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I’m not sure there is one anymore.

Dwarfed though it is by the heartbreaking tragedy being inflicted on Ukraine, it’s tragic too to see Putin’s militaristic propaganda embed itself so completely, even among the country’s youth.

I doubt even a full mobilisation would cause sufficient unrest to end the war now, nor would an even higher rate of Russian casualties cause Putin to cease his tyrannical conquest.

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I think you might have misinterpreted that. Moderators are volunteer users, not reddit staff.

Reddit’s decline through enshittification has been fascinating to watch.

This new stage appears to be utterly remarkable — an aggressive and hostile approach to its userbase and volunteer mod community on which the company is entirely reliant.

I think the harm reddit did in consolidating web discussion into a single platform that fostered a horrible, reductive culture online is immeasurable but deeply regrettable.

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40% of national expenditure on defence and security is astounding. I’d read previously that the massive defence spending was reshaping the Russian economy, but I had no perception it was that high.

That sounds like the sort of spending you’d pursue if you were heading toward total war, not merely entrenched in a single ‘special military operation’. I wonder if it indicates that those who suggest that this is just the opening stage of what will end up being a much larger war involving the attempted conquest of other nations might be right.

Easy mistake to make, I suppose. I mean, whomst among us can honestly claim that they’ve never accidentally employed a terrorist commander?

if you want to learn about Linux firewalls, go for iptables instead.

I’d suggest learning nftables might be more fruitful nowadays.

Allow them and if Russia strikes the West then have NATO impose a no fly zone over Ukraine and see how far Russia gets.

Forget a no-fly zone; if Russia strikes a NATO country most of the West will be going to war.

I’m torn on the matter for the obvious and horrific implications of war, but at this point I’m not sure it’d be the worst outcome. The invasion of Ukraine is utterly heartbreaking and setting the scene for a century or more of militarism and conquest by undemocratic states. Being gripped by fear of war now is going to condemn future generations to much worse, and it’s going to seem absurd to them looking back at why we didn’t prevent it now, with our tentative, sometimes faltering support for the multiple liberal-democracies facing conflict and the threat of conflict from undemocratic states right now.

Sooner or later the world is going to have to contend with this. I just hope it won’t be too late for Ukraine.

I wonder what the author thinks of Christians depicted in fiction. Are they all to be considered heretics for worshipping their god instead of their actual creator, the all-powerful writer?

The writer-as-god concept isn’t original, but the sheer level of egotism it embodies makes me think this author is an aspirational fiction writer trying to break through rather than a deeply deluded person struggling to reconcile TV fiction with their understanding of psychology, philosophy, and theology.

Why post this to a science community?

The last few paragraphs betray the author’s intent — and the scale of their misapprehensions.

I’d suggest it depends on your hardware setup. If you have sufficient disks and care about availability and/or performance of your data access, RAID is rarely a bad idea.

If you choose to do a software RAID in Linux without Intel RST, you have three main options: mdadm, LVM, and ZFS. You can explore those options on your own, but my personal view is that ZFS is wonderful to work with and comes with tons of benefits itself alongside its ZRAID implementation, making it my preferred choice.

edit: I forgot btrfs! I have no experience of it but I imagine its RAID implementation is as similarly awesome as ZFS/ZRAID.

Ah, like testing.

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Return the sausages! Brexit means breakfast! Gordon Brown saved the world!

Everyone misspeaks from time to time. The fact these folks speak publicly so often and misspeak so rarely is actually to their credit. I think it’s mildly newsworthy when it results in saying something politically relevant — like Biden mixing up Zelenskyy and Putin, or Bush when he seemed to reveal his true thoughts when misspeaking — but this one, like most occurrences, is just silly.