This is a frankly absurd and comical waste of resources in an environment that absolutely does not call for the deployment of the newest, most advanced, and most expensive naval asset in the USN inventory.

1. all that gear is going to go bad
2. it worked for Israel

I think that second point is very important, as I think violence has its own overton window and Israel and Russia have seriously pushed it with each of their respective belligerent invasions; Israel more effectively since Russia seems to have failed almost completely in its goals.

the US everyday

‘Everyday’ means ‘unremarkable’ or ‘mundane’ and should precede the object as per adjective order. ‘Every day’ means ‘daily’.

What part of the US is the Unremarkable US? The middle-South?

Not being paid for the time? Not using company gear? No problem.

Sometimes you don’t wanna be homeless and starving.

After it’s all put back the way it was, I want to see plaques all over the place for the irreplaceable things he trashed

On this site the historic commemorative trees were demolished by Donald Trump on 24 October 2025 to make space for the Epstein Ballroom. The trees had been carefully tended for 103 years on the day of their death, having survived a economic depression, war after war, and 26 presidential terms with leaders of both parties.

Something like that. We can hope someone relocated them to a park or even a backyard, but they probably became the sawdust in the authentic vomitorium.

THIS IS CULTURAL APPROPRIATION.

the couple can send their son, Jason

You’re thinking the New Jersey Voorhees. They lived on Shades of Death Rd.

I want a mod for everything that just makes Morgan Freeman narrate it all.

Hell, that’s kinda the only voice I want to hear if we ever have Ai speaking to us.

workers in middle America who don’t make near as much as the govt workers or workers on the coasts / in cities do

Those are two different things. Gov workers, especially if unionized, aren’t living large; maybe contractors will be ‘on par’ with outside jobs because their job is an outside job. But internal gov workers typically make noticeably less than their external counterparts because their either union or they work for that higher-purpose feeling and their bosses have optimized wages down to suit.

For example, even though I’m a contractor to merely a gov-adjacent group, I work a 200k job for barely half that. And yes, the dead sea effect is chronic. (But I am union, so I get perqs)

Anyway, gov people will feel a crunch very early too, as “care for our fellow human” isn’t a payment option at Kroger.

a self-written tool to extract my images and videos from Apple Photos and back them up incrementally

This is VERY interesting. Do you have a project on, say, gitlab, with this code?

which backups to my server

which backs up to my server

If you confuse the noun and verb form, or just forget that space, the conjugation then falls over.

I don’t use GAFAM storage.

Without dereferencing that acronym, I’m not sure whether I’m using GAFAM storage either.

I have 2 external SSDs that I rotate keeping them offline and one offsite.

I was going to point out that in many arrangements like this - which used RAID - the disks are stressed a lot due to the full synch a lame raid1 would have required; but you’re not doing that. I think you’re just bringing in the disk and synching files over to match it up, and I think that’s a better move. If you’re using syncthing for that, then that may be a pretty good setup. Are you doing the synch of the travelling disks via syncthing too?

I had to move the 4tb external

Caution if that’s an off-the-shelf external rig: the disks in there are apparently of lower quality. Sorry to nag you if you did the right thing and got a reliable USB<->SSD adapter and a high-quality disk.

before you consider online storage, do physical. SSD

A stashed SSD isn’t physical: it’s an on-prem digital copy. Printed sheets would be ‘physical’.

if you can, they last longer.

Comma splice, by the way.

Attention. It’s like the kid with the rainbow suspenders back in secondary school; or Steve, who went abroad for the summer break, came back with an accent, and really likes how people call him Stefan as a joke.

literally freed

Is there any other way?

And we should cut the power.

Can we relax the headline rules to allow people to drop [in America] in after headlines that only affect America?

Yeah, but when a Labrador mouths your hand you still get to keep it.