I don’t even think Michigan voter registration asks for party affiliation. I’ve never been a party member and frankly I don’t think anyone is a member of any party unless they are an elected official or maybe part of their campaign.

To say “I’m a Democrat” or “I’m a Republican”, to me, is to say, “I believe what I’m told to believe and I vote how I’m told to vote.”

That said, I can imagine it’s different in places where you have to declare an affiliation in order to vote in the elections you want to vote in.

I don’t tend to believe in conspiracies, but man they make it difficult by just constantly being the shadiest motherfuckers.

The only legal mechanism for holding power accountable is the vote. Once that’s taken away, you either accept subjugation or you don’t. But the latter isn’t legal and that doesn’t sit right with a lot of folks.

I would not switch to a chromium-based browser at all. For lots of reasons, but if I had to pick one it would be to avoid creating a dominant browser and ceding control over web standards to a single entity the way MS used IE to do what they wanted and force everyone else to comply.

Those were dark times. I was still being forced to make sites IE5 compatible in 2015 — official support ended in 2005.

So then… people convicted of rape-alike in non-English speaking jurisdictions are not rapists either because “rape” isn’t on their court paperwork? Or do we translate that into the local vernacular?

Worth noting that in many jurisdictions this “lesser crime” would just be called rape. Hell in most jurisdictions I’ve heard of, it’s sexual assault or something like that. There are a bunch of crimes that fall under the heading “rape”.

So if Trump did what he did in your home town, he would be a rapist. Why would the same act done elsewhere by treated as less serious.

That being said, I’m all for calling Trump a convicted sexual abuser, because that sounds even worse and I’d love to see him defend it with “of an adult. I only abused an adult.”

Yeah. I’m with you there. We don’t display the proper amount of anxiety, either being too detached or overdramatic, and suddenly they are laser focused on us.

“Why did you google how long it takes a person to asphyxiate?”

“I watched a movie where a guy holds his breath and got curious as to whether it was bullshit or not.”

“Why is there a sword in your online cart?”

“It was aspirational. Swords are expensive and I don’t know if I’ll get enjoyment commensurate to the cost.”

“You like big words don’t you. You think you’re pretty smart, eh? You think you’re smarter than me?”

“W—well… I mean… I don’t have enough evid—”

Nightstick to the face. “Stop resisting arrest!”

My point was more about unreliable narration than the interaction between gut reactions and neurodivergence. That’s a legitimate concern. One hopes that the non-gut-reaction part of the process vindicates us.

Intuition matters — it’s part of how people make sense of things, and I’d expect investigators to use it to focus their attention. But when cops talk about ‘just knowing’ someone was guilty, that’s not a reliable narrative of how the case actually unfolded. It’s more about self-mythologizing — building a story where they zeroed in on the suspect through instinct alone. That kind of framing works well in interviews and promotion boards, but it (ideally) oversimplifies what real investigation looks like.

There are, of course, counter-examples. But those are usually more the subject of documentaries about injustice in the justice system.

If I understand the gist, I’ll just say I’d like my job to be some stuff I’m good and some stuff that challenges me. When I do nothing but challenge myself, imposter syndrome sets in. When I do nothing but the stuff that I’m good at, it gets really boring. I need to find a better mix than I have been.

The only thing that comes to mind is: any time someone drops something, I tell them, “oh, you can just put that anywhere.”

I don’t know where I got it from, but it annoys my kids.

I’m a very good engineer, but so much of my time is consumed fighting with Tekton pipelines and migrating testing frameworks and versions I barely have time to write code. But that’s because I can figure that stuff out when I have to. All the code is written by the people who can’t figure that stuff out.

Why this isn’t two separate jobs I can’t understand. Let me do some stuff I’m good at rather than constantly fighting with things I’m not?

Also no character growth for Andor while also complaining that he kills a guy in cold blood but then doesn’t kill Galen later under orders. And then breaks orders again because he put his faith in Jyn and not the Rebels.

Rogue One is a good movie and I don’t care about production issues. It made the Empire far more menacing than even the OT did. Peak Vader. Peak Death Star. Even peak Stormtroopers.

If you want the former, I’ll say Arcane. They poured money into that and it shows. They will never be able to count money made by that, though it was great word of mouth and I’m sure increased sales. But they spent like a half-billion dollars on that with no hope of any return. But damn that was a hell of a series.

Moana is all about the musical performances. I love the whole movie but what is on the screen just kinda punctuates and gives context to the music for me. Frozen is the same way. And they’re thinking they are going to remake all that music and have it be just as good?

It would be like trying to remake The Blues Brothers with Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham just because the original is 40 years old.

Neither of those movies were really all that terrible. I enjoyed John Carter. But clearly they didn’t connect with audiences.

And yet… it’s my favorite post-OT movie. It could’ve used another draft to tighten a couple things up here and there, but it was good.

Now… TRoS is one of the worst films I’ve ever seen in my life and is the only Star Wars property I’ve only seen a single time and never will watch again. Hell I watched Book of Boba Fett twice. Shit, I’ve watched In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale twice. I’d have to go back to Battlefield Earth to think of an equally terrible film.

But when watching The Last Jedi I feel nothing but joy.

It is infinitely more likely that the stress of the campaign trail, opportunities to cheat, and competing demands of their separate ambitions would bring a couple to the brink of divorce than… this suggestion.

Why do these sorts of people think, “we can’t stay in business if we’re not allowed to <description of abuse >,” means they should be allowed to abuse instead of put out of business? Does it really never occur to them that they should be supplanted by better alternatives?

Their heads are so far up their own asses they forget ‘if’ offers two solutions.

I wonder if they vibe coded it?