here's why Ron DeSantis talks about "woke" like it's an actual person, for @MSNBC pic.twitter.com/cC92nMq2Tr
— manny (@mannyfidel) July 12, 2023
"DeSantis has it all wrong. His pretense at being a macho man — indeed a fearless superhero — is belied by his instinct to tiptoe around the dragon. The point is not to get to the right of the dragon. It is to plunge your spear into its heart." My column. https://t.co/VWrGOmWnAR
— Edward Luce (@EdwardGLuce) July 12, 2023
Now it’s gone (almost) global!
It was often said that when Bill Clinton walked into a room, each person thought he noticed them in particular. Clinton was the ultimate retail politician: he liked people and they knew it. When Ron DeSantis shows up, even those who want to support him feel that he harbours a special dislike for them. Being a black hole in terms of charisma is not automatically fatal to a candidate’s prospects. When your target is the diabolically charismatic Donald Trump, however, you are working at a big disadvantage.
The story of how DeSantis went from being the favourite, or near-favourite, Republican nominee for the 2024 presidential race to America’s most rapidly falling meteor in years, tells us a lot about the mindset of US conservatism. The Florida governor’s campaign began with every advantage. He had huge sums of money, name recognition, powerful backers and the sense that he was the only Republican capable of replacing Trump. Yet he has singularly failed to perform. One of his detractors memorably called this “electile dysfunction”.
In theory, the case for DeSantis was very good. Republicans would embrace Trumpism without Trump: in Florida’s youthful governor, they could have their war on woke before breakfast, lunch and dinner without the personality flaws of its namesake. DeSantis was Trump without the indictments and future jail sentences. He was Trump minus the drama. He would offer the kind of Trumpism that college graduates could vote for without apology.
It turns out there was a serious flaw: Maga voters cannot get enough of the Trump drama. The case against Trump in 2016 was that he was not electable. His base nevertheless recklessly voted for his nomination, then he went on to win. If part of the thrill of backing Trump is precisely because he is not electable — that he is unsafe and not respectable — it takes some brass to announce yourself as the electable version of Trump. It is now clear that the DeSantis hypothesis is a fatal misreading of what Maga wants…
Even one of the most FTFNYTimes bigoted narcissists!
I have been in the "I'll believe in when I see it" camp from the beginning with DeSantis. I haven't seen it yet! But I also think political reporters gain nothing by yoking themselves to overconfident predictions. A lot can happen between now and New Hampshire.
— McKay Coppins (@mckaycoppins) July 12, 2023
once again the yelly baseball nails it, but not in the way he thinks https://t.co/c2KHYQv9Ex pic.twitter.com/EjrdRT5gLM
— gg 🙊🙈🙉 (@gina_goldberg) July 12, 2023
Genuinely incredible how completely DeSantis has squandered his good will even with credulous right wing pundits like Bret Stephens pic.twitter.com/T4NSTA7vgy
— Ari Drennen (@AriDrennen) July 11, 2023
Guy tongue-bathes one bunch of nazis, and everyone calls him…
Americans and Jews pic.twitter.com/gtMz9yl9nP
— @jganyfl (@jganyfl1) July 12, 2023
zhena gogolia
Did you see that Ohman and other political cartoonists were fired by McClatchy? (WaPo link)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/comics/2023/07/12/mcclatchy-cartoonists-layoffs/
I stumbled across this while reading Kundera obits.
SiubhanDuinne
@zhena gogolia:
Wow. Totally missed that news. Shocking and big-picture scary.
twbrandt
@zhena gogolia: As I posted downstairs, Dan Gillmor points out on mastodon that the real culprit in these firings is Chatham Asset Management, the private equity firm that owns McClatchy.
Mike in NC
Having Trumpism without Trump is unpossible.
Another Scott
The comic says copyright 2022. For whatever that’s worth.
Cheers,
Scott.
The Thin Black Duke
I thought the Borg were fictional.
CaseyL
@twbrandt: Private equity is an evil, evil thing. It squeezes to death whatever it gets its mitts on, and it’s taking over every segment of modern life.
Baud
Who needs humans in media?
Trivia Man
Scott walker always looked better on paper than he did in reality. A key similarity here is a governor with a rubber stamp legislature that does all the work. Roughly even party split in voters but outsized split in the legislature means he can steam roller the sound bite stuff without being challenged. Small pond, AAA competition
Baud
OT via Reddit
EU rule.
dmsilev
Less likable than Ted Cruz is unpossible.
David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
@Baud: We should have seen this coming when All Gore funded Skynet
Mr. Bemused Senior
@dmsilev: have you forgotten Phil Gramm? “Even his friends don’t like him.”
Suzanne
@dmsilev:
You know, I think that, and then they all see to try really hard to outdo him. DeSantis has my maximum loathing right now, but, yanno, I have contempt to spare.
Martin
@Baud: Water resistance is going to be a bitch to maintain.
Baud
I am a little surprised Cruz has enough self awareness not to put his hat in the ring again.
And Hawley too. Both seem ambitious and arrogant.
gene108
I don’t get the Chris Christie comparison.
What fucked Christie up is getting nailed with an actual scandal, and NJ voters getting pissed off at him for it.
The Bridgegate scandal started leaking out in early 2014. By 2016, Christie had something like a 15% approval rating in NJ. His personality, charisma, etc. were not the immediate cause of his undoing.
gene108
@Baud:
Good.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
I don’t know. I don’t care enough to dislike Ted Cruz as much as I do Ron DeSantis.
Martin
@gene108: Calling it now: The EU won’t achieve any of their stated goals because they wrote the regulation wrong, as they tend to do.
Baud
@Martin:
I’ve personally never kept a phone long enough for the battery to become an issue.
I was surprised that I also transitioned pretty easily from the traditional headphone jack.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
Having Christie’s charisma, as I understood Mr. McLaughlin, is supposed to be a good thing.
…
?
SpaceUnit
The whole woke thing has begun to crack me up. Folks like Desantis have no idea how stupid it makes them sound, even to normies who aren’t political.
My theory is that when you have an ideology and culture as stupid as the MAGA movement’s you need language that can most efficiently express that stupidity. My prediction is that in a few years Repubs will communicate with one another with only grunts and noises and a handful of words that have no real meaning to anyone outside the cult. And we’ll probably be better off for it.
Omnes Omnibus
@dmsilev:
Aren’t you a physicist? Might there be some weird quantum thing?
dmsilev
@Suzanne: Contempt is a renewable resource.
Splitting Image
I’ve always thought that people underestimated how much mileage Trump got out of the fact that Republican voters saw him as a convert. He was a New York celebrity, from the very heartland of un-America, who turned his back on The Democrats and made common cause with the Real American People. He even Found Jesus. This hits all of the right buttons for them. DeSantis is a born and raised Republican goon, and even if he wants to hurt all of the same people they do, he doesn’t give them the same urge to shout ‘Hallelujah!’.
Ratbert Kennedy Jr. would be a better fit for the G.O.P. Not only because he’s a conspiracy-filled loon, but because he’s a Kennedy. He’s a Massachusetts liberal from the most well-known family of Massachusetts liberals who ever lived. He’s got the perfect conversion story. He might be able to beat Trump if he ran as a Republican, for the same reason Trump beat all of the other goons in 2016.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@Omnes Omnibus: Come up with a ludicrous reason to connect quantum physics to any real life phenomenon and there is a lucrative writing credit for you on the next Ant Man movie.
dmsilev
@Omnes Omnibus: Quantum mechanics can explain many things, but not Ted Cruz.
In the interests of science, I propose that we put the Senator into an accelerator, smash him into a target, and observe what pieces fly off. We must answer this question.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
My prediction is that this state of affairs will resume, having been in effect since 1994.
Mr. Bemused Senior
@dmsilev: if only we had had the sense to build the SSC.
dmsilev
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation: I, uh, know an actual quantum scientist who actually wrote dialog for some of the previous Ant Man movies. Not the third one though; maybe that’s part of why it was such a mess. And, so far as I know, not particularly lucrative.
dmsilev
@Mr. Bemused Senior: And in Texas as well (which was its own bit of stupidity back in the day; should have been at Fermilab in Illinois, but politics…)
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@dmsilev: Huh, damn, I was being entirely unserious.
dmsilev
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation: There’s a bit in the second film where Ant-Man is talking about how he inadvertently quantum-entangled with Janet. Those lines were (in part) written by an actual quantum physicist.
SpaceUnit
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation:
No, if I listen really hard I can still make out a few words now and then.
Omnes Omnibus
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation: Can’t. There’s a strike.
@dmsilev: I say we try it. For Science!
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@dmsilev: I was just relieved to find we could accurately predict Janet’s orientation by observing Scott’s.
RaflW
@dmsilev: I think about the old Minutemen album “Three Way Tie for Last” when I see claims like “DeSaster less liked than Cruz, Santorum.”
HumboldtBlue
@dmsilev:
Nerds.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@SpaceUnit: It doesn’t count if they misuse the words. “Conservative, liberal, socialist, woke;” not true words, just more complicated grunts.
RaflW
@Baud: Hawley is in political life the same coward we saw sprinting through Capitol that night. No way he’d stand against Trump for the election. Josh only punches down.
dmsilev
@HumboldtBlue: That’s who I am. Have been for a long time.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
Zombie Reagan will put a stop to it after he announces and sweeps the Republican field in 2024.
dmsilev
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation: Well, she was married to Hank, so that more or less fixes her orientation.
And now the nerd in me is wondering how to describe sexuality in terms of Pauli spin matrices.
zhena gogolia
@RaflW: Now that I’m finally watching Mad Men, I can see that Josh Hawley is Pete Campbell.
hells littlest angel
Note: McKay Coppins has never worked for the New York Times. He’s had an OpEd or two published there way back when, but that’s all.
SpaceUnit
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation:
Yeah, you got a point.
Matt McIrvin
@Splitting Image: Don’t forget that a substantial tributary theory of QAnon is that either John F. Kennedy Jr., John F. Kennedy Senior, or both of them have faked their deaths and are going to come out of hiding and endorse Donald Trump.
Another Scott
Meanwhile, … BlueVirginia.US:
+1
Make sure the normies know. Things like this will get their attention.
Cheers,
Scott.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@dmsilev: BUT can the orientation of the space she’s in, itself, change?
Groomer.
dmsilev
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation:
Some of my quantum information colleagues talk a lot about “dressed states”…
different-church-lady
@Baud: iPhones have replaceable batteries now.
Yeah, you need special tools and it’s 38 steps, but they are replaceable.
different-church-lady
@Baud:
Other humans. But they don’t count.
Martin
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation: What if the zombie Reagan that resurrects was from his time as the president of SAG?
different-church-lady
@Mike in NC: Correct. The idea that you can just swap a different person into a cult of personality is kinda stupid.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
When the conversation suddenly changes from utter nonsense to potentially edifying research…
Ken
You could try starting with qubit math, which uses basis vectors |0> and |1>.
zhena gogolia
Lincoln Project did a nice job with Biden’s speech.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YC84pI4yI0
BellyCat
@Baud: About damn time! And should be required to be supported for at least 7 years after phased out, similar to auto industry requirement.
Captain C
@gene108: Having spent a good portion of my childhood in New Jersey, I can safely say that Christie definitely appealed to a certain species of Jerseyan (-ite?).
What I don’t understand is how he could retain what minimal support he had in a state full of Giants and Eagles fans after he was spotted snarfing Jerry Jones’ armpit in celebration of a Cowboys touchdown in the latter’s AT&T Stadium skybox.
frosty
@Martin: My Seiko watch with a replaceable battery is water resistant to 100 meters. They ought to be able to do it with smartphones.
The real problem with replaceable batteries is that by the time the battery is shot the phone is obsolete … and if it isn’t the next OS upgrade will make it obsolete. That’s what happened with my iPhone SE (1st gen), basically an iPhone 6. I kept it from 2016 to 2022 and replaced it with a 13 mini. Planning to grit my teeth and keep this one for six or seven years.
different-church-lady
@frosty: Gotcha beat: I jumped from a 5c to a 13. And the 5c still puts in duty as a remote for some of my specialty gear.
catclub
@Mr. Bemused Senior:
:
But speaking of Ant-Man, wasn’t one reason for stopping it that fire ants would eat all the wiring insulation?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Baud: Hawleys very young, and the type, I would guess, to think of his career long term
, I think the smartest ones in that party figured out to sit this one out
or else they’re gunning for trumps veep and the next-in-line place for 28
dmsilev
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation:
There is, admittedly, often a very fine line dividing those two.
The Moar You Know
@SpaceUnit: petroglyphs scrawled on the walls of the nation’s mental hospitals, rendered in human shit.
citizen dave
@RaflW: I have that album! To D Boon!
frosty
@different-church-lady:
When I got my 13 it was right after the 14 came out, so already on its way to obsolescence. You?
I still have the SE. Don’t know what to do with it, although my younger son with three or four old phones could probably tell me.
HumboldtBlue
@zhena gogolia:
That’s good.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@dmsilev: So, I read up on dressed states and, in the process, eigenstates and the Hamiltonian of a system.
I haven’t figured out whether I’ve learned something
Schroedinger’s lesson.
El Muneco
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation: Too right… “In a few years”? The right-wing fever swamps haven’t been coherent for decades now.
David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
@Matt McIrvin: Anybody here seen my old friend John?
Lyrebird
NICE!
And thanks for the best laugh I have had all day.
HumboldtBlue
Fran Drescher also had some impactful words to say today regarding the writer’s strike.
The Thin Black Duke
@HumboldtBlue: Harlan Ellison nails it:
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@HumboldtBlue: I’m glad Fran replenished my hopium reserves before the responses on Twitter depleted them again.
Jackie
@Baud: Most GQP see the writing on the wall and will wait for ‘28. Won’t they be shocked when TIFG, after losing in ‘24 decides to run again in ‘28! Only semi snark.
HinTN
@dmsilev: Just put him in Schrödinger’s box and leave him unmolested.
Jackie
@Splitting Image: If RFK Jr changed parties to R, he’d probably poll higher than Pudd’n Boots AND be considered VP material for TIFG.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@HinTN: What if we put him in there with Larry Craig, then simply avoid observation?
RaflW
@Another Scott: Our failed media experiment so far hasn’t believed (and thus, has vastly under-reporter) the MAGA threat to defund the FBI.
Seven lefties on a sidewalk yelling ‘defund police’ is Joe Biden’s problem. But the wingers in Congress actually defunding the FBI is … also Joe Biden’s problem (and, by some pretzel logic, will also become his fault). Grrrr.
FelonyGovt
@SpaceUnit: Doonesbury comic on Sunday had that nailed .
Martin
@frosty: A threaded watch back is a LOT easier to make water resistant than a rectangular back when 80% of the volume of the device is battery.
People are being very optimistic about how this is going to actually play out.
Mr. Bemused Senior
@The Thin Black Duke: have you read the Starcrossed by Ben Bova?
rikyrah
@Baud:
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
rikyrah
@SpaceUnit:
Noun-verb-woke😒😒
HinTN
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation: I’m down with that. Put ’em all in there. They can do whatever the fuck they want.
different-church-lady
@FelonyGovt: I cannot believe after 50 years Trudeau has remained just as sharp as ever with his punchline panels.
Manyakitty
@FelonyGovt: excellent
Manyakitty
@different-church-lady: savage ✨
Martin
@dmsilev: So, I think you have this backward. The classical theory of sexuality is quantized, but the modern theory is that sexuality exceeds all efforts to classify it.
HinTN
@Martin: Amen
RaflW
News from the MAGA House circus
Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree
The House votes to eliminate all offices inside the military related to racial diversity.
—
So, CJ Roberts says it’s important enough to have diversity in military leadership to not end affirmative action at West Point, etc, but now congressional Republicans are saying “diversity, we ain’t got no diversity in our ranks.”
What a fucked up country.
different-church-lady
@Martin: It’s also a lot easier when the object (like a watch) does not have include an aperture as part of the basic function.
different-church-lady
@Martin: It certainly exceeds my ability to quantize it.
different-church-lady
@frosty:
I don’t think the 14 was out yet. But I recommend the technique: one step behind the curve is a lot cheaper.
different-church-lady
@RaflW: At the moment the house has the luxury to vote to eliminate Christmas without any practical effect.
BellyCat
Christie is the one to watch.
He’s a brawler, as big an asshole as Trump, and WAY smarter. More importantly, his goal is not to win but to prevent Trump from winning. Christie WANTS to spear the dragon; there will be no dancing around it (and I’m totally here for this approach!)
Trump will get the GOP nomination, no doubt, but Christie will have by then peeled off a not insignificant number of voters AND will then mount a write-in campaign of epic scale.
A number of MAGAts won’t know which is the more vile authoritarian daddy figure to vote for after they go at each other hammer and tong. Meanwhile, the Trump-lite folks (well-heeled “fiscal conservatives”, as if!) will pledge fealty to Christie.
As for DeSantis: who?
Result: Biden/Harris win popular and electoral vote beyond contestation in the courts and Dems take both chambers as well
(Is it obvious I’m fully dosed on medicine for strep throat?)
different-church-lady
@rikyrah: (Noun and verb optional)
Geminid
@Jackie: Trump can pick RFK Jr. for the VP slot regardless of his current party affiliation. Trump’s voters wouldn’t care; they have an ambivalent view of the Republican Party anyway. RFK Jr. could use the “I did not leave the Democratic Party, it left me” line. That would get him a standing ovation at the Milwaukee convention.
I’m not saying this will happen, but I won’t be shocked of it does. Trump is very brand-concious, and attaching the Kennedy brand to his own might be a tempting move.
different-church-lady
@BellyCat: I’ll have what you’re having.
different-church-lady
@Geminid:
It’s Kennedy: he’s so nuts he’d probably leave the ticket halfway though the campaign once he figured out Trump wanted more attention than him.
Jackie
@zhena gogolia: That is awesome! I hope it gets a lot of airtime!
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Remember when Bernie Sanders blackmailed Democrats into putting this guy on the platform committee and like the day after the convention he endorsed Jill Stein?
all because Obama didn’t stroke his ego
Matt McIrvin
@Jackie: Hell, Trump will run again if he wins in ’24. In 2020, he was describing nonsensical crackpot reasons why he deserved to be exempt from constitutional term limits (something about Obama spying on him in 2016, so he deserved extra terms in office as compensation?) and said he was going to run for a third, fourth, fifth term.
BellyCat
@different-church-lady: Amoxicillin + Rum
Omnes Omnibus
@frosty:
I still use my SE. It works just fine. It is much better than the 3 it replaced.
different-church-lady
@Omnes Omnibus: The SE didn’t get obsoleted by the 3G shutdown?
Jackie
@Geminid: I’m ok with that. It won’t move any Democrats or Independents to TIFG – and would probably peel off a few more Repubs to hold their nose and vote Biden or stay home.
Geminid
@different-church-lady: Kennedy is nuts, but he also shows signs of being an ambitious and calculating guy. As the saying goes, a Vice President is one heartbeat away from the Presidency.
I’ll be interested in seeing if he and Trump send each other any signals in their public statements.
Omnes Omnibus
@different-church-lady:
No, it is my current phone and is still getting auto-updates and all that.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@Omnes Omnibus: Bougie motherfuckers with your fancy Apple devices…
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Geminid: the idea of having a Kennedy as his junior partner would at the very least be bigly tempting to The Beast, stuck in the past as he is in so many ways
Omnes Omnibus
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation:
Mine is even vintage. So there.
BellyCat
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation: You’ve apparently not checked the price of a Samsung Android phone lately!
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
You try schlepping that big gut into the 21st century.
RaflW
@different-church-lady: Not clear to me if that’s a budget bill or policy. If policy, I agree. But for something like the FBI building, if the House strips funds, the issue punts to conference committee later.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@BellyCat: I paid 40 for mine about a year ago.
BellyCat
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation: Quatloos?
Gvg
@Baud: my almost previous ipad has a bad battery and I have been limping along for a year. My new one arrives Saturday. I wish it had replaceable batteries. I am pretty sure this was a lemon going bad fairly early.
I looked at other brands of tablet, but I really prefer iPad. My phones have been android and I liked replaceable batteries. Several problems could be fixed by taking it out then putting it back that are much more time consuming and not intuitive with fixed batteries.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@BellyCat: Nah, greenbacks.
BellyCat
Which raises the point of cellular companies bundling plans and phones. What a fucking racket. Sell the damn plan without building in the cost of phones. What if gas stations worked like this? It boggles the mind.
BellyCat
@Omnes Omnibus: Your strategy is brilliant. As an attorney billing hourly, upgrading might perilously affect your earnings if LEXUS loaded rapidly.
Odie Hugh Manatee
@dmsilev:
May I suggest that Moscow Mitch McConnell be used as the target to fire Cruz into?
For science, of course.
sralloway
@different-church-lady: That’s the Apple way. Started with a MacPlus in 1986. Needed a special tool (in the real world, an allen wrench with a long extension). Upgraded the mother board from 8 meg processor and went to 4 megs of ram. Big time back then. One meg ram chips were around $145 each. Got two for Christmas that year. My big gift. Lotta small steps but I’m still on it with a 2009 iMac doing InDesign work. When I need new stuff, I go to She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed’s birthday gift from me, an M1 modael that’s super fast. Yes, they’re expensive but I can stll connect my LC3 to the housenet through ethernet (upgraded card). BTW, anybody need scsi connectors? Have many.
Edit for typos.
Omnes Omnibus
@BellyCat:
Dear god, I don’t do research on my phone.
sralloway
@Gvg:
Reminds me of the batteries in the old Macs that had a battery for some reason I no longer recall. Maybe 25 years ago.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@sralloway: Maybe to retain their working memory when powered off?
BellyCat
@sralloway: The lengths we go to in order to continue to use Adobe software we purchased before those assholes went to a subscription model (which is behavior I refuse to enable).
BellyCat
@Omnes Omnibus: Couldn’t resist the poke. ;-)
Marc
The battery powered the configuration memory and time of day clock when the main power was disconnected. Today, the configuration goes in flash memory and the time of day clock is powered by a super-capacitor and/or updated from the network. Older PCs had a similar battery, but they were usually a lot easier to replace.
Martin
@sralloway: I have a Macintosh Duo 230 with dock in my closet. Also 2 G4 Cubes. There’s a Powermac G3 in there. I think I still have a Color Classic up in the loft.
There’s stuff here, also a lot of SCSI connectors. Should still be a SCSI-ethernet adapter in there somewhere.
sdhays
@Baud: Cruz is scared of Trump. He’s not running against him again.
I think Hawley is plugged into the base enough to know that there’s no point until Trump is out of the picture. And maybe he feels his balls aren’t tan enough and need more time with Tucker’s cancer lights. To increase his manliness, of course.
Martin
@sralloway: Battery was for the clock and to maintain the system settings when the machine was unplugged.
Ruckus
@Baud:
I’ve had a cell phone for over 25 yrs (not the same one!) and neither have I. I’m on my 5th cellphone. I’ve had the newest one for 3-4 months and it is better than the last and I can unequivocally say that about every one of them. And this one has a far longer charge cycle than any of the others, I charge it every 6-7 days. Replaceable batteries seems to be asinine. I guess if one used the thing 24 hrs a day. I used the first 3 when I was traveling for a living and they still worked fine for years. The technology was so far improved was the reason to replace long before the phone itself needed replacing for battery life or operating issues and I’ve never had one that stopped working. The most obvious issue I had was that early cell service was rather crappy in many parts of the country and I traveled for my job.
sralloway
@BellyCat:
Yep. If the software does the job you need, why change?
sralloway
@Martin:
Ah. Brings back memories when the clock was screwy on startup.
sralloway
@Martin:
Don’t we save things that are long past due date.
NotMax
@sralloway
FYI.
different-church-lady
@NotMax: Excellent, thank you!
David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
@different-church-lady:
I’m not surprised, Justin Trudeau very energetic.
different-church-lady
@BellyCat: Yes, I’m friends with a graphic designer, and she’s fabricating the same strategy.
different-church-lady
@Martin:
Ah, so you’re the one that bought those!
Martin
@different-church-lady: Shit, I bought 8 of them. We were doing a rapid office/staffing expansion which meant everyones office was getting WAY smaller and the furniture cost for desks that had space to accommodate towers and CRTs and still fit in these very cramped offices was WAY higher than the furniture cost for desks that had space for G4 Cubes and flat screens, and total costs were lower for the Cubes than for traditional machines, so we took the cheaper routes. The quietness was also appreciated in smaller offices. My staff loved them.
I asked to keep two of them when we retired the machines years later.
BellyCat
@sralloway: To fuel corporate profits, of course! //
BellyCat
@different-church-lady: Not surprised in the least. Adobe and AutoDesk (among others, but they are the largest) have essentially turned creative professionals into hostages with their usurious subscription models. Smaller competitors are bought or crushed and their proprietary file types often can’t be opened by other software — so even if one changes to different software a lifetime of creative work can’t be opened on occasion unless the subscription is maintained.
There ought to be a law! (I crack myself up…)
Chris T.
@Mr. Bemused Senior:
I thought that was Mitt Romney, but perhaps there are many such Republicans…
Shalimar
@Baud: My phone is 4 years old and the battery is the only real issue. it was the best Samsung had at the time, and everything else is still great. but the battery life is down to a couple hours of constant use. maybe 30-40% of what it was when it was new.
JAFD
@Baud: About time. I have had three smartphones placed out-of-commission with swollen battery, and found replacing them cost nearly as much as the phones cost new
Paul in KY
@gene108: His personality, though, was what caused him to initiate that stupid & nasty payback in the 1st place.
Paul in KY
@different-church-lady: My BIL has replaced his. He is an engineer and very good at that kind of stuff.
Paul in KY
@frosty: I am still on my 6+, purchased in Aug 2017