Not that I know of

This one IS pretty surprising though.

This is kind of like finding out that Ron Jeremy had a trad wife.

Yeah, the final text basically called out a ton of states and operated with the assumption that some GOP gerrymandering was going to happen since efforts were pretty firmly in motion. The button had been already pressed by other states.

https://vig.cdn.sos.ca.gov/2025/special/pdf/text-proposed-law.pdf

TX is going to appeal to the Supreme Court. TX still stands a very good chance of getting their maps.

Also, you can’t really fuck with districts at the last minute. You need time for candidates and elections officials to organize around them.

Also, the GOP is trying this shit in other states.

CA needs to just assume the worst out what the GOP put in motion. This is too hard to counteract late in the game, which is why all this stuff if started going down a year and a half in advance.

Yup. Unless the SCOTUS comes up with some stupid way to prevent California from doing something red states have been doing for years, but without voter approval.

But California and Newsom were pretty clear about this being 1000% about balancing political party power.

lol. And because Texas went ahead with gerrymandering before CA put prop 50 on the ballot, CA removed the “if Texas gerrymanders” clause from prop 50. Since it was happening, they yanked the unnecessary conditional logic.

So now, prop 50 is happening, but Texas is stuck in the mud, and the GOP might get the opposite of the corrupt thing they pushed for. Amazing.

That’s my point. All I see is a pedo van now.

This guy poops

Weird. I never noticed that. I bump mine up a bit from the default, but I don’t max it out. That’s way too fast for me to handle.

I do know there are ton of apps that will override the defaults. I think the OG better touch tool will let you max that thing to warp speed.

Although, in the v26 operating systems, cracks are showing. A lot of IT orgs are holding off on Tahoe for as long as possible.

True, but enterprise hardware has never been something that IT departments really wanted to upgrade. Even back when everyone had upgradable towers under their desk, IT departments just wanted to kit you out with something that lasted 3 years, then was replaced.

Hell, in the before times, when I’ve even wanted more storage, all of my IT departments were more inclined to give me an external HD than open a computer case. They’re busy and they generally want to do whatever is fast.

IMHO, it depends on the company, their data retention and security policy, and what you mean by “locked down.”

I’ve had IT departments that are comfortable giving everyone admin accounts and full sharing access, and IT departments that control every little thing that goes in and out of your machine.

My guess that they’re trying to standardize around a platform that has a) no Microsoft, b) won’t cause product / UX / marketing to totally revolt, c) is well supported as an engineering platform (in Silicon Valley)

Interesting. I’ve got of gripes with Apple hardware (price, upgradability, silly things like notches and Touch Bars,) but trackpads has never been one of them. I’ve always thought the’ve had some of the best trackpads.

What trackpad do you prefer and why?

Yup

When recently onboarding for a new job I heard something I never thought I would hear in my life.

Everyone was given a Mac. Eng, design, finance, HR. Everyone. In my onboarding cohort, someone in finance asked if they could have a Windows PC, which has been the backbone of finance orgs for decades. IT said no. They just didn’t want to deal with Microsoft’s enterprise ecosystem.

He does wear face paint

My grandfather worked in the Norilsk sandwich mines as state sandwich cutter. I stand by what I said.

This sandwich is straight out of the USSR.

Unnecessary labor that only exists to keep sandwich cutters employed. It produces an odd looking product that would never last in a free market economy. This is the Lada of sandwich cuts.

This is a sandwich for Khrushchev.