Cults of personality don’t work that way. They don’t get replacements. They can try, but they’re not likely to reach a critical threshold of votes. They may not even reach a House or Senate majority, and Project 2025 can’t go ahead at the federal level without all three.

If anything, we need to double down on freight. Get all the long haul trucks off the highways that we can.

How come Trump gets to be as polarizing as he wants, but nobody to the left of McConnell can?

You keep doing this thing where you presume I don’t know about some issue

Maybe because you way overestimate the reliability of old drives. Yes, 10 year old drives can work. Doesn’t mean you should trust them with anything other than getting the data off of it.

I’ll wait for a good legal breakdown to come to firm conclusions, but it sounds like SCOTUS found a way to make a ruling that drags Trump’s trials out even more. They have to separate the acts that have immunity from the ones that don’t.

Magnetic platters absolutely do break down from sitting around. Bearings and other mechanics can also go bad. For those things, a professional recovery operation could still get the data if you’re willing to pay, but the drive itself should be thrown out.

Edit: keep in mind that with bit rot, the drive may superficially function just fine. Your data may even be 99% correct. That 1%, however, could cause unrecoverable problems, such as videos that glitch in the middle.

Jail the current executives and hand over the company to the workers. This works best if there’s a robust union in the company already. Boeing sorta kinda does, but it’s been hurt by decades of union busting efforts.

I wouldn’t trust it that way, no. They might last decades. They also might not. It’s a gamble on any single drive, or even a few mirrored drives.

File system also matters. Modern ZFS has error checking that can handle some level of bit rot. Older formats generally don’t.

If it’s over 7 years or so, I want to get the data off of there.

- as opposed to +

WELCOME TO THE RABBIT HOLE

I upgraded my datahoarding server to a pair of 18TB hard drives on ZFS with mirroring a little while back. It’ll be several years before I need to upgrade again, but I expect that when I do, SSDs will be cheap enough to go that route.

Already have a 10Gbps fiber connection to that server, so the hard drives are the bottleneck.

Commercially pressed discs don’t last forever, but longer than burnable discs. IIRC, they used to say 50 years for CDs, but in practice, it was a lot less. More like 20 or 30 if you store and handle them nicely. Easily less than 10 if you don’t.

Hard drives go bad over time; I don’t like trusting spinning platters much over 7 years. They can be OK, but they can suddenly stop working whenever.

SSDs are about the same as spinning platters.

JSON numeric encoding is perfectly capable of precise encoding to arbitrary decimal precision. Strings are easier if you don’t want to fuck around with the parser, though.

Also, people should start with small doses and work their way up.

In fact, there’s a lot of research and care people should do beforehand. Mushrooms can be a wonderful experience, but can also be a traumatic one. Learning about them ahead of time goes a long way.

Then you have to explain how her bum was like a mountain goat, and ain’t nobody want to do that.

It’s a compromise position. Under Chevron, Conservative justices couldn’t strike down regulations that put limits on corporations. At the same time, more liberal justices (leftist justices don’t really exist) couldn’t reverse agencies that had been captured and start ending regulations.

This ruling only makes sense for their position if they think they can hold onto the judiciary indefinitely.

Cops are government employees, and hopefully the government cares about losing $175k over bullshit their employee did.

Yeah, they can afford to lose one or two, but if we all start flipping off cops and start getting charged, it’s going to add up.

Here’s India’s inflation chart for the past few years: https://www.equentis.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/image-87.png

Here’s the US: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEDCPIM158SFRBCLE

They aren’t easing anything.

Pretty sure signing over your soul is a requirement for HR positions. They do blatantly illegal things all the time and do not care. So yes, they will happily tell the truth in an anonymous survey.

Manufacturer must provide either a comparable replacement vehicle or a full refund.

In my state (Wisconsin), it’s considered a lemon if it’s no more than a year old and under warranty, and:

• It has a serious defect the manufacturer or dealer(s) didn’t fix in four tries, or
• It has one or more defects that prevent you from using it for 30 days or more (the 30 days need not be consecutive).

Cybertruck probably won’t trigger the first clause, but I wonder about that second one.