Did it on my home LAN. It's not too hard on a Synology router. The only thing allowed through is a sprinkler controller's web interface facing inwards. The Synology also has a halfway decent IDS that looks for weird outgoing traffic.

charging works fine.

The restrictions are about the same as NYC and for the same reasons. DC is covered by the flight paths for two extremely busy airports, along with all the random military aircraft flying around DC in particular. Our main airport is next to a small suburban town, and you can't fly a drone there, either.

Also, just talking about the US, there's UL, ANSI and NSF. Some of their self-imposed regulations become building codes, NIST and OSHA standards.

And that's the core of the issue.

If it were profitable the companies wouldn't be shutting it down.

If it meaningfully impacted customer sentiment or business goals, they'd open up or release servers, or make that last-minute change to the game as a final update.

As games are, so much time has passed. The original dev team has moved on two titles, three titles, maybe even more since the initial development, especially for long-running games. The maintenance teams have also come and gone. The last teams who are there when the games are 'turning out the lights' are skeleton crews or some IT guys who reboot the machines when needed. The institutional knowledge has moved on, the teams have moved on, build farms have been repurposed, etc.

A few promised to keep source code and servers in escrow to be sure they were distributed when the product eventually ended, and that made approximately zero difference to the industry.

I'd argue for most people, it's not the servers they way, it's the nostalgia. It's the remembering the good times with guild members, the anticipation of new worlds opening up and the novelty of seeing them when they're new. It's remembering the overfilled lobbies, active auction houses with all the powerful items, the peak excitement of crowded, vibrant communities. There is no joy that comes with opening a server and seeing the player count: 0/1500 - open for join, or a quest that needs 5 participants while knowing the servers are empty.

chickens.
they come home to roost

The real clickbait headline would be that AI and Data Centers are leading to declining fertility rates.

Every couple I know whom don't have kids just don't want to have kids. It's not phones or money or socioeconomic factors or social media. They just don't want kids.

Any article that mentions the decline of teen fertility as a problem is a propaganda piece. Its authors are awful human beings and deserve to rot in hell for all eternity.

In 2026, teens should not ever be getting pregnant. We don't live in that world any longer. Whoever that bothers needs to rethink their life choices.

curious.
so many questions.
how does the general staff know of any issues.
how does the general staff handle surrendering.
even if the basic plan is working.
how can command adapt to dynamic priorities.
what if the general staff were successful

I didn't talk about AI at all. I'm talking about the underlying issues potentially causing the NHS's capacity issues. However, I see an issue in your reasoning:

What is the sunk cost? You rent AI services. There is a nominal cost in integrating it into some workflow, but the main cost are purchasing the service as needed.

Britain's population increased from 56 million to about 60 million between 1970 and 2005, at a rate of about 114,000 per year. It increased from 60 million to 68 million between 2005 and 2020. at a rate of 500,000 per year. That might have something to do with NHS staffing and budgetary issues.

Technically they did.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

The NYT has a track record of stealth-edits.

https://www.poynter.org/ethics...

Wiping the archive makes it much more difficult to detect this stuff.

These days people use bullets, the 4th box of liberty.

Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, and Kennedy, all shot and killed while in office. Seven more presidents had shots that landed but didn't kill them. Most presidents in the 1900's and all of them in the 2000's have had assassination attempts that were intercepted and stopped before they could get their shots fired at the president.

The story is that even during the constitutional convention, when discussing why a president would leave power after a successful impeachment and conviction, or after an election, one of the delegates reminded them "if they don't go peacefully, they can always be removed the traditional way", which ended the discussion.

A positive thing I note is that after all modern authoritarian regimes collapse, many of their followers become unemployable. The SS after Nazi Germany, the Stasi after the cold war, many KGB agents after the fall of the Soviet Union ended up turning to organized crime instead if they weren't picked up by the new government's security/intelligence services. People just don't want to hire them. I suspect in a couple years, anybody who decided to remain at ICE will struggle to find jobs as long as that's on their resume, and government prosecutors moved from being a prestigious mark for a lawyer into quickly becoming a limiting factor instead. From the first administration, quite a few struggled to get work after it ended, I'm assuming it's going to be worse for them after round two, however this current presidency ends.

From what the SWEs tell me, they expect to be fired within 2 years anyway, they're just cashing in the stupid monery paycheck while they can.

What I'd love to know is the levels of shadow IT people are going through.