My friend who is very politically involved in Iowa has said he refused to support Sage after Sage refused to announce he'd back him as Senate leader and had to drop out due to lack of funds. Shame because his campaign was started by Dan Osborn people while Turek's staff is supposedly a skeleton
i think i’m fully in on “the white house is run by thirtysomething chuds who think grand strategy games are real life”
Also deeply weird to conflate "ICE as a department should not exist anymore" and "there should be no immigration enforcement carried out by the federal government." Those are two distinct sentences.
i feel like if the president actually went through with invading greenland, it would implode America
Insane that it's come to "Stupidest possible intervention in Iran that will very likely just help the regime and get more people killed" being the less horrible Thing that could Happen
also extremely real chance US strikes against iran undermine the protest movement
I'd have said when he started putting his e-mail account next to the strip. Without the feedback that made him solely pivot towards office satire and then becoming giga popular he's less likely to think of himself as infallible.
I think in hindsight, Dogbert becoming a self-insert was the sign his career goal was supervillain rather than moderately amusing office life satirist.
a terrifying furry white dog robot
a closeup of the head of a terrifying white dog robot
the dogbert animatronic from the 1997 live action dilbert pilot
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BIG FLAG: Trump said during his interview with The New York Times that he regretted not ordering the National Guard to seize voting machines in swing states after his loss in the 2020 election.
He doubted whether the Guard was "sophisticated enough" to carry out the order effectively.
Just repeating that I'd like to stop living in interesting times.
Future historians are going to have make up all sorts of complicated and structural reasons to explain the collapse of NATO and the Arctic War of 2026 because the truth is just way too stupid to believe.
Rubio wants to keep NATO, Miller and Trump are full on mad-king mode
realistically i *think* this probably ends with Rubio bringing down tensions and saying that a post-independence Greenland should be associated with the United States
but the fact that Euros are preparing for Big Tech sanctions is genuinely "shit's fucked" territory
Kinda funny that my Holy Grail of lost computer history is literally just some emails and Word documents about planning a boring minor release of Windows that changed track after like eight weeks.
Same with the original plan for #Windows Longhorn before it became a "big bang" release
"Windows Express" from ~2001 is one of the biggest mysteries to me
relatedly, ralph nader deserves to be remembered for the rest of time as someone who voluntarily assisted in a critical attack on american democracy, the importance of which far outweighs any of his consumer advocacy
I think almost all of the administration is fascist but they are thankfully idiots and we aren't in a fascist country.
I need to be clear about this, we're no longer being 'warned' about this, we're in the midst of a generational crisis caused by this.
You don't get Elon Musk, J.K. Rowling, Yoon Suk-yeol, Marc Andreesen and countless others in their reactionary incarnations without social media addiction. Period.
tapper is literally friends with scott adams
The Luna and Artemis crochet plushies are so cuuuuute ^-^
Made this thread about Longhorn's early planning when it was going to be a minor release after XP.
#Microsoft #Windows #.NET #SQL
Sadly, counterfactuals are extremely difficult because there is little information on what MS planned before the August 2001 decision. I would be very happy to hear new information about that period if it emerged.
At that moment, this original plan for a minor release to follow up XP was dead. Longhorn would go on to become a development disaster and reset (although not completely since some components survived) in mid-2004.
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"And Steve said, 'That means synchronizing the release.' And I said, 'Isn't that risky?' And Steve said, 'But isn't it obvious we should do this?'"
Ballmer made the decision to roll the dice at a senior-management retreat in August. It wasn't an easy one. BG recalls: We'd been talking about doing a lot of these things separately for a long time, but the mood was like, 'Hey, this incremental stuff is okay, but let's do something more dramatic.'
Instead of incrementally getting to the Blackcomb vision, Microsoft would instead effectively move the entirety of BC's featureset into LH.
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So Microsoft had this plan. By August 2001 XP was about to be released to manufacturing and split from .NET Server (and possibly Longhorn, if builds were being compiled this early) What happened to it? Well, at a senior management retreat, Steve Ballmer proposed a new strategy.
As for the other two infamous 'pillars' of WinFX (later #.NET Framework 3.0) I have little idea of Indigo (WCF) but Avalon (WPF) was 100% in development at this point. I have no idea if it would have shipped with Longhorn or not, however.