A couple of years ago I was using a transcription service, though that may be of less help nowadays due to AI transcription. Pay was crap, but it was better than nothing for me at the time. The service I was working with seems to have shut down, but you might try https://www.transcribeme.com/freelancers/

I think that the Nazis or Japanese did experiments in that vain, but don’t quote me on it. They did quite a lot that makes my stomach roil. As to how far they could get, no clue.

Either way, once organs start to be removed, you won’t be around for long. Under most circumstances anyways. We do have the ability to sub in machines for failed organs, such as heart, kidneys or lungs, but I don’t know of any cases where all of them have been replaced with machines at the same time with the “patient” still awake during.

Full life support tends to be a “Buddy, your fucked!” sort of thing and if you’re not already in a coma, they will likely put you in one.

For pretty much all big spending projects it’s a bit of all of the above. Also how the money is actually spent is usually the far more interesting part.

For example, while I haven’t looked at the latest aid package for Ukraine, if it follows the same pattern as the previous ones, most the the money doesn’t actually go to Ukraine. What actually happens with most of it is that the US military is told to give Ukraine some of their old kit, the US military then uses the money from the aid package to replace what they shipped off with new kit. The money stays in the US and effectively doesn’t get spent as it winds up back in Uncle Sam’s pocket one way or another.

At the scale of governments, especially governments that control their own currency, the money isn’t what’s truly important. It’s the resources that matter. Manpower, materials and energy.

That argument was in fact made when VCRs first came out. I don’t remember how exactly it played out but in the end the courts here in the US said that VCRs were fine.

Eh, only because society emphasizes them when raising women, just as aggressiveness is emphasized for men. In both cases it is trained for the most part.

There is always natural inclination, but that is often overridden by how you are raised and the experiences you have throughout your life.

What is considered masculine or feminine is largely a cultural thing. It was once manly to wear skirts (kilts) and dresses (robes) and knit and sew, some places it still is.

A strong person (character trait) is someone who is willing to stand their ground for what they believe is right despite overwhelming pressure, be willing to admit it when they are wrong and flexible enough to adapt when the situation changes.

Sometimes that means you must fight and kill, but talking and listening (often seen as feminine or weak) usually gives better results.

Edit: At some point in my life I will learn to spell things correctly!!!

I’m just guessing myself, but I suspect it’s probably ok-ish. NextCloud is probably better security wise than most things I self host.

Follow security best practices and things should be fine.

• Don’t expose to the public net anything that doesn’t need to be.
• Keep it updated.
• Make sure it can’t see anything it doesn’t need to on your home network.
• Use strong passwords and don’t reuse them.
• Keep backups (RAID is not a backup!)

Here’s the documentation páge I remember

https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Nextcloud

Might look into running NextCloud on NixOS. Haven’t tried it myself yet but noticed NextCloud referenced in NixOS’s documentation pretty heavily. If I remember correctly it was as simple as

service.nextcloud.enable = true;

in the configuration.nix file to get it started.

Linux unplugged had an episode on it recently and said they were surprised how performative it was. Sounded like they were going to be moving their instance over to it.

So the author is surprised that companies that makes a large chunk of their revenue from advertising is using the stuff it sold as billboards. Color me shocked.

Sometimes, but like most things in the US tax laws are often abused and misused. A simpler tax system would benefit everyone more (with the exception of tax accountants, of course), but that’s not likely to happen.