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There was. It's almost a permanent notam around that area. Everyone in the area is familiar with the possibility of an outage, but the time it happens is unpredictable. Just because a notam is in effect doesnt mean the jamming is occuring. Just that it could be. It's an area I personally refuse to fly without vfr conditions. And I never fly it at night.

This crash was pilot error. There's little doubt. But there were needless factors on behalf of the system that helped create this problem that were not the pilots fault.

Will this play into the chrome spinoffs like brave? I know the opinions of brave are strong here, and I don't care. I can change settings to eliminate their bullshit. i have to admit that the add blocking in brave is pretty damn good and is a big reason I have stuck with them.

As a farmer, dairyman, and rancher with way too many cattle in Texas. I have this to say:

I was on the front lines of the bird flu cross species fiasco. Literally ground zero. Me and my cohorts were the boots on the ground and knew what was going on weeks before the state and fed acknowledged it. The acknowledgement of the problem was purely political and self serving. The government as a whole (state and fed) were refusing to test and confirm what we already knew. I have evidence and correspondence with officials and veterinarians to back it up.

My take away: it's a god damn miracle we survived Covid as well as we did. That should have been so much worse.

When it comes to the screwfly situation: I had little faith under previous administrations this would be handled properly. In Texas, sid miller was talking about woke agendas and playing partisan hack instead of prioritizing resources. We've had almost two god damn years! They all figured the people they were firing and defunding would handle it properly. With what resources?. Systematically dismantling our safety nets caused this.

This problem is one hundred percent political incompetence. Any IT professional that has been laid off because " your department doesn't do anything" will tell you that a successful job done is literally twiddling your thumbs because you did it right. Y2k was a victory lap that the general public and politicians laugh at because it wasn't a problem. It wasn't a problem because we fixed it before the world ended. This screw fly trainwreck is what happens when you don't listen to IT and fire them all for being lazy.

Detection in mexico was non existent. The screw fly hits the states and what is left of our protection finds it. Great job. Too late.

Tldr, your hamburger and steak prices will continue to be more expensive, but not from this. But the suffering of both domestic animals and wildlife will be greatly increased because these dipshits wanted to play politics instead of giving a shit about the bigger picture.

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I wanted to do the always sunny bit about Wade Boggs. You know the one. Where they say "he's very much alive. What are talking about?"

And then I checked up on it.

Good news/bad news. Wade Boggs is very much alive. But rob reiner is not. Fucking hell...

I'm old enough to maybe have known about this. But I didn't. Had absolutely no clue. The other person's responses indicate they are advocating for people like me. Ignorance of a travesty doesn't mean we are endorsing those atrocities. But clearly you expect clairvoyant level view that only matches what you already know. That's not reality. That's an unacceptable worldview that brings absolutely zero progress to stopping stupid shit like that. Go ahead and block the other user. But block me too please. I have no time for people who refuse to see that there is nuance in the world. My feed would be better of not dealing with self righteous assholes like yourself.

I've got a friend working on this process right now. He openly admitted to me that the premise is fucked up and there are far more deserving populations that should be let in, but the simple fact is,he would be an absolute moron to pass up this opportunity for him and his family. It's a fast track to the place he wants to be and provides better futures for his children. Why wouldn't you take the free ticket?

Some of the people here on lemmy forget their humanity sometimes.

I don't entirely disagree, but I do. Developers are the problem. But it's not the cost of the hardware, it's the cost of the ecosystem.

My creature comforts are a driving factor that incentivises my purchases. I have graphine on my phone because I value my privacy and control of my device, but it also has an ecosystem that still allows me to Snapchat my friends if I want to.

The Linux phone ecosystem is a barren wasteland. Do you want a calculator app? Ok sure. It even works with your mint distro on your laptop. But do you want to send insta reels to your friends? Whoa buddy. Stop right there.

The developers are the problem because they don't have a pool worth investing time and effort rewriting apps.

It's not their fault. The Precambrian explosion happened because it was a clean slate. And we haven't had any substantial exotic life emerge since. It's tough to evolve an exotic new take of a eucaryote that resporates sulphur while mastadons are prancing around on top of you.

It's ok bud. You misattributed the sunk cost fallacy. It happens. I've done it before too... No worries.

A sunk cost fallacy requires a continued investment in a lost cause. I financially have contributed no extra to Plex after my initial investment. I've nothing to lose now. No sunk cost. Is time or effort a sunk cost? Possibly? But I already invested that time and effort. My maintenance is also zero, same as my future financial investment. Switching to jellyfin increases my cost in time and effort that I already invested in Plex. Why bail unless necessary? It's illogical.

The difference between unusable and inferior was never the cusp of this argument to begin with. The distinction of "unusable" vs "inferior" can clearly be acertained by the context of my first full reply. Interestingly enough, your reubuttle is a textbook use of the informal fallacy known as "moving the goalposts"

One again, it's all good. Don't worry. My point that Plex is still superior for my use case and I have the incentive to continue using it, still stands. Your use of the sunk cost falacy is disproven on the merit of, that's not a real example of sunk cost, and also using additional fallacies to defend your position render your point invalid.

I rest my case.

That's not a sunk cost fallacy at all. I'm not playing catch up, I'm already ahead.

I am thinking about it logically. Plex is the superior experience, and considering I've already gotten my money's worth out of it, they are both free. So why would I use the service that works less well for my use case?

If the user experience continues to degrade, when it finally gets to jellyfin level, I'll switch.

Perfectly logical, no fallacies here.

Same. Got it cheap. Untill they break lifetime. Why bail? I'm not compromising my own experience because someone else was too cheap, lazy or slow.

Is it messed up what they are doing? Yeah. But that's not my fault. Nor is someone missing out on the very clear signposts about what was going to happen. I'm not sacrificing my user experience and investment to justify someone else's missed opportunity or vendetta.