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To understand what the midterms mean, you first need a basic understanding of how the US federal government works. In an effort to be brief here, I am going to gloss over many details.

The federal government is comprised of three branches: Judicial (the supreme court), Executive (the president), and Legislative (congress).

The Legislative branch is bicameral; it has two entities: the Senate and the House of Representatives (commonly referred to as “the House”). The Senate has two senators per state, for a total of 100. The House has a number of representatives per state, roughly based on the state’s population, for a total of 435 voting members.

In order for anything to have approval from the Legislative branch, approval from both houses is usually required.

Through a system of checks and balances, cooperation/approval from two of three branches is usually required to get anything done. Before the midterms, the *Republicans (aka “GOP”) controlled all three branches.

Following the midterms, the Democrats now have a strong majority in both houses of the Legislative branch. In trump’s first term, the Democrats had a slim majority in both houses, but a few Democrats in both houses were… convinced… to vote along Republican lines. With this wider majority, that’s now less likely.

However, the Republicans still have a lame duck president determined to seize as much power as possible, a super majority in the supreme court who have already ruled the president is immune from prosecution, a wide majority of judges in the federal court system, and many loyalists is smaller government agencies, regulatory bodies, and lower levels of government.

So, while the Republicans no longer have control of all levers of government, the Democrats don’t control enough to get anything meaningful done. They do now have the power to stop, or at least greatly delay, a lot more than they did before.

Impeachment may again be on the table, but I’m not holding my breath.

* Edited to remove pejorative and preserve informative tone throughout, though I stand by my assertion the party is comprised largely of pedophiles and their various enablers.

Don’t rely on optical media for backups.

Yes. Bit rot is real.

Sometimes, OP already knows exactly what answer(s) they’ll get, they just want to

1. See who will give the answer, possibly for tagging purposes
2. Let the world see what the responders think and let the reader be the judge

There are also questions with only one objectively correct answer that is easily findable with a basic web search. That’s usually why I downvote here.

Thought this was ask lemmy. Moving.

People driving cars are a tiny fraction compared to billionaires and their private jet usage. They can afford any price. More expensive fuel only affects poor people.

wet your appetite

In this context, the word is “whet”.

I mean, they’re also very similar in their use and design. There’s a breech you load. You load it with something that enables one use. That one thing is comprised of a casing with powder in it. When the function of the machine is triggered, something comes out of the machine, because of the thing you loaded into it. As far as shower thoughts go, this one is actually pretty well thought out.

No. “Black rifle” is an umbrella term loosely referring to modern, lightweight, polymer or aluminum-frame rifles that became common starting around the 1960s.

Sources differ, but some sources claim it’s a reference to the name the Vietnamese gave the M16 during the Vietnam War, which translates literally back into English as “black rifle”. It’s worth noting that none of the sources I could find which make this claim provide the original, Vietnamese name.

Lmao. Not bad, actually. To put a finer point on it, I’d say Keurigs are a Springfield Model 1873. It’s a trapdoor, breech-loading rifle, among the earliest rifles to utilize a cartridge.

The Native Americans developed a (VERY effective) strategy or drawing out a volley of musket fire, then charging in while everyone was reloading. This rifle invalidated that strategy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springfield_model_1873

Popularity is weird. You might as well try to understand up/down votes

It might help. But, in addition to being generally unpleasant, it’s also quite challenging to build things underground and also very dangerous to live underground. What if a bombardment or natural disaster caused the ceiling to collapse? Or blocked one of the many vents that would be required for air circulation?

Iirc, some nutritionist a while back did an experiment where they ate only potatoes for X number of days and proved that you can survive indefinitely off of only potatoes. You can also bury a piece of a potato and it willl grow into a potato plant. They’re basically an infinite food glitch.

Literally only once in my entire life.

I worked at a major restaurant chain for a few years about a decade ago. One of our specialty bar drinks was a frozen strawberry banana daiquiri thing that was made with real bananas. One day, our bartender was mixing like five of these things for a big group. The bananas were cut in half in the morning for portioning and kept in a cooler until needed, where the half would be peeled and used. One of the bananas got peeled, put in the blender, and the half peel was tossed into the trash can with the others. Or so she thought.

She hands out the frozen drinks, then quickly steps away to go check on something else, walks past the trash can, and slips on a banana peel that didn’t quite make it into the trash. We were busy, so many customers and a few servers saw.

She didn’t get hurt. She mostly caught herself before hitting the ground. But for the rest of the time I worked there, we would poke fun at her for tripping on a banana peel that she put there.

Well, it’s IT, so the answer is always a big ol’ fat, “It depends!”

Why do we do this?

Ostensibly, the primary reason for RAID is in the name: redundancy. Of course, there’s RAID 0, which is for performance, but that’s kind of a different thing that doesn’t seem to apply here. The main risks it mitigates are those associated with drive failures.

RAID isn’t, and should’t be considered, a substitute for backups. But, backups can be a substitute for RAID in some situations. If you simply want to avoid losing data, the right backups solution can do that for you, but your time to recovery will be longer; rebuilding a RAID disk from parity is much faster than restoring a backup from scratch.

So, if you want, you can RAID some disks, partition space on those disks and store your important data on the RAIDed partition. The rest can live on backed up but un-RAIDed disks. It’s really according to your specifically desired recovery time and risk appetite for that data.

fart particles

Don’t you mean… farticles?

Containers are not a security barrier. They cannot be, they never will be.

Not entirely true. If you’re hosting multiple game servers on one machine, for example, it’s best to run each instance in a container. Game servers, by their nature, are required to have public IPs and ports, and some of them run on old engines that are vulnerable to various DoS methods. If your server is attacked, it might crash the container(s), but it can’t bring the whole server down.

Very true. There are only ~65K ports. If someone decides they want to, trying all of them to see which one gives a valid response is trivial.

Yeah, but Ulillillia is far from normal though.