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Or in this case, a memetic infection on top of sliding value changes (polarity, illiberalism, aggressive patriotism) changing the underlying values causing various symptoms. A country is a collection of people who share some iota of proximity, values, and/or views, although "Network Staters" and "Free Staters" would have you believe differently.
Meanwhile, logging old growth forests, drilling more oil, scoffing at renewables and EVs, and building power-hungry data centers for marginal-utility AI owned by a handful of billionaires. Flu vaccines are in doubt, the chaos and riots will begin around June/July when the shelves are empty and prices double.
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Kissinger shared culpability for what happened in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam.
Rice shares culpability for what happened in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Hegseth may still participate in war crimes regardless of being a dim bulb. One can only hope his disability makes him less effective in causing harm deliberately, but he still may cause great harm inadvertently as well.
America needs to acknowledge that it has a multitiered system of selective criminal prosecution where some people get away with crimes because of who they are.
(It was 1-2-3-4-5.)
No, not for classified comms. They already have secure comms and SCIFs but they're not using them. This is what they should be using. And they should be following sterile opsec so they don't carry tracking and listening devices into classified meetings or strategy discussions with decision makers.
They do need better opsec for unclassified and personal comms. It would be nice™ for them to have a Signal-like app controlled by the NSA because depending on Signal or WhatsApp is vulnerable to a malicious insider. Few Meta employees have security clearances, while I don't know about Signal.
Sounds like eugenics.
The action alternative to that is massive numbers of calls to representatives, attendance of town halls, and large-scale protests to attempt to limit political maneuvering. People in America aren't rich and can't afford to take time off work to protest, so protesting off hours is more convenient... seems kind of insulting and elitist for you to dismiss civic participation.
And then there's the people who shout "impeach" or other absurdities, or criticize others taking actions while doing nothing themselves.
This is exactly what Californian educators told kids who were being bullied in the 90's.
You're a different person with a different perspective obviously.
Compressed tars are terrible for random access because the compression occurs after the concatenation and so knows nothing about inner file metadata, but it's good for streaming and backups. Uncompressed tars are much better for random access. (Tar was a used as a backup mechanism to tape (tape archive).)
Zips are terrible for streaming because their metadata is stored at the end, but are better for 1-pass creation and on-disk random access. (Remember that zip files and programs were created in an era of multiple floppy disk-based backups.)
When fast tar enumeration is desired, at the cost of compatibility and compression potential, it might be worth compressing files and then taring them when and if zipping alone isn't achieving enough compression and/or decompression performance. FUSE compressed tar mounting gets to be really expensive with terabyte archives.
Citation needed.
It's the perpetually never-happening, chicken-vs-egg aspirational project for mass transit in an area dominated by urban sprawl and car-first infrastructure that would need massive investment in local mass transit like Japan first.