Link was dead for me as soon as I tried it.

Sure, officially. I recognize the hurdles a fascist takeover from the inside is presenting to the smooth operation of a judicial system lol but I’m talking about at a personal level for this one guy.

How does he go to work day in and day out and not hear about this fuckery going on in his own circles when I’m hearing about it constantly? Or maybe this is a new low even for them since the article mentions that they have a duty to inform the judge. In which case there shouldn’t be any words of admonition, just action and explanations after the fact imo.

I know judges are just people that go to work like the rest of us but I still can’t understand why they haven’t already noticed the same contemptible behavior that the rest of us have been seeing and dispensed with the leeway they always give the DOJ attorneys. I mean shouldn’t they, of all people, know how scummy the DOJ has been recently when it comes to getting what it wants?

Has no one mentioned shucking yet? I’ve had 8 shucked drives in my server for 5yrs now and the motherboard died before any of my drives did.

Buy western digital external drives (MyBook and Passports) to tear them apart for the white-label drives on the inside. No warranties after you start using them (unless you save the enclosures to send them back) but they’re essentially the same drive as the red label NAS drives for about half the price.

All storage prices are insane in the current market but if you’re careful and test the drives before you use them (since that’s when you usually need the warranty) then you shouldn’t have a problem. Just be aware you’re either going to need to use the “kapton tape trick” or buy “SAS drive adapters” from your online store of choice for about $10 apiece to allow the drives to power on outside of the enclosure.

lol how much have you been paying them?

Not that developing competition wouldn’t be great for the consumers imo, but doesn’t Apple hold future contracts with the biggest memory makers as their #1 customer?

Seems like they, of all people, wouldn’t need to develop new relationships like this.

When these companies accept these long-term contracts, do they ask for payment upfront? Or do they just assume that the companies are “good for it” because they’re so well known?

Ah, you’re right. Don’t know how I missed that part but it at least means my statements were a bit myopic compared to the point he was trying to make.

So this based on numbers from the same site that was putting out the arsenic levels in candy that was like 100x higher than the WHO numbers? The ones that said you could only have like 240 tiny Nerds per year?

At this point I’m more skeptical of what agenda is trying to be pushed from these tbh, because I’m not seeing any methodology to support any of these findings.

Garbage in, garbage out. COVID and screens were just accelerators that could’ve been managed and incorporated if we hadn’t been cutting the education budget to the bone for the last half dozen decades.

Teachers are worse quality, infrastructure is worse, and now the products of that steady decline are sending their kids (or their kids) back into a degraded system to show its “value” once again.

But that’s not how it goes. That’s just the summary, and most anyone would balk at it being put like that. Just like most of Nazi Germany would’ve balked at gassing 6mil Jews if that’s what Hitler would’ve ran his campaign on.

First they say, “Ok boys, today we’re on crowd control. It’s going to be a little crazy out there today because of the officer involved shooting but we’re just going to try and keep it professional and hope for the best.”

Of course that’s coded to hell and passive voice for “the people are agitated and we gotta show force” but there’s a reason they don’t say it like that. It’s too direct. It might cause the more liberal minded to ask uncomfortable questions where everyone else can hear, and start to doubt the mission too.

Then they’re out there. Shoulder to shoulder. Dressed the same, on the same team, with all the (justifiable) anger of a mob directed right at them. Tribalism kicks in and it’s off to the escalation races. By the time they get to the tear gas stage they’re practically congratulating each other that they haven’t shot anyone else today.

Anyone with sense saw this coming when they did the same thing in Australia and the UK but I otherwise agree with your point. I think this is a very calculated move.

When the deadline gets here in a month, 80% of the group that would’ve migrated out of disgust won’t be affected because they just use Discord for group voice chats anyway, and the competition isn’t ready. The rest have been trained to put their personal info out there to anyone who asks for it. And, when (not if) they eventually roll out “IDs for Everyone”, the outrage won’t be nearly as detrimental to their bottom line because it’s already happened before.