fine_sandy_bottom @ fine_sandy_bottom @lemmy.federate.cc

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Is that really what's happening in the picture OP posted? Like someone puts foil wrapped morsels of... food in there once a week and the machine just keeps a couple hot and ready to go?

Seems very unappealing.

That said here in Australia the food you get at gas stations / road houses is more or less the same, just that there's a person to heat it up and hand it to you.

Needs to be cleaned every day.

If you're "hosting a tracker" you want an IP you can change as often as you like.

If you're hosting a website you want an IP that never changes.

IPv6 is free and IPv4 is very cheap.

Even in the extraordinarily unlikely circumstance they really are hosting both on the same infrastructure, they aren't going to use the same IP.

Why the fuck do these exist? 💁‍♂️

I don't really know much about it but a podcast I listened to a while back said that Israelis are a bit obsessed with this type of nick name.

That's not really how that works.

If you wanted to "host a tracker" you wouldn't do it from the same IP address you're hosting Web pages on.

These guys are all "lets release our medical records!" and they're all like "lets make a list of who's children we need to murder if they won't find some extra votes for us" but also like "let's get some christians to go to the capital and pray for lord and saviour trump to save everyone from the evil tyranny of Kamala".

Just gonna point out the obvious here but...

It's so bizarre to me that someone could possibly look at Trump and think "yep, this is a godly man who is going to save us from the forces of evil".

I'm not the person you asked and I don't know anything about such things so this is just supposition but...

I guess it's an important milestone on the way to colonising Mars. It would be an acknowledgement that we've solved (or mitigated...) all the problems in getting a human to and fro.

Now, if you're asking whether there's any realistic benefit to colonising Mars, the answer IMHO is "not in the next 50 years".

It's actually C:/> just to fuck your shit up.

I think that's pretty much what we have now.

The power & wealth imbalance is the same anyway.

The wealthiest man in the world is installing a God king. It's a perversion of democracy.

This isn't even on the radar, there's no support for this at this time. Just a few nutters got an audience with the king and now there's an article about it.

Same in Australia.

I'm shocked.

I note that positive growth in "real earnings" is highly correlated with republican presidencies.

I can't wait for you to tell us where you got this chart.

This is the answer.

Writing a playbook is authoritarian.

God that fucking bot.

The bot itself is only mildly offensive, but the fieflord bot-love is just repugnant.

About a month ago news did a "feedback about the bot" thing, in which they declared undying love for the bot above all things and declared any input other than breathless support for the bot to be vote manipulated misinformation.

There were about 3 mods involved, all contradicting each other, and themselves, very condescending, and very sooky and sulky. "One of the mods almost resigned over this!" kind of stuff.

You had to start every comment with "look I know you guys are doing your best and investing all your free time as volunteers but..."

This is the answer.

I use syncthing to sync between devices.

Yeah. All good points. Sorry you threw me earlier when you said something about connecting via HDMI.

I respect anyone's freedom to choose whatever hardware they want and accept that Apple may be a very good solution, but I just couldn't stomach it myself.

You can control Kodi from an app on your phone. It's just like a tv remote. I think the UI is pretty great honestly. Hard to imagine anything significantly better or more user friendly.

I think the basic problem is that we bought the biggest cheapest TV we could. The manufacturer had no budget for UX, so we ended up with a dogs ass.

Yes. I think it would be hard to find anyone who thinks chagossians should not be consulted in determining what happens with their island.

The stark reality is that it's probably just not possible, in any meaningful way.

I have first hand experience in this type of negotiation with community / minority group trying to navigate the best outcomes for them with their limited resources, although of course nothing so dramatic as deciding what to do with an island.

The first problem you encounter is that their is very limited governance within the group, or no governance, or extraordinarily poor governance which is acting against the best interests of the group. Straight off the bat you can end up mediating internal disputes which might be generational feuds. For chagossians, you might ask who gets consulted and are they reasonable representatives of the group.

The next problem you encounter is that the demands of the group may very likely be unreasonable and unachievable, and the group might become hostile if they are unmet. For example you might think possible outcomes in this circumstances are stay with UK, join Mauritius, or become a sovereign nation. What happens if the group demands a fourth option, a new island, in the mid latitudes, unpopulated, potential for local fishing industry, et cetera. You can't really negotiate with a group that would make such a demand.

Another problem is that, well, the stark reality is that maybe the Chagossians don't really have any meaningful options. What's the point of negotiating if the only potential outcome is being subsumed by Mauritius and accepting whatever they will provide.

In addition, no matter how much you consult with them, there will always be someone that says they weren't consulted and they're bitter because they didn't receive their new tropical island.

Finally, if things need to be resolved in a timely manner, then involving the Chagossians isn't going to achieve that. The only option is to hand them over to Mauritius and let them manage all of these issues that have been simmering away since the dawn of time.