@thomasfuchs hello!
I think I followed mostly for tech topics, but I appreciate your astrophotography, your catrophotography (cute kitties) and occasional political post too.
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Jeff Beal
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I live in southern Californa with my wife and three kids. Work as a software engineer. Love music, good food, and all things beautiful. I don't promise to always make sense.
@georgetakei - I agree that media should avoid propagating the racial slurs, but they should report on it and pressure people like Elaine Chao to tell us where they really stand. "Do you believe that a person who speaks this way should be President, yes or no?"
Ignoring Donald Trump will not do anything to prevent him from spewing nonsense and spreading hate; Republican leaders who shy away from condemning his racism are part of the problem.
@thomasfuchs my Dad ran his own (small) business and we got the leftover computers when he upgraded. First one he brought home (1988?) was only a word processor. Not a machine running DOS that only had Word Perfect, but the computer only did word processing.
He brought that home when he got an IBM PC with a fancy 8088 processor and 20 MB hard drive. We got that computer a few years later when he upgraded to an Intel 386 at work.
Most tech startups on Day 0: we don't have time for things like testing, architecture, and design. Just make something that works
Too many startups on Day N: why doesn't anything work anymore?
I'm not saying that the Day 0 approach was wrong on Day 0, but there comes a time where that has to change. If you wait too long to realize it, it may be too late to fix all the issues you allowed to happen.
@rbreich I think I understand why they were a bit skeptical of direct popular election in 1789 -- nobody had done it before. I think democracy has proven to be a success and we should embrace it more fully.
Abolish the electoral college.
This anonymous Republican strategist is worried about the wrong slippery slope:
“And unfortunately, you also have a slippery slope here. If you go after this guy for lying, where does it stop?”
If you DON'T go after this guy for lying, what would it take for your party to eject a member of Congress for bad behavior?
In most jobs, if you get caught lying on your resume, you get fired. Congress? Nah; go ahead and keep your job. We need your vote.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3791270-george-santos-puts-gop-in-a-tight-spot/
George Santos puts GOP in a tight spot
Rep.-elect George Santos (R-N.Y.) has put Republicans in a pickle: How do party leaders deal with his fabrications and misrepresentations without jeopardizing their slim majority or setting a precedent? The answer so far, for the most part, is to say nothing and let Santos speak for himself — and perhaps to let voters decide Santos’s fate in…
emptywheelNote that the J6C Report begins where only a handful of reporters have gone: with the words of the actual rioters. You need that to prove incitement but TV lawyers said it was all a waste of time.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23466611-221219-j6c-intro#document/p2/a2186700
Trading cards? NFT trading cards? My eyes. My brain.
Please somebody put him in jail and throw away the key.
@edmundedgar @thomasfuchs "normie"? What kind of condescending claptrap way to refer to all of humanity is that?