I have a 60TB media collection, so this would end up costing $600/month.

Instead, I back all my media up to LTO-6 tapes, and store them at a storage unit.

LTO-6 drive: $400 10x LTO-6 tapes (62.5TB): $200 Small off-site storage unit: $30/month

This is a picture of Tehran’s upper class youth from the 70’s, and it is often posted as if it were everyday life in Iran.

Spoiler: The rich in Iran can still do whatever they want.

In China? I mean, there were two back to back incidents, but to my understanding not a pattern.

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Israel intentionally conflates itself with Judaism (religion) and Jewishness (ethnicity)

Look, the Jewish People are both defined by ethnicity and religion, but the way you speak of that dynamic shows a profound ignorance of it. This isn’t some Israeli conspiracy, most self-identified Jews are at least somewhat ethnically Jewish. Not all are religious, though many respect tradition regardless. That ethnic group historically originated from the Levant, and Judaism as a religion views the Levant as a holy land.

The only real Judaic aspect of Israel’s war on Palestine is Zionism, which can range from the belief that an Israeli has a basic right to exist in the Levant (alongside others), to the belief that Israel should dominate the Levant (and expel others). Netanyahu is on the latter end of that spectrum, and supports mass violence against and forced displacement of Palestinians to meet that end, which is indefensible. We cannot accept Israel, U.S. ally or not, to be engaged in a holy war.

But anyone deciding to point the finger at Israel when they encounter real-world antisemitism isn’t actually making a statement about Israel. They are deflecting blame away from bigots, and suggesting that they might at least have some excuse for their hate. I don’t have any tolerance for that.

Please don’t blame Israel for antisemitism. There is literally nothing Israel could ever do to justify antisemitism.

Blame Israel for what they are doing to Palestine. Give Israel it’s much deserved consequences for war crimes and genocide.

Blame antisemites for antisemitism. Ethnic hatred is unjustifiable.

after private videos leaked on social media

Leaked sex videos on a social media website?

Universal healthcare doesn’t give you license to police everyone else’s lifestyle to your preferred level of health-consciousness.

Opium production in Afghanistan rose despite as a result of ban: UN report

FTFY

Imagine being the UN and still not understanding what happens when you do a prohibition.

Are you under the bizarre impression that the only possible thing you can do to someone who commits a crime is imprison them?

I didn’t say anything about imprisoning people. Any legal consequence for possession of a plant is too far.

It helps them quit.

It leverages a nanny state that forces people to quit whether they want to or not.

You’re talking about making it a prescription drug only allowed for cessation purposes. That sure sounds like a ban on recreational use to me. What happens when someone without a prescription is caught with tobacco under this system you’re proposing? What makes this preferable to just letting people smoke?

And then what about everything outside of that ridiculous context? Arrest people for possession of a plant? That’s always been a good idea.

Tobacco is important to people. If you ban it, there will be a black market. Especially for something like a plant that can simply be grown.

Look, fuck the Iranian morality police, but there is a video of the arrest and there is nothing in it that suggests that they “smashed her head into the concrete” during the arrest. From what I saw, she’s pretty much just restrained and forced into the back of a police car. Amnesty International is suggesting that violence was a part of the arrest, but they aren’t providing specific details on what that entails. I don’t doubt that this woman’s human rights are being violated right now, given how Iran usually operates, but it’s incredibly suspicious to find an anonymous Internet rando who claims to know the specifics on that alleged violence that other reputable sources apparently don’t.

If you have a trustworthy source on this detail, I’d like to see it, otherwise it kinda sounds like you’re sprinkling fake details into a very real story about the oppression of women, which isn’t helpful.

I actually read the article, and if you get all the way to the first sentence, you’ll learn that he will be eligible for release starting at 28.

A 15-year-old boy who followed a teenager he did not know through Birmingham city centre and stabbed him to death after a four-minute conversation has been jailed for life with a minimum of 13 years.

Half the OC memes here use GenAI art. It’s already happening.

Eh, I’m kinda with him on the “whole new category of content” thing. Put it in its own category so it’s not mixed in with everything else.

Well, the good news is since this kind of hypersonic flight is not efficient or affordable, while there are 150k daily commercial flights, these aircraft will probably fly more like 2-6 times daily for their specific wealthy passengers that would pay obscene amounts of cash to save a few hours.

The Concord only flew 4 times daily at its peak.

To put this in perspective, you could have breakfast in London and make it to New York in time for a mid-morning coffee, with the journey taking just 1.5 hours.

Uh, let me do the math on that one…

If I eat breakfast in London at 8am, and then immediately board a Hypersonic jet to New York at 8:30am, I’ll arrive in NYC at 3pm, having missed mid-morning coffee by about 4 hours before I ate breakfast…

the UK’s largest mobile, inflatable planetarium

It’s like the size of a truck fully inflated. I can’t find a single picture of the inside. I’m guessing that this isn’t a sought after status…