The script is causing poor behaviour by subverting the purpose of the up/down vote system.
The downvote button should be used to indicate a post doesn't add to the conversation. It isn't a dislike/disagree button, your supposed to comment in those situations.
I try to put effort into my comments, when they get randomly downvoted for no reason it can be upsetting.
Obviously you upset the mod and they overreacted, but your behaviour triggered the event.
No, UK beaches were increasingly becoming the cleanest in Europe.
However that stopped around 13 years ago and the water companies keep emergency dumping waste water.
This is traditional British food, bangers is slang for Pork Saussage (Cumberland Saussage I am guessing)
Politicians usually don't know anything about the domains they are put in charge of.
Their role is to provide leadership and direction based on the views of the people they represent.
When dealing with domain specific decisions they should refer to subject matter experts to seek advice and understanding of the available options. The ministries/departments exist to provide that advice and support its implementation.
A ministers job is to use the advice provided by their ministry/department to select a path forward that aligns with the direction the minister has set.
A minister ignoring advice of the ministry/department tells the department the leader doesn't respect or value it. This is really bad leadership.
It also means the minister isn't operating from a position of strength or knowledge. This means your more likely to make poor decisions which move you away from your goal.
I am not saying that aren't wider factors, but you expect the ministry/department to account for that as the minister should explain those.
Get over your hatred, nothing good comes from it.
If you look at SpaceX, Tesla, Boring, etc.. he always has a strong vision. A vision he can convince others to buy into (either through funding or inspiring to work for him).
SpaceX dominated the launch market because he wants humanity on Mars. That meant reusable rockets and he convinced a lot of people it was possible.
SpaceX dominates the satellite market because him and Gwynne Shotwell convinced people to invest billions into building on the basis reusable rockets now make it viable.
Tesla builds a supercharger network before you can buy a Tesla in that country.
Tesla kept working towards cheaper EV models to show they could be done.
These are huge bets no other company is willing to make, largely because they are run by boards filled with people who have finance/marketing backgrounds with no real vision.
The majority of Musk's wealth is in shares of his companies, the ones he made big bets with. It's not real, outside the world of finance.
I wish he wasn't a right wing edgelord, but his companies actually have an inspiring vision and that is a rare and good thing.
Lastly Twitter had twice the employees of Facebook and other social media websites, despite having a much more limited offering. Randomly firing half the staff isn't smart, but its clear the organisation wasn't well run.
It's explained in the article
They basically made it law so the only regulation was "informed consent", with informed consent you can launch private missions.
Government and private bodies were supposed to come together to come up with sensible rules. No one has done that.
So once the law passes nothing will really change, except government bodies will be required to figure out a framework to qualify private launches
When Oracle bought Sun Microsystems, it demonstrated it didn't know how to interact with open source communities. The Hudson -> Jenkins fork is probably the most famous where Oracle thought they could dictate where teams would collaborate. The bullying tone Oracle took made it clear they viewed the community as employees who should do as they are told.
To me this kind of fumble shows people in the Red Hat side are suffering the same issue, they don't understand they manage an ecosystem. Ironically if Oracle, Alma and Rocky work together they stand a good chance of owning that community.
I am running a AMD Athlon(tm) X4 860K Quad Core Processor with 32GiB of RAM, Radeon HD 7450, 16TiB of HDD storage and 256GiB SSD. The only upgrade I am considering is buying 4TiB SSD drives to replace the HDD drives, this is only because I've noticed SSD's have gotten really cheap.
I would plan for Docker and not Virtual Machines, as VM's emulate an entire computer and then you run an entire operating system within them and then the application, the result is they need far more resources to act as a host for an application. Server applications have been moving to Docker because its a defined way to sandbox applications, run them consistently and uses far less resources.
Personally I run Debian Stable since its a home server and the only updated applications I want are Docker images and security patches. I then installed Docker Community Edition on to it.
I then deployed Portainer Community Edition on to the server, this provides a Web UI to manage the docker contaners running on the server. I have 9 docker containers currently running on the server.
You mentioned Plex: Plex provide a docker image for running their application that supports NVidia GPU Acceleration and seems to run fine on AMD hardware. You will find almost every server application offers an official docker image.
With my business hat on, think how many docker containers you want and plan for that + 1 cores in your CPU, you can probably look up the applications you want to run and add up their recommended RAM usage, as a home rule of thumb 16 GiB of RAM is the minimum, 64GiB would be overkill.
Your posting this on KBin which implements the twitter style fediverse API and federates with Mastodon.
Click the microblog button ... Behold twitter replacement
The best theory I have seen is the Biden administration is trying to 'manage' the conflict. A belief they can dictate levels of aid to determine a geo politically satisfactory outcome.
Concerns around unmanaged escalation made sense but the UK has been pretty focussed on methodically moving up the escalation ladder to demonstrate Russia won't resort to nuclear strikes (Brimstone, Challenger 2 tanks, setting up the F16 coalition, Storm Shadow, etc..).
The USA expects China to be the next conflict zone, that is a naval/air situation where ATACM's can't be used. Suffering a shortage of ATACM's in the near term isn't really an issue especially if you've already put in place contracts to address the gap.
It never quite finds its grove.
Season 1, 2 & 3 all had fantastic premises I would have loved 7 seasons of but were all unrelated and concluded within a season.
Season 4 actually demonstrates the missed opportunity, they deal with the fall out of season 3
For example if you think of the scene set in "A Vulkan Hello", you would have ended up with an Action focussed version of DS9.
You didn't need a spore drive, Jason Isaacs could have stayed the same and we could still have watched scientists struggle to become soliders with the war causing the type of fall out we see in Season 4.
With a lot of TV from that era you have to accept the first season is the show figuring itself out. 4 episodes, really isn't enough.
The best approach is just to skip boring chunks/episodes and move on to the next. Then when your hooked going back is worth it.
With Stargate while its an episodic format, events in past episodes are incorporated and it slowly starts building a complex universe.
Atlantis starts in SG1 season 5 and there are constant events in one series affecting the other one as a result.