Screw striking. Waste of time when the government will just call it an illegal strike.

When the bullshit outpaces the pay, walk away. Find another job.

Very much depends. I host the digital music collection for my entire family (6 people) all with very different tastes in music and very large music collections. According to Jellystat, I’m hosting roughly 52,000 tracks taking up just shy of 2 TB. I used to keep track of how many albums I had but I’ve long since lost track.

On average, a CD ripped to FLAC seems to run around 300MB. MP3 or OGG would generally be smaller (but with quality loss), dependent on the bitrate, call it 50MB - 200MB.

In short, a person hosting a normal sized personal music collection is unlikely to run into space issues.

You can. I started my Jellyfin server on a RPi3. Not great hardware for video streaming, but it will work fine for music. Could also use Navidrome. For local network only, that would be all you need.

To stream your media collection outside your home network, you’ll want to set up either a reverse proxy and set your ISP’s modem to forward the traffic to the reverse proxy, or set up a VPN like Tailscale. Tailscale would be the simpler option most of the time and is more secure for the average self-hoster.

Only if you only get your news from social media. There has been other stuff going on. US economy is weakening, there has been a Nissan recall, some tech news, apparently another bank either has or will soon fail. Same old, same old.

My social media feed though are nothing but protests, ICE misbehavior, and propaganda from all sides.

Might want to pick an actual news organization to follow to see what else is going on in the world. Lately, for me it has been apnews.

I don’t disagree that we need people like the Colonel to stay in, but the man has served faithfully for 24 years. More than long enough to reach retirement. We have to trust in the training that he has given the men and women that have served under him, and hope that it will prove to be enough.

That or finish bigger household projects. Who has money for vacations?

He can fuck on off. That’s up to the States.

So I’m seeing a bunch of complaining about this. Anybody have any actionable suggestions on how to frustrate this intrusion?

How bad must the full Epstein files be for Trump to be thrashing about this much? Former President Obama hasn’t been a frequent name in the news for what, 10 8 years?

Edit: Has it seriously only been 8 years since we had some semblance normalcy in this country. It feels like a lifetime ago.

If I remember correctly correctly, it was something like reckless discharge or a firearm. It’s bullshit, but it’s all the “justice” her family will see.

Good.

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Possibly. Probably even. It’s still irrelevant.

Agreed

I was about to reply that today’s protests seem to have gone off peacefully till this article came up in my news feeds.

https://www.opb.org/article/2025/06/14/portland-police-ice-facility-riot/

As far as I know though, the Portland protest, and the assassinations of the Minnesota legislator, Melissa Hortman, and her husband, seem to have been the exceptions.

In the US, generally, you aren’t so much asking permission as giving notice that your expecting a generate a crowd, despite the phrasing. Freedoms of speech, assembly and association are still a thing.

The purpose behind it is to give emergency services a heads up to minimize obstruction of normal or emergency traffic and to provide some level of crowd control to minimize the chance of flash stampedes. Like if some idiot sets off a firework, everyone thinks it’s a gunshot and started running.

Approval is generally automatic, but failure to go through the approval process could result in your peaceful protest turning into a riot, or being declared a riot.

Good on them!

I’m more concerned with the military command respecting the court decision. They are the ones with the guns. That would be a problem.

From it’s publicly available spec sheet:

Performance and Weights: • Maximum Speed 240 knots (276 mph) • Service Ceiling Altitude 50,000 ft • Endurance 20 hours • Maximum Gross Weight 10,500 lbs

Seems like that would likely cause pilots and any remaining ATCs in the area ulcers. Especially if it wasn’t following flight rules. I seem to recall that quite a few planes fly around the LA metro area.

Done. Sorry about that.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ice-mistakenly-detain-us-marshal-rcna211599