If most voters were tuned in to politics to the point they cared about the outcome of a party committee ranking member vote, we wouldn’t be in the 2nd Trump administration, and MAGA probably wouldn’t exist.
The Oversight leadership vote is the product of the bad 2024 messaging and bad outreach.
That’s why I mentioned upcoming elections: they will show us what the Democrats learned about messaging to voters they need to win.
There are Democratic Party people and aligned people who are realistic about why they lost and who they lost. They have contacts within the Party. Hopefully they’ll be listened to.
We’ll probably get a sense of what if any changes we will see in the upcoming special elections to fill House seats Trump is looting for his Cabinet. Then I believe Florida law requires an election pretty soon to replace Rubio, so that will be a national race we can watch.
Presumably whoever DeSantis appoints will have a pretty big advantage, but we should watch the message and the votes. It will be too early to be a full reaction against Trump, so we can learn a lot about what resonates with voters.
for clarity he built Facebook to rate how hot women at his college were…
Are Rich People OK?
Of course the real President should have offices in the White House!
so he admits it’s virtuous… just that he thinks some people are doing it disingenuously…?
social media
I hope we’re at least refueling them, and maybe buying them beers
first, you’re talking about software “engineers” which means you aren’t talking about engineers in general.
and there’s a good chance none of them have ever had an engineering course in their life. they’re hackers who are good at making code.
the reason they probably seem reluctant to share is that what they’ve cobbled together with bubble gum and bailing wire is difficult to explain quickly and thoroughly AND they’d be taking time away from their assigned tasks to do so without having any change to their deadlines.
stop blaming them and start blaming their management for not giving them the time and permission they need to help you. go to the management and say you need so-and-so to be assigned 40 or 80 hours specifically to help you understand these widgets.
and in the future you need to push for clean up, documentation, lessons learned, and training to be part of every project estimate.
find him guilty and sentence him to unconditional discharge…? works for me.
Well back when computers were being developed/ improved there was a pretty strong commitment throughout the Western nations to advancing and expanding education for everyone.
In that paradigm, people would become more educated and better at critical thinking at a steady pace, probably on par with the rate at which computer programs advanced in their capacity to mimic human behavior.
So, “can it fool more people into believing it’s a human” would’ve been a great test of whether the program was super advanced.
Instead we’ve had 50 years of attacks on public education by Republicans that has been tolerated - or at least not fought hard enough - by Democrats. So not particularly advanced programs can fool a great many people. That does make the Turing Test moot, I think.
will no one think of the investors!?!?
this headline needs some work. I can see a few different meanings…
dude is seeking asylum in Canada with his mom
they’re both seeking asylum because they skipped prison
dude skipped his prison time (for some other offense) to go storm the Capitol with his mom (awww…)
one or both of them stormed the capitol, got prison time, skipped it, and have fled to Canada to ask for asylum.
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probably some others…
well obviously we should make this groundbreaking new approach available to anyone who wants it alongside traditional vaccines.
then we can just require proof of vaccination or this new alternative - let’s call it “inoculation” for now - for school attendance.
I’m not going to celebrate but the schadenfreude will be real and I’ll probably say variants of “i told you so” for the next 4 years…
praise whatever!
there it is
just like he beat Medicare?
we should swap the pardon power for line item veto
the next campaign isn’t for 2028 or even 2026, it’s 2025. We will see what the Democrats do very soon. If they run the 2024 campaign again, they will lose.
Edit: and no part of the next 4 years’ campaigns will be about the Ranking Member position of the House Oversight Committee…