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I don't think it suggests they believe he will return, but that it's a serious enough possibility they should do something to prevent a seriously bad outcome. With a 25% chance of a Trump win, this kind of prevention is worth doing.. and it's unfortunately probably above that.

Not yet!

Never is a long time. Just in the US, about 60 years after the caning of Sumner, we saw a very different political climate at the beginning of World War I. It'll take time, but I think we can change it for the better

All of them?

Power plants are more efficient at getting usable energy than your car's engine in general. There are some transmission losses, etc that favor the car, but on the balance, for the fossil fuels you burn, you'll get more car-miles if you burn them in a power plant, than in the car itself. And some of your electricity comes from wind, water, nuclear, and other clean sources, which makes electric cars even bigger winners in terms of using less fossil fuels.

Sure, I'd rather have electrified non-battery public transit than any kind of cars, but EVs are still an improvement over ICEs.

What's my favorite DDR machine? Der Trabi.

The infinitely dense Red Lobster will always allow you to visit, but its event horizon won't let you leave

Thanks to Goodhart's Law, that doesn't work. Any number used as a performance target ceases to be a useful measure, because people minmax them. You need to be able to look at a feature in a system, and evaluate if they completed it in an amount of time commensurate with their experience.

You need to think of productivity more abstractly, and have a lot of relevant expertise to assess it. Good management is hard, basically.

But posts are rising, and comments stable.. I think the story is more nuanced than that

It's worth noting that the barrier to entry as a maintainer depends on which distro you're using at the time. It's not uncommon for a distro to have a community repository system, like PPAs in Ubuntu, AUR for Arch, MPR for Debian, etc. I'm not very familiar with Mint, and couldn't easily tell if it has its own or just uses PPAs from upstream.

It isn't especially taxing on programming skills, and if you don't pick too complex of a package, the Linux skills required shouldn't be wildly above your level, but may push you to learn some new things by digging a bit deeper. I haven't formally maintained public packages, but I've needed to build a few over my years using Linux, and it was easier than I'd expected to just build one. It may be easier than you think, too.

Top - 6 hours usually. I'll check the 1 or 12 hour versions if I'm checking more or less often than the few times a day I usually do

The PRC and RoC share a lot of the same territorial disputes because they both view themselves as the one rightful Chinese government; they largely agree which land is "part of China". It's taking Taiwan's side because it's saying they should administer all of it.

He won two elections, as noted in the bit you quoted, in 2016 and 2022, after initially being appointed

I don't agree that's true in general, and it's also not relevant to free speech

You've conflated punishment and consequences. You have the freedom to hold some morally repugnant view like white nationalism, and your freedom of speech protects your right to express those views. But your family can hear those expressions, and cut you out of their lives, publicly condemn those views, or you for holding them, without affecting your freedom of speech. A company can refuse to allow you to use their platform to spread those views without affecting your freedom of speech.

What can't happen is a politician or government official use their powers to suppress your speech, arrest you, unless your speech act harms people, like shouting fire in a crowded theater. People disagree about exactly what those exceptions should be, but except for a few small but loud conservative groups trying to censor things like LGBTQ content, this basic premise is pretty uncontroversial, at least in the US.

Expecting investors to behave ethically instead of in their financial interest? I see you're feeling bold today

This isn't just the case of a career, it's going to be hard to upset as the most consequential case any Fulton County DA has ever tried. They also spent the time to make sure they got the charges meticulously right, and gathered all the evidence possible. People make mistakes, but it really seems like they've done everything possible to keep the error rate low

Votes for ineligible candidates are basically ignored. That's true if you vote for some cartoon character like Mickey Mouse, or someone who can't be elected president for some reason like Obama (who has been elected the maximum number of possible times).

A candidate who's on the ballot for any state is running for the presidency in a real sense, and major declared candidates often aren't yet on the ballot. To be a viable candidate you need to be on the ballot for states/territories totalling 270 electoral votes, since this is the bare minimum to be capable of winning. During my lifetime there have usually been about 4 candidates on most/all ballots including the green and libertarian candidates on 48 and 50 states' ballots in 2020 respectively.

I feel like you're arguing against a very different position that I hold/expressed? I don't think they'll do all that much differently than they were already going to. Trying to appease his supporters by tempering the justice for his crimes won't work, and will probably do more harm.

But would his supporters see it that way? They're so innoculated against reality that they accept his narrative uncritically. They won't see it as consequences, because they don't see him as guilty.

I also don't think the effects on his supporters' beliefs should matter much to prosecution for his crimes. I can't imagine there's any way for that to have an effect that nudges them towards reality