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.

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

I keep an eye on these types of treatments. Type 1 diabetes being autoimmune and all.

So far, I’m putting it in the bucket with all the other “cure is just 5 years away” things we hear about.

It’s promising, and neat it’s worked in these cases, but I remain skeptical. Twice over as it appears to be research from China, who doesn’t have the best track record for robust scientific integrity. We’ll see how repeatable this stuff is soon enough.

The tricky part about T1 is… We don’t know why the immune system is malfunctioning, only that it is. Without that vital piece of research, everything that presents as a cure is temporary at best.

Dr. Faustman out of Mass General has been conducting some trials into phase two or three using the BCG vaccine to treat / cure the immune response.

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).

I am literally in the middle of swapping DynamoDB for a RDBMS.

The idea that you can abstract away such fundamentally different data stores is silly. While I hate doing it now, reworking the code to use relational models properly makes for a better product later.

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.”

Trump can’t stay out of the spotlight long. He’s wholly incapable of not being the center of attention.

In other news, did you see his name in those Epstein records? Turns out he allegedly raped a few kids, so there’s something fun for Republicans to condone ignore.

Biden could trot out as a half-rotten corpse and I’d still vote for him over a serial liar and traitor to our nation.

Fyi: people often take out more than one loan, and leave the lowest interest federal loans for last…

The Court has to know that ruling a former President immune for breaking the law isn’t a viable decision.

Like, it would immediately make any sitting President a king, and supercede the Court’s power.

Which is why they’ll wait, but rule he isn’t immune. Not because it’s the right thing, but because doing otherwise would make the Court less, and they’re selfish fucks that want to be on top.

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.

That’s all well and good, but remember,

concurring opinion

…is what matters at the end of the day.

Standing up in the face of oppression and bigotry is the point.

Because Trump pardoned him.

https://www.npr.org/2020/12/23/949820820/trump-pardons-roger-stone-paul-manafort-and-charles-kushner

I think an “arms race” that forever expands the court – and thus dilutes the individual relevance of a single Justice – is a good thing.

A single Justice dying or retiring should not be the sort of thing to reshape the entire country.

In this case, remembering standing means they don’t have to double down and rule on abortion itself again.