Bassman1805

Hawaii was not a state for almost 2 decades after pearl harbor, so yeah.

The original white house was burned to the ground by British/Canadian troops in 1814.

Not to mention about 100 different American Indian Wars, though some of those were more slaughter than war.

I mean...

[Gestures broadly at the state of the world]

People see headlines and the comment section of the social media platform where that headline was posted.

This, basically

https://xkcd.com/1019/

Shit, even doing shades of purple without getting more granular than the state level would change the map drastically. This winner take all bullshit is the dumbest part of the electoral college.

Personal/Family use is fine, it's kinda fiddly but so is most selfhosted software.

At an organizational level, that fiddliness spirals into a ton of work, which doesn't really overlap with other IT Duties in the way that troubleshooting OneDrive usually ends up solving problems with the whole Microsoft suite.

Charlie Wilson.

Texas Democrat known for partying hard, and was investigated (by Rudy Giuliani) for a party he attended in Vegas.

"The girls had cocaine, and the music was loud. It was total happiness. And both of them had long, red fingernails with an endless supply of beautiful white powder...The Feds spent a million bucks trying to figure out whether, when those fingernails passed under my nose, did I exhale or inhale, and I ain't telling"

The US may affect the whole world less next year if everyone else works hard to find alternate markets, but it's going to take longer than that for the rest of the world to totally detangle themselves from our mess.

What if they're more important than ever before in American history?

Don't use bar keepers friend to clean them. That fucked up ours.

Even the shortest reasonable date is well over 250 years.

The easiest offsite backup would be any cloud platform. Downside is that you aren't gonna own your own data like if you deployed your own system.

Next option is an external SSD that you leave at your work desk and take home once a week or so to update.

The most robust solution would be to find a friend or relative willing to let you set up a server in their house. Might need to cover part of their electric bill if your machine is hungry.

"Banned" and "burned" books go hard as hell

Every library I've been to in the last 5 years has had a poster of "banned books" specifically to advertise them because people (especially teenagers) love that shit.