Those non-voters matter a lot because Trump is acting like he has some kind of enormous overwhelming mandate, and there is no evidence to back that up.
That 49.8% is misleading - it implies that 49.8% of the country support him, but it counts only the votes that were actually cast. He only got votes from about 30% of eligible voters.
Of course we can't know who all those non-voters wanted to win, but I'd rather not imply that nearly half of all americans voted for him.
I thought there was a whole movement going on among the "youngs," where they were specifically getting old flip phones that couldn't run any apps. I heard about that trend more than a year ago, so it's probably long passed.
Srsly tho, it's not about the tech they have or the 1000x power. Any jamming can be circumvented, and humans would have a much greater motivation to adapt than the aliens would.
I believe there is an ongoing feud among Linux kernel maintainers regarding moving to Rust. I don't know much about it myself, but perhaps that is why OP thought this belonged here.
I'm mostly with you about the negativity being unwelcome here, but I just have to point out: Richard Stallman is a boomer. Boomers literally created Linux from whole cloth.
Ageism is also negativity. Please try to avoid it.
Those non-voters matter a lot because Trump is acting like he has some kind of enormous overwhelming mandate, and there is no evidence to back that up.