Some people store their plex on a vps server, and plex recently banned the cheapest super popular one because some people were selling access to Plex servers on that host.
laylawashere44
joined 1 year ago
Ooops, Plex just banned the server provider you were using, guess you'll have to migrate it all at the drop of a hat.
I can't wait for their patent to expire. 1000+ dollars for what is essentially a hub motor and some microcontrollers is nuts.
Why? For punishment?
Honestly there will probably be no resolution. Pakistani Intelligence services will put pressure on their contacts in the insurgent groups, find and kill the planners of the attack. But nothing otherwise will change. There could be a long term resolution if Balochistan gets richer somehow, and therefore more influential.
It should be noted that the Pakistan intelligence services are an incredibly Machiavellian group. They quite often tend to know where every terrorist group is based, what they are planning, who and where the leaders are, etc.
So why don't they do anything about it? Well, having a terror group on the payroll is very useful sometimes. Whether you want a politician dead, an Afghan Taliban member surveilled or dead, need to justify funding. Now they aren't the illuminati, they don't control them directly, they just tend to just not care when the terrorist groups are targeting someone they don't like.
Again not the illuminati and there have been times when they fuck up, including a Taliban attack on the Army Public School, Peshawar, a K-12, where the Taliban specifically went for the older kids of security forces personal as they are less replaceable. Astoundingly evil honestly, was the country's 9/11 moment for sure.
If you want to get an idea of how the politics of Pakistan work, 'The Assassination' (of Benazir Bhutto) by the BBC World Service is incredibly insightful. It's from a reporter who was very close to the ex-PM and witnessed everything first hand.
This might have been Islamic extremists, usually the Pakistan Taliban (which is a different organization than the Afghan Taliban, mind) however they have denied responsibility. It might be a different group, multiple islamic terrorist groups are active in the country.
However, it may be terrorism from Balochistan insurgent groups. Balochistan is the largest and poorest province in Pakistan, but Pakistan likes to keep a tight hold on it, since there are a lot of minerals and natural gas reserves there.
The insurgency in Balochistan is quite low level, and their push for an independent Balochistan is not widely popular. However, there is widespread distrust and resentment towards the Pakistani Government and especially the Army.
The government and army in a bid for maintaining control and suppressing the insurgency and any ideas of succession have been running a draconian anti-terror operation for decades which includes arbitrary detention, torture of suspected terrorists, silencing of critics and imprisonment without trial or unfair trials.
These kinds of anti-terror campaigns are not unusual in Pakistan. However, there is a difference here compared to similar surprisingly popular campaigns in KPK province, in that the security forces there are usually ethnic KPK natives, and there is the widespread use of the frontier corps which is a paramilitary unit that exclusively recruits locals especially in practically independent remote tribal regions.
The security forces of Pakistan are largely composed of people from KPK, Punjab and the Muhajir ethnic group. These security forces in Balochistan can be racist towards Balochi people, and are seen as outsiders stepping on Balochi necks.
There has been covert and explicit support from India for Balochistan succession. Pakistan has credibly accused India of funding, supplying and training some of the insurgent forces to destabilize the region and the country as a whole. There is also loud support in Indian media for Balochistan's succession as well as widespread astroturfing campaigns. The general feeling is that this support is blatantly self serving, and not aligned with what the actual people in Balochistan want.
Again, succession is both unpopular and practically unfeasible (despite mineral and gas reserves Balochistan is otherwise incredibly resource poor especially lacking in arable land and water). You could say that India is supporting succession rather than the campaign for more transparency and better civil rights in the anti-terror campaigns because the former is unlikely and will massively harm the country as a whole, while the latter will probably help Pakistan and Balochistan become more integrated with the country.
It should be noted that Balochi nationalist parties, are very popular but not separatists ones. The provincial assembly just dissolved ahead of elections but before that the party in power was the Balochi Awami (people's) Party, a nationalist center left, progressive, party that is in support of federalism.
The current (caretaker) PM of Pakistan is an independent who used to be a part of the BAP before resigning to become the caretaker PM, since the caretaker PM is supposed to be neutral to ensure a fair election.
Funny side note: I believe going to jail is considered a plus in competitive monopoly since while in jail you don't have to pay rent to anyone, but still collect rent.
They really don't grow your food most of the time. Corn and Soy are the most grown crops, and 70+ % of either are ground up to feed animals or make biofuels. Biofuels don't even make economic or environmental sense at all, it's only created because the government mandates its addition to gasoline and diesel, making both more expensive. That's 40% of all corn grown literally going up in flames for absolutely no reason other than to subsidize farmers who are overproducing corn.
American farmers also massively overproduce milk too, mostly because they can feed cows the unlimited soy and feed corn available and because the US government will literally buy up all the excess milk (and turn it to cheese and stockpile it) or pay farmers to dump it down the drain to keep the prices up.
And it's not just milk, soy, and corn that's overproduced, it's everything. The amount of agricultural subsidy is insane, and most of it is to keep farmers in business who are growing stuff nobody wants or are growing stuff in areas where the land is so poor that without massive subsidy, there would be no profit, in the first place.
And all of this overproduction is absolutely destroying the environment. Actual cities and towns filled with people doing actually productive things are running short of water because the government insists on keep Joe farmer's irrigation dependant farm in the goddamn desert in business producing soy beans that are then exported to feed pigs in China. Hell half the time it isn't even Joe Farmer, it's Joe Farmer Corp owned by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia who realized growing that same crop in their desert was unsustainable.
I now think that the democratic establishment must have had some divine level foresight in essentially choosing Biden over Bernie.
If Bernie was president, could you imagine the amount of noise republicans could make about him being a communist or a socialist? How easily it would be to construe every policy as a socialist grand plan. I mean Bernie has actual long-term monetary policy that is more complicated and ambitious than the basic counter-cyclical strategy.
You just can't do that with Biden. You've got a half century of policy to point to. You've got absolutely middle of the road economic policy. You've got a man too dull to be corrupt. How do you rally a base against the human equivalent of a pile of gravel? You're forced to make up nonsense.
But friction burns are so hot 🥵🔥
Some people host their plex on a VPS (basically your portion of a server on a cloud that you can do whatever with) server and Plex recently banned a really popular one suddenly.