Thank you for saying grocery instead of egg. So many people say eggs and it is going to age like milk when the bird flu recedes even though groceries will generally still be expensive otherwise.

That was one race, and during a pandemic that probably would have lost the race for any incumbent, whether it made logical sense or not.

Frankly I kind of wish he won his second term if he had to get another term at all. His bruised ego over losing, fear of legal consequences, and time away to stew on this have made him a far more dangerous president than last time.

Guess we have very different experiences.

I work with a commercial software development group and they suck

Not one of the developers had a shred of experience aligned with their target market segment. There is a design team, but they also don’t know the segment, but the division between design, architecture and development leads to a clunky mess.

Professionals in the target market are frequently higher paid than the developers, so management refuses to fund hiring actual experts in the field, and instead just nominates seemingly arbitrary people in the organization to stand in for the “customer” in all those processes that should actually include customers.

So when they are disappointed with losing to a number of open source solutions in the field, they just accuse customers of being cheap rather than facing the reality they have ivory towered themselves into a corner.

Maybe for some markets it is different, but now those markets face the reality that the vendor is trying to game then for subscription revenue and add ons and is making deliberately customer hostile change for the sake of gaming the revenue in the short term.

Now there are certainly markets with no FOSS option, as just no one is interested in developing. I suppose in markets with OSS software there’s may sometimes be a divide between what the developer inclined half of the market would want for themselves versus those not minded toward development, and that could be a weakness.

Ultimately I’ll always remember one review for an open source project. They stated that at first they were underwhelmed because it felt like software they’d write for themselves, and not as flashy as commercial alternatives. Then they realized they would write that software because the commercial software was not for for purpose despite how nice it was, and the project was just they easy they wanted it.

The reason for this is simple enough. The proprietary software has an agenda to squeeze as much from the user as possible, and the Internet has enabled this to horrible degrees.

Windows is about making the least effort to be the de facto OS while slamming you with ads and insistence that you must subscribe to various Microsoft services.

Applications that make zero sense to be browser hosted are browser hosted, because it means to have to be approved by the vendor every time you run the software, it must be subscription.

Transactional software purchases are garbage for the business side of software, there’s a mandate for recurring subscription based revenue.

It used to be these opportunities were impractical and the commercial company budget would sometimes lead them to an easier product than open source, but that ship sailed.

Now for technical users, open source almost always has won and will continue to win, because they are dealing with like minded developers writing for themselves, and so they internalize the use case in a way a commercial approach never can.

Maybe I could see that for Windows server. As more of that market moves to azure, the os matters less.

I’ve heard rumors that the dom0 equivalent in their azure virtualization platform is now Linux based. They still use an in house hypervisor, but may have moved to Linux as the management stack.

It’s a long shot, but if Microsoft were moving anything at all, it would be the server product given it actually struggles in market share.

On the desktop, they just don’t have much reason. They barely evolve the NT kernel so it doesn’t cost them a huge amount. The Linux approach to drivers would completely mess up their driver ecosystem. With the world of modern standby, windows pretty much gave up on long term suspend and instead hibernates, Linux refuses to even try to hibernate with secure boot. The features a Linux kernel brings to the table just do not matter to the windows desktop market. It would be a giant migration expense for no benefit compared to their current strategy of just hosting a Linux kernel as a virtualization guest.

I mean I would love to use a Linux oriented desktop management instead of Windows shell, but it’s abundantly clear that would be non negotiable for Microsoft, so I’d end up still stuck with my least favorite part of the windows experience even if the kernel were Linux

Here’s the thing about SCOTUS, they can say.

In the 1898 case, two justices in their dissent interpreted “subject to the jurisdiction” to mean “exclusively subject to the justification”, and thus the amendment applies only when the person being born would otherwise be stateless.

Now it’s a strange take that requires inserting at least one word, and was settled by the SC in that case the other way, but this SCOTUS doesn’t really mind overturning precedent.

I am hopeful that at least two of the conservative justices balk at effectively having to imagine stuff not written. But if they did side with Trump, what would be the remedy? Easiest path would be to pass a law codifying the current understanding, but with this congress, that isn’t happening.

As funny as that is, it’s actually someone that is going to set Trump up for undeserved success.

When the shortage subsides, the egg prices will go down, even if nothing else does. He’ll gloat so much…

I mean, they discarded decades of settled law over abortion, they certainly have it in them…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Wong_Kim_Ark

The dissent is the part to look at for what I fear the SCOTUS of today will latch onto.

In 1898, some Justices argued that it excluded people that had citizenship to another jurisdiction… So it has happened, and this SCOTUS doesn’t mind overturning precedent one bit.

Note that there were SCOTUS justices that already did this in US v. Wong Kim Ark:

The court’s dissenters argued that being subject to the jurisdiction of the United States meant not being subject to any foreign power[8]—that is, not being claimed as a citizen by another country via jus sanguinis (inheriting citizenship from a parent)—an interpretation which, in the minority’s view, would have excluded “the children of foreigners, happening to be born to them while passing through the country”.

While the majority at that time did not hold it, we know this SCOTUS has no particular regard for precedence.

Sadly SCOTUS has some wiggle room here. They get to interpret what “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” means. If a majority view that the parents having no legal standing to be on US soil and that somehow means they aren’t considered to meet that criteria… Well there they go

I do think the portion targeting people with Visas and such couldn’t even possibly stand.

But at this point, that should be moot either way, they are being born to people that have been recognized at citizens and nothing in the order seems to claim to be retroactive, and as far as I’ve seen, they only are claiming changes for children of non citizens.

While he’s chock full of malice and corruption, I’m thinking that this one is potentially innocuous in nature. It’s not like every single thing must have a catch, though I certainly appreciate folks looking out for what those catches are… He did promise the Lumbee tribe recognition and they have long actively sought that recognition, so this would seem to be a strangely straightforward move in a sea of weirdness.

First I’m not sure if he’s autistic or just saying “I’ve got Asperger’s so I’m allowed to be an asshole and you just need to deal.”

But let’s assume he is…

High functioning autism is not associated with involuntary Nazi salute gestures. It’s also not associated with the inability to learn the significance of the gesture.

So if autism is somehow related, then how would it be?

Well the “nice” option is he is going full 4-chan troll mode thinking it is hilarious without processing just how bad it is.

The other option is that he thought he did a credible cover to blow a dog whistle, but was unable to process that he was blowing a tuba instead.

In short, even if it was because of autism, it still almost certainly means it’s still quite on purpose, so it’s hardly an excuse that makes things any better.

I’d say the mortgage example is special, as it’s not just an investment for investment’s sake, it’s a house you are actually going to use, and your realistic alternative is to rent a place on indefinite terms.

For most folks, investments that beat the loan interest is a tricky and often outright risky proposition. If you are leveraging yourself too far then you are almost certainly not getting a good rate, and the investment may be assumed to do better, but could go significantly worse.

You may be taking quite a loss but someone would buy it. As an extreme of you offer to take one dollar for the Tesla there would be plenty of potential takers because a cars a car.

Selling used for cheap also puts pressure on new car demand.

I’m waiting to hear what they want to do with New Mexico

To be precise, it’s like your CEO sent out an email telling everyone they must do something or another. Deviating from them without a court or law backing you up means your services will no longer be required, but generally shouldn’t be facing criminal charges.

I’m unsure.

I will readily admit that Vance is younger, healthier, more competent, and just as vile but better at not saying the quiet part out loud.

However, for whatever crazy reason, Trump has his fanatics, and Vance doesn’t have those. What’s left of the GOP are people that have learned the lesson of kissing the ring of Trump. That’s no room for anyone else to lead, submit to Trump. Make no trouble for Trump, do everything you can to advance whatever he says. Do not call him on craziness, you’ll only hurt yourself. As a result, the GOP is unified behind him, with no one even pretending they would ever hold him accountable for anything anymore (remember whiffs of rhetoric early in his first term about accountability, with that having out quickly and stomped out thoroughly with the repudiation of Romney and Chaney).

I don’t see Vance having that status. Without that status, I think vying to be the head of the party is back on the table. Infighting with the current leader becomes a plausible path forward. While he may chase his particular brand of vile agenda, he would be in competition with other GOP agendas.

The daily show did a segment on this. Basically translators can’t bring themselves to speak as embarrassingly as trump. They will think audience will assume them to be bad at translating if they tried for a more true representation. Especially if they try to imitate how the words are spoken as well as what words are spoken.