Walz is likable and has that working class appeal, but his debate performance wasn’t great. I’d vote for him, but I don’t think he’ll make it through the primaries. I’d much rather have Pete Buttigieg personally.

If the working class gets hurt and loses the literal farm, I’m sure Trump’s buddies will be ready to swoop in and buy up all the farmland.

It’s a modern day enterprise fizzbuzz: https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpriseEdition

Here, you can learn about it: https://www.cdc.gov/fluoridation/faq/index.html

Flavored water does feel like cheating. It’s really just water.

I have bad news about Mark Lanegan…

As the hyenas pick at the corpse of the once proud United States, they occasionally snap at each other.

What I meant to say is "Will have more funding than they could ever dream of. " Small donors do not matter. They will happily take money from normies, but that would never change who they work for.

Do they though? A party that enables and empowers the oligarchy will have all the funding they need. Musk donated north of 270 million to Trump in the last election. Similarly most of he rich tech bros donated to Trump’s inauguration fund.

If they take care of the “voting problem” while in office, they have no further need for their base.

I’d stop shopping there if I had a time machine that could take me back to 2003.

*Hey look, this guy brought a rifle to a drone fight. *

The thing Joe Rogan has going for him is that he is friends with funny people and has them on his show. Just scrolling through this guy’s stuff it seems like it will just be depressing political news.

It’s good that a leftist podcast is getting attention, but unless it is occasionally entertaining I can’t do it right now. Oliver and Stewart do a good job of making me laugh at depressing topics… maybe my elder millennial is showing.

You need to do damage control. Being short in all caps to a friend trying to speak with you is rude. The only real move is to apologize.

Love Bill. The Monday morning podcast got me through the pandemic.

After an onslaught of bad news it’s novel to see something positive happening.

I killed Instagram and Whatsapp recently when Mark started buddying up to Trump.

Deleted Twitter shortly after Elon took over, which bummed me out since it was a good place for software development information.

Quit reddit after the API ordeal when I didn’t want to use the official client.

I was a long time user of each platform, and I was bummed when I had to leave each.

Now I have bluesky, lemmy, mastodon, and some occasional discord servers I hangout on. I miss Instagram as a time waster, but I’ll survive without funny dog videos and fitness models.

Yeah I don’t have high hopes for our institutions, and I’m probably in a strong state of denial. I just want something to hold out for.

Best case: Put out a warrant for their arrest. Step two, wait for the doj to not do their job. Raise hell about it, hopefully American citizens still care, get Congress to do their job, impeach the president (again)

That’s all predicated on citizens knowing enough about how the government is supposed to work to be outraged.

They have to try though.

I’ve worked on projects for the government as a contractor. There is SQL; SQL as far as the eye can see. I’m sure the NSA has some novel solutions to crunching shittons of big data, but day to day, at least in my experience, it is a lot of relational CRUD and reporting queries.

For the curious, it does clearly exist:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/govcloud-us/latest/UserGuide/govcloud-rds.html