A huge swath of Republican voters are not voting for Trump. They are voting against “Democrats”. Propaganda in the US has turned politics into a team sport, and you always root for your team, even if your team is having a rough season.

Ours has leaned they are not allowed in the counter when we’re watching.

It’s cute how you think things will be alive.

There’s a problem there, though. The propaganda was basically various versions of “The government (when run by Democrats) is bad, don’t trust the government.”

If they put up a notice saying, “This domain was seized, here’s the real facts!” the target of the propaganda isn’t going to buy it for a hot minute.

If they put up replacement content that doesn’t mention the government seizure, tha target of the propaganda is already primed to shout, “Fake news!” at anything that disputes their existing worldview.

It’s best to just let those domains return like a 504 Internal Server Error and die a quiet death.

A “Library of Congress” for published web content maybe. Some sort of standard that allows / requires websites that publish content on oublic-facing sites to also share a permanent copy with an archive, without having the archive have to scrape it.

Sort of like how book publishers send a copy to the LoC.

Technically,

The president and vice president are chosen by the electoral college in separate votes.

Though, for some time, it’s always been the winning candidate’s selected running mate… there is no requirement there. The electors could pick Mittens the back flipping poodle for VP if they wanted.

Usually people that are either lying about being Democrats, or people very much stuck on a single issue and have decided that “The establishment” is wrong (yet, still, identifying as a Democrat).

Remember too that the President doesn’t write the laws, and pretty much every solution for a single payer healthcare solution involves legislation.

Blaming or crediting a President for something that only Congress can do is a long American tradition, and an exceptionally stupid one we need to get over.

“Tiajuana? No, that’s too easy. Ensenada!”

My principle dev asked if we could figure out how to invoke Lambda functions from within postgres trigger functions.

I was like, “Probably. But it’s like putting a diving board at the top of the Empire State building… doable, but a bad plan all around.”

The episode that really nailed down what a talented actor Jeri Ryan is was the time she had all those assimilated personalities surface and was switching back and forth rapidly, and the bit where the Doctor “took over” her body when they were in prison.

Both times, it was absolutely believable that someone else was at the wheel, and “Seven” wasn’t there.

Krombopulos Michael, the early years.

You’d never mistake a SG team for the bigots. There are women, and non-white people on the team!

/s

Soon:

“Panera lol one per customer I just made two orders with different mobile app accounts”

We’re number 1!!! Eat it, Canada!

I’m constantly amazed that we’re working on super advanced power generation techniques… that still use steam to spin turbines.

It feels like we should be doing something cooler, like plasma conduits from Star Trek.

I think a bigger effect is familiarity.

Bingo. It’s not about making you buy something right now, it’s about brand recognition and such.

To wit, if you listen to podcasts, do a little thought experiment. Name a VPN company.

Was it “Nord VPN”? Ads work.

I was saying the other day we need a neutral third party the hangs around Congress and every time they do something unconstitutional or stupid, the whole class room has to watch Schoolhouse Rock episodes about civics.

Every time.

You could go as far as to call them…

… Deplorable?

That is a LOT harder done than said. Apple might have the resources, but they don’t have the time or focus to become an actual bank.

They’ll just go to some other bank, willing to take on the shittier client risk. Probably Citi or the GE/Synchrony bank. Capital One if they smile real nice and bring flowers.