Quoting the article,

The reason for the long list and the short letter is because the letter itself was not written to convince the general public to vote for Harris.

Instead, its purpose is to serve as a well-timed political show of force for Harris, who is locked in a very tight race, with the first presidential debate just four days away.

I attended a Ralph Nader rally in Boston ahead of the 2000 US presidential election. It was a high energy event, with an atmosphere almost like a pop music show. Nader and his VP candidate both spoke about their campaign positions, with frequent pauses for enthusiastic applause from the crowd. Nader was a third-party candidate, which meant that he was an outsider to the regular election process, and in particular was not invited to the nationally televised debates. There were frequent chants of “Let Ralph Debate”, and we were certain that the establishment was uncomfortable with that idea because they knew his policies would be very popular. Cash donations were collected, and many people wrote pro-Nader messages on the bills they gave.

I suspect your rally will be similar, really. Not quite as much of an outsider vibe, but maybe it’ll be replaced with an underdog vibe. Expect an optimistic event that tries to inspire enthusiasm. It’s not just about encouraging your direct support, but also about inspiring you encourage others to support the campaign.

Bush’s 2000 campaign is largely responsible for mobilizing the evangelical Christian voting block in the US. So in no small way, we have him to thank for the rise of Christian nationalism that we’ve seen over the past 20 years.

I won’t judge him as a person, but there’s no rehabilitation possible for his presidency.

But the term is his, and it’s what he’s using to rationalize his plans. He’s not declaring that he/Trump are declaring a post-constitutional doctrine, but that we’re already living in one and thus he’s justified in his radical reinterpretations of it.

Just ask ChatGPT; it’s better than humans at proving its humanity with these stupid things.

VMs provide a meaningful security boundary between applications. Containers (docker, etc) do not.

There’s actually a decent sized income gap between the two cities, which no doubt contributes. Rents looks very comparable.

Median income for the city of Boston: $89,212 (source)

Median income for the city of Seattle: $116,068 (source)

Per the same source,

• median gross rent is very comparable between the two cities ($1,945 vs. $1,981 in Seattle vs Boston, respectively)
• Seattle has a higher percentage of its population with college degrees, which likely explains some of the higher income
• Seattle also has a higher percentage of owner-occupied homes, which probably influences this, though I’m not exactly sure how.

Mac Jones doesn’t even make the list. Poor guy.

That’s what we said about Roe as well. They will always find some new way to manufacture outrage even after they get their way.

Interesting! From his post,

Mikhail advised me to use balanced trees instead of extensible hashing

And

I never told Mikhail that Oracle had tried implementing a filesystem using balanced trees, and its performance was terrible leading to most insiders in the industry concluding that balanced trees performed poorly for filesystem File size patterns.

Of course, that filesystem exists today as btrfs.

I’m 100% trying this on my 9-year-old next time he tells me he’s bored. It’ll be a gentle smack, of course…

Maybe you should poll people outside your social circles?

Turnout matters, though. Biden in 2020 won more votes than any presidential candidate in history, but the second place winner was Trump in 2020. There will be similar loyalty to Trump on the right in 2024, and if Biden can’t match that, he loses. So I’m not afraid of the youth vote either, but I am afraid of the lack of it.

How much does their paid staff cost?

State government doesn’t operate on a volunteer basis.

They don’t want this! Control comes with responsibility and is expensive. Twitter is already there, has been there for a long time, and still has the users and the mindshare. It’s still the logical choice for organizations wanting to reach the widest audience.

Fortunately that last bit does seem to be changing. It’s not happening as fast as many of us think it should, some prominent organizations have left X. Hopefully more will continue to do that, but calling the stragglers fascists, as was done earlier in this thread, is not a productive way to engage.

Want a new law? Repeal 2 others.

Mindless platitudes like this accomplish nothing but to trivialize the legitimate complexity of the large scale organization.

It’s a perfectly reasonable career. The fact that you’re even saying this just shows how successful the American right’s undermining of the government has been.

Hiring non-profesionals for a job is not a recipe for successful execution of that job’s responsibilities.

My goodness, Dennis Hastert doesn’t even make the list?

It’s not discontinued. They backed away from that plan in favor of a battery tech refresh. https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/07/gm-announces-a-new-ultium-based-chevrolet-bolt-during-q2-report/

Use what works for you.