One things was clearly rooted in evidence, the reduced participation on voting.

I feel like the rest might have been a bit more Shakey ground.

In 2020, the working poor were largely not going into jobs and also had easiest access to voting. They were both easiest to vote and everyone was pissed that the pandemic sucked, so they were able to and motivated to vote.

Nah, this is about the people lacking the opportunity and/or motivation to bother to vote, more like apathetic rather than the much more active tankie. They may be loud here, but they are relatively rare.

Well keep in mind those “losers” might have a job that conflicts with their polling hours and have restrictive absentee ballots. It’s much easier for, say, retirees to vote than working poor.

Problem is they know millions of votes are happening, and so how much does their vote really matter? Taking the time out of their life to stand in a long line to cast a single vote among millions… Doesn’t seem like it matters and other people will take care of it for them.

When they have something to bite for, they want to be a part of something. If it’s just about making sure the worst stays out, it’s a poorly motivated chore.

I think the PJ25b people are pragmatic enough to get those good optics in the short term.

If Trump actually gets adamant they can just make him a trophy and he’ll be happy.

To find the cloud in the silver lining, I can easily see how this doesn’t happen.

Currently we are outraged at ICE and military in our streets inflicting harm on innocents, nervous about getting in a war no one would have even thought of, suffering from tariffs increasing prices and ACA premiums going way up.

The thing about every single one of those is that Republicans caused them and Republicans can mostly fix them. Simply by undoing the things they caused in the first place makes folks feel like things are getting fixed, and many will forget why they were broken and just be focused on how they got better during the election year.

So I expect immigration enforcement to tone down (already saw a story to that effect), for them to manage a last minute ACA subsidy extension with much drama, pulling back a lot of tariffs, and chilling out on Venezuela for 2026. Going extra by cutting some “tariff fund” checks and some HSA deposits, to make sure the people get some money, even if it is smaller than the money lost, people fall for “windfalls”. Maybe throw some folks under the bus like RFK Jr and Hegseth, to drain the swamp so to speak.

Indeed, it’s less about actually ousting these people. It is about being seen as trying to do so.

Their goal was not to destroy the US per se, it was to just get them out of the region. Destroying might have been nice, but only in a way that destroyed their power.

So an unleashed unhinged US was not something they wanted. Sure we might not have the freedom, but they never cared one way or another about that.

And also 100% why we won’t ever have that

“but at least they aren’t Democrats”

A refrain I’ve heard so often from them after bemoaning some inhumanly bad thing they think a Republican has done.

If the code actually works and is vaguely important, I think you are right.

If anyone ever has to fix it because it’s also broken on top of being a mess, well they aren’t quite so safe. Maybe if you are always available to fix it same day, but if you ever go on vacation and it hits the fan while you are unreachable…

I can’t speak to this situation, but broadly speaking I am familiar with general messed up stuff like this as well as perhaps adjusting some fine details to make the scenario relatable to an audience unfamiliar with the specifics of the real situation and/or obfuscating the details so that the person doesn’t out themselves to someone else familiar with the specifics enough to recognize.

The broad strokes seem plausible and any oddities in details I consider to be less important and/or understandable if it was tweaked for an internet audience.

It existed before that use case was prominent. Basically it was for whatever trivial for people but hard for machines task you could have people do over the Internet.

Of course I won’t leave the platform because no one else will is a self fulfilling prophecy.

I don’t agree with that strategy either, but she didn’t carry enough votes to have made the difference anyway…

I mean, how many factors do you advocate for? Two is generally plenty as long as they are good ones.

E.g a passphrase protected ssh key is solid. Similarly protected passkey is good. A TOTP with password is… Not terrible I suppose… SMS would be pretty bad…

Or simply “drone attack on Ukraine”. The audience can fill in the obvious perpetrator.

Have funds in an index fund but not specific stocks.

I could accept owning stock, but no buying or selling as of the moment you register as a candidate until a year out of office

Hardware raid limits your flexibility, of any part fails, you probably have to closely match the part in replacement.

Performance wise, there’s not much to recommend them. Once upon a time the xor calculations weighed on CPU enough to matter. But cpus far outpaced storage throughput and now it’s a rounding error. They continued some performance edge by battery backed ram, but now you can have nvme as a cache. In random access, it can actually be a lability as it collapses all the drive command queues into one.

The biggest advantage is simplifying booting from such storage, but that can be handled in other ways that I wouldn’t care about that.

While sas is faster, the difference is moot if you have even a modest nvme cache.

I don’t know if it’s especially that much more reliable, especially I would take new SATA over second hand sas any day.

The hardware raid means everything is locked together, you lose a controller, you have to find a compatible controller. Lose a disk, you have to match pretty closely the previous disk. JBOD would be my strong recommendation for home usage where you need the flexibility in event of failure.