I wonder if any have started shipping with prepaid cellular

Maybe that’s the context. All of my cloud hosting work is very large corporate systems in the big three clouds. You’re talking about Hostinger or Scalahosting type services, yes?

All the cloud services I’ve used had virtual network firewalls for internal traffic. Security Groups for AWS, Cloud Firewall for GCP, etc. That’s typically how lateral traffic gets managed. Defense in depth is good, but as I said I haven’t used host firewalls in forever, and we get audited for security certificates every year, and no auditor has asked about them that I recall.

These firewall tools are interesting, but I honestly haven’t needed them in years. The premise is a little out of date. Who puts cloud servers on the open internet these days? Everything I see uses a public load balancer and a WAF service.

What’s the advantage of pretending McConnell isn’t dead or incapacitated? The Kentucky legislature already took the power to appoint vacancies from the Governor when a Democrat won. Who wants to delay or avoid a special election? I don’t get it.

Same. It says my rate “may” go up, but I couldn’t find if it actually would.

What is in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

Claw it back. It’s well established that Congress can un-spend money now.

You either put it in the DSL or people start writing generators for your DSL.

Ever tried doing a large installation of the blumat drippers? Like a 10’x20’ veggie plot. I’ve got the standard 1/4" vinyl drip lines buried under straw mulch currently. It’s a very dry climate.

Brother Ali is also an excellent option in that genre, although his most directly political tracks are not his best IMHO.

The example in the article is a comparison between east and west Germany, where the east had significantly higher TFR. The author attributes it to better socialized childcare services and more egalitarian attitudes about work and motherhood.

This is a unique natural experiment which makes it difficult to incorporate comparisons with modern China. There are numerous confounding factors comparing between time, culture, and geography, when what the question really is, is whether a capitalist China would have a different TFR than a socialist one.

I would also question how socialist China really is. Things have changed a lot since the Soviet days. Chinese culture seems extraordinarily competitive to a casual observer.

And it’s fertility rate is 1.22.

Maybe. Are you a homicidal AI?

No fate but what we make. You can put in the effort to keep your mind and your ears open. Absolutely worth it IMHO.

The implication is that they are all good friends from the same social circles.

Honestly bad article. Author can’t even accurately describe the thing they claim doesn’t exist.

excludes droughts and heatwaves

Those seem important

I like people in theory

The above poster at least brought a reference. Here’s another covering the backfire effect in general https://psychotricks.com/backfire-effect/

People are a tricky problem. They don’t often work the way one would think, and certainly not the way we might wish. I think it’s a fair position to take that the social media environment, and the way people with opposing views interact there, has had a non-negligible impact on the rise in extreme views. That definitely includes trolling.

But here I am offering a differing opinion with a reference in support of the backfire effect, which is some next-level irony.