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No, I would agree with you that Biden represents the middle of the party. It's the Bernies, AOCs etc that represent more of the extreme left. With the Senate race being so tight that does help Biden in that Bernie and Warren cant take risks with their seats and move to Cabinet positions. I think...

This is sad cancel culture in action. That you would punish someone for their political leanings, when it has nothing to do with the product or service that business provides. You are saying that person must agree with you or hes out on the street with his family. That's really sad morally imo...

Or a significant amount of citizens decided they didn't want to go down the Socialist/Marxist path that the far left of the Democrat party represents.

The polls were wrong again, just like in 2016, while they predicted Biden would win comfortably it was actually pretty close. Now what is interesting is there really wasn't a big blue wave this time like there was for the House midterms in 2018. In fact the Republicans have picked up several...

It's actually the Democrats that were big into slave ownership and denying African Americans their rights back in the day.

I just fill them with data then run a chkdsk. One of the three 12tb easy stores ended up giving me bad sector errors when initializing the SHR5, so now I test them for a couple days before shucking.

So the way the cache works on the 920, with one nvme drive it is restricted to read cache, with two nvme drives it mirrors them and enables read and write caching. However you can't then mount them as a seperate drive. It can only be assigned as cache to a single specific volume. Hopefully DSM 7...

Ended up going with two WD 12TB easy store drives from Best Buy with store pickup. I dont like to expose them to UPS/Fedex handling.

It’s a constitutional republic.

The Seagate Exos drives seem quite affordable (14TB for $285) but apparently they are third party via Amazon and a lot of people are getting serial numbers that come back as OEM. The WD Gold 12 TB is $384. i have three external 8TB WD enclosures I got a few years ago when they were on special...

Going to try out the Synology DS920+, on special on Prime day for $439. Will use 500 GB 970 Evo nvme drives for cache, and bump ram to 8GB.

https://globalnews.ca/news/7304821/kenosha-kyle-rittenhouse-victims/ It was self defense. He was protecting businesses in areas where they had been torched the previous night. He was also trying to help people who were injured by giving them shelter, the mob didn't like that.

The Dems have predicted victory before based on polling numbers ...was reading something about how Republicans are significantly more likely to not reveal that they would be voting for Trump, they speak at the ballot box and not before. Which you can't really blame them for, some people get...

:) yeah that would have been cool. Just shipped out of CA so prob a week away. Apparently they had the same color scheme on the smaller baton light for 4th of July and sold out in minutes, so they made more for this release. There's a magnetic remote switch available I may try that later.

Don't get me wrong, I'm absolutely pro mask. But it seems like the CDC and WHO have both been very hesitant to talk about aerosol transmission, to presumably avoid panic. Now whether that's due to political reasons I don't know.

Been a while since I got a flashlight and then last night this beauty broke thru my defenses: https://www.olightstore.com/m2r-pro-pe.html

One of the thing with masks is that very early on in the US authorities told us that masks didn't help, and to reserve the PPE for medical workers doing their job. Now we are told to wear masks. Understandable that many are confused by the mixed messaging.

Full five day lockdown for 9 public housing estates in Melbourne, enforced by 500 police per shift, nobody to leave their apartment for any reason while mass testing underway: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-05/coronavirus-lockdown-melbourne-public-housing-residents-speak/12423170 From the...

Looks like the US is seeing significant spikes in infections in areas that re-opened early. Also possible that the mass protests also increased things. Apparently quite a few states you would get mocked for wearing a mask in public....

Not sure about Qatar but Singapore and Russia have very controlled press (dare to say something bad about the ruling political party and be locked up etc). You won't hear something the government doesn't want you to know.

Apparently there's 80 wet markets just in NYC: https://meaww.com/wet-markets-nyc-ticking-bomb-west-is-enraged-against-countries-like-china-wuhan-coronavirus

Prob due to the cost, and having to replace the filter carts.

The only acceptable option is a full refund for anyone duped into a shingled turd. Initially they claim the base Reds are good for a 180TB of annual writes without some fine print about too many However clearly you just have to have a decent sustained write task and the array goes belly up...

Sneaky bastards. Not they don't talk about issues with arrays staying up specifically. "In our testing of WD Red drives, we have not found RAID rebuild issues due to SMR technology."

Yeah, plus probably a fair few people still using up their vacation/PTO banks. Apparently the major issue is some states need to update their COBOL programming to allow for four digits instead of the usual 3 (thanks to $600 additional fed weekly benefits bumping up the usual state funds).

New unemployment numbers are out - 22 million people applied for benefits in the last 4 weeks (13.5% of the workforce).

Went to Wegmans today for a good Easter shop, picked up a huge bone in ham and a leg of lamb amongst other things. Only restrictions they have are only a max of 1 item from each family size pack of meat (i.e one big pack of pork chops+1 big pack of mince etc). Also single quantities of first aid...

Why bother with social distancing of 6 feet when subway cars are packed with people sitting right next to each other.

Apparently he was shaking hands vigorously with everyone prior to being diagnosed.

I don't know if we can trust the roll off on those graphs, they do have a note saying "Due to delays in reporting, recent data are incomplete" What's scary to see are the packed subway cars I'm seeing there on the news. Less riders so less trains and therefore still crowded. Hard to see how to...

Possible transmission just via normal breathing: https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/02/health/aerosol-coronavirus-spread-white-house-letter/index.html Given people are still packing in tight in rush hour Subway cars in NYC....

6.6 million US workers applied for unemployment last week, doubling from the week before.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/15673/dell-hpe-updates-for-40k-hour-essd-failures Something to watch out for if you've been running Dell or HPE ssds for several years. Reminds me of a firmware bug on our Isilons which caused the arrays to go down after 127 days or something like that. The...

NYS approves two patients on one ventilator....now this didn't seem like it would work out too well to me, and apparently it won't. https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/26/health/splitting-ventilators-coronavirus/index.html Why would you potentially do harm to two patients instead of converting over...

Apparently the latest corona fiscal package includes additional federal unemployment benefits of $600 per week for up to 4 months, in addition to normal state benefits. For many low level positions people may make more in unemployment benefits than they did at their prior jobs.

Hey Tony, you've moved to Tassie? Or currently trapped there in quarantine?

Wife who had let her nursing registration lapse was called today by the state, asking if she could work, she had to explain that the reason she had let it lapse was because of her chronic condition. Registration has to be renewed every 3 years. The problem is going to be having enough people to...

Cuomo just announced he's shutting down NY apart from essential workers starting Sunday night. Waiting to see the exceptions.

It seems odd that Morisson is refusing to close schools in Australia like the rest of the world has done. They could switch over to just being daycare for parents in critical health care jobs etc like they are doing in the UK.

SUNY colleges have been "free" for NY residents for a little while now, in addition to vocational colleges. I don't see a reason to spend 100k plus for a piece of paper from an Ivy League college.

Some depressing news regarding Italy, 1/4 of the population is 65+. https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-18/what-went-wrong-with-how-italy-handled-coronavirus/12062242

Basically out right now so prob be on bounty paper towels before delivery this weekend.

Snapped up some 18 packs of Quilted Northern when they came in stock on Amazon for a couple minutes.

Asymptomatic spread seems to be significantly more common than the CDC has been promoting. https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/14/health/coronavirus-asymptomatic-spread/index.html

For cooking consider a wood rocket stove, you can build your own, much more fuel efficient than using a wood stove in the warmer months. For water storage a 275 or 330 gallon IBC tote seems to be a reasonable solution if you have room in a garage or basement, just fill with your domestic supply.

You may want to consider getting a refill kit that you connect to a 20lb tank to refill the little bottles.

From CNN: "President Trump announced tonight that all travel from Europe to the United States will be suspended for the next 30 days, except for the UK. Trump made the decision in order to "keep new cases from entering our shores." He said the new rule will go into effect beginning Friday at...

What concerned me was that the CDC apparently wanted to warn those over 60 and immunocompromised to avoid flying domestically, after lobbying by airlines, this was denied and CDC instead released the weakened notice that over 60 and high risk people should avoid being out and about.

Before you use a bidet you would use a little toilet paper for an initial wipe. There's the spray style where pressure washes you off, the other design you fill it like a sink and use soap and your hand.

Sucks that your reg fee was lost.