the same kind of person that voted for Obama twice and then Trump twice. I am sure they exist.

Drawing on a map with sharpie and thinking nobody would notice is definitely in the top 5.

By what metric is the US “the world’s leader”?

How would such a thing be financially viable? Once the ability to connect to any website exists, the physical cost to access everything else is essential nothing.

Let’s not forget the prosecutors!

Conspiracy theorists always see connections where there’s nothing. Reality doesn’t need to conveniently align to make that possible.

Oh wow, that last part about wars in the middle east being a conspiracy is totally new to me. I suppose it’s no less unbelievable than the planet being a flat disc or moon landing hoaxes.

I know this from personal experience after reading the entirety of the Left Behind book series as they were published. At the start I was spending my summers in the equivalent of that Jesus Camp documentary, and by the time I finished was at the end of my personal deconversion journey and come out the other side as an opinionated college atheist.

So, yeah, quite terrifying to see that kink for the apocalypse continue to play out in front of us.

There’s a handful of kids getting real degrees that aren’t trying to go pro, but their basically the minority now.

This is hyperbolic, although certainly has a base in reality. Lots of players are getting free educations along the way to deluding themselves they will play professionally. Are there a lot of kids that don’t take academics seriously and are there ways to get an easy degree, sure, but it’s not like non-athletes don’t pursue similar strategies, too.

There are still standards they have to meet, and not every player on the team is getting a scholarship. It’s actually more common now than when I was in school for athletes to just decide to stop playing. Their scholarships (at least in the major conferences) are still honored and they can still graduate.

The majority of players that get drafted may never have taken their education seriously, but the majority of players that never even sniffed that opportunity probably did.

The main challenge is that separating will likely destroy a ton of the value. I don’t think most college sports fans, even diehards like myself, are going to be as passionate if our favorite teams are suddenly a glorified development league for the NFL, NBA, etc. That takes away any financial incentive to split, so sports would need to be kicked out, but for many universities that means academics also lose value and resources, not to mention all the non-revenue sports that won’t survive independently.

Splitting just the revenue sports (basketball and football) is also difficult, as there are outliers with profitable programs in other sports (e.g. NE has the only profitable D1 volleyball program, some SEC schools have profitable baseball programs) but everyone else doesn’t. Which model do these teams fit into in the future?

It’s all a huge mess which the NCAA never did anything to prepare for and has no idea how to handle now that pandora’s box is open.

That video is included in the article, it’s just at the very bottom for some reason.

I should just start over and try again, probably did something silly that screwed things up.

Hamas is not all Palestinians.

Source? Was it actually a BBC reporter or someone they were interviewing?

Do you have personal experience with Nextcloud or Owncloud? I have tried the former and it’s been a general nightmare. I’m using Docker and have a dozen or more other containers that all work just fine, but even once I got Nextcloud installed and working it had all kinds of permission problems or just wouldn’t install things from its own built-in app store. Never did get any kind of document collaboration working.

The top of Immich’s home page says “Do not use it as the only way to store your photos and videos!” Is that hyperbole or a realistic warning?

Nice start and solid choices so far!

Definitely recommend looking into Docker, it’ll make cross-platform conflicts and migrations near effortless. Repurposing unused hardware is great, but can also be inefficient or bulky, so a hardware upgrade might be in your future eventually. ;)

If you are interested in automating any media retrieval and/or organization, which I gather you might given you have Plex, look into the *arr ecosystem: Sonarr for TV, Radarr for movies, plus others for books and music and pretty much anything else you can imagine!

My setup is based on Docker and a Synology NAS as the hardware. I recently set up a Minecraft server so my nieces and nephews have somewhere to play together, but may need to move that to my PC as the NAS is not very RAM or CPU heavy.

You should, sounds like you definitely contributed more to the benefit of human society than I ever have!

Depends on what we mean by “space”, but IMO this sentiment is much more contemporary than what someone living in the space-based luxury we see from Starfleet would think.

What government?