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Democrats have popular support for their policies but cannot for the life of them think strategically.

You think they don't understand this stuff? Democrats have been deliberately "failing" to get shit done for 20 years. They keep holding out progressive and populist policies, tantalizingly close to enacting meaningful change -- but nope, somehow it always seems to be a matter of political strategy, badly run campaigns, and bad messaging that derails things.

Surely the Republicans haven't somehow had the better political strategists for decades. They aren't always better funded and they aren't always better organized. And certainly they don't have access to some kind of magic politics potion that the Democrats lack.

The only plausible scenario that I can see is that the Democratic party leadership has no interest in actually getting policy enacted, as long as they keep their cozy niche in power. Another 4 years of Trump will help them do very well in the 2022 midterms, and it will help keep their friends at the NYT, CNN, and MSNBC in business.

It would also explain why they hated Sanders and the DSA candidates so much. Liberals (not to mention leftists) who actually wanted to take power at the national level and actually do something? That would fuck up the whole game.

Basically you'd have to show me some actual evidence that Democratic party leadership actually wants to do anything other than campaign on a progressive platform and consistently almost-win. The whole thing seems worked to me.
How’s the vim emulation in VSCode? I always miss being able to use vim in these sorts of knowledge management systems. I’m using Obsidian right now, which has ok, very basic vi emulation, but would love something that lets me use more advanced vim-fu.
Harry Reid, he's the one that ruined congress by changing the rules. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Reid
You can expand the number of seats on the Supreme Court via a bill passed by both houses of Congress and signed by the president. So we'd need the presidency, a majority in the House, and a supermajority in the Senate to invoke cloture to end the inevitable legislative filibuster from the Republicans. So even with a blue wave in November, that's not possible because it is extraordinarily unlikely that we gain a supermajority in the Senate.

The only other option to pass such a bill in the Senate would be to gain a Senate majority and use that Senate majority to end the legislative filibuster, which is the last filibuster anyways. With the filibuster out of the way, we'd just need the presidency and majorities in both houses of Congress.
Consider Maduro (Venezuela). He and his government are enduring all kinds of enormous attacks from all around the ("Western") world and horrible malicious interference by USA, but the only thing that we know of that Maduro's side did wrong (arguably) was packing the Supreme Tribunal of Justice.
Then talk me down from my lofty vantage because looking at ICE internment camps and seeing women forcibly sterilized en masse is making it awfully hard to not conflate my WW2 history curriculum with the present day.
Yes, by requiring other types of payment validation, whether it's card entry or apple pay validaiton.
It's like Reddit, where people have been claiming for a year that Trump would just cancel the election, despite him having to power to do so.

I expect a lot more fuckery to happen, but cancelled elections and the Supreme Court nullifying the 22nd amendment won't be included.
You're really expecting a landslide, aren't you? Democrats are doing the exact same thing this time they did last time, and they're expecting the virus to save them. It might not happen...
Most likely because the founding fathers didn't expect the justices to be split on party lines. They were intended to be impartial judges ruling on a limited set of federal laws.
ARM is not really yet a competitor because I can't just go to HP or Dell and get an ARM machine. I'd have to go out of my way, buy something from a smaller vendor, etc.

If Nvidia ARM machines become something that first-tier server vendors make available, there will indeed be competition in places there there isn't presently.
Election results don't change what people believe and value.

The current situation in the US has been a long time coming, and it will take a long time to resolve.
> It’s not like Mitch can singlehandedly control the whole senate.

He's Senate Majority Leader. That's literally exactly what he does.

Besides, he's whipped his party so hard they basically never break rank. Even Mitt "I'm not like the others" Romney votes with him nearly 100% of the time.
You have to have the cooperation of the Senate I meant. Obviously, in cases where a President of one party has a nominee appointed by a Senate of another, the cooperation of the Senate was there.
They will. The SCOTUS as a nonpartisan institution that isn't a political football is 100% dead if McConnell confirms a nominee before the election.

It's time Democrats recognize that, and play offense when they have the ball.

It's sad to see the institution end as a non-political body, but it's been happening for the last couple of decades. This will be the absolute end of it.
Love the modern approach to the project and breaking legacy technologies and the use of statically linked binaries, but the name is... err...

I can see why a letter is missing, even when it specific to linux. So removing the 'n' is, well saving you from a puzzling name revolt.

linux + static = Stalinux?

I'm sure you know there's something wrong here.
Referring (india, a country not a color) to Issues relating to doing business/relying on decisions via work takin plce in a country other than the one where the business and its customers are is a bit different than ‘black’
Have you? Yes, Trump is terrible, there have been other Presidents as terrible as him in US history (Buchanan, Johnson, Harding) and the ship has always righted itself. He also hasn’t fundamentally altered the American political system. Congress still makes laws, Supreme Court still rules on their legality, President still signs them into law. The comments on here act like Trump has become a Francisco Franco when the fact is he’s likely to be voted out of office in 7 weeks and gone from politics on January 20th.
Hindsight 20/20.
Thanks for the response! Is stuff like modeling history implemented in the kernel or in the FreeCAD code?
Should be pretty easy, I have a ticket here for this:

https://todo.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/chartsrv/4
Democrats need to be ready to use the Nuclear Option. It's still on the table. They should have someone right now getting in shape for it.
There's a tendency to overstate the popularity of our politicians. The President received 46% of the vote with 56% turnout, which means only 26% of the eligible vote. And many of those voters "plugged their nose" at the polls (though they may do it again).

We have minority rule in this country, and many people don't realize how small the minority is. Both political parties are hugely unpopular (even with their own members sometimes) and fail to represent the majority.
> Democrat

Childish. Come on.
And if the Democrats dangle a sweetheart plea deal in front of him as inducement to leave it be?
Just because there was a bad thing in the medieval ages doesn't mean it can't be much worse now that it's turned into a point-scoring spectacle sport.
Until Trump does something zany and unexpected like abolishing ICE next month, and suddenly they all flip red.

Edit: That said, I could think of much worse outcomes.
This idea that either the Republicans or Democrats have faith or principles is absurd. The Democratic brand is one of principles and altruism, but their actions do not reflect this.
This is my conclusion too. Not only are democrats losers they perfectly fine with it too. They've let republicans out politic them every since Reagan. Another in a long line of humiliating political defeats at the hands of big money.
This has the potential to be very impactful.
I wholeheartedly agree with this.

Similar to how we don't refer to our phones as smartphones anymore. Back in the 1990s, if you had asked me to check the weather on my phone, I would've thought you meant calling up the weather channel/hotline, but now we all know exactly what you mean.
The thinking on this is that the rules, arcane as they are, say the Senate must “advise” on the Supreme Court pick (or something to that effect). So the argument is that Obama could have said, well, they were given an opportunity to advise and decided not to, so I’m going to fill the seat. The legality of this is grey, but it was discussed a bit at the time.
Getting visualizations for real-world data-structures is hard -- once you go past toy examples, GraphViz (or anything else I've seen) gets pretty unusable.
Your exaggeration hurts your argument.
> The only other option to pass such a bill in the Senate would be to gain a Senate majority and use that Senate majority to end the legislative filibuster, which is the last filibuster anyways.

This is what I call for in another comment. There's no way to get a supermajority in the Senate, so the legislative filibuster would have to die.
Proposed patch: in cases like this where all of SCOTUS has an obvious conflict of interest, the decision is made by a single judge who is elected to an N year term by a national popular vote for only this purpose. Democracy saves the day?
Hey, if you want references to how market power is defined, them I recommend that you read this link.

https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-a...

This is the definition that I am referring to when talking about what the FTC is referring too regarding market and monopoly power.

And according to the FTC, all that is required to fall under section 2 of the Sherman anti trust act is significant and durable market power.
But then get rid of the legislature filibuster after they've used it. The Senate will probably tend GOP, so make sure it is weaker.
Googling "ossification of American policy for a generation" returns one result, this thread.
In this case, it's about the preservation of our democracy (Trump has already indicated he will contest the election), so I don't think "petty" is the appropriate term.
That's a strawman argument.
Do you think the republicans would not have ended it for Kavanaugh?
I don't think you understand how all-in the republican party is on trump.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/08/24/trumps-appr...

Also see: The most recent RNC.
It looks like the Boeing planes may be good for something after all! (sarcasm)
The CCP.
STEP doesn't have modeling history though.
Its better because you are way more efficient because you do not parse strings. You can't argue with that fact.

Besides, everything that can be used with bash can be used with PowerShell. Opposite is not true.

Better. Much much better.
It's quite possible to be friends who have strong, contrasting opinions. I'd argue the oppose that it is a desirable state for highly powerful people making decisions for the whole country because you're less likely be blinded by mindless us-vs them and give the benefit of the doubt the arguments and beliefs contrary to yours.

The inability to disagree in a mature way is why we have such a mess of identity politics, name calling and all sorts of division in many counties IMO.
So... Tom Cotton?
Wrong. Democrats are principled to a fault.
Interesting point. Trump and McConnell's interests aren't actually aligned, here. McConnell is up for reelection, ahead in the polls, and wants an inoffsensive conservative justice. Trump's behind, is more interested in his reelection than in getting a conservative justice on the court. He can't drag his feet too long or it will look like he's stalling, and he'd have to nominate a judicial version of Judy Shelton so he's playing to his base, but it's someone the Senate wouldn't approve. Or if they have someone they already vetted with skeletons in the closet that just haven't come out yet.
it doesn't surprise me. i worked with him over 20 years ago when he ran hiphopsite.com, he was a shifty guy then.
Softbank is getting just $2bn right now. And the next payment at closing is only $10bn, the rest is in stock.

The whole Softbank needs cash now to fill the WeWork hole doesn't add up. They could have made more cash with an IPO, in similar timescales.
If republicans don’t like that non-white people more frequently vote for democrats they could try courting their votes with their policies and actions rather than trying to kill/deport as many as possible
SCOTUS is dead
LOL, ummm....no.
That's really being generous. Turkey and Qatar directly financed ISIS and facilitated movements of terrorists. People were recruited in countries like Tunisia through mosques, some of them very far from being a committed to the religion. The jackpot was money to be paid, and whatever "pussy" your hands can get once you are in Syria.

The US turned a blind eye because ISIS was fighting a regime they wanted to change. They could have pressured Turkey and Qatar to stop; and they would oblige. But everything has a cost I guess.
I don't know if Likes are the root of the issue, but they certainly don't help. Newsgroups had no such signaling and they could get really toxic.
Some things have no gap.

Your either want the right to your own body, or a crusade to stop the murder of millions of babies.

This drives most other politics.
> An unfriendly Senate is going to delay the heck out of it.

You hit on the problem without seeming to realize it. The Senate didn't delay the heck out of anything. McDonnell flat out refused to do anything about Garland's nomination. He declared the nomination "null and void" based on no precedence, case law, and certainly not any interpretation of the Constitution. The Senate majority leader should not be able to shut down the Senate and prevent it from performing its Constitutionally mandated tasks. If the Senate didn't want to confirm Garland they should have held all the appropriate hearings and held an approval vote. If it's the Senate's will that Garland not be approved that's fine. It was singularly McConnell's will that Garland not be approved so he just never allowed hearings. No matter your political leanings that should be seen as abhorrent if you profess to want law and order.
There’s a weird dynamic in bribes. If I offer you a bribe and you don’t take it, I can still claim that you did. Or I can muddy the waters by claiming that you asked for it.

One idea I’ve seen is that it should be legal to accept a bribe but not offer or solicit one. On taking the bribe, your legal protection is conditional on handing over the bribe to the appropriate authorities. There’s still some game theory at work, but you’ve at least given people that are susceptible to bribes some additional power.
How common are those features? None of my systems have the UEFI shell in firmware or provide that level of control over boot records from the firmware setup interface.
If you have a sport where the honest cannot compete it's no surprise to discover it's full of cheaters.
Why shouldn’t the Democrats goad Trump into waiting after the election to nominate by a) implying he’s afraid he’ll lose and b) whispering about sweetheart plea deals via Schumer or someone
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There's also Google launching YouTube Shorts, but who knows when they'll send it to Google Graveyard.
To be fair, most American "left" politicians are hardly left, with the exception of Sanders and the handful of DSA-affiliated Congressmen. Although popular support for more-left policies seems to be forcing them (reluctantly) farther leftward.
A walkout? That wouldn't do anything. There's 53 sitting Republicans. That's enough to confirm a nomination.
It's been a while since I've read Fire Upon the Deep, but while they have similar sci-fi themes, the plot and antagonists are way different.
Because first amendment is to limit government power. Private companies are not obliged to give you right to free speech. In theory private companies compete against each other but government has a monopoly on legalized violence.
Firefox containers, paired with Simple Tab Groups helped me to fix this.

I work on multiple projects and it's common to have multiple Github and alike issues, and other pages open. With Simple Tab Groups, you can select to group and only show tabs that belong to just one group.

It's easy to move tabs between groups. When the tab group is switched, tabs from the other group are offloaded from memory, effectively making them bookmarks.

Pinned tabs (webmail client, a note taking app, and music player in my case) are shown in all tab groups.

I know it helped a lot, because I use Chrome on my Android, and I always have ":D" in my tab button because I have more than 100 tabs open.
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On the flipside, if Democrats didn't think they had a solid voter base in immigrants, they wouldn't give a shit about immigrants.
As a Canadian, it’s not that different.

We just had our Finance Minister quit because he was taking money from a non-profit that gets most of it’s money from the Federal gov’t. Oh and his daughter got a cushy job there too. Completely based on merit no doubt.

Trudeau says “oh we’re sorry about that”. And that’s it. No harm no foul.
Note that "until a new president is installed" means until 2024 if Trump is reelected.
A true friendship is not necessarily based on mutually-beneficial backroom deals. A sound friendship would have each party seeking to uphold and maintain the integrity of one another. To do otherwise is to reveal that it is not friendship, but rather opportunism, cronyism, or convenience - none of which have the stability or moral foundation of true friendship.
He released the list back before Kavanaugh. He recently updated it.
I like how Slashdot handles it. Posts and comments do have counts, but the range is reasonably narrow, from -2 to +5. This allows for modding down noise, and modding up the signal, but this excludes the comparative phallometry typical for FB and twitter threads with hundreds and thousands on upvote counters.
You really do absorb the disinfo like a sponge. That must be exhausting.
"BREAKING: Trump will quickly pick a replacement for Justice Ginsburg, and Sen. Mitch McConnell & the Republican-controlled Senate will move to confirm his nominee,creating a new political flashpoint in election while firing up evangelicals & shoring up GOP base and vote for Trump"
The Supreme Court is not just another legislative branch.

But that being said, have you seen how many decisions are 5-4? Or 6-3, 7-2? It does not appear that whatever friendship that existed between Scalia and Ginsburg impacted their rulings and dissents on the matters before the Court.

It's completely possible—and I say preferable—to hold starkly contrasting political or legal views, but still like one another. We need more of that. It's how we stay one cohesive nation, instead of warring factions.
It's getting hard not to believe that it's mostly a front.
That would take a constitutional amendment.

The top three amendments (in my opinion) that the US needs most:

- ending gerrymandering

- taking money out of politics (federally financed elections)

- forcing votes on nominees within a certain time period, otherwise they are assumed confirmed
The above comment is currently:

- Factually correct. Reid did end multiple filibusters.

- Unbiased - this is an iterated prisoners dilemma in that each side is forced to assume the other will make a worse action given the opportunity.

Why is this being downvoted?
As far as I know, what you are talking about was the main reason React was created in the first place.

All this FUD spread by the Vue fans is getting ridiculous...
I'd say it was worth the cost. The US used to suck in civil warefare. But after the Syria civil war, they clearly have the upper hand vs. Russia.
Just in case it becomes relevant in the next few days:

"'The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice. Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president,''

-Senator Mitch McConnell in 2016
> I expect McConnel to just create some reason why things are different this time

I believe he already has. I read something a few months ago (can't find it now) where he was asked about replacing a hypothetical vacancy before the end of this year, and he hand-waved his way around the hypocrisy.
You’re nuts if think it hasn’t always been this way.

Hell, a senator beat the shit out of another senator back in the 1850’s. In the senate.
I’ll extend my $10k wager to you as well then. Will Trump get a 3rd term? I’ll get “no” and you can have “yes”.
Sorry if I wasn’t clear. I found that disgusting and abhorrent, and a clear abdication of their duties.
To be fair, it is hypothetically possible that Corbyn did the best he could have done, considering he was being terribly smeared, even vilified, by all the big media organizations in UK AFAIK.
I suspect that they can -but- they're probably concerned about legal issues

Then the law should have a "best effort" provision. I believe aviation regulations have a similar thing, where the pilot doing anything possible in a best-effort attempt to survive or minimise casualties, including violating other regulations, is itself explicitly permitted.
Well it's a good thing that she doesn't get a say in the matter.
Beast mode has been great. I want a python cli for it and heaven.
He was correct on the lungs issue. There is a treatment that involved UV light tube inserted into the lungs.

I don’t think it panned out, but it is a real thing.
Controversial view: no, we shouldn't. Have you see how stupid people are? How easily they're manipulated? How little they understand about how government works? Any you want politicians pandering to these people?

If it weren't to the stigma of "literacy" tests and how the were historically used, I'd be fully in favor of "licensing" voters.
"About four-in-ten Americans (38%) approve of Trump’s job performance"

I assume that is well below the percentage of Americans that call themselves Republican. Not fully understanding your point. The language in your link seems to confirm it's a serious issue for Trump.
I fully understand that the operation is classified and details cannot be revealed, but I have to say: the description of the technical details is still a bad Hollywood movie [0]...

> After that, the momentum started to build. One team would take screenshots to gather intelligence for later; another would lock ISIS videographers out of their own accounts.

> "Reset Successful" one screen would say.

> "Folder directory deleted," said another.

Folder directory??? Did they also delete the "file document"?

> The screens they were seeing on the Ops floor on the NSA campus were the same ones someone in Syria might have been looking at in real time, until someone in Syria hit refresh. Once he did that, he would see: 404 error: Destination unreadable.

404 error: Destination unreadable??? At least, use "unreachable"...

> "Target 5 is done," someone would yell.

> Someone else would walk across the room and cross the number off the big target sheet on the wall. "We're crossing names off the list. We're crossing accounts off the list. We're crossing IPs off the list," said Neil. And every time a number went down they would yell one word: "Jackpot!"

[0] TV Tropes: Hollywood Hacking is when some sort of convoluted metaphor is used not only to describe hacking, but actually to put it into practice. Characters will come up with rubbish like, "Extinguish the firewall!" and "I'll use the Millennium Bug to launch an Overclocking Attack on the whole Internet!" https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HollywoodHacking
This is cool because there's already a lot of tools to do this for images from drone/satellite which are georeferenced.

This just gives you a nice interface so you can position/stretch the image on a 2D map even without that metadata. Seems to be a manual process.