I completely agree, it’s a simple metric and one that charisma plays a role in. If that’s all you use to judge someone it’s going to be a small part of the story.

To be fair “have a beer with” is about trust.

If I can’t sit down with you, have a beer, and enjoy myself, I can’t trust you. A president is going to encounter unknown challenges and I need to trust them to solve it.

That being said Trump fails that test immediately. There is no version of “having a beer” with Trump where I could trust him.

Biden however? If you asked the average American what they know about Biden one of the top three answers is “having a beer”, it’s called “grabbing an ice cream” but the principal is the same.

We know Trump is a liar.

Biden had to prove he wasn’t feeble… and he failed at that.

Voting for Biden and his administration is still 100% the correct decision, but that debate isn’t going to convince any swing voters. If you want to use the incumbency advantage you need to convince folks you can stay the course for the next 4 years.

You’re allowed to criticize Biden and the Democratic Party.

Without a doubt voting for Trump is the biggest mistake anyone can make. It you’re not happy about the Israel situation Trump is the worst person to solve it. Trump’s answer is “kill them all” and with no regard for innocent lives, children or civilians. It’s continued genocide and it is not acceptable. Trump can’t be reasoned with because he isn’t a reasonable person.

Biden and the Democratic Party, that’s the answer. However it’s stupid to ignore the millions in money that have come their way. Biden and Democrats aren’t perfect, far from it. But they are reasonable, they can be reasoned with.

No single individual or single election is going to solve all our problems. It’s a long process. Biden has done plenty of good, as have Democrats. But Biden and Democrats can do better.

Obviously I don’t know what the details of he suit against Disney but the truth is Disney fucked up and they knew it.

Disney tried to gain a few extra bucks at the cost of a legal battle with Johansson. If Disney won it would have been a clear signal that Disney is willing to screw over top talent for a few million dollars.

Not to compare “Black Widow” to “Endgame”, but that’s squabbling over millions when billions are at stake.

Looking at someone like Johansson that’s squabbling over millions when tens of hundreds millions are at stake. Contracts with top talent now take longer, top talent is a little less likely to work with Disney.

It all but guaranteed a loss for Disney.

The settlement was Disney’s way of saying “we fucked up”, and truth be told was probably at least partially responsible for Bob Chapek being replaced as CEO.

Layoffs also shake every other employee in an immeasurable way.

Even if you didn’t lay someone off they may now change their priorities. Maybe they focus on the people pleaser tasks. Maybe they focus more on what is good for them to keep their job vs what is good for the company.

Layoffs should be a last resort but tech companies are just playing follow the leader right now. In a few years we’ll see memoirs and books stating “in hindsight we may have made a mistake, but we made the best decision we could with the information we had at the time”, it’s all absolutely bullshit. This is all being done for a temporary stock boost.

That scene, https://youtu.be/6ovsKnljcIk , was a reference to this actual event, https://youtu.be/IW7Rqwwth84

Sadly Trump gets a pass on that from his voters. The answer would be “I was surprised but that’s locker room talk and boys will be boys.”

That sound bite was perfectly designed to tank orange man but somehow it just bounced right off him. Billy fuckin Bush, who didn’t even do anything other then awkwardly giggle at the statement got in trouble for listening to it but shitsain, oops, bounce right off.

Today? Maybe a few. A week, a month, a year from now? Reddit is going to get worse. People will leave.

Looking at Twitter it’s clear some folks will never leave no matter how bad it gets, but plenty of folks will leave.

Reducing funding to all down ballot candidates? Excellent.

If they had discounts it would work. But we all know they aren’t having discounts.

https://youtu.be/Mw0npm56wn0

https://youtu.be/fxuN3i84FNY

To be fair to Chrome.

Microsoft had the vast majority with Trident. Mozilla/Firefox slowly gained market share with Gecko. Chrome/Webkit* then took market share from both.

It’s not like Chrome just appeared one day and demanded everyone use them, they gained market share by being a good browser.

*(Chrome now uses a fork of Webkit called Blink.)

That being said I do think Firefox provides the best browser experience, and Chrome users should look into switching.

Which is a long way of saying Microsoft fucked up bad. Real bad.

I have 8 bucks in Google Kajigger, is it moving to the new thing? Do I have to sort out how to move it around? I’m think I had it all hooked up to a bank at one point. Maybe it was a friend that sent me money?

I think I used it to pay for Dunkin Donuts, but both apps list Dunkin Donuts, can I just use the money there?

That’s why this is all so annoying, I have to figure out this whole process, old and new, just for 8 bucks.

Technically they already changed/updated the rules, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_Count_Reform_and_Presidential_Transition_Improvement_Act_of_2022

That said answer the fuckin question or chicken out of it correctly, "Mike Pence made the decision he thought was right and is an excellent man of character. Laws have been updated in the past few years to ensure nothing like this can happen again. "

In the trailing off part of the article,

“Many stock trades are done by computers, reacting in fractions of seconds to new information. The inflated margin likely triggered a buying frenzy before most people could digest the numbers.”

Which, if true in this case, is even more funny to think about. Not only does the share values not reflect actually company value, but that value isn’t even what a person thinks it is.

I’m reminded of the helpless employee who says “The computer won’t let me do it.” The enigma of the computer that is off doing it’s own thing.

Season 2 has been excellent so far.

I do agree waiting 2 years for 4 episodes, then 5 months for 4 more episodes is a huge let down.

Because it’s not true. It feels believable, but it’s a lie. Everyone, especially at the top, know this so no one is punished.

Yes.

Many applications have configuration files. Historically these files were placed in your home directory aka “on the floor”. The variable mentioned defines a directory where these files should go. Many applications ignore this.

A non-linux version of this meme might go,

“Here is the pizza you ordered”

“Great, could you put it in my hands”

“Lol (throws pizza on floor)”

So I’m speculating heavily here.

You can only run in either the primary or the caucus (per Nevada GOP rules, only true this year, who knows in 4 years).

At the time Haley had to decide which one she was running in, the list of who was running was still pretty long. You figure you probably can’t beat Trump, best you can do is second. However if you jump into the primary and win (in a crowded list) you can say “The people of Nevada have spoken” and use that to gain some momentum. Yes, you win against not-Trump, but you still win. You’ve got real voting numbers showing that people will vote for you.

The problem is that Nevada has a caucus with only Trump and a primary with only Haley. (And maybe some randos?). That’s not exciting for anyone, so we basically just skip it.

Yes, you don’t get delegates this way, but you can pick up enough delegates other places. In a world where Trump is unavailable and it’s a Desantis v Haley Nevada show down, then this would have been a really stupid decision by Haley. As it actually happened… It’s fine. Nevada is a waste and we move on.