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I remember seeing that, and early on it seemed fairly reasonable then it started materializing pieces out of nowhere and convincing each other that they had already lost.

Because the business leaders are famously diligent about putting aside the marketing push and reading into the nuance of the research instead.

Why should that be bundled with peripherals.. doesn't seem to be a good "synergy".

That is your use case, that relative to your individual usage only one application uses the framework. In that very specific scenario, sure. However with electron it's forced to be that way for every single application no matter what your scenario is.

If electron packaged as a dependency, then it would be similar. But it's always forcibly bundled.

Questions would be:

Was this a sincere account or satire?

Even if sincere, did that post actually exist?

It just seems a bit too much to believe someone would admit it is just for the lulz at making liberals upset. Maybe they admit to it being a bonus but to say it is the point.. Particularly in a scenario where that admission very explicitly amounts to a self own...

Of the things listed in this post, I don't think Harris would have pursued any of those. There are other negative outcomes that may have been the same, but I don't think any of those.

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

Both things can be true.

A good campaign can get people into the voting booth.

A demographic that fails to show up when you think you've done everything that makes sense to get them out can cause them to give up on the demographic. They may be woefully misinformed about what they should be doing, but since they don't know any better, they are likely to just give it up as a lost cause.

Show up in the primaries for the candidate you want, it's the only realistic way to break the chicken and egg of the establishment ignoring the voters that don't show up and the voters not showing up for the establishment that ignores them. If the establishment is surprised by the primary outcome, that's the strongest wakeup call for them.

On the scientific discoveries, we have gotten the low hanging fruit. The twentieth century was remarkable, but the limitations of physics are harsh. A lot of excitement as we went from barely pulling off heavier than air flight to a moon landing in under 50 years. Media naturally imagined space exploration to be just a matter of time. Alas everything is exponentially harder and any further loopholes are supremely elusive.

Probably the one area with a great deal of unrealized potential would be biology, because the ethical easy forward is slow.

He's always been team Elon, and team Elon also likes to be contrarian and 'edgy', so that aligned with being pro Trump. He also wants to ditch government spending and regulation, which aligns to a claimed GOP principle (though they love spending so it's a lie). So now he's faced with the reality that everyone else already knew, the Republicans spend like crazy, even less responsibly than Democrats.

He basically wants a party to represent the perspective of 'screw poor people' as it's one and only tenant.

While it is true he has been crappy and not really that smart pretty much from the onset, the world would have been happy to continue perpetuating the myth of Musk as the real world Tony Stark.

People wanted that narrative, certain people profited immensely off the myth, and there wasn't much practical downside apart from it being really unjustified for these folks to get so rich, but we accept that downside constantly.

It passed the house but not quite yet the Senate and it looks like it will have to go back to the house because the Senate has changed it.