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Who nominated and approved those appointments?

There really hasn't been enough (any, from what I've seen) blowback on the Democrats for not pro-actively defending a woman's right to body autonomy. There was a chance to frame this in a way that would be appeal to the personal liberties crowd on the right, and there were plenty of opportunities to push for a legal backup.

Considering the GOP spent my entire lifetime with abortion as its primary PR weapon (until racism made a surprise comeback to take the top position in 2016), it's crazy that Dems didn't see the weakness of Roe as a real threat that they needed to get in front of.

Abortion is and has been incredibly popular in general, but like always the Dems were scared of pissing off the right even though they will be portrayed as evil commies no matter what they do.

I run everything off a Synology NAS using Docker, except for Plex which runs directly so I can take full advantage of hardware transcoding.

• Portainer
• Radarr
• Sonarr
• NZBGet
• NZBHydra
• Overseerr
• Jellyfin
• Nextcloud (only using this for GPodder sync right now)

I also have a separate mini-computer for Home Assistant. That runs on HA Blue, which was the limited run predecessor to Home Assistant Yellow. May seem silly to have separate hardware, but I was tired of my whole system going offline every time I needed to reboot HA (which means possibly interrupting a family or friend watching a remote Plex stream, the horror!)

Not all smart devices are intercompatible with each other, but Home Assistant is agnostic and tries to work with everything. Most people tend to have automations based on things that Alexa or Google Assistant can't handle.

It may be overkill if you only have a few smart lights that Alexa can handle, but once you have a hundred or more different devices... yeah, managing all of that becomes pretty complicated!

If you share your Plex library with friends and family like I do, highly recommend looking into Overseerr! I had tried using OMBI before but it was a pain to get set up--actually I never succeeded and gave up. Overseerr was very simple, just another Docker container like so many others, really. Integration with Radarr and Sonarr was seamless for me.

but that progress has arguably already been largely achieved and somewhat plateaued; continuing an upward trajectory now requires different tactics.

What "progress" are you talking about, exactly? Quantify your claim, please.

So what, address the merit of the argument not the assumed background of the messenger.

Which is exactly why people that didn't need the money should be investigated but people that actually used it, even if they didn't need whatever they spent it on, should be left alone.

If we dropped a million dollars from that proverbial helicopter but $900,000 was captured in a safe by Bezos and never distributed throughout the economy, it's just a gift and not effective at the original goal at all.

I had been using Podcast Addict for a couple of years after switching from BeyondPod which I used for many years.

But now I'm using the open source, community-built AntennaPod. There are a few quirks I had to get used to, but that is true of every app and especially something I use so frequently throughout the day. Performance has been great, especially with audio casting which has always been buggy and inconsistent for me with other apps.

No idea if this is a common turn of phrase or your invention, but I love the "dragon" reference. People get so upset when I tell them we should "eat the rich", but not even Gaston is against killing dragons that are hoarding the village's wealth and killing our children!

we need bodycams for scientists! /s

It's absolutely absurd that in 2023, the largest tech company in the world cannot find a way to not show me recommendations for books it knows I have already read.

I also get irrationally enraged anytime Goodreads gets confused about multiple formats of the same book. Oh, I have read the paperback version of The Way of Kings, but surely I need to be recommended the Kindle and leatherbound editions, too, as those are completely different books!