I still find it strange that this is considered "late in the election cycle". We need legislation limiting campaign length to something reasonable.

15-year-old brother and sister's children

This sentence is a great argument for the Oxford comma.

This is embarrassing. Currency should never be an industry in the first place.

Here's an excellent article explaining how this would affect underrepresented groups more than others: https://www.npr.org/2024/06/11/nx-s1-4991903/voter-registration-proof-of-citizenship-requirement.

I just feel bad for the bullet. I can't imagine the shit it went through.

Bless their hearts

Most aren't aware, but this is the crux of the issue. Evangelicals do not value equity and presume others are ignorant/incorrect.

I'm going to vote for bad idea on this one too. Teenagers make emotional decisions, and I only see this encouraging kids to make bad decisions to receive attention.

Interesting article: https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/encyclopedia/content.aspx?ContentTypeID=1&ContentID=3051

In fact, recent research has found that adult and teen brains work differently. Adults think with the prefrontal cortex, the brain’s rational part. This is the part of the brain that responds to situations with good judgment and an awareness of long-term consequences. Teens process information with the amygdala. This is the emotional part.

Canada works pretty well without them. If you forget your bags though you have to buy more.

Don't forget Trump's threats. If you don't vote now, you may not get another chance for a while.

Civil War against who? Super PACs?

Thanks for posting. I was unaware of current events. That's quite the rabbit hole!

Don't cut off your nose to spite your face.

I almost feel bad that I haven't. I've used their documentation for years but never installed the distro. Most recently I've been having fun with NixOS.

I haven't seen a single soul on here support genocide. I do see a lot of people encouraging you to not take the easy way out.

His brain cells don't talk to each other much do they?

Democracy is always one vote away from death. Sometimes there are just a lot more folks voting for a dangerous candidate.

Noice

I don't miss XML, but at least it has support for comments. On the other hand, I wish whitespace in XML wasn't significant. JSON needs to die in favor of JSON 5.

Genocide isn't on the ballet

You may know more about this than I do, but this seems incorrect. The crypto industry relies on trading commodities. If they wanted a digital currency, would they not lobby for a central bank digital currency?

Pragmatic isn't a point on the left-right spectrum.

Great! Now do other 49.

I'm so glad to see some progress at last.

On a side note, I'm not sure what your last sentence means. I keep seeing people use the word "based" but I refuse to look it up 😄.

Thanks for the explanation. I'm in the Xennial cohort, and I never could develop an appreciation for gaming lexicons. I know every generation has their slang, but it does add some challenges with a broader audience.

Agreed. A lot of money has been spent on crafting agenda and shaping public and party opinions. Although malicious, Project 2025 seems carefully considered. I assume the wealthy investors bankrolling the project have considered Trump's mortality as well.

Glad to see it! I'm tired of MAGA tarnishing terms that have traditionally held a positive connotation.

I've always been confused by VISAs that disallow application for permanent residence. This seems like a bad faith gesture on the government's part. You're setting folks up for failure because life happens.

What if we allow individuals to apply for residence regardless of VISA type and incentivize abandoning the opportunity by returning a security deposit of sorts?

Very welcome! Thanks for promoting the info. I'm sure a lot of people have the same question but haven't asked.

This is sealioning

I currently use NixOS and nix-darwin, and I've enjoyed the ride so far. I use flakes with direnv for reproducible development environments, and this has been working out well. I've also been impressed with using Nix to build OCI containers.

The learning curve isn't flat, but the ecosystem is fantastic.

Dockerfiles act as instructions for the docker (or compatible) CLI to use for building OCI container images. Images may or may not have layers and can be exported as a tarball for inspection (with tools like dive).

Nix provides native support for building container images, and the resulting archive must be loaded using docker load. There is another library (nix2container) that aims for better performance and relies on skopeo for copying the built image to a docker-compatible server, local or remote.

Just wanted to share a some of the information I've learned. Cheers!

Could say the same thing for Vance's brain

"If the left is not willing to actually follow through and withhold their votes"

Wthholding your vote only helps Trump. Candidates know they have to appease the folks with money. We're fighting the wrong bad guy - focus on reversing Citizens United.

I think most people agree that was a harmful decision though.

I guess this just reinforces the problem with Citizens United. All that free speech is infringing on everyone's free speech.

Same!

Everyone knows something I don't. It's a good thing for folks to be involved in the democratic process. Politicians aren't gods or super heroes. They can be wrong as easily as the rest of us.

Citizens United allows those with deep pockets to speak much louder than the rest, and this is a huge problem.

Agreed. What about an inflation adjusted campaign budget for each elected position? I believe this system is already used in some countries.

I feel like this would promote a focus on policies/platforms and encourage good faith campaigning.

Was Air Force One illegally purchased in China and smuggled out?