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  • The ipmi on my supermicro says it’s running 497w.

    But that’s what 38 HDDs will do to ya. I used to spin them down when not in use (it’s mostly a Plex server) but it’s in my garage and over the winter I had some issues with the older HDDs not wanting to spin up in freezing temps. I’ll probably move it back to spinning them down over the summer.


  • Remember. Property damage isn’t violence!!

    It’s probably the only way to make the protests be something politicians HAVE to deal with. They can ignore the minor inconvenience of people congregating. They can’t ignore having to replace cars, repair building, and have their budget fucked up.

    Protests need to be disruptive. Like the garbage collectors strike in paris(?).

    It’s can’t just be those who are already agreeing with you, thats why the no kings are kind of a circle jerk. Your protesting to whom? Who do you want to hear you? How can we disrupt the day to day lives of our representatives and federal government?

    I mean shit. Just chalk messages on the sidewalk outside Stephen millers house caused him to run away to a military base



  • I don’t entirely disagree. But it does feel like it’s along the same slippery slope fallacy where once you start criminalizing one type of speech those who are unscrupulous enough will find a way to subvert it to attack others and restrict additional speech until dissent becomes criminal.

    I don’t think we should tolerate the intolerant. We as a society need to be intolerant of them, but it’s a fine line when it’s the government itself that is doing it. Businesses need to ostracize them. Do not sell them goods or food. Do not allow them to enter your premises. Do not hire them.

    We as individuals need to do the same.

    Quite frankly, it’s the intolerant who have weaponized this so effectively. They have no qualms with harassing and doxing people whose views differ. I suppose there is a definition of intolerant that the tolerant need to collectively identify and fight at all costs. But it’s hard to define it especially when the intolerant use our tolerance against us.

    I know that doing so will lead them to their own echo chambers and enclaves. I don’t have a solution for that which doesn’t involve physical harm. And the older I get, the more I understand the necessity of violence in order to preserve life and peace, as much as that sounds like an oxymoron.





  • It’s been that way for decades. The ACLU defended the Nazis in 1977 when they wanted to march in Skokie, Illinois. It was a big drawn out test of 1st amendment rights and while the person actually defending them hated them, he felt silencing their speech was tantamount to silencing all speech. It’s why there is the scene in the Blue Brothers where Jake says “I hate illinois nazis”

    I’m torn on this, because in a way it really is a 1st amendment issue. Does a university that gets public funds and is accredited by the state get to police the political affiliations and speech of it’s students? At the college I went to in CA, we routinely had religious fanatics on campus telling us about sin and how people were going to hell, but they had a 1st amendment right to be there. We heckled them and yelled and did sin right in their faces anyways, because fuck them. Schools often have standards similar to public institutions with how they handle free speech, especially state schools.

    Personally, I want to see every one in this group beaten to a pulp for their beliefs. And then beaten again. I want to see who they are and ostracize them and make them feel like shit over it.

    I feel that it is more up to us to deal with it, than it is for a state institution or a school that is an extension of the state.











  • Best? Maybe not.

    But until the underlying social issue gets resolved, it’s a solution to address it.

    It’s also one that could be utilized alongside other protections for women, or as a stop gap to get to a better solution.

    They still will need to work out other ways to empower women to terminate a ride (both as driver and passenger) without penalty AND to ensure the passenger is let out of the vehicle in a safe place. Along with better reporting, investigations, and consequences for those who do harass.