See also: Cogsworth

I think is more a generalization about the praise of “goals” rather than associating him with anyone in particular.

Ultimately all the major powers are being graded on a curve and are generally only “good” when compared to some more evil major player. The US may be slipping to be worse than China, but China would still be worse than a number of European nations.

I suppose that maybe not prioritizing Arch. Broadly speaking I feel like Arch isn’t the target for a GUI-exclusive usage scenario.

I think the file managers do this for you nowadays, though I generally use ‘cloud’ style file syncing nowadays and so I’ll confess to not having done it lately.

Yep, when posting how to do something, between ‘select an example and paste to answer’ or ‘series of screenshots to illustrate a gui way’, the text copy/paste wins on laziness of answer.

Besides, there’s a decent chance that a person has to solve it for some arbitrarily large number of systems, and speaking in CLI is a vocabulary that can more trivially be made headless across a bunch of systems.

I actually use KDE’s discover to apply all the updates (flathub and yum). Mainly because I’m lazy and the update icon appears and it’s quick to just click through.

Yeah, I’m not surprised based on some of my interactions with purported “business geniuses”, but it is quite sad just how utterly stupid people are that manage to have wealth and get taken in by a mere show of unearned confidence.

Nothing like having an config.sys/autoexec.bat menu to make sure you have the right TSRs and XMS or EMS configuration to run this game or the other. The ecosystem forced you to learn things you may have never been inclined to learn to get at the experience you actually wanted.

Yes, and to that end, I think they would have thought the evolution of the executive branch to now would have been counter to their goals. As to how the executive branch self-organizes, I don’t think that was a huge concern since that should never have been as big a branch as it grew to be.

Strictly speaking, the EO does not refer to Judicial or Legislative folks, only those who ultimately belong to the executive branch. They didn’t imagine that the executive branch would have de-facto unilateral control over so much scope.

Not sure about this. Not because this is what the folks writing the constitution would have wanted, it’s because they would have been puzzled with why the executive branch has just so much scope at all. They presumed a much more limited sort of executive branch and this sort of strategy might have mapped to that idea. They wouldn’t have imagined we’d just keep piling on more and more power in the executive branch and rely on “norms” to keep that structure from pivoting badly on a single troublesome election.

The challenge with this example is that it suggests that they bothered to rig things against Harris in Montana of all places.

A lot is made of the ‘drop-off’, which is easily explained by the fact that Trump is a unique phenomenon. People are shocked that some Trump voters might swing towards a democrat downballot, and I can’t imagine the mindset personally, but I acknowledge it exists. Remember, they aren’t Republican voters, they are Trump voters. Further, NC has a history of voting for democrat state offices and republican federal offices.

I think if they were going full tampering, you wouldn’t see the drop-off, because they’d rig the down-ballot as well.

As to the graphs look funny, well, I think I’ll need to see more analysis from more data by a broader set of analysts. I know that statistics will say anything if you torture the numbers enough, so I’m not going to get too invested in visualizations from one source.

Scrutinizing the vote is fine, but feel like this looks more like denial than an educated analysis.

For this case specifically, again, a ‘Trump’ voter is not a republican voter, the democrat party is way more energized to vote against a would-be Trump ally than before the election. Finally, I don’t know about this race, but it’s possible that those two in particular have something in the local population making the democrat more popular. For example in NC the republican governor candidate was way specifically a problem, so there’s a much easier explanation for why he lost by an anomalous amount.

Every port on a computer I can think of is female except DB9, which is almost never used except as part of a chain of adapters. So obviously cables are male and the computers are female.

agggggggggggggggg

He must have died while typing …