bless your heart. i bet youve learned a lot!

The German Chess Federation has rejected any ban

meh.

if they really cared, there would not be any official ‘gendered’ tournaments. but there are, because they want that for some reason.

cmon people, this is irrelevant.

this is a distraction from the fact the bill they are about to pass is goin to end up hurting or killing millions of americans.

on the other hand, if you are on medicare/medicaid and you voted for trump… fuck you. you deserve everything thats [not] coming to you.

i would add our electoral process has been poisoned by the parties in control. i saw it start to fail when the league of women voters bailed, and the entire process was from then on entirely controlled only by those who would benefit from it.

politicians should have no choice with regards to debate events or the configuration of those events. they absolutely should not have prior knowledge of questions to be asked, and should be fact-checked live.

media agencies should be held accountable for know falsities. fox news has poisoned untold millions of people with countless fabrications over decades instilling a level of unsubstantiated fear forcing the ignorant to vote against their own best interests.

democracy is on hospice

today might be the date it begins transitioning.

yes, there is no free healthcare.

those with the lowest incomes qualify for government assistance in the form of medicare/medicaid but this is fairly minimal and specifically excludes most novel treatments. our republicans/conservatives continually find ways to reduce this funding. they are truly awful human beings despite being the ‘pro life’, ‘pro god’ block of our electorate.

the united states sucks donkey balls for poor people considering its wealthy status otherwise. all that money is at the top, and its getting worse.

are you asking how we treat, or what do we pay?

many people with cancer in the u.s. go the cheapest routes for treatment because some are incredibly expensive. hospitals are only required to ‘stabilize’. they are not mandated to cure. poorer people have worse outcomes as they cant afford the best treatments.

i found containers helpful… it was simple to spin up a VPN container (gluetun), and push through any services/access/other containers (like pihole) through that. i really appreciated this because if the vpn goes down i’m not suddenly leaking my ip.

what kinda storage ya runnin?

if its a spinning rust drive, it could be failing. ive seen behavior like this after a big data change (like an OS install) on a drive thats on its way out. its spinning its wheels re-reading data.

prolly not the issue if its an SSD

yeah but where will that energy go??

the issue with global warming is the planet retaining heat it otherwise would not… added hurricanes seem to be a symptom of this extra energy. if its not burned off by running a big ol’ hurricane, what happens?

just like the republican party. every accusation is actually an admission of guilt

i cant defend the display, but i can respect the intent.

to each his own

you can almost hear norm say it… ‘well, its light was on’

racism is easier to support online than in person.

the best way to resolve racist opinions is to coerce those with abhorrent views to see their targets as human beings exactly like themselves. having this happen physically, in person, is a requirement.

uhg. how can this not end up with everyone just… suffering??

nope, purposefully the purple beast. i was goin for the ape consonance

decentralized cloud storage

isnt that kind of an oxymoron?

i manage all files and metadata outside of jellyfin/kodi using mediaelch… it scrapes, renames and sets up all the local metadata files for ingestion perfectly into both my media services.

i dont get this… im technically still usin emby, but user management is beyond simple and requirs no upkeep. no one has asked me to reset their passwords and ive got a few dozen people usin my instance.