You know what? That’s fair. You’re actually mostly right.

I disagree that the position of president isn’t as important as people think - as you you found out during the Trump presidency, a president can potentially pick several Supreme Court justices, and given some recent rulings, it may already be too late to fix that arm of government. Plus as the head of state, they are one of the biggest symbols of national identity.

And as such, telling people they don’t necessarily need to worry about voting for them is dangerous, and I think it undermines your argument that there are other roles to vote for on the same ballot. If low voter turnout is a problem, and they don’t want to vote for arguably the important role, why would they bother going out and queuing at all?

You’re wrong, but it’s not your fault.

First Past The Post is a terrible system. We have it in the UK and we’ve had governments formed by a party that got less than 40% of the votes (as in, people ago actually voted, not including eligible voters who did not cast a ballot).

By any objective measure, “60% of people did not want these clowns in charge” is not really what I’d describe as “democratic”.

So that needs to change. But until it does, that’s the game. And unlike Wargames, you can’t win by not playing.

Not voting for Biden (however bad he is, he is objectively the lesser of two evils), whether not voting or voting third party, is giving Trump’s votes more weight. Yes, that’s shit, no, that’s not fair. But that’s the way the system is right here right now. Deal with it. Vote Biden or you are implicitly saying you’re OK with Trump.

I’ll take a personal day. Maybe I’ll watch, maybe I’ll just slob on the sofa, we’ll see…

Alright, Columbo, calm down.

Ok, legit sremoved from that, but I do approve of the way they showed their working.

Edit: do I have to write “snicker” like an American? Does some bot suffer from the Scunthorpe problem here?

What’s wrong with Neil’s beard?

Depends how bad at walking they are…

Personally, I’d say yes if they’ve heard of Captain Kirk and Mister Spock.

Not all of it, but a couple of select episodes such a Space Seed and Balance of Terror.

Then a couple of TNG episodes like The Measure of a Man and Q Who

If they’re into it after that, some TOS films (2,3 and 4 come to mind) and a few more TNG episodes in order.

The first couple of DS9 episodes to see if they like the space station format, but after season 2 or 3 I think those need to be watched in order really.

Then Voyager, then Enterprise.

If they don’t get on with TNG, maybe look at the first few episodes of Discovery. If that’s a bit grim for them, Strange New Worlds should be light enough.

Prodigy might be a good start if they don’t want to watch 60 years of legacy Trek to catch them up.

And Lower Decks is nice and light but I think they’d get far more out of it if they have some reference on what’s being riffed on.

Show him the Titan-A. Lights mean you can at least see what you’re doing while at work…

Yeah, don’t trust your most critical passwords to a browser when you can instead use a dedicated bit of software designed for saving passwords securely and which will also work on your phone and any other browser you may care to use.

Crushed three apples into juice FOR THE GLORY OF THE EMPIRE!

Touché.

I’m sorry, you made some great points, but all I can take away from that is that your idea of heaven is becoming a Ninja Turtle…? 🤣

It would almost be funny if not for the whole “fate of American democracy” thing.

Sure, the Democrats are Doctor Evil and his minions. But the Republicans are literally Hitler and the nazis.

Vote accordingly.

Because they think they’re helping stand on other people’s necks, and that’s just fine in their book.

Then they act all surprised with the “I never thought the leopards would eat my face!” when it happens.

That was my first thought as well!

The last time I tried to install Windows 11 on a VM (Nutanix AHV), I had to fiddle with a virtual TPM and lost the live migration feature as a result.

Dos this mean I can install the LTSC version, not need the TPM and have a working, live migrate-able machine?

Something to test next week…

“Soap opera actress Cheryl McFadden”

TIL.

Atlantis gave him the time to have character growth and become a better person. I like the way he reverts as soon as he’s in the same room as Carter before she gets there full time.

God, how do you fill an entire article with that headline and then with no shame at all stick this in the middle?

So far, we don’t know of any updates coming to the ‌iMac‌ except for the M4 chip.

Also, M4 Mac Mini, you cowards, since there was no M3 version…