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also true, but as other have said, mississippi doesn’t really get snow so given the massive difference between them and vic, i don’t think snow is really a particularly big contributor

from existing in a car in the US on a few occasions and living in australia i’d wager a HUGE amount of the difference is attitude… holy SHIT do yall speed like crazy! 15-20mph over the limit just seems to be standard… 15kph over the limit here in aus you literally watch them pass every other car and call them a dickhead - and they’ll almost certainly get a speeding fine

also loans still exist regardless of investment like stocks, which is the way most small businesses start anyway

over COVID, the company i worked for did the best possible thing: they called an all hands and said they didn’t want to let anyone go, but would likely need to unless everyone took a voluntary 20% pay cut for a bit… they expressed that not everyone is in the position to do that, and if you can’t you shouldn’t feel bad… executives and leadership making the decision took a 40% pay cut for the same period, and any profit that the company made went to reimburse people’s salaries in proportion to the amount they lost. because they were honest, and sacrificed more themselves the buy in was something like 95%, they didn’t have to fire anyone, and we ended up getting about half of it back…

i’d consider that all a good thing, but i can also see how it’s more work

they’re supposed to be stateless because it’s easier to manage, upgrade, etc… if you don’t want that, you can just use load/save/commit (or import/export: can’t remember off the top of my head which is which) and ignore volumes: it amounts to the same thing… there’s also buildpack rebase so you can swap out the base container and keep your top level changes for quick version upgrades that are super simple to roll back

misconfiguration here i think is a dangerous way to phrase it… it implies that there is a secure way to run jellyfin on its own. jellyfin, by itself, should never be exposed to the www. it is, no matter the configuration, insecure. to run jellyfin on the www you must put a VPN or other reverse proxy with auth over the top of it

swiftfin is mostly there but doesn’t support media segments, which is a deal breaker for me

really unfortunate since jellyfin media segments is a much better implementation of the concept than plex

i’m watching the swiftfin issue for when it gets added and i’ll be all over compiling and testing it

you can use commit, save/load, import/export for the same thing as VM snapshots

It's not about willingness. We've seen what people are willing to do.

having worked in government, it takes sometimes years to even do minor things… most people are “willing” in that they’ll spend a few weekends… few people are willing to spend years of their life for a result that’s “well i guess that’s better than nothing”

people are willing as long as they see quick results otherwise they get bored and move on to another cause…

we can see exactly this all over the fediverse: people up in arms and then when some minor court victory happens or some report gets issued everyone is up in arms that we didn’t move straight to arresting people… i’m not saying that there doesn’t need to be some kind of emergency intervention right now to combat the extralegal shit that’s happening, but it shows that if results aren’t immediate, people kinda just argue that a step in the process isn’t good enough

government should never achieve quick results because quick results means courts and citizens can’t keep up and push back… slow government is a feature (though stalled government as the US seems to have most of the time is certainly not)

process and precedent help to patch the holes so these things don’t happen again

… that URL slug is quite a thing

Huge dicks with tiny dicks

Democracy has a problem that nobody actually wants to serve… I do a lot of work with community orgs and it’s exactly the same: plenty of people “want to help” but when it comes to committee/board elections nobody is willing to step up

I’d wager the exact same is true for the various elected police positions in the US, and to a similar degree politics… so you’re just left with sham elections among people that nobody actually wants