sailingbythelee @ sailingbythelee @lemmy.world

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What? Israel isn't the aggressor state. Israel has been subject to outright attack by surrounding Muslim nations four times since its creation BY THE UNITED NATIONS. They've also been subject to smaller-scale but never-ending terrorist attacks for decades. That whole dynamic is also why Lebanon is a failed state controlled by Hezbollah, which is an internationally recognized terrorist group like Hamas. If Israel didn't defend itself as robustly as it does, the Jews there would have been wiped out decades ago.

Words of wisdom, Lahey.

Kryten enunciates so precisely. His accent is easy to understand and a pleasure to listen to. British English has so many different accents that it is sometimes difficult to follow without subtitles.

Exactly right. It is frightening to think what could happen if Trump gets re-elected. He will have zero incentive to moderate his approach. I wonder if anyone has a plan to prevent Trump from pulling a Hitler, and if that plan could survive his planned purge of the highest levels of the bureaucracy. It is incredible to think that the US is that close to sleepwalking into fascism and a civil war (again).

The most fun I've had with WITP is the Coral Sea scenario. That scenario epitomizes the carrier tactics of the time and doesn't get bogged down in logistics or long-term strategy. Almost every turn is tense as you try to find and damage/destroy the other side's carriers while avoiding being detected yourself. It's like playing a high-stakes game of tag in the pitch dark with a flashlight and a gun. Have you played that one?

The full grand campaign in War in the Pacific: Admiral's Edition.

Ypu fight the entire Pacific War in 3 day turns across a map with 40 nautical mile hexes with the full order of battle at your disposal. If you play seriously to win against a capable opponent, you have to manage everything right down to individual pilots. There are thousands of ships, thousands of planes and pilots, and hundreds of land units. It is almost more of a historical achievement than a "game". You can play against the AI, but the real experience is to play against another person by email. The full campaign could take 450 turns if you play it out right to the end. Of course, one side can concede early if defeat becomes inevitable, but even so, if each player takes one turn per day, it will probably take about a year to finish. And you won't just be spending time taking your turn, you'll also be reading up on the actual war strategies of each nation, analyzing your opponents moves, planning your own moves and strategies, figuring out supply logistics, learning the capabilities of the ships and planes at your disposal, reading intel reports, and managing virtual pilots and commanders. In many ways, WITP:AE is more of a technical and historical achievement than a game. I honestly don't know if I'll ever be able to complete the full campaign. I would certainly have to be retired before I'd ever attempt it versus a human opponent. And even if I could fully commit, who knows if my opponent would also have the fortitude to finish.

The generational gap in support for Israel is caused by the fact that boomers and GenX made up their mind about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict back in the 80s and 90s when the PLO was suicide bombing Israel on a daily basis. The younger generation has only known Israel as the oppressor state under right wing idiots like Netanyahu. They also forget that Israel was the underdog when all of their neighbours ganged up on them and tried to wipe the Jews off the face of the Earth again, repeatedly. The younger generation just sees the power imbalance between Israel and the Palestinians and assumes that Israel must be in the wrong.

Your comment is bang on. The rise of Hitler and Mussolini in the 1930s should be mandatory reading for everyone. I bet less than 5% of the US population know how the Fascists came to power in Germany and Italy. Most people probably don't realize that Hitler was a populist who rose to power through legal means and then used a false flag operation to jail his opponents and seize power permanently, again using legal means. It would be all too easy for Trump to replicate that scenario if he gets the presidency again. If he gets elected legally (or at least with the appearance of legality), and then uses false flag operation to take out a good chunk of Congress, he could terrify the public and declare martial law. January 6 shows that he has the kind of supporters that would be willing to do something like that. In that scenario, even the US military probably wouldn't stop him.

That's a good story. But it's true that things are improving, right? Canada is now fully legalized and about half of the US states are legal-ish. Mexico will get there since their Supreme Court said the ban is illegal.

I'm a Linux newb and I managed to set this up a couple months ago. Despite being new to servers and containers, I did not find it too difficult.

Here is the guide I used: https://zerodya.net/self-host-jellyfin-media-streaming-stack/

The guide above doesnt include Audiobookshelf installation, but you will quickly see that adding Audiobookshelf to the basic setup is very easy. There are two things I've learned since the initial setup, which are worth a deviation from the guide above.

First, the recommendation in the guide to use a separate userid and groupid (1001) for the docker containers vs. your own userid/groupid (1000) is a royal PITA and not necessary for most basic use cases.

Second, and much more important, you MUST set up your VPN in a Gluetun container and then make your torrent client container a "service" of the Gluetun container. Yes, I know, that sounds like some advanced-level abstraction, but it is actually extremely easy to do and it will save you from getting a nastygram from your ISP when your VPN loses connection. The MPIAA is extremely active with automated detection and processing of torrenting data, but if you set up your VPN with Gluetun, you have a perfectly effective kill switch when your VPN connection drops. And, no, the built-in killswitch on your VPN client won't work with containers.

Here is the guide I used to make that modification to the initial setup: https://www.smarthomebeginner.com/gluetun-docker-guide/

Good luck! It was fun to set up, and even more fun to use.

In a certain kind of way, NOT voting for the party you support in a two-party run-off does amount to a fractional vote in favour of your opponent.

I can't draw a 2x2 table here, but I'll try to describe it. In the population of voters, you have 20 supporters of party A and 20 supporters of party B. So, there is 50% support for each party in the population of 40 potential voters. During the actual vote, 10 people in party A vote and 15 people in party B vote. The vote spread is 5 votes in favour of party B. Using proportions, that's 40% for party A and 60% for party B. Using these proportions on the original 40 people, this is the equivalent of a 16 people voting for party A and 24 people voting for party B, even though there are only 20 actual supporters of party B in the population! So, differential voting rates result in a higher proportion of votes going to the party with the higher voting rate, which means that staying home is not neutral. It is effectively a fractional vote for the other guy, where that fraction is a function of the differential voting rate among the two parties' supporters.

Of course, if enough left-wing supporters stay home, it might go so far as to lead to a win for the radical right under Trump. If that happens, all those on the left who refused to show support for Biden will be just as guilty as the MAGA idiots.

Things could be better, for sure, but it is pretty awesome for the average person in a legal state (or country) to be able to buy and grow weed legally. Give it time for the "war on drugs" generation to die out and things will be even better.

Maybe. Or maybe it is one of those things that you think you don't need until you start using one, and then you can't believe you waited so long. :)

Portable wirless mechanical keyboards are niche, but not uncommon. I bought a Keychron for my daughter and she loves it, though admittedly I'm not sure how often she uses the ability to move it between computers.

You can also connect it to your phone, so you can use it for portable long form writing or programming with just your phone or tablet and keyboard if you don't have a laptop. I'm sure it is better than using the Surface keyboard, for example. Many laptop keyboards also suck, especially if they use an ISO standard keyboard when you already have muscle memory for the ANSI layout.

I found out recently that you can buy replacement keycap sets that have many of the Vim functions printed on them, and I thought that was pretty exciting. I am also old, lol.

Keyboards like Keychron are able to store BT connection info for multiple computers. So, you can easily switch between, say, your desktop, your server, and your laptop, as needed. Or bring it to work, or whatever. The point is that being able to use the same high quality keyboard with every device is nice if you do a lot of typing.

Yeah, I'm glad the Bixby button was dropped. What a joke. I don't need an assistant to use my phone, thanks.

Whenever I see TDS mentioned, I think of Trump's Nuremberg-style rallies with his slavering cultists and rambling hate speeches, and its hard to remember that "TDS" is supposed to be an insult directed at those on the left.

I'm not the one that made the strange claim and I'm not your history professor. But if I was, I think you'd be struggling on the midterm right now.