I actually just found this on knowyourmeme:
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Handbrake can handle DVDs directly; you'll need Make MKV for Blu-Rays.
A couple years ago I made a big project to rip all my DVDs.
Out of several hundred movies only 6 were unplayable. There didn't seem to be a pattern to it either; age of the disc, wear or handling, big budget then current release or old movie slapped onto a disc in one of those cheap cardboard sleeves.
Out of my collection of TV shows on DVD, easily a quarter of the discs failed, and if one disc in a season of a show didn't work most of them probably wouldn't. Many had visible blotch marks in them. I figure they probably used a cheaper manufacturing process for TV shows where they were selling 3 to 6 discs rather than one, maybe two discs with a single movie on it.
We're living it right now. It is my understanding that Truth Social is basically a fork of Mastodon.
On Reddit, before it went full goose step, you'd have the problem where the top mod of r/linux would be this weird open source zealot who would delete any thread that had any practicality in it. So actual discussion of using Linux would happen in r/linuxmasterrace, which was nominally a meme sub but it's where the actual community landed. You could use Reddit's vast namespace to steer around an individual top mod.
You couldn't steer around Reddit's admin though, they have root access to the servers, they can, have and increasingly do shut things down they don't like. It's double plus ungood.
Lemmy, and indeed the entire Fediverse, offers every user the Bender gambit. You can make your own instance with blackjack and hookers. There is no mechanism to shut it down everywhere. Instances are hosted by multiple people on multiple hardware platforms on multiple power grids in multiple countries under multiple jurisdictions.
The top mod of !linux@example.lol is being a shithead? You could make !actual_linux@example.lol, or you could start !linux@lemmy.world, or you could start your own instance and then YOU are in control of who gets to be a mod on at least one instance. No one person has the power to shut down everything everywhere; you start talking about severing undersea cables at that point.
I did once talk to Ukraine from some woods in North Carolina on 20 meters (~14 MHz) So when you say "long range radio" to me I think in hemispheres.
I'm not convinced this is new or unprecedented; we're somewhere between the robber baron gilded age thing in 1920's America and 1930's Germany. Not saying either one is a wonderful place to be, but I'm not sure we're on new ground.
I'm a ham radio operator; it just feels weird hearing someone call 400 MHz "long range." Above, say, 60 MHz I wouldn't count on anything beyond line-of-sight anyway, though I suppose the lower in the UHF band you are the more likely you are to punch through leaves and such.
You know what? Money's no object, so why don't we arrange a grand tour? We'll do Europa, maybe stop at Ganymede and Callisto (I don't think Io is a very pleasant destination spot), then head out to Saturn and check out Titan and Enceladus, head out to Uranus for a stop at Miranda, and then finish up at Neptune to spend some time on Triton.
Titan is a terrible place to view Saturn's rings from; first of all the moon's orbit is pretty much coplanar with the ring disc so you're looking at something hilariously thin end-on. Second, thick opaque clouds. On the upside, Titan's gravity is so low and the air is so thick given an Icarus suit you could fly like a bird. Or pedal power a Cessna Skyhawk.
You'd probably get a good look at the rings on your way in though.
Europa, Jupiter's moon.
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...When in American history did a president start a war in order to serve more than two terms?
45 men have served as President of the United States, two of them non-consecutively. The only one of them to serve more than two full terms was Franklin Delano Roosevelt from 1933 to 1945, being elected four times and dying in office. At the time, no term limits for President existed, and World War 2 was certainly not started by the United States.