jonne

And it's been in the news for almost a year, this article from January mentions it, in the context of the dangers of a next Trump presidency.

It's being mentioned more now because the Democrats decided they should actually do some messaging on this instead of their usual messaging incompetence, and they've been at it for months as well.

What do you mean? It's everywhere.

Yeah, Trump hasn't detailed shit.

Det. Sgt. "Bluey" Hills who [...] was obese, drank heavily (even on duty), smoked heavily, visited local prostitutes, and would often enact physical violence on criminals.

What's not to like? A true blue role model for the kids.

I'm pretty sure people would've stormed parliament if you banned alcohol sales.

He got rid of everyone else when he took over, he's still dealing with court cases about how he handled that.

Having worked with designers in an ad agency (although not a designer myself), the male designers didn't ever have a good thing to say about the work of any of the female designers. Consequently, none of them stuck around for long (one of them is a creative director in a big agency now, so presumably she wasn't that bad).

Then again, they were assholes in many other respects as well, and the guys in the next companies I worked for were a lot better.

I mean, it would be nice to see a comparison between a Chinese loan and a loan by the IMF. Maybe the sting still has to come because they haven't been doing it for as long, but there's got to be a good reason those countries go with China instead of the IMF.

To me it seems like IMF loans involve privatising revenue generating assets, lowering taxes on the wealthy and austerity on the masses. The biggest criticism of the Chinese way of financing is that if you default on the loan you used to build a port/highway/railway line, they keep that specific asset. And I guess instead of using local labour they use Chinese workers.

There's definitely things to criticise there, but I know which option I'd pick if I needed a port in my country.

Yeah, my bad,I thought they were linked (in the sense that the weapons from Iran Contra were promised in exchange for the hostages), but I guess they were seperate.

Rumoured? Iran-Contra was well publicised and accepted as fact.

I haven't had any with Bank Australia, so I've either just never got close to overdrafting, or they have a way to turn off overdrafts.

Edit: looks like they definitely have an overdraft fee, and I don't see an obvious way to manage it. Pretty sure you can ask any bank to turn it off though.

Have you considered only backing up the data you can't replace relatively easily? I would look into a strategy of periodically backing up the list of media in a format that can easily be imported into Radarr or whichever system you used to acquire them. Sure, if the worst happens it'll take forever to redownload, but you can just prioritise the things you want to watch right now while everything's rebuilding in the background.

Definitely do back up photos, documents and your home directory (excluding stuff like a steam library), but hopefully you should be able to fit all that on a NAS or external HD.