https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Petroleum_Reserve_(United_States)

Jamming the Z button to make the GameCube screen squeak during the animation 👨🏻‍🍳🤌🏻

Futurama is a hot mess of a show because of how Fox butchered the original broadcast order.

This [latest] season has alternatively been titled the ninth season (production) and the twelfth season (broadcast). This list follows the previous season box sets, which feature the episodes in the original, intended production season order, ignoring the order of broadcast.

I would recommend picking a convention (production or broadcast) and sticking with it. It looks like tvdb prefers the former (hence only 9 seasons)

My top ten-ish tv shows

1. The Wire
2. Bojack Horseman
3. Patriot
4. The Americans
5. Better Off Ted
6. Arrested Development
7. Pushing Daisies
8. Gravity Falls
9. The Bear

Honorable Mentions

1. Over the garden wall
2. Luther
3. Friday Night Lights
4. The Queen’s Gambit
5. GLOW
6. Mindhunter
7. Sports Night
8. The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
9. Atlanta

On my fifth rewatch right now. Just started S2

Hackers 1995

Obsidian might work for you

John Hinckley Jr. attempted to kill Ronald Reagan to impress actress Jodie Foster.

Sirhan Sirhan assassinated Robert Kennedy as he was running for president. Sirhan was born in Jerusalem prior to the establishment of state of Israel. He is a citizen of Jordan. He was motivated to assassinate Bobby over the latter’s support for Israel.

https://www.summarize.tech/www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPOHf20slZg

In journalism, the standard is to share the whole name of a subject. If you don’t share the whole name, it’s appropriate to explain why.

Surprised no one has mentioned The Expanse series. A ton of world building in very different kinds of environments. Space stations, small ships, big ships, generation ships, asteroids, moons, planets.

The environments are well thought out in how the residents would need to adapt

I particularly like the Bonavita 1L Gooseneck. It has a variable temperature thermostat, helpful for teas or coffees that don’t want to be at 100° C.

Obsidian

You are correct that a fiat currency has no tangible backing. However, they do have backing from governments. The USD is backed by “the full faith and credit of the US government.”

Prior to WWI, the de facto global currency was the British Pound Sterling, backed by silver reserves.

Through the tumult of WWI, the Great Depression and WWII, precious metal reserves were consolidated in the US banks. Both through transactions (e.g. buying stuff from the US) and through deposits to secure the value from falling to foreign powers during wartime.

After WWII, the US economy was the only major power that had not been devastated, so the de facto global currency switched from GBP to USD.

As the global economy grew through the 40s, 50s and 60s, it became increasingly clear that there was not enough gold in the world to 1:1 back then USD needed to facilitate trade. There were many other factors that led to this, particularly macroeconomic decisions made in the US economy and the Vietnam War.

President Richard Nixon unilaterally ended the 1:1 backing of gold in 1971.

Since then, the USD has been backed by “the full faith and credit of the US government.”

Other currencies exchange rates are relative to the USD because the balance of international trade is denominated in USD. These rates either float (i.e. allow the market to decide the rate) or are pegged (i.e. a currency’s central bank says the official exchange rate is $1:x).

There have been discussion about shifting away from the USD as the global trade currency. Some contenders would be the Chinese renminbi or the Euro because a large proportion of international trade occurs between parties whose local economy uses one of those two currencies.

However, the decision for individual countries to switch is fraught and may cause more harm than good in the short term.

Gosh. I hadn’t thought about Indian in the cupboard in years

Blue Iris is open source

UniFi Protect is closed source but self hosted

Not OP, but I almost exclusively read novels and non fiction via audiobooks. For context, I’m on pace for 70 books this year.

My main reason for audiobooks is I having a driving commute. Two hours a day round trip. Audiobooks keep me sane in a way that podcasts or music do not. I also do audiobooks when doing chores around the house.

Second, I struggle to focus on reading a book on my phone. Too many distractions and I think the reading experience is subpar. I do have an eInk reader, but I haven’t charged it in years because it’s easier to do audiobooks.

Physical books are rare in my home, but that’s a self-reinforcing cycle since I enjoy audiobooks so much.

find /path/to/parent/directory -type f \( -name "*.mp4" -o -name "*.hvec" \) -exec mv -t /path/to/parent/directory {} +

Explanation:

•	find /path/to/parent/directory: Start the search from the specified parent directory.
•	-type f: Restrict the search to files (not directories).
•	\( -name "*.mp4" -o -name "*.hvec" \): Look for files with either a .mp4 or .hvec extension.
•	-exec mv -t /path/to/parent/directory {} +: Execute the mv command to move the found files to the specified parent directory.

I agree with using rsync.

Open a screen then use something like this command:

rsync -arvzip --progress {$remote}:/path/to/remote/files /path/to/local/files

If you are using a different port for SSH, you’ll need to pass an option like -e 'ssh -p 12345'