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That's really when America as it exists today was created too, between the Civil War and WW1. Often glossed over in the popular mythology of America.

We run virtual workstations and terminal servers for specific purposes, but a lot of our decisions are guided by NERC CIP standards and where certain things fall within that framework. The Windows workstations are probably the easiest part of this whole environment to manage though. It's realtime data and all the applications linked to that where the complicated stuff is. If it was up to me we'd be a Kubernetes shop.

After seeing how the super delegates worked against Sanders

Especially because he was almost guaranteed to win against Trump, but they know where the money comes from and decided to go with Hillary, who was historically unlinked as a candidate. I think this ought to have demonstrated that real change cannot come from within the Democratic party and that they are not willing to be the left party people wish they were, they're part of the downward spiral. (And yes they're better than the GOP, always have to get that in for the concerned voters out there.)

lack of confidence in our democracy

It's funny how this idea of "free and fair elections" has recently come up in such a historically corrupt system, it's true that elections today are better than they've ever been in this respect, 2008 onward were incredibly tight on this. Seems like people forget how the 2001 election was stolen. Historically it's almost a joke how bad they were. It was routine for busses to drive around picking up people and dropping them off at voting stations in exchange for a bit of money. It hasn't even been 60 years since everyone in the US could vote! At first you basically needed to be a landowner and even produce from your land to be able to vote. The men's suffrage movement was like a century before women's suffrage.

Americans need to understand why he won to make sure it doesn’t happen again.

It's been estimated that 13% of Trump's voters were Obama voters. The degree to which this impacted his victory is debated, but this group is almost invisible in the way Trump is understood in the popular discourse, which is almost entirely determined by... Trump's own spectacle of rhetoric and the feedback it generates. The degradation of civic institutions and disenfranchisement is a major factor, experiencing this while you're exposed to political marketing like, Kamala Harris doing a happy and smiley scripted bit where she tells children if they're "authentic" they will succeed, not only does that not connect with the reality of people's struggles but it's a slap in the face to them.

The author isn't the most self-aware... Robert Kagan was a Republican strategist until 2016, he's an interventionalist neocon, thinks the GOP "lost it's way" rather than contributed to this by design.

Unfortunately a lot of our core tools don't have supported linux client software, SCADA clients and power flow/transmission grid simulation etc, but we also aren't a business so it's more about what gets the job done since we're basically mandated to do what we do.

Oh you mean for personal use... I manage a mixed environment with about a thousand Windows workstations and 300 Windows Servers, about the same amount of Linux servers.

At home I only run Windows for Ableton Live cause VST plugins don't work on Linux :(.

Data analyst but I was a sysadmin for almost 15 years.

Ukraine already doesn't owe them all the lives being lost so it's a matter of when lives become more important than geopolitics. That's a real calculation too, there's rationality behind why it's still worth losing lives, but as time passes the balance of that equation changes. Eventually you lose too much of your workforce and the economic suffering outweighs the geopolitical interests. At some point Ukraine or Russia will meet that point and the war will end. This type of regional war is ultimately senseless,

Look in to the men's suffrage movement, Vermont, Pennsylvania, and Kentucky were the only three states to have full adult suffrage for white males before 1800.

18th century property qualifications:

Connecticut: an estate worth 40 shillings annually or £40 of personal property

Delaware: fifty acres of land (twelve under cultivation) or £40 of personal property

Georgia: fifty acres of land

Maryland: fifty acres of land and £40 personal property

Massachusetts Bay: an estate worth 40 shillings annually or £40 of personal property

New Hampshire: £50 of personal property

New Jersey: one-hundred acres of land, or real estate or personal property £50

New York: £40 of personal property or ownership of land

North Carolina: fifty acres of land

Pennsylvania: fifty acres of land or £50 of personal property

Rhode Island and Providence Plantations: personal property worth £40 or yielding 50 shillings annually

South Carolina: one-hundred acres of land on which taxes were paid; or a town house or lot worth £60 on which taxes were paid; or payment of 10 shillings in taxes

Virginia: fifty acres of vacant land, twenty-fives acres of cultivated land, and a house twelve feet by twelve feet; or a town lot and a house twelve feet by twelve

You're wanting to restrict the styles of writing people can publish, it's totalitarian in an absurd way.

I think it's just a silly proposal that's hardly worth debating so I can see why it appeals to someone like Nate Silver. The notion that you could control misinformation by removing certain writing styles from circulation is incredibly stupid. Plus on social media everyone is an opinion writer now.

Reagan started to get in to ideas of unitary executive theory and Bush was another proponent. The founders often debated, famously Hamilton, what the "executive" role actually meant for the office, and it was left vague as a lot of their ideas were. In the context of the time you had landowners being allowed to vote, the whole point of the government was basically to ensure no states had power over any other, then over time the executive branch developed and expanded and presidents had to see what that meant testing limits over time. I don't think this plan would be successful and if it were it would probably be bad by virtue of who would be in power.

Trump governed like a milquetoast Republican and most of what he did the Democrats haven't undone, the tax breaks for corporations, the tariffs, the immigration policy, the fucking wall.

The rhetoric is part of the hyperreal spectacle of politics and it's hilarious how so many people still clutch pearls over his insane personality even after his first term. His entire political brand was created by provoking outrage and he continues to do this. The threat to democracy is the Republican party and people forget how they already stole the 2001 election, and how fraudulent American elections historically were. The "fair" election is a very recent thing, like last 50 years. Some of the stories from the past are hilarious too like literally paying people to get on busses and carting them to polling stations.

Obama was also “losing” at this point before his re-election

Obama was about 46% and trending upwards at this point, Biden is 37% and trending downward. This is a pretty nice visualization of historical presidential approval ratings plotted with Biden's. Takeway is while other presidents have tanked way harder (Nixon, Dubya, HW), Trump and Biden are basically tied for historical unpopularity on a consistent basis. Biden did hit mid 50s as he came in to office where most presidents get a bump, Trump didn't even reach 50.

Opinions, columns, and editorials are all traditional news formats where a known personality gives their take on current events. Basically you can't "fact check" someone's commentary because they're not reporting factual takes on current events, and you can't really objectively say "your analogy to this historical event is not analogous enough" for instance because there isn't really measures for these things. Nate Silver's argument against them is itself an opinion that can't be fact checked. "Fact checking" itself is also determined by the ideology you're choosing to determine facts by or even which specific facts are chosen to be highlighted in an article. What is and what ought isn't something that you can simply fact check.

Same author?

Nah this is Robert Kagan, a Brookings Institute neocon, Republican who left in 2016, advisor to McCain for his presidential run in 2008.

They weren't ready to roll over but Russia is ready to continue the atrocities. The war isn't exceptional in a historical sense and these types of conflicts almost always end in negotiations after one of the belligerents no longer sees it worthwhile to devote resources to drain the resources of the other. Not a good thing but we shouldn't make exceptions as if this will be a big happy ending that western involved nations are building towards. That never really happens it's just the mythology of WW2's "good war" infects the public dialogue around war.

Big brain geopolitics right there, "bad actors should just fuck off." Times this has been effective in accomplishing anything: 0

They'll want to keep it going as long as possible for the benefit of arms manufacturers who spend millions on lobbying and bipartisan campaign contributions. Apparently Russia was willing to end the war in Spring 2022 if Ukraine agreed not to seek NATO membership, but the US pressured them in to declining the offer to negotiate.