-1964

In the 80s they wanted to overthrow suriname and were training troops in French Guiana to invade suriname

https://archive.org/details/USAPlannedInvasionInSurinameToOverthrowBouterseCNNReport

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/cia-rdp88-01070r000200720003-6

This ignores things like slave catchers who ventured across state borders into the north to catch free men (illegally) and the south by seceding was taking hostage those people and other Americans. West Virginia exists because the government of Virginia decided they wanted to secede but the people didn’t

Also states don’t get to vote on laws and just leave and get their way anyways if the vote doesn’t go their way. That’s the agreement they made, and the only basis they had for seceding was they feared a law that would make them unable to own slaves.

The confederacy also started the war with the north by attacking fort Sumter

Not all of south America is latin american and the US hasnt respected non latin american sovereignty either.

Besides that, NASA wasn’t the one that funded the research behind the pen, they bought the completed pens. The expenses for the research were funded by Fisher

A succulent Chinese meal

Weird, I was just looking at how to recall senators and Minnesota requires:

• $100 + 25 resident signatures
• file a petition: “The grounds must be one of the following: malfeasance, nonfeasance, or serious crime”
• State Supreme Court decides if its worth hearing, then set up a court date
• hearing to decide if grounds for recall are valid
• get 25% of the number of votes cast in the last general election within 90 days

*Græy

It might prevent them from voting too

There are people in academia now that just publish bullshit incomprehensible papers that may be wrong just to justify continuing funding and not rock the boat. It keeps them employed and paid. I belive this person discussed this