> No one cares about people who don't bother to vote. If you can't manage even that you don't deserve an opinion.
It's not so much that people 'don't bother to vote',, it's more that 'we' aren't prepared to vote for crooks that will campaign on one or two issues, but actually have several agendas running. Etc, etc.
The opinion I may not 'deserve', is that I'm not playing your/ this game.
No, I don't have a better solution (apart from many, many, referendums), but don't forget that 'just' my opinions may have changed somebody's pov regarding their vote, as i don't have a horse in the race, and regard the vast majority of politicians in very low regard.
> The opinion I may not 'deserve', is that I'm not playing your/ this game.
It's your game regardless if you vote or not. Not voting is in practice the same as voting for who wins. That is the only choice you have at election day. Beyond election day you can try to participate in a movement that pushes congress to implement ranked voting or help get other primary nominees etc, but anything other than voting for the least bad candidate in a two party system is naive.
You're not voting for someone you agree with. You're voting for someone who you think will give in if pressured by protest and the courts. It matters less what individual issues they think they're going to "solve" while they're in office and more whether they have any shame or willingness to change in the face of protest or court order.
>Are you saying that if all eligible voters were forced to vote, Trump may have lost the popular vote?
I've recently heard a commentary by a man with PhD in international relations* about why has Trump won the elections.
Specialist said that a lot of people who would have voted against Trump didn't vote. That was due to many grave mistakes made by the democrats.
Usually when populists win, it's because the other side blatantly ignores some public issues. This time it was economic hardships, immigration/border control.
There is also the long trend of turning away from the working class and focusing on protecting/supporting the DEI people instead. The working class might feel betrayed and vote against them instead.
"The cost of hubris" - as one of the Minmatar militia missions from Eve online was called.
At least we have a pardon czar now. So many people have been coerced into committing crimes, with said coercion taking many different forms, there needs to be mass pardons across the board.
I hate Trump as much as the next guy but this feels like nitpicking. You're obviously right, but if you choose not to vote then you're implicitly approving of whatever outcome you get.
I was a happy perl user for a long time, probably until sometime in the early 2010s. I am a sysadmin and perl was a great tool for what I needed to do.
Jim Weirich was a heavy perl user for a long time, and we were both involved in the Cincinnati perl mongers group. He found ruby and fell in love. He thought Ruby would be a good fit for me and we had a long conversation about why he preferred it to perl. It took me a few years, but I eventually took his advice. As usual, Jim was right, and I haven't written any perl since then.
> No Effect from Legalization: The rate of drivers who tested positive for THC did not change significantly before or after legalization (42.1% vs. 45.2%), indicating that legal status did not influence the behavior of those who chose to drive after use.
Ohio recently passed a marijuana decriminalization bill.
I had some containerized application software break and start misbehaving in odd ways which was indicative of a deeper incompatibility issue. Possibly GPU related. No time to debug, had to roll it back.
This was complicated by the fact that the machine also hosted a MySQL database which could not be easily rolled back because the database was versioned up during the upgrade.
Wait, the containerized application broke because of a host upgrade? That's some leaky container you have there.
This sounds like a business setting, so this sounds like a good opportunity to advocate for testing hardware, a testing budget, a rollout plan, and a sound backup strategy.
My experience as a long time Linux user (since 1997, so admittedly stuck with some bad habits from when things were actually hard to get working) has been that things are kind of confusing if you deviate from the golden path, but if you are on the golden path you won't ever notice that it is turned on.
The laptops I have gotten from eg Dell with Linux pre installed have just worked. Machines I have upgraded through many versions of Ubuntu (lts versions of 16-24) were weirdly broken for a while when I first turned secure boot on while I figured it out, but that seemed reasonable for such a pathological case. Machines I have installed Debian on in the last few years have been fine, except for some problems when I was booting from a software raid array, but that is because I was using 2 identical drives and I kept getting them confused in the UEFI boot configuration.
I have not used them on machines with nvidia, vbox, or other out-of kernel-tree modules though.
Wow, I thought for sure they would have retired it by now. I remember having a birthday party there when I was a kid (90 or 91?) and thinking that it was the coolest thing ever. It made up for them not moving the planetarium from their old location when they moved the museum to Union Terminal, which I (at 9) recall making me really sad.
It has had a digital retrofit (no more giant reels of film paying-out into the projector to watch while in line for the next show) but is otherwise pretty much unchanged.
We took a "behind the scenes" your years ago and got to see the projection dome from the outside. That was pretty freaky.
We use them for a few dozen domains. DNS only, though, and they are all set to auto-renew.
I basically only have to interact with them when we need to make DNS changes. The web UI seems fine, especially in the advanced view, but our biggest zones are managed through opentofu, so I can see how changing a large zone would be frustrating.
