There’s no context to the question?

At face value, no, there’s no technical reason you can’t run a Plex server and a lemmy instance on one computer :)

I’m totally not a huge Biden fan, but I wouldn’t say his chances don’t look good… He’s still a better option from a centrist/objective perspective than trump is… Biden can rationally be expected to do what he’s done his entire term, not a whole lot. Trump on the other hand, will do a whole lot, and it’ll be a mixed bag predominately identifiable as chaos, also because that’s what his track record shows.

The reasoning behind the decision voters made in 2020 has not really changed much in either case… It’s the same decision process. The only real question is what demographics show up at the polls. If it’s the same demographics it’s likely to be the same outcome.

Pretty sure they meant you don’t want your personal ISP to be the government…But I might’ve read it that way simply because I was thinking the exact same thing.

As long as there’s civilian ISPs in the same coverage area, it’s still totally viable though. I could see it being a net benefit.

There’s 22 million people receiving a $30 subsidy, that’s a $660 million payout from government to those broadband businesses…

“Helping the poors” is directly helping them buy yachts by adding $660 million dollars to what the market can support. you’re narrative is fucky.

Repubs want to shut it off because it’s welfare, and they think poor people get that way by choice and shouldn’t get any handouts. It’s just simple Intolerance is all

Whatya mean? You can twitch combat games all day that show every component of the human body flying through the air, appendages, intestines, no problem. Just gotta make sure there’s no nipples rendered on the flying parts…

It’s a girl, My lord, In a flatbed Ford…

Microsoft purchased pretty much everything they’ve ever “produced”… There was a time when the best business model possible for a good startup idea was to invest just enough time and money into it to get on the MS radar and get bought out.

Satellites are mostly tied to their orbit in terms of flight path and times. An aircraft can be anywhere at any time, and this one is designed to be anywhere quickly.

It also says it’s intended to be unmanned. Which means that what it brings to the table is similar to what a drone brings to the table, just at a much larger scale, it’s a global asset drone vs a theater asset drone. Put a couple of em on an airbase in the middle east somewhere and it’s only a few hours round trip to go check on what the latest is on ICBM progress in NK, for example. Even less to have a peek at the goings on in Gaza, or Yemen…

We’re still flying U2 spy planes, we run drones all over the place, there’s absolutely still purposes for this type of platform.

It’s also noteworthy that the article mentions mach 10, which is getting ballpark close to being entirely untouchable by air defenses. Top speed for SAMs is ballpark mach 15, but there aren’t a whole hell of a lot of missiles that could chase down a target doing mach 10, and if it’s stealth tech, even the very best systems would be very hard pressed to acquire it with enough lead time to come up with a fire solution for it. A stealth mach 10 capable platform could fly anywhere on earth with very little regard for potential defenses.

The truly relevant question is actually one you didn’t ask. How much is it, and is it worth it? I’d say probably not, but not in the context that we wouldn’t be getting our money’s worth, I think we would, but I don’t think we really need to spend that much to have even more military advantage than we already have.

Word of the drawdown came ahead of a visit by Secretary of State Antony Blinken to the region and after the Biden administration bypassed Congress for the second time this month to approve an emergency weapons sale to Israel.

That weapons sale was a few hundred mil worth of artillery shells… I sincerely hope that and the draw back of troops aren’t actually related and it’s just happenstance that it got mentioned here.

Browser gets a vote when it comes to HTML. Loading the site on your browser might not look the same as it does on someone else’s.

Hell… The author could have an adblock plugin themselves… :)

Id have thrown a David Tennant in there…

I might be one of those people Michael Caine was talking about ;)

Nice to mole you. Meet you. Nice to meet you mole.

Don’t say mole.

I said Mole.

If they allow international journalists access to the area, we’ll either get better information about what’s happening, or the numbers will go down…

If they allow international journalists access to the area, we’ll either get better information about what’s happening, or the numbers will go down…

Theres a very easy way to sort out the issue of bias that’s gonna be inherent in journalists reporting an alleged bias against journalists…

(From NPR)

Over a month into the war in the Gaza Strip, international news organizations have little, if any, access to Gaza. Israel, which is bombing Gaza in response to the deadly Hamas attack on its soil, controls access. And with the exception of brief tours with a limited number of reporters, Israel has not been granting journalists access to the region.

Address that and the answers will come…

Law enforcement has removed the individual liberty of thousands over something that is perfectly legal in like half the country right now…

The judiciary branch can, and will, argue that their actions were, at the time, criminal activity. They can’t really roll that back without some really fucky precedents happening on the process.

It’s one of the very few instances when the executive “checks and balances” are truly warranted, and these types of pardons should be absolutely rampant right now, even without a federal descheduling. It’s one of the few times we it’s simply the right thing to do vs the political dog whistle its generally used as.

It should not be symbolic… But I will concede that it should be a gubernatorial matter :)

I agree whole-heartedly, the bar isn’t set very high at all, but trump wins the race to the bottom IMHO. Like I said, I’m gonna vote for an actual functioning adult without any regard for the “you’re voting for the other team” crap (because both sides say exactly the same shit), but I won’t be upset if Biden gets re-elected…

It isn’t much, but it’s all thats being offered if you’re invested in the big two game.

How do you “broadcast directly to Black and Hispanic voters” exactly? I’m reasonably certain there’s no non-racist answer to that question, and it’s rhetorical in nature… I’m just saying… That’s not how you support minorities… Pardoning 11 whole ass people doesn’t sound all that supportive either.

The fuck does he plan on telling these directly targeted minorities? That he’s gonna do something for them? He’s an incumbent, he’s had four years to do something, are people really gonna give a shit that he woke up from his nap because it’s election time?

I hope he carries the vote, but God damn is the bar low right now…

To be fair, he’s definitely still not trump… Basically all of the value of that statement is still valid. Maybe even more so now.

I didn’t vote for that, I voted libertarian, but objectively speaking, if it was worth a vote four years ago, it’s worth the same vote now. If you aren’t willing to vote Dem on just that, you shouldn’t have last time either :)

That made me lol… I was like “dafuq you talking about?” And then I realized what you were asking :)