StrawberryPigtails @ StrawberryPigtails @lemmy.sdf.org

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For pretty much all big spending projects it’s a bit of all of the above. Also how the money is actually spent is usually the far more interesting part.

For example, while I haven’t looked at the latest aid package for Ukraine, if it follows the same pattern as the previous ones, most the the money doesn’t actually go to Ukraine. What actually happens with most of it is that the US military is told to give Ukraine some of their old kit, the US military then uses the money from the aid package to replace what they shipped off with new kit. The money stays in the US and effectively doesn’t get spent as it winds up back in Uncle Sam’s pocket one way or another.

At the scale of governments, especially governments that control their own currency, the money isn’t what’s truly important. It’s the resources that matter. Manpower, materials and energy.

Schools are one of the places where weapons of any type are prohibited. The only people allowed to have a weapon in schools, usually, are police and military personnel. Doesn't mean they don't enter the school but you can get in trouble if your caught.

In my school the Military exception included students who were part of the JROTC drill or rifle teams and currently engaged in an activity associated with that team while in uniform. Drill team could carry their M1s to, during and from drill practice for example.

JROTC stands for Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps. Basically it's a down sized military academy operated within a normal school, sort of. Mostly you learn survival and field medical skills.

I may not understand your question, but I use Jellyfin as the backend for my music collection. It draws metadata from MusicBrainz and passes my listen stats to ListenBrainz. I believe that those plugins are in Jellyfin’s default repository.

Right now I’m bouncing between OSs, but on Windows my CD ripper (EAC) draws metadata from MusicBrainz as well. On Linux I’ve been using K3B as a ripper which still works (nearly 20 years after I first discovered it!), but oddly for KDE software, is not as configurable as I would like. I believe it also draws metadata from MusicBrainz.

In the US, more often than not, intersections like this were designed to handle traffic consisting of tractor-trailers. Tractor-trailers need considerably more space to maneuver than a small passenger car or pickup truck.

As for the visual obstructions, my guess is some city planner failed to take the sight line of small cars into account when decorating or road side maintenance had been put off, allowing foliage to grow where it shouldn’t.

What you’re supposed to do is fully stop at the line and then slowly scoot forward to where you can see crossing traffic and come to a full stop again. Then proceed according to whatever traffic rule governs that intersection.

Took their time I see. Wonder who Ticket Master finally ticked off....

According to https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/15420726 it was a network outage.

Another Boeing mishap? Why am I not surprised. I’m beginning to believe all Boeing aircraft should be grounded, and then dismantled.

Eh, only because society emphasizes them when raising women, just as aggressiveness is emphasized for men. In both cases it is trained for the most part.

There is always natural inclination, but that is often overridden by how you are raised and the experiences you have throughout your life.

What is considered masculine or feminine is largely a cultural thing. It was once manly to wear skirts (kilts) and dresses (robes) and knit and sew, some places it still is.

A strong person (character trait) is someone who is willing to stand their ground for what they believe is right despite overwhelming pressure, be willing to admit it when they are wrong and flexible enough to adapt when the situation changes.

Sometimes that means you must fight and kill, but talking and listening (often seen as feminine or weak) usually gives better results.

Edit: At some point in my life I will learn to spell things correctly!!!

The others in this comment thread have covered the potential threat vector fairly thoroughly. It’s not something I’m particularly worried about at the moment, but it is something that I try to keep awareness of for the future.

I thought this sounded familiar. This article is old.

I’m inclined to say screw Reddit. Lemmy may be less private overall but at least we have more control over things in the Fedi.

I have a similar thing with how my house was built. What I do is open all the windows that will open and setup small box fans in the windows on one side of the house to push the inside air outside. Seems to work fairly well.

I’m just guessing myself, but I suspect it’s probably ok-ish. NextCloud is probably better security wise than most things I self host.

Follow security best practices and things should be fine.

• Don’t expose to the public net anything that doesn’t need to be.
• Keep it updated.
• Make sure it can’t see anything it doesn’t need to on your home network.
• Use strong passwords and don’t reuse them.
• Keep backups (RAID is not a backup!)

Here’s the documentation páge I remember

https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Nextcloud

Might look into running NextCloud on NixOS. Haven’t tried it myself yet but noticed NextCloud referenced in NixOS’s documentation pretty heavily. If I remember correctly it was as simple as

service.nextcloud.enable = true;

in the configuration.nix file to get it started.

Linux unplugged had an episode on it recently and said they were surprised how performative it was. Sounded like they were going to be moving their instance over to it.

So the author is surprised that companies that makes a large chunk of their revenue from advertising is using the stuff it sold as billboards. Color me shocked.

At least where I’m at, they were casualties of budget cuts back in the late 90’s, early 2000’s. Lost school nurses in the 90’s to the same thing.

A couple hot takes….

Better a priest than a trigger happy, power tripping moron with a badge.

Sounds like this is just a relabeled guidance counselor position.

Seems like this approach might run into separation of church and state issues as well.

This is going to run into a lot of flak from communities that don’t have common ethics or morality standards with the priest that takes up the position.

Edit: From everyone’s reactions, I think my definition of “priest” may be a bit looser than is common. My definition of priest is any spiritual leader, from the Catholic priests everyone seems to be hating on to Buddhist monks.

And for the record, I would rather trust Hannibal Lecter with the care of my children than leave them alone within potential line of sight of any cop I don’t know personally. Ya’ll distrust Catholics, I distrust police.

Why does the UN not issue sanctions against the US for these crimes against humanity?

Who would enforce those sanctions? Assuming that the US didn’t veto them.

“Violence is the supreme authority from which all other authority is derived.”

• Robert A Hienlein

Like it or not it has been the US that has been acting as the world’s policeman since the 1940’s. It would take an awful lot to bell that cat.