This is just basic “undergrad pads word count” strategy.

I AM REGULAR HUMAN I AM NOT SUFFERING MALFUNCTION CHECK BACK IN 1e3 PLANET REVOLUTIONS

Look at that!

A few nights in French jail worked wonders.

Throw a device from s series into a fire as a spot check and if it burns it’s ok, if it explodes give the entire series to your enemy’s kids to play with.

Most high explosives burn unless detonated properly.

This is really basic stuff. I don’t think you should be out and about giving people advice about handling (potential) explosives.

This. The Brits have a first past the post system. Greens now are winning mayorships and parliament seats and making deals with labor not to split the vote in their favor because they have been building local support for decades.

They are a force in their districts, so they get elected to office in their districts. Do that to a few dozen districts and you can meaningfully affect the balance of power in Westminster. Then you start getting into coalitions and supplying ministers.

You can’t just wake up once every four years and hope to be anything but a spoiler candidate.

part of the reason we have AOC today is because the election registration process is accessible to people who have limited resources but a lot of enthusiasm.

You could not have picked a worse example for your position.

AOC crosses the Ts. She dots the Is. And she sure as shit DOES NOT SUBMIT THE WRONG FORM WHEN FILLING FOR AN ELECTION.

These guys are no AOC.

Yes. The GP said all of that. The thing is, none of it matters. It’s the responsibility of the submitter to submit the correct forms. It’s bureaucracy 101.

Also, of course the forms are similar. They are from the same agency for a similar purpose. But details matter in this business.

They didn’t file the correct paperwork. They are not a victim here. They are ducking adults representing a ducking national party. You check the forms and make sure they are correct before you file them.

This is not hard. Every adult does it multiple times every year for all sorts of reasons. It’s a basic citizenship skill.

The fact that you can mess this up AND REFUSE TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR IT like a ducking toddler makes it very clear they are not a serious political party.

NYT pitch bot:

TRUMP PROPOSES BOLD SOLUTIONS AS HE CONNECTS DOMESTIC ENERGY POLICY AND NATIONAL SECURITY IN NEW GRAND STRATEGIC PLAN

I unironically love the theme song sequence in that show, but I know it’s a point of contention so I figured I’d poke the hornet’s nest a bit.

If you don’t specify it’s Enterprise of course! Who could resist that catchy theme song?

That’s highly dependent on the hardware. My router only has two ports.

Just to make sure you know this, routers are not switches. You might get some of them to sort behave like switches with careful configuration, but most of the time it’s asking for a lot of trouble.

You have three routers? Why?

Throw 2 of them out and get actual switches.

Hah, I had kids in the low-res era. By the time 4K rolled along they were already teenagers in the “put the camera away, dad” stage ;)

What are you guys storing in your phones? Mine hasn’t gotten anywhere close to full in years.

I’m starting to feel like I’m missing out on something important!

He’s totally going to fire every single federal employee and then complain that he can’t renew his passport.

Most operating systems these days are just micro-kernels to run the actual operating system, your browser. Most users will be perfectly happy using whatever in most cases as long as you can get one of the major browsers on it.

If they have special requirements, then you need to figure them out first.

I’ll do something even better.

If they want to learn how to run their own stuff, go ahead and teach them.

Do you think sister here wants to learn how to run nextcloud?