They are getting educated on just how bad of a choice Trump was.

It wouldn’t surprise me to learn that China managed to dump voter information. State governments have been pretty bad at security for a long time. The question on that is, “so what?” Sure, it sucks to have your data get siphoned off to yet another database. But, unless you are a significant target for blackmail or other high level operations, there’s not much China is going to do with it. It’s not really useful for election fraud.

And by “crash and burn”, it seems they got asked questions which should matter, but probably won’t when it’s time for the Senate to vote.

Trump will never resign. I’m convinced he fully believes his own bullshit and would do everything he can to cling to power. Assuming he makes it to January 2029, I fully expect some sort of tantrum as he tries to hang onto power.

But the idea of the GOP waiting until August and then dragging him behind the woodshed is an interesting thought. They get Vance to end the Iran War and look like a responsible adult after the toddler Trump and maybe ameliorate any blue wave a bit.

For all the desire to say, “good riddance to bad rubbish”, this does create an electoral problem for Dems in the Senate. And I can’t help but wonder if the GOP found something to buy him off with.

If the Dems are going to have any shot at taking control of the Senate this cycle and having some power to check the worst excesses of Trump, they need every seat they can get. Fetterman going officially Nazi means the Dems are going to have to win all the close races and even some not so close ones. It would be hilarious to see Texas go blue. But, as poor a candidate as Paxton is. And even with Talarico polling a slight lead, my money is on Texas being a disappointment for Dems again.

What is going on in the Middle Eastern countries is horrific and it really does get far less attention than it should. At the same time, it does pale in comparison to the scale and scope of the slave trade in the Americas. The US in particular also demonstrated an amazing level of hypocrisy in both having and keeping slavery for so long. When your entire country is premised on the phrase:

We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal.

And then you turn around and have slaves and institutionalize that they only count as 3/5 of a person. And also have a rebellion fighting to keep those slaves. It rather sticks out.

All that said. The fact that we treat modern dictatorships and slavers like our closest friends is utterly reprehensible. I really look forward to the day we can shift most energy production and transportation off fossil fuels. Those dictators will find themselves without friends and a ready source of wealth.

I would be more surprised if countries like Russia, Iran, and the DPRK didn’t have plans to try and interfere in US elections. Now, can he provide evidence that those plans actually went into effect and had a material outcome on the election? Because that’s what really matters. I can make elaborate plans to create cold fusion. But small issues like entropy mean those plans don’t count for shit.

The Strait is open. However, the weather forecast calls for clear skies with a chance of explosive drones. And, I suspect insurers are telling their clients that transiting the Strait is currently not covered.

While I’m firmly in the camp of “AI can be a useful tool”, I’d put as much trust in AI with my medical care as I do in a dead donkey’s ability to perform multi-variable calculus. Especially with the “news” seeming to be from some AI driven roundup of twitter shit.

Funny enough, I’ve actually seen my doctor try to use an AI model to help her with deciding on a medication for me. Se wanted a medication with rather specific properties, had one in mind, but wanted to get other options. She knew the side effects of the one she was thinking of might be an issue. The AI failed to come up even with the one she had thought of already. So, good idea, but the execution is still lacking. And that was basically just a glorified medication search engine.

I’m getting a red motherboard light for CPU

Is it flashing, or just solid? Some Motherboards use LEDs to provide a trouble code, this will be a specific sequence of flashes which detail what the problem is. Look at your motherboard manual and see if it has anything about the light and what it might be telling you.

Also, is the system beeping at all? System beeps are a really old method for giving trouble codes. If it is beeping at you, again refer to your manual to figure out what the beeps are telling you.

If you have someone around who can loan you a PSU, that would be an easy test to run. Even if the PSU is underpowered for your GPU, the system should at least POST and let you get into the BIOS.

Once you get it booting, the failure under load could be a couple of issues. It could obviously be the PSU and that is the root of everything. But, there are several things which might be worth checking. Specifically, I’d check the thermal paste on the CPU and GPU. If you’ve done any work on either recently, it’s possible that you got a bad application. That stuff also wears out. My wife’s system had a similar crash under load which turned out to be the GPU overheating. That was caused by old thermal paste not working well. Replaced the paste and she got another year out of that card.

Don’t go away mad, just go away.
He certainly could have handled this with more class, but at least the way is now clear for a replacement which doesn’t have this sort of cloud over their head. Hopefully, the convention process the State Democrat Party uses is done with enough transparency and openness to keep the replacement from being seen as a complete shill. But, that will remain to be seen. Democrats in Maine really need to unseat Collins, if there is to be any chance of flipping the Senate. Even with her gone, I’m not sure I’d put money on Democratic control of the Senate. But if Collins manages to hold on, I’d think the chances drop to something between zero and nil.

I haven’t heard a single WH staffer or president bemoan the lack of a helipad.

You spend a lot of time hanging about with WH staffers and Presidents?

he’s just rearranging things to suit his style as usual,

Honestly, it’s probably not necessary. But, Presidents do regularly make changes to the White House and its grounds. Whether we like it or not, he is the President and the current resident of the White House. Historically, that means he has some latitude in making the place his own for his stay. Remember that even fixtures like the Rose Garden were added and modified by previous residents. This is just the most recent one putting his touches on the place. And those touches can and likely will be updated by future Presidents. Let’s save the outrage for stuff that actually matters.

He absolutely needs to drop out.

If he doesn’t, it’s going to be interesting to see how many people show up to say “vote Blue, no matter who” when it comes time for the general elections. This has always been the problem with that mentality, it can lead to being forced to vote for some pretty odious people.

The downside in this is that his replacement will be chosen by the Democratic Party, which likely means Mills will get the spot. Or at least, someone who is calling for far less progressive positions. Sure, they will still be a damn sight better than Collins. But, between this scandal and a possible lack of enthusiasm, Collins may yet again prove to be the cockroach of politics and win another Senate term in a fairly blue Maine.

Ya, this seems like a case of folks going nuts over anything done by the Trump Administration. The fact is that US Presidents have been using helicopter travel from the White House for a long time and will continue with that going forward. Having a dedicated landing pad is likely better and safer. Sure, it’ll be bit of an eyesore, but the White House is supposed to be a functional home for the head of state, it’s going to have a few nods to functionality.

While I’m glad these guys are going to jail, this does go to show that one should not use Windows if they care about OPSEC.

Slavery is hardly new, novel or confined to a single group of people. Slavery has been pretty common through out human history. So much so that we have archeological evidence of it back to Sumer. The real answer to someone bringing up slavery in other contexts is, “so what?” Yes, some native American tribes had slaves, that does not less the impact that slavery had on African people kidnapped and dragged to the Americas as slaves. Nor does it lessen the impact that a century of discrimination has wrought on Black Americans.

Honestly, it sounds like you have fallen into the Myth of the Noble Savage. Humans suck, we have always sucked, and that has been true across cultures. Every once in a while, we figure out how to suck less. But that tends to be rare, fragile and fleeting. Also, it’s often a lie and we just hide our suckage.

Wow, never thought I would be nodding along as I read the crap dribbling out of Steve Brannon’s mouth. But, the GOP’s only hope is people who are so ignorant of reality that they can’t see the obvious lies right in front of them.

Of course, one should never underestimate the Democrats’ ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. I could certainly see the DNC sorting out a way to fuck over more populist candidates, handing seats to the GOP.

Given how often it pops up in Office applications now, I just refer to it as “clippy”.

Good luck with that. At the very least, he’s trying to do it the Constitutional way, via an Amendment to repeal the 17th Amendment. But considering the high hurdles set in front of that process, I doubt this is going anywhere.

…including stating that on multiple occasions he had found himself mysteriously transported from two different starting points in Georgia. In one incident, Mr. Phillips said, he had suddenly found himself inside a Waffle House

Why do I have the feeling that this story starts out with “We was drinkin’…”