thatKamGuy

Yes; that is what their role is. Unfortunately, Russia inherited the USSR’s former permanent seat when the Soviet Union collapsed - and are basically veto’ing any such action.

One can only hope that we learn from history, the next time a member state collapses (whether it be the US, Russian Federation or anyone else).

Unless they can also do something to greatly increase write speeds, good luck to anyone having to rebuild a RAID after a drive failure with one of these..

To clarify, I meant more that no one will be able to pay; especially if their insurance premiums end up costing more than their monthly mortgage!

In a situation where the risk is assessed to be that there is another fire in the Palisades region within the next 10 years - and that there is a >50% chance of critical structural damage, then in order to cover all of the associated costs and operational expenses, your home premium would be ~10% of your home’s value!

Insurance companies need to charge more than they pay out in order to be able to cover wages/salaries of their employees (assessor’s, customer service, sales etc.). So if an insurance provider’s risk model for the Palisades is that there is a >50% chance that the house will burn down again in the next 10 years - then they will need to charge like ~10% of the home’s value per year just to break even (ie. no profits for shareholders to leech off of).

The insurance premiums would be higher than the mortgage, and that’s assuming the insurance companies would firstly be able to sell such a coverage plan (ie. can it even be afforded), and that they don’t view the risk of miscalculating and making a loss as too great and pulling out of the market altogether.

Now don’t take this as a blanket defence of the insurance industry at large. There are plenty of companies (especially in the health sector) that are some of the scummiest on the planet - but asset insurance companies already largely work off making a very small amount of money off a large number of policies.

Is is a band-aid that is only going to allow the underlying issues to further fester.

Insurance companies profit by charging more in premiums than they pay out in claims. This is just going to accelerate them either pulling out of the state altogether, or if barred from doing so (and good luck with that in court); they will hike the premiums so high that no one would pay.

The SSN is 9 digits long; so technically they would have to start re-using them after the billionth one. Given the current population size, and how many people have been born/died since its implementation - it’s fair to say they haven’t had to re-use any figures yet.

Have you given any thought to switching to a LTSC version of Windows 10 Enterprise? There are a few trade-offs from what I can see, but at least it eliminates the issue of no security updates for up to 5 more years.

I’m still mulling over the pro’s and con’s - curious on what you think.

It’d hopefully allow you to keep Civ6 multiplayer going for the time being until (if/when) the Linux issues get solved?

I’m a PC that’s not currently “compatible” with Windows 11, because I’m too lazy/refuse to enable TPM 2.0 in my BIOS.

Given how much of a pain in the ass my work machine is with Win 11 — I’d honestly rather switch to Linux than deal with it on my home system.

I’ve been tinkering with my Steam Deck for almost a year, and haven’t been able to accidentally brick it - it’s definitely come a long way from where it was back in my uni days (early 00s).

Look, the awfulness of this whole entire situation aside - I would unironically enjoy the shit out of that rendition.

Needs at least two exclamation points on that thing; to properly imply scale. Add an extra one for each of the following territorial acquisitions: Canada and Greenland.

Coming soon, to a map near you: OKLAHOMA!!!!

Daimler Ferret

Thank you for bringing this glorious thing to my attention!

I imagine a lot of this is coming off the back of individuals/corporations/nations seeking influence over Trump; especially when you consider that something like 80-90% of initial tokens were owned by Trump and insiders.

A couple hundred million dollars is a small amount to pay for the leverage it could provide. I honestly think a large number of the biggest bagholders would be linked to the Saudi’s and Musk.