Jeffires is comprised

The word you’re looking for is compromised.

You could always try using “sudo dpkg -r --force-all apt” instead. It won’t clean up the dependencies, admittedly.

Covid helped Trump by masking the effects of his economic policies. I’d say that Biden won despite Covid rather than because of it. Did you mean “because of Trump’s failure of a response to Covid”? Because that I could get behind.

“1500W”.

Riverbed, deathbed, we’re not overly picky.

Gotta be careful agreeing with crazy people online on lemmy today.

We’d just be omitting the implied “Doesn’t” from the middle.

I’m not sure how that would fly in the states of Al Obama and Flo Rida.

They’re still obligated to pay US taxes if they’re US citizens. Other countries with different tax policies I can perhaps get behind that somewhat, though.

And not paying workers.

So, they will override his veto

That depends on whether the Democrats win every senate seat that’s contested this year. If not, they’ll probably need some fence crossers in the senate to reach the two thirds majority to override the veto.

Sure, but the fast unofficial result is what leads to a quick victory being declared for the wrong person, and then “they’re stealing the votes, stop the count” when the results “change” from what was on the TV.

That’s caused by partial result announcements. Which would still happen with or without voting machines, given the way your elections are run. You could change that, but you probably won’t. Especially given you’d end up with conspiracy nonsense (“but what are they hiding?!?”) if you waited for the complete and official numbers - especially with the instant gratification people are programmed for these days. So damned if you do, damned if you don’t.

The legibility and consistency (and potentially streamlining voter throughput at the polls) is probably the much more important part, anyway. Not necessarily to the point of voting machines being a reasonable expense, I’d suggest, but the voting machine company lobbyists are effective if nothing else.

Florida, unless he has two cases against the BBC.

A fast unofficial result, and a legible and consistent printed ballot to be counted.

tl;dr voting machines will always be a mistake.

As long as there’s a physical ballot that gets checked by the voter as part of the process and then physically counted for the official result, voting machines can be a non-mistake.

Public transit is never going to work until people stop being allowed to make it not work.

That’s an interesting misstatement of his point. He’s a radical socialist arguing that capitalism can naturally end a different way than fascism. That’s not exactly arguing for capitalism.

If the code is obvious crap, it doesn’t matter if AI was involved. If the code is perfectly obviously fine, it doesn’t (directly) matter if AI was involved.

In the grey area in between, if someone doesn’t say AI was involved it might mean AI was used undisclosed to vibe code the result from beginning to end. If someone said AI was involved, it might mean AI was used solely to speed up testing to track down the cause of the bug. In the former case, you’ll get nothing useful out of the submitter; in the latter case the submitter can engage usefully in pushback on their proposed flawed fix. In neither case did the AI disclosure (or lack thereof) actually help.

And that’s more or less where this news comes from - the tool usage disclosure turned out to not be useful, partly due to the vagueness of the method of disclosure (a tag in the commit message), partly due to people not reliably following the requirement, so they decided to stop requiring it.

I’m not going to start using AI voluntarily any time soon, but I’m also not going to start panicking that the kernel is suddenly completely turned into vibe coded AI slop like so many crazy people seem to have been doing lately.

why shouldn’t they promote their state of education to relay their level of comprehension and intellect?

People with PhDs generally have a deep understanding of a narrow subject. And outside of that narrow scope, some of them do things like try to fill a bucket with more water by extending it at the top with cardboard. And that type are the most likely to compensate for their other inadequacies by relying on their academic achievement.

In my experience the people with PhDs whose intellects I have the most respect for are the ones I’m least likely to hear about their doctorate from. It’s not a marker for comprehension and intellect, it’s a marker for obsessive perseverance and interest in an academic field, plus an ability to write technical language in that field.

People who say unprompted that they have a PhD as proof of their intelligence probably don’t, and most likely don’t spend much time dealing with PhDs either.