If 1 is a bad shot and hits 2 non-lethally (or misses entirely), then 1 might be the only one who dies.

Or if 1 hesitates and 2 just steps off of the board.

There are only a few demolition companies in the world large enough to take on a project that size, and it would have taken months of hundreds if not thousands of civilian workers and engineers working onsite around the clock to execute.

Eh… I’m no 9/11 conspiracy theorist* but there’s one little hole in that logic: There are only a few demolition companies in the world that could do it safely, and it would have taken hundreds of workers and engineers to do it safely. But if you don’t care about killing a few thousand people in the process and causing major damage to other nearby buildings, maybe then the job gets a lot easier.

But yeah, let me reiterate, it was not a controlled demolition, and the buildings collapsed due to steel supports being weakened by fire and airplane impact.

*The one 9/11 conspiracy I am kind of on board with is that various US intelligence agencies were aware of the impending attack and failed to do anything about it. Either because they were grossly incompetent … or in the more sinister version, they were deliberately ordered to ignore it, allowing the attack to happen, because the people in charge (Bush administration) wanted it to happen: that way they could have excuses to justify new wars in the Middle East, the Patriot Act, forming the Department of Homeland Security (including ICE), etc.

*Oh, and a further 9/11 conspiracy I could get on board with: Flight 93 (the hijacked plane that didn’t hit anything) was supposedly taken down because the passengers on board had heard of the other attacks and decided to fight back, and the plane lost control in the struggle and crashed. But I suspect that might be a cover story. I suspect that Flight 93 was actually shot down by a fighter jet or a surface-to-air missile, and the story of heroic passengers fighting back was invented in order to absolve the US government of the guilt of shooting down a civilian plane full of innocent passengers. With that cover story, the passengers are self-sacrificing heroes, rather than victims of collateral damage who’d been sacrificed by their own government.

I do not. No idea how this interacts with swap encryption.

You’re going to run into issues with your motherboard’s SATA or NVME (or PCIE) controller throughput well before you get close to actual RAM speeds.

Once you reach that bottleneck, the speed won’t increase anymore when you add more drives. The motherboard architecture just doesn’t support accessing any kind of storage device at that speed.

If you don’t actually need the swap, Linux isn’t going to make use of swap.

Eh, yes and no.

It will offload things from RAM into swap in order free up RAM space for disk cache. Which is kind of a weird reversal when you think about it, loading your RAM contents onto disk so that you can load your disk contents onto RAM. But by doing this to idle processes in order to disk cache files you’re likely to use soon, the system does become significantly faster and more responsive.

Yep. That’s why it can be nice to just have like an old 1TB drive completely used for swap. Things might get slow once it exceeds your physical memory, but at least it will eventually finish successfully – no out of memory crashes here!

Yes, swap partitions are shit.

The real hotness is swap drives.

Just the use that your old 64GB SSDs were waiting for!

(Fun fact: in Linux, if you have multiple swap partitions mounted, the kernel will automatically use striping (like RAID) in order to read and write from them as fast as possible. If you have multiple small SSDs used for swap, the read/write speed from swap can actually become pretty fast.)

Golf ball size seems doable, for someone who’s been practicing.

Religion.

You don’t already have automatic backups?

Any drive can fail at any time. Eventually, every drive will fail. If you’re not prepared for that, you deserve to lose your data.

And are they going to be charging you for it without your consent?

What happens when you’re taking a vacation for a week? You’ll come home to find 7 cold, decomposing burritos on your doorstep and $300 deducted from your bank account.

Honestly, yeah… Might end up being quite a mess, really.

• Wiemar Germany was never going to be a stable, peaceful, long-lasting country. With economic issues and resent for the treaties enforced on them after the end of WWI, it was a mess and a huge source of potential issues. Something awful was sure to come out of it sooner or later.

• Without the example of Nazi Germany to be against, the rest of the world might not have united against fascism as much, leading to the more prominent rise of fascism in other places.

• Without (European*) WWII, Europe might never have become as united as it is now. Post-WWII was kind of the tipping point where the major European powers finally decided that going to war with each other was unacceptable and unthinkable. And uniting together to fight the Nazis solidified alliances and feelings of mutual support between a lot of European countries. Without that, who knows – we might have ended up having several more major European wars.

• And then there’s the technological impact. Obviously, Hitler himself wasn’t directly involved in developing these important new technologies, but would they have been developed as soon or at all if it wasn’t for Nazi Germany, their war effort, and the Allies’ counter-effort? Jet aircraft, rocketry, radar, computers, nuclear power/weapons … much of the development of those was either greatly accelerated by the Nazis or greatly accelerated by the Allies in their attempt to keep up with and defeat the Nazis. Who knows what the course of development for technologies like those might look like if WWII hadn’t happened.

*WWII in the Pacific with Japan probably would have happened much the same, regardless of whether Hitler was alive or not. Though in that case, it might not be called a ‘world’ war anymore. Maybe the ‘War of Japan’ or ‘Pacific War’ or something.

I should write this screenplay…

Definitely F Minor.

True, but at a personal level, you can get perfectly ethical food that way, even meat.

Weirdest political compass meme I’ve ever seen.

Who’s the bottom right?

Even he had standards and his beef was with the us gov not with kids

He did train a lot of kids to be suicide bombers, though…

They have no other natural predators

Counterpoint: this is because we killed off most of their natural predators.

Same with all fruits and some vegetables. The reproductive organs are the tastiest part!