For a few seconds this could have been a shit post. But when you see it, its shitpost.

Did some further reading on this.

Trump is appealing the James ruling. While the appeal is under review, he was still required to pay the penalty amount as a bond to stave off the possibility of the state seizing his assets.

While the bond amount has been reduced to $US175 million. The full penalty still stands if his appeal against the ruling fails!

I think a problem with blind voting is, who do the citizens know who represented them and acted in their interest, and therefore who they should support and vote for? Backroom deals and corruption would run rife. Greater transparency is better than less.

A conscience vote, where the party leaders do not enforce a particular party line, instead accept the will of the representative member (notionally on behalf of their constituents) should be more commonplace. This is essentially the same as getting an independent. Best bet is to break up the 2-party system.

Loaf

Suggest the typical hardware device troubleshooting. watch/tail your dmesg -w or kernel log as you add the extra drive. It's curious that the system itself doesn't crash, but from your description it still sounds like a power starvation concern or possibly high temperatures if this device is under heavy load.

Using a voice assistant (like Google assistant), these understand how to treat plurals, so if you use the same base name numbered 1 & 2 you can say: turn on the (base name) lights and both come on without having to try to define scenes or explicit device groups or links. They can still be controlled independently, so I number in a sequence relative distance to the 'entrance' to that room, or left to right, you might want clockwise.

I use names related to the room, area or object, like: entrance light, dining table light, craft area light, fan light, hallway light, tv light, desk light, bed light, reading light, kitchen sink light. Numbered 1 & 2 if needed since usually want them on together.

Or may be further refined by type like: night light, down light, spot light, string light, stand light, lamp, bulb, LED etc.

Hope that helps with a few ideas?

Twin towers Sept 2001?

Maybe for context could you share any reference article or graph which triggered this question? Increased in relation to what, since when?

Not in the US, but from materials read before, it is a combination of things.

Typical causes of weight gain in an individual is simply more calorie intake than is being burnt off. Across a population you can consider environmental, lifestyle and social factors which may contribute to this.

1. Higher calorie intake (super-sized portions, highly processed foods with high sugar and fat content, cheap convenient fast foods and drinks, expensive healthy/nutritional foods, growth hormones in meats?).

2. Less exercise (infrastructure not built for cycling and pedestrians, less manual labour jobs, Netflix, Home delivery services, etc).

Health education, Food Advertising/Sponsorship, Chain loyalty discounts, Low wages (poverty), and Political influences would all play a part.

Seems he didn't want to give up what he saw as his personal trophies and mementos. A physical cache proving that he was once president with access to top secret information, that he can brag about or leverage for self-gain. He's used to always getting his way, or negotiating a favourable 'deal', burying those occasions which fail. A lot of his actions are difficult to rationalise as a normal person.

This has been pinned a few days now. Site health was pretty dire with several long outages.

But subjectively in the last 48 hours things seem to be great. Noticeably responsive and login and activities haven't missed a beat.

StatusPage.io still looks very red though... Is the worst now mitigated?

Thanks to the stirling admins (and friends) for their work on this. Vive la Lemmy.World!

Link to play the game itself...

https://drfreckles42.itch.io/youre-the-os

The subtle variations and intensity just hook you in to the mind loop.