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Civil Asset Forfeiture. It's legal in most states, but some are better than others. Oklahoma is dog shit:

https://ij.org/report/policing-for-profit-3/?state=OK

Seriously people, don't move to Oklahoma, or really most southern states.

The bottom hits when all (or most) of the bad news is on the table. People know what's happening and what the future looks like. It doesn't happen when the pain is gone, just when people know what that pain will look like for the foreseeable future. For example, in 2022 the bottom happened when rate increases started to slow down, not when they stopped completely, just when inflation was starting to level off and we dropped from .75pt hikes to .5pt and people could see a path forward.

We are not at that point yet in the current crash, nobody has any idea how bad it's going to get, none of the indicators show the problems yet because they're all lagging, and consumers haven't been hit yet by the high prices and supply chain crashes because manufacturers and retailers are still running off of back stock.

I could be wrong of course, but I don't think I am.

Way too early. We haven't even begun to see the results of these policies yet. Inflation results don't yet take tariffs into account, the mass layoffs that are currently happening don't show up in unemployment stats yet, the massive GDP shrinkage isn't showing up yet, supply chains that are in the process of crashing haven't yet affected consumers. This is a dead cat bounce, which literally every single crash in history has, and every time there are people shouting that the pain is over and now is the time to buy back in, right before the bottom drops out.

Market self regulation assumes informed consumers that are smart enough to know what things mean

Not just smart enough, but informed enough. That means every person spending literally hundreds/thousands of hours per week researching every single aspect of every purchase they make. Investigating supply chains, performing chemical analysis on their foods and clothing, etc. It's not even remotely realistic.

So instead, we outsource and consolidate that research and testing, by paying taxes to a central authority who verifies all manufacturers keep things safe so we don't have to worry about accidentally buying Cheerios that are laced with lead. AKA: The government and regulations.

You’re assuming the democrats and this new party would vote the same for SotH and all important bills, in which case what’s the point of this new party? Also most states use FPTP for congressional elections as well, so while democrats and this third party would likely still win some seats, in most locations they would again split the vote and you’d end up with even more GOP congressional representatives than you have now. So it wouldn’t be 45/35/20 GOP/dem/X, it would be more like 80/15/5. That’s just the nature of how FPTP works.

We need a new party, not a new democrat

Never going to happen while we still have FPTP, at least not the way you think it will. What would really happen, is this new party would split the Democratic vote, and the Republicans would win even harder. You have to get rid of FPTP before any 3rd party will be a realistic possibility. Until then it would just make things even worse.

No names? On what? People just go around saying “no names”?

It says "no mames". I'm not sure what on earth that means, but I suspect it isn't a typo (writeo?)

I self-host Bitwarden, hidden behind my firewall and only accessible through a VPN. It's perfect for me. If you're going to expose your password manager to the internet, you might as well just use the official cloud version IMO since they'll likely be better at monitoring logs than you will. But if you hide it behind a VPN, self-hosting can add an additional layer of security that you don't get with the official cloud-hosted version.

Downtime isn't an issue as clients will just cache the database. Unless your server goes down for days at a time you'll never even notice, and even then it'll only be an issue if you try to create or modify an entry while the server is down. Just make sure you make and maintain good backups. Every night I stop and rsync all containers (including Bitwarden) to a daily incremental backup server, as well as making nightly snapshots of the VM it lives in. I also periodically make encrypted exports of my Bitwarden vault which are synced to all devices - those are useful because they can be natively imported into KeePassXC, allowing you to access your password vault from any machine even if your entire infrastructure goes down. Note that even if you go with the cloud-hosted version, you should still be making these encrypted exports to protect against vault corruption, deletion, etc.

That’s a complicated question. Bigger memory can split it between more banks, which can mean more precharge penalties if the memory you need to access is spread out between them.

But big memory systems generally use workstation or server processors, which means more memory channels, which means the system can access multiple regions of memory simultaneously. Mini-PCs and laptops generally only have one memory controller, higher end laptops and desktops usually have two, workstations often have 4, and big servers can have 8+. That’s huge for parallel workflows and virtualization.

I'd be in trouble, since between ZFS and my various VMs, my system idles at ~170 GB RAM used. With only 32 I'd have to shut basically everything down.

My previous system had 64 GB, and while it wasn't great, I got by. Then one of the motherboard slots died and dropped me to 48 GB, which seriously hurt. That's when I decided to rebuild and went to 256.

Exactly this

Early Starcraft got me from ~10 wpm to near 100. You had to type those messages fast before your base was invaded and you died. If I had been born either 5 years earlier or later I don't think I'd be nearly as fast a typer as I am today.

A lot of it comes down to the Just World Fallacy

They believe that, fundamentally, the world is just and good (mostly that stems from religion and a just "god", but not always). This means that when something bad happens, they assume the person must have deserved it, because bad things don't happen to good people. They also believe they are a good person, and therefore bad things won't happen to them. When something bad DOES happen to them, they start screaming from the rooftops that some radical injustice has occurred and somebody needs to do something to make it right! Completely unaware of the fact that nobody from their "tribe" will believe them, because the fact that something bad happened to them meant they must have been a bad person who deserved it.