True. I was more responding to the article that makes no reference to Ada Lovelace. She’s deserves to be mentioned when that topic comes up.

Sorry, I’m firmly in Ada Lovelace’s camp for credit for first use of the term. https://medium.com/the-mumblings-of-a-security-professional/a-bug-in-the-machine-286800f71cbc

Democrats need to respond by making the story about why Trump killed the bipartisan immigration bill.

It memorable and serves it’s purpose to help inoculate lay people against pseudoscience. Something more objective but less catchy would not serve that purpose as well.

All true. My point is that if they’re polling current small business owners asking if she is business friendly, they might likely say no, because her plans aren’t directly friendly to their specific company.

🤣. Is there a clip of that from the TV view?

Well, one potential psychological flaw in her $50k small business tax credit is that it’s only for new small businesses to go towards startup costs.

Existing small businesses that may be struggling can look at that and only see her making it easier for their future competition to get rolling. It’s a net negative for them.

Just about the only people that are going to look at that tax credit and see how it benefits them are people that are already looking into starting a small business and the main thing holding them back is the startup costs. That’s probably not a lot of voters.

*Gerrymandering raises it’s hand.

There was (still is?) the Fair Vote Act that got introduced and immediately buried in committee for several sessions that addressed both RCV and gerrymandering. I’ve lost hope for it and stopped paying attention to it getting reintroduced.

Just another way for foreign countries to legally fund his campaign without limits. There are only so many sneakers they can “buy” before it starts to look too obvious what’s going on.

“Congressional Elections” includes The House of Representatives and The Senate.

TIL how to spell beaucoup.

I don’t usually run, but when I do, I run a mild/moderate fever.

Most? 🙂

I’m playing into their hands?!?! What the fuck am I doing that plays into their hands? What should I do that’s different? You’re not offering any solutions. You’re the one here just giving the hopeless vibes. If anyone is playing into anybody’s hands to undermine democracy, you’ll find them in the mirror. До свидания.

True story, about 20-25 years ago, a radio station in my home town was playing ads for some new local business doing web design.

After hearing the ad on my drive to work for the umpteen billionth time I finally got curious and went to check out their own website (I they’re charging people to build websites, they’re own website must be a pretty awesome demonstration of their skills, right?)

The website looked like absolute garbage and, upon viewing the source, the meta tags clearly betrayed the fact that it was created in Word.

I can only imagine how much money they were paying to run those ads. I even considered the possibility I was being pranked somehow.

Doesn’t fucking matter. It’s not a perfect system, but it’s the system we have, so I WILL participate in it, and I will fight to improve it. People like you working to demoralize people out of participating in and improving the system are the enemy… foreign or domestic.

They both have the same goals

Absolutely unadulterated bullshit. You either have no clue what you’re talking about or you are a foreign operative here intentionally trying to undermine democracy. GTFO!

While I agree with you for the most part, I don’t think it could make it any worse, and it could rescue some people that aren’t brainwashed yet.

AKA, Welfare States.

This was my initial thought as well. It would be relatively easy to put up some text explaining what happened to try and undo some of the damage.