Another reason for going with a swap file vs partition (if you need either) are nvme and SSD drives.

A partition that’s only a few GB and written to constantly will wear out a solid state drive quickly.

Using a swap file in a larger partition that has other data allows the drive to even out the wear across more storage cells.

Your quote above is the tl;dr of the article.

Trump only offered 100m on the 450 million due on the NY fraud case, the court rejected the offer (yesterday Feb 28), ergo Trump is broke.

- Article Author

No new information past that.

It will be interesting to see what NY does next.

March 25th is the next date of interest:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/28/nyregion/trump-bond-civil-fraud.html

The attorney general, Letitia James, is expected to provide Mr. Trump a 30-day grace period, which will expire on March 25, at which point she could move swiftly to seize Mr. Trump’s bank accounts and perhaps take control of his New York properties.

Reminds me of the £350 million a week the UK was supposedly sending the EU in the Brexit campaign.

The claim was inflated, but also they never intended to spend that on the NHS as was insinuated in the ad.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/vote-leave-brexit-lies-eu-pay-money-remain-poll-boris-johnson-a8603646.html

The sustained belief also comes despite the government having shown no sign of spending the supposed £350m extra a week on the NHS, as the advertisements controversially suggested.

To supplement your point:

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-trump-property/

Russian elite invested nearly $100 million in Trump buildings

…

The tally of investors from Russia may be conservative. The analysis found that at least 703 – or about one-third – of the owners of the 2044 units in the seven Trump buildings are limited liability companies, or LLCs, which have the ability to hide the identity of a property’s true owner. And the nationality of many buyers could not be determined. Russian-Americans who did not use a Russian address or passport in their purchases were not included in the tally.

And

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/05/eric-trump-russia-investment-golf-course

“So when I got in the cart with Eric,” Dodson says, “as we were setting off, I said, ‘Eric, who’s funding? I know no banks—because of the recession, the Great Recession—have touched a golf course. You know, no one’s funding any kind of golf construction. It’s dead in the water the last four or five years.’ And this is what he said. He said, ‘Well, we don’t rely on American banks. We have all the funding we need out of Russia.’

AND

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a43329318/russian-investment-trump-media/

Towards the end of last year, federal prosecutors started examining two loans totaling $8m wired to Trump Media, through the Caribbean, from two obscure entities that both appear to be controlled in part by the relation of an ally of Russian president Vladimir Putin, the sources said.

AND

https://www.axios.com/2023/02/18/gop-operative-sentenced-scheme-russian-money-trump-campaign

A Republican strategist was sentenced Friday to 18 months in prison for his role in helping funnel illegal foreign campaign contributions from a Russian national into former President Trump’s 2016 campaign, per the Department of Justice.

AND

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/trumpinc/episodes/trump-inc-trump-deutsche-bank-its-complicated

The New York Times reported that anti-money-laundering specialists at Deutsche Bank internally flagged multiple transactions by Trump companies as suspicious. (A spokesperson for the Trump Organization called the article “absolute nonsense.”)

The remarkably troubled recent history of Deutsche Bank, its past money-laundering woes — and the bank’s striking relationship with Trump — are the subjects of this week’s episode. The German bank loaned a cumulative total of around $2.5 billion to Trump projects over the past two decades, and the bank continued writing him nine-figure checks even after he defaulted on a $640 million obligation and sued the bank, blaming it for his failure to pay back the debt.

All from just 5 minutes on Google!

Also this:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2022/07/29/donald-trumps-great-escape-how-the-former-president-solved-his-debt-crisis/

what is it an argument against?

“All slaves matter”

( Just like the “all lives matter” response to “black lives matter”, it’s a way to dismiss the concern behind the original sentiment or facts )

Implement a 1 in 1 out policy

While I’ve seen many binary choice questions that are loaded questions, I think the above is a good example. A follow up (or two) if the person balks at the question itself is the following:

Do you know what fascism is and how to spot it?

Do you think antifa is a single entity and not a general ideology?

If it’s an entity, can you name or even lookup it’s leadership?

Do you believe everyone who espouses an anti fascist value system is a member of that org?

Good binary questions can help guide a discussion and expose biases and misunderstandings held by each side in the discussion. Seemingly paradoxically, nailing down specific stances using those types of questions, you can explore the nuance of certain positions.

Ex: on abortion

1. Are you for or against the government mandated birth? (Seems loaded, right?)
2. Are you for or against the government spending resources and citizen time investigating all miscarriages? 2a. Do you know how common miscarriages are? 2b. Do you know what the medical term is for a miscarriage?
3. Are you in favor of the law punishing equally anybody who causes a spontaneous abortion or increases the likelihood of one? Even coal power plants?
4. Are you for or against all abortions including those that are medically necessary to prevent undue suffering and/or injury to the mother? 4a. Do you believe an ectopic pregnancy is a condition that warrants an abortion?
5. Are you for or against politicians making medical decisions on your behalf in the name of their ideology and/or gaining political points OR should the decision be left between the patient, their doctor, and the medical field’s understanding of the best standard of care?
6. Are you in favor of all abortions at any time? 6a… Will a hospital in the states with the most liberal abortion laws perform an abortion on a woman with a healthy pregnancy at 8-9 months? 6b. If a fetus lacks a brain and no chance of survival, should the woman be denied the appropriate care?

Question 1 may just be a way to reframe the stances from “pro-life” / “anti-life”

Q2 helps bring the reality of what enforcement of that person’s stance may entail.

Q3 shows that big companies go unpunished for the same (or worse) violations of restrictive abortion laws and other laws that are used to punish women who miscarry.

Q4 helps bring focus on the fact that anti-abortion laws that are currently being passed and enforced are written so poorly that they are forcing doctors (through threat of imprisonment) to deny what would be routine procedures which would otherwise prevent suffering and permanent injury to women.

What are you saying? This has nothing to do with the current republican party or their talking points!

Mohn also calls for the end of “all woke and gender ideology propaganda in schools and other public places

I’m sure it’s a coincidence…

Mohn spouts several far-right talking points, including:

“America is rotting from the inside out as far-left woke mobs rampage our once prosperous cities, turning them into lawless zones.”

" A fifth column army of illegal immigrants infiltrates our border"

Oh…

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For those reading submitters description above, that is only a small part of the article. The whole thing is worth a read.

Jesus,

In one case, a Haitian professor of ethics had won asylum in an immigration court, yet was kept in ice detention for two years while the government appealed the case.

Also

Both guards found endless excuses to sanction Keldy. They confiscated her Bible, barked at her in front of the others, and cut her prayer services short.

"The Christian persecution is coming from inside the house! "

Lastly ::: spoiler The article ends with her deportortation without her kids. That’s beyond fucked. :::

Edit: The whole article is an excerpt of the book: “Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis”

I mean the article explains exactly what he meant:

"A bipartisan bill would be good for America and help fix our broken immigration system and allow speedy access for those who deserve to be here, and Congress needs to get it done,” Biden said. “It’ll also give me as president, the emergency authority to shut down the border until it could get back under control. If that bill were the law today, I’d shut down the border right now and fix it quickly.”

The deal being negotiated in Congress would require the U.S. to shutter the border if roughly 5,000 migrants cross illegally on any given day.

Not necessarily:

https://www.elections.alaska.gov/RCV.php

Alaska implemented ranked choice voting after voters approved the measure in 2020

“Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!”

Democratic Representatives in the House:

Both Nadler and Swalwell serve on the House Judiciary Committee. At the time of the Caffe Europa conversation, Nadler had announced the committee would be investigating then-President Donald Trump’s decision to commute Stone’s sentence after he was convicted of federal crimes in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe.

bypass congress

Power of the purse.

There’s a difference between authorizing sales of weapons and authorizing gifts of weapons.

Even better, he is suing because the charges against him make him look like a traitor:

The filing states that as a result of the government’s actions Flynn was “falsely branded as a traitor to his country, lost at least tens of millions of dollars of business opportunities and future lifetime earning potential, [and] was maliciously prosecuted and spent substantial monies in his own defense.”

Discovery in this suit will be amazing. It’ll be interesting to see the details we didn’t get to see that led to the Judge in one case against Flynn to say “arguably you sold your country out”.

They want the money, they just don’t want the money to be tied to feeding the poor.

Look at what happened with TANF block grants:

https://www.cbpp.org/research/welfare-reform-tanf/how-states-use-federal-and-state-funds-under-the-tanf-block-grant

over time, states redirected a substantial portion of their state and federal TANF funds to other purposes, to fill state budget holes, and in some cases to substitute for existing state spending. Even when need increased during the Great Recession, states were often unable to bring the funds back to core welfare reform services and instead made cuts in basic assistance, child care, and work programs.

and

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/04/states-divert-federal-welfare-funding-anti-abortion-clinics

These overwhelmingly Republican-led states used money from the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program (Tanf), better known as welfare or direct cash aid, to fund the activities of anti-abortion clinics associated with the evangelical right.

It’s because they want the aid money instead to do what they want with it as opposed to directly giving the money to needy families who would likely only use it for food:

If the Biden Administration and Congress want to make a real commitment to family well-being, they should invest in already existing programs and infrastructure at the state level and give us the flexibility to tailor them to our state’s needs"

CIA Simple Sabotage Field Manual (1944), page 28, Section 11a “General Interference with Organizations and Production: Organizations and Conferences”

4. Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible.

Simple Sabotage Field Manual - CIA (warning pdf)