I legit had no idea anybody actually used the upper system until now. I had to read the comments just to see whether the upper system was just some sort of joke. I am horrified.

So wait, are you disparaging humans, praising humans, disparaging birds, or praising birds?

I used to think it didn’t matter how electricity is used to generate heat, so I came to the same conclusion you did. Surprisingly, it does matter. Rather than a computer’s resistive heating, it is much more efficient to refrigerate the outdoors and point the refrigerator’s heat sink indoors. This is how a heat pump works. It’s basically awesome.

Laptops are better, because they have an integrated uninterruptible power supply, but worse because most can’t fit two hard drives internally. Less of a problem, now that most have USB3. Just run external RAID if you have to.

Arguably, a serious home server will need a UPS anyway to keep the modem and router online, but a UPS for just the NAS is still better than no UPS at all. Also, only a small UPS is needed for the modem and router. A full desktop UPS is much larger.

In all seriousness, though, I doubt there is a single person alive who would condemn Russian election interference and excuse US election interference.

Well, if what you want is a little more screeching, then SCREEEEEEAAAAACH!

A person can’t regrow legs, but countries are famously not people.

Someone else would have been better, but Carney is the best Canada can manage with its dogshit voting system. At least he’s a servant of the state and not corrupt dictator wannabe like Trump. (Increasingly not wannabe)

I’m starting to think the only way to tackle climate change is for the people to start destroying fossil fuel infrastructure, starting with the highest volume targets that take the longest time to replace.

It’s the UAE—not Saudi Arabia.

The only question I have is why the US was contributing such a disproportionate amount in the first place. It was an accident waiting to happen. It’s not like the US has always been terribly concerned with democracy. If they were, they’d have a real voting system like Germany. I really don’t understand why Trump didn’t happen sooner.

Well, turns out something interesting did happen at COP30.

The real genocide isn’t Israel killing all of the Gazans, though that would work. Not that many people have actually died in Gaza, as a percentage of the total population. For that to work as a means of genocide, the number of dead Gazans would be in the millions. It is not.

The real genocide is Israel destroying their homes, then relocating the people, thus emptying the Gaza strip. That is the real plan. That is what is underway right now. The first step is already complete.

Incidentally, this is how Stalin stole Crimea from the Tatars. No, Crimea was not always ethnically Russian, as Putin claims.

Well, don’t expect a popular uprising any time soon. The KGB have totally depoliticised the Russian people. They believe they have no control over the fate of their country. If Russia fails, it will be because of economic failure at a basic level, where the country’s food, transportation, and energy systems all just stop working. And nobody in Russia will care, or do anything to stop it.

It’s interesting that the KGB has engineered a country uniquely capable of letting itself die.

They can’t print usdies or yuan. And they sure as hell can’t make a microchip.

That was the most surprising thing I read in this article, though:

Even The People’s Republic of China (PRC), which was seen as a potential lender at one time, has turned down Russian requests for government loans.