I hate that this is how our legal system has evolved. Trial courts mean nothing when a corporation loses, because invariably an appeal is filed, and if the circuit court upholds a ruling, well, time to talk to SCOTUS.

It’s definitely promising. I just meant that he has that gift of oratory. The next couple of cycles could be interesting, as the DNC won’t abandon money, even as more and more voters, especially younger ones, see no representation across the country.

Thank you for your service.

While I agree with the premise, these juxtaposed images don’t convey what you’re hoping they do.

In my defense, this was just a YouTube suggestion after finishing another video. I do share NPR text links here regularly, but only when the text version is what I run into. This is somewhat the difference between being paid to provide news and volunteering. But I get where you’re coming from.

Being able to see facial expressions and hear inflection allows for a deeper experience. I tend to read transcripts most of the time because it’s just faster. But for understanding who Mamdani is as a full introduction, text alone won’t get you all the way there, and I’d only so far seen clips.

In Trumpian Washington, swamp drains you.

OK, so. A majority of Americans did not do so. Grossly simplified, one-third did, one-third didn’t, and one-third stayed home. If you’re being fed the line that a majority of voters wanted Trump, it simply isn’t true. Millions stayed on the sidelines because of Gaza and feeling like there was no point (which, in many states, there isn’t; there are like seven where your vote matters).

You don’t have to be nice to her. But how often have you seen “bitch” used as a pure pejorative on Beehaw? Consider your audience.

Tone it down a bit. Most of us didn’t vote for him, if only because a significant chunk simply didn’t vote.

But “bitch” is a bit beyond the pale for Beehaw. That’s objectively not Beeing Nice.

That the establishment is flailing tells you this is a movement with legs. I don’t think they can shut it down like 2016 Bernie, so … it’ll be interesting to see what comes next.

Gut feeling, I agree. That said, I’ve heard from friends (let’s hear it for hearsay!) that their friends and relatives seem to be going away from their core beliefs and instead believing everything endlessly spat at them by a glowing rectangle.

I have to think there’s an Ouroboros aspect to all of this. Regardless of Musk’s upbringing, he did bring electric vehicles front and center and oversaw the creation of reusable rockets. These are not small things. Many would be content with that, but then he went megalomaniac … MOAR … MOAR, and now we’re seeing declining sales at Tesla; Xitter is, well, whatever it is; and SpaceX hasn’t been doing great of late.

I’m reminded of Tom from MySpace. Got a few million on the way out, and he’s under the radar, presumably enjoying cocktails with umbrellas in them. Like, if you’re set for life, maybe don’t try again.

People built houses before hammers were invented. But that’s sort of the point of tools: that they can do things more efficiently than we can.

“The turnout model targeted key districts and constituencies and the campaign met those turnout goals — and got more votes than Eric Adams did four years ago,” she said. “However, Mamdani ran a campaign that managed to expand the electorate in such a way that no turnout model or poll was able to capture, while the rest of the field collapsed.”

Can we please, please stop with this asinine “I got more votes than the guy in the last election” bullshit? It’s irrelevant and Trumpy as fuck. The electorate is still growing in the U.S., so of course you can get more votes and still lose, as there are simply more voters.

Raw numbers mean nothing in an election. Percentages do.

It’s entirely possible he was responsible for some of PayPal, but since, his MO has been, as you said, buying up promising companies. And there’s nothing wrong with that. The problem comes when he rewrites history to be the founder instead of simply an investor in these firms and claims credit for shit he simply didn’t do.

I fell for it myself for a while. Early days of Tesla, early days of SpaceX … dude knows how to sell and arguably accelerated BEVs, but it appears he doesn’t know how to actually carve tunnels or rewrite mass transit with functionally unlimited money. Not to mention, Starship is having a really bad time these days, which stands in stark contrast to how banal Falcon launches have become.

Calling Musk an engineer is like saying the same about Steve Jobs. Both are(/were) salesmen happy to claim credit for every success while delegating blame for problems.

Not that this is unique to the pair in the current climate of people believing in messianic oligarchs, but I’m not really aware of any boots-on-the-ground innovation that sprang forth from Musk’s mind. The Cybertruck is a fucking joke, and that seems to be the thing at Tesla he was most involved in of late, then broke the windows during a demo.

Leave breaking Windows at a keynote to Steve Ballmer.

OK, and the kernel is written in C and assembly. Should they know both of those as well?

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Well, that’s templates for you, I guess. But this breathless thing of I just now realized I don’t own my media is a bit absurd. Arr, but I do, and with no data tracking. Win-win.

I think it’s just mind-fuckery with some fun for the IDF.

If you know why you need alpha channels, of course you’re going to save in an appropriate format. But most casual users aren’t going to care. They took a picture of their breakfast or dog and just want to upload now. I’m not arguing PNGs serve no purpose; I’m arguing that most people aren’t Web or app designers. They don’t care whether it’s lossy or lossless, let alone about transparency.

I’ll agree for those use cases, but not everyone is making icons, stickers and emoji.