This got me interested. What exactly is he saying there? Does it mean what I think it means - that they immediately shift that money around, possibly through some mixers, to muddle the origin? And, of course, make it better suited to pay their proxies now that Qatar isn't sending suitcases of cash to them anymore?

Thank you for writing that. I was starting to think I'm going crazy and I can't possibly be the only one who sees through that.

And if you realize that Trump is just the clown at the helm. There's literally an entire bureaucracy underneath him doing most of the planning, deciding and executing.

Douglas Adams was right. The role of the president is not to excert power, but to distract from it. President of the Galaxy, president of the USA, no difference.

This.

You don't need billions to be care-free. Even double-digit millions in some nice safe assets already give you enough fuck-you-money to be good. And while everyone looks at the super-super-rich and they're in various public lists and tracked by not just the tax authorities, barely anyone knows the multi-millionaires. I know three or so that I'm sure nobody on here has ever heard anything about. They stay quiet, comfortable, private.

Don't you think you have the absolute best reason to not be revealed right there?

Can you imagine what criminals the world over would do for a few percent of that money?

Jellyfin FTW!

How the heck does plex have 120 employees?

As to why this was just posted now, it's because - of those 120 employees who went to the retreat, only one survived... and it took him almost 9 years to escape.

Russia? China? I don't understand why you'd think this would be such a gotcha.

Most damage and need to repair of devices isn't with the manufacturing, it's the user. People drop, spill, step on, or generally damage things accidentally. This is where repairability really comes into play.

In my own experience in over 30 years is the same as yours, except they weren't Apple devices.

Ironically this war has worked out well for Russia—it draws media attention away from Ukraine while simultaneously expending supplies of Patriot missiles and other munitions, and the spike in oil prices has basically wiped out the benefits of crushing them with sanctions for the past four years.

These are just some of the 'miracles' you can accomplish when you let Bibi Netanyahu start another war so he can keep postponing the conclusion of his corruption trial...

My Kindle 3 died recently, and I replaced it with a basic Kobo Clara. The browser is a mixed blessing (very buggy), but certain familiar mods—custom screensavers and ssh are built in. It was very weird to buy a device that wants to be hacked! It literally comes with a file called "ssh-disabled" that contains the instructions "rename this file to ssh-enabled and reboot," no jailbreak required.

Well, speaking for myself - I may "rent" them but I also immediately decrypt them and store a local copy elsewhere.

I don't buy media I can't decrypt, one way or another.

I likely would still be using my Kindle 3 Keyboard, except my dog got hold of it at one point.

I still think that was the best form factor they've ever offered.

What exactly is the proper modern approach to warfare?

Same as it always was: don't do it you idiot.

Obligatory.