CIA is the major constant but I’m sure some rich and powerful men carried between the two

The CIA is, at it’s heart, a cartel of rich, powerful WASPy families from the 1950s

Did we ever get a count of how many were working for Israel?

Protestant is a form of Christianity

It violates a litany of Christian teachings.

The US isn’t Christian, it’s New Age Protestant.

Idk about “the same”.

Epstein was very NY/London/Paris focused, while Franklin was run out of the Midwest. Epstein sourced a lot of his victims from the collapsed USSR block, while Franklin was pulling kids out of the US foster system.

If I had to guess, Tom DeLay and Jack Abramoff were closer to Franklin than Epstein.

Mossad and the CIA were already joined at the crotch going back to their foundings.

Section 224 of the NDAA calls for expanded US–Israeli coordination in the areas of defense tech, including AI, quantum, autonomous systems, directed energy, cyber, and biotech.

Cool. We’re all getting in on the same set of contractor scams.

I’m convinced we are in WWIII

I’ve heard people speculate that it’s more like WW5 or 6, depending on how you want to count global conflicts between superpowers.

But from the US perspective, we’re a far cry from the kind of Total War we engaged in during the 40s.

This war only feels existential if you’re on the receiving end.

Rheinmetall platforms with airburst ammunition

There’s a reason you might not want to be firing shrapnel explosives over the heads of your own citizens.

But hey, it’s Israel. Maybe they don’t give a shit.

what does it cost to maintain the iron dome when your batteries are depleted and the missiles are on backorder?

Iron Dome is specifically for short range rockets and mortars. David’s Sling is intended to defend against ballistic missiles like those used by Iran. The Arrow System is intended to counter ICBMs as part of a constellation of US based anti-ballistic systems. I’m not sure that last one has been used in more than test shots

This is like the articles that talk about trumps base turning on him. No they’re not

We get the “Putin about to be toppled from within” article every couple of months going back 20 years. It’s just a thing Western Media likes to print.

1 poorly documented example

Looks like you didn’t read the article

The king is not a problem for democracy in UK.

The queen’s gambit — new evidence shows how Her Majesty wields influence on legislation

Seems like the monarchy has significant influence

What the actual hell happened to Labour?

The Party bureaucrats turned on Jeremy Corbyn like lupus.

Start

Bitch, you still have a king

Problem is russian culture.

I’ve been reading this article for 109 years.

I have been reading this article for twenty years

I have a TV from 2019, it surely flies on that.

I’ve got a newer TV from 2021 and it’s great. On an older one from 2015 it surely does not.

Also curious what kind of bugs you are encountering?

Outside the latency, the biggest problem I have is matching shows to their metadata. Anything Disney related (Hocus Pocus, for instance) wants to tie itself to something totally random. Some anime (Frieren) refused to recognize the second season and keeps matching episodes to Season 01 titles/screenshots.

It’s not the end of the world, but it’s annoying and cumbersome. I’ve heard Sonarr/Radarr integration help, but then I’m down a rabbit hole of apps to support apps to support apps.

I just want something seamless and out of the box to organize my digital library, not a second job doing IT work to support a miniature Netflix.

Jellyfin just flies

Idk about “flies”, but it’s tolerable. On older TVs it remains clunky, but usable. Also, definitely has it’s share of bugs. But that’s FOSS for you. I’m not going $750 out of pocket for it.

That would lower the temperature by about 5 degrees Celsius

Sounds great if you’re worried about a global 4⁰ temperature increase