Buelldozer

Good News...it's done. They also extended the registration deadline to October 25th so that people impacted by the decision can still vote.

https://www.publicnewsservice.org/2024-10-21/social-justice/court-clears-way-for-nebraskans-with-past-felony-convictions-to-register-vote/a93050-1

So some unknown person makes an unsubstantiated claim on Xitter. A recognized and mostly respected fact checker, Snopes, picks it up and contacts Geico where one of their agents denies it.

It's abundantly clear the original claim was a fabrication, likely meant to feed the anti-elon crowd, so why are you assigning the same credibility to both sides? How does some unknown person on Xitter have anywhere close to the same credibility as both Snopes and Geico?

This is precisely what's happening in the Conservative circles. They're being presented with stories that are consistent with their world view so they don't question it but they rarely see the retraction of a story that was dis-proven. If they do see the retraction they ignore or downplay it, often by requiring some higher standard of proof.

So much of the "news", regardless of the topic, is a jenga tower of partial truths, misdirections, and outright lies.

It is a law in my state that all students must stand and all teachers must recite.

That law has been unenforceable since 1943.

On my Surface Pro X, that’s an issue.

If 9G is a deal breaker then you must have a version that only came with 128G. Your SP X has upgrade-able storage. Open the little hatch in the back and toss a bigger SSD in there.

They are far from the only one doing so.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/10/world-reacts-to-alleged-israeli-attack-on-un-peacekeepers-in-lebanon

I have no idea what is or isn’t a lot of data for a university beyond scaling how much stuff is on my own PC

Yeah, judged on a "home user" scale 150TB may seem like a lot but it really isn't when you're talking about Government / University / Enterprise.

Just one of the servers I have under management is currently using 49TB and there's another one in that rack using 40TB. That ~90TB (over half of what's in the article) for just two servers in a single rack at a single company.

BIG data amounts are measured in Petabytes or Exabytes.

High resolution still images and video will get you there pretty easily.

It's actually a shit article that doesn't do anything to explain why this is happening, because once you know WHY you realize this is NBD and will be going away when 24H2 is actually released.

This article isn't great but at the bottom it does explain what's going on.

I wouldn't. This isn't a real problem but you'll probably make one if you force delete things marked as necessary for Checkpoint Updates. This 8.5gig of "stuff" is only there because 24H2 is still in Beta and it has incorrectly marked some things from the 23H update as required for future updates.

WTF is up with this 24H2 update I keep hearing about?

The first thing you have to know is that it hasn't been released yet! That's right, every one of these articles screaming about 24H2 bugs is based on Preview, commonly called Beta, software.

This particular issue being caused because Microsoft is moving to "Checkpoint Updates" so that updates will install faster and be smaller in size.

Right now 24H2 is marking parts of 23H3 as necessary for future updates so they can't be deleted. This will 100% be fixed before 24H4 goes RTM.

Basically this one is a non-issue. It's being used as an outrage generator.

I think you're missing the bigger picture. Right now there is 535 votes, 100 from the Senate and 435 from the House.

If the House were expanded to 574 (Wyoming Rule, based on 2010 population data) there would be now be 675, which reduces the relative weight of the Senate's votes by nearly 1/3rd.

Nothing says it has to be the Wyoming Rule either, we could set a fixed ratio of Citizens to Representatives say 250,000 to 1. Now the HoR would have nearly 1,000 people in it and the Senate would be down to just 10% of the EC votes.

Frankly the HoR should be 1,000 seats or larger. A body of only 435 or even 574 is too small to accurately represent the interests of almost 340,000,000 people.

The far easier plan is to simply increase the size of the House of Representatives. All it needs is a change, or repeal, of the Re-Apportionment Act of 1929. Replace it with something like the Wyoming Rule and done.

Not only does that fix Presidential Elections it would also fix or substantially ease a pile of other problems like Gerrymandering by giving the denser population areas the Representation they should have.

The HoR being fixed at only 435 seats is at the core of so many problems in this country.