Humans are the #2 enemy of the Third Glorious Star Empire, due to their encroachment and pollution and forest fires threatening their most holy (former) leader.
The #1 enemy of the Third Glorious Star Empire? The Rocky Mountain mule deer, of course.
Then we can talk about commercial real estate. All of those big glass buildings, shopping centers, etc. Those places are bought up by guys whose only business is to rent them out. Then you have businesses paying rent. Well what happens when the businesses fold and stop paying? The owner can't make mortgage but the banks is not really incentivized to repossess the place because ... who they gonna sell it to? Some other guy who also offers it for rent to the same businesses that don't exist?
The bank has essentially 2 options: 1. Stick with the current owner, let him skip mortgage payments, lend him more money to stay afloat and hope for a better future 2. Repossess the place and put it up for auction, and recoup 50% of your loan.
Right now, banks are choosing #1 "extend and pretend", but these properties are NOT worth what is owed on them.
@skylar@DrRyanSkelton@YeetLibs Look, I could try and convince people to vote for Nerissa by pointing out her great singing voice, or her cute midwestern accent, or her devotion to her fine taste of Oshis, or her sultry (lack of) sleeping attire.
But I just think it would be really really funny if the #1 seed got knocked out in round 1.
@m0xEE@mischievoustomato@sneeden@arcanicanis "By embracing the end user market, IBM created the biggest technical support nightmare that the IBM company may have ever seen. The #1 tech support report for OS/2 Warp 3 was not how to get TCP/IP stacks going or how to link Novell up with OS/2 clients, or how to make sure DB/2 would work on the new version. No, it was "How do you get DOOM 2 to run on OS/2 with sound?" IBM has a highly paid, highly trained technical support staff that was meant to deal with Fortune 500 companies who had paid millions of dollars for software and hardware from IBM. They weren't prepared to have to deal with a bunch of people trying to run video games and the support costs from this really hurt PSP at the time. This probably has a lot to do with why PSP today goes out of its way to discourage "kitchentop" users because they don't want to support every new user that wants to play some video game on OS/2. "
Looks like the #1 hit song in the US on September 8th of 1998 was "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" by Aerosmith. So here's my 20+ year old 128kbps MP3 of it played on the era-appropriate version of Winamp: 🦙🔊🎵
@matrix@gameliberty.club I think it's consistently anti-semitic. Most of /pol/ (at least historically) thinks Jews are enemy #1 and behind all mass immigration and cultural degradation, and that muslims are one of many groups from the 3rd world being sent to western countries to dilute europeans and eventually erase them. They dislike muslims, at least those in America and Europe where they think they don't belong, but see the middle east as where they belong and even see Israel is evil jewish occupiers (this is conistent with their view). So they cheer muslims on when killing Israelis, but would also cheer a neo-nazi killing muslims in a white majority country. I don't see any inconsistency.
@dcc the problem here is that pomf is the #1 bandwidth whore right now, so my two options are:
- use linux traffic control (tc) to ratelimit pomf to about 200 mbit to prevent hitting the packet loss threshold (tc qdisc add dev ens192 root tbf rate 195mbit latency 1ms burst 1mbit) - let pomf run amok and eat 3-5% packet loss on my entire network
A flaw related to the PKCS #1 v1.5 padding in SSL servers discovered in 1998 and believed to have been resolved still impacts several widely-used projects today.
It’s Sep 28! One of my favourite days in history: the day Alexander Fleming claimed to have discovered penicillin.
There are a few things I love about Fleming’s story. #1 is that Alexander Fleming was messy and kinda gross. His previous breakthrough was finding an antibacterial agent in snot and other bodily fluids. Let’s just say he experimented *very* widely.