Note they were already down for the year, so those did move stock down. This just moved it more.

I especially like the touch of getting trump to spit in the face of his base by converting the biggest Confederate monument.

I won’t disagree that people mostly voted against the current conditions rather than for anything in particular.

But the progressive movement is good optics along those lines, and embracing younger and more progressive folks in high visibility positions is likely a good way to extend that feeling of “hope and change”.

In practice, they may not get a lot of the agenda people would want through, but it sets a tone that things are actually being tried and makes it easier to squarely blame the president for lack of progress. At least until 2028…

Note this is far from a universal experience in this industry. Even if vibe coding worked as well in my problem domain as others, my manager would still be unable to deliver a vaguely decent solution.

Recently I was asked to review a vibe coded application from a random guy who convinced management he was onto something. But neither he nor anyone he knew could even identify the correct person to review the solution he vibed up. So they went to me and I recognized that I had nothing to do with the problem and forwarded them to the folks that would.

Ultimately, it was a rather visually impressive demo that didn’t do anything vaguely right under the presentation. This is the sort of disconnect between management and what they manage, they have a whole culture of not even understanding the depth of their problem domains.

Think the point is you can put aside the debate about when and if and just take it that all the likely alternative careers are in the same boat, whatever shape the boat is in. Especially if you’ve already done your education.

You might have more need to think on it if you are, say in high school or very early college. Then you might think on dramatically different paths based on risk or generally perceived risk.

At least from some of what I’ve read, their plan is likely to just ignore Congress. They’ve been arguing that the president has supreme authority to do what he wants, without being answerable to anyone.

The only thing in theory would be 2/3 Senate to convict after impeachment, and so long as they have enough of the Senate, they don’t have to even think about following the rules.

If 2/3 voted to remove Trump, they might even still be ok with that because JD Vance is another Project 2025 guy. They wouldn’t stand far taking both at once, but even if I could imagine some GOP convicting Trump as a scapegoat, they would not go so far as to have the office to the speaker of the house.

In short, Project 2025 might not see any dire threat from the new Congress and might be inclined to let it roll.

They did try to mess with voter rolls and mail in ballots, but it largely fizzled and would have only been a few thousand votes in places where it would not have mattered. Essentially the margin was so wide in the end there was no point in keeping up.

The ICE scenario was speculation, but as we got into October, it became less likely because it would have had to start by then to make a difference, particularly not being there for early voting meant they weren’t going to be there at all. I don’t think there was ever real information on that, just a “sounds like something they would do”.

I’m hoping that it continues to turn out to be nothing too severe, but Stephen Miller in particular worries me, he has long openly expressed an enthusiasm for things like sending GOP national guard units into democratically controlled states. They have openly said they have a plan to “govern without Congress”, but how far they can go or actually will try to go, who knows.

Well they are ramping upn national guard in dc for no stated reason…

So they will be suspiciously militarily equipped for January…

Yeah, issue being if they work for your company and management insists they have a job to do and you must provide what they ask for to do their job.

Though the most recent guy to inflict that on me is at risk of pissing off a customer as he pulled that on them and they are complaining rightly that someone that can’t sort out key based ssh auth has zero business touching their sysems. So some people can give reasonable push back.

You left out the retail investors thinking margin is a great way to amplify gains with no real risk…

Miller: The Senate will no longer be of any concern to you. Trump has dissolved the council permanently. Fear will keep the local systems in line.

If the president can credibly disagree on his removal, then you still need 2/3 of Senate, and also 2/3 of the house.

Removing a president still capable of uttering the words “I should not be removed” is harder than convicting after impeachment.

Now if Trump does not object, the 25th is easier, but however screwed up he is, he is still quite capable of disagreeing in a way to trigger the 2/3 of Congress requirement.

Beyond what others have said, I’ve heard him interview and I don’t think he can think on his feet too well.

He seemed to have a library of scripted responses and select the closest, but still mismatched response and sounded like he was reading a script. When the interviewer interjected to attempt to clarify what she assumed was a misunderstood question because the response was off, he just rewound a few words in his speech and continued, saying verbatim the last few words again before the interjection on the way to finish the response (which did kind of have an answer in the responses closing section, but the rest of the answer was useless and off topic).

On one question where he didn’t seem to have a good enough prepared response and he clearly had to wing it, it was pretty bad.

Easier said than done.

If you have to support the sort of user that barely managed to download a copy of putty a few years ago and kept using this, then walking them through key generation and use is a nightmare.

One could fairly argue that maybe such people shouldn’t have access to a system, but it is a reality.

Of course the likelihood that a system using musl is something that class of user would be accessing is lower.

Maybe now that ssh is generally “just there” for Windows users, you can more easily work with them to generate a key, or give them a zip file to make them have a key in a standard way. But the interaction of ssh and windows file security can be… Interesting, though mostly an issue on the ash server side.

Yeah, any application checking passwords would be vulnerable.

While that can be how style could be mismatched, in this case it’s generally for that AI slop feel. For example, I doubt you would have retraced the same thing from the same angle but subtly different for a new frame instead of just copying and scaling it.

And of course all the other stuff with it.

I support this, but I do want it settled quickly either way, not like the clusterfuck of infighting when the GOP had to pick a speaker.

I do think that’s broadly an issue, and unfortunate when a condition catches “cool” factor and suddenly a bunch of people want to be that. Feel like the trend started with" Asperger’s" in the 90s when a certain group of people liked the concept of “Autistic, but not bad, it just means an asshole who is smart”. Over time we now have ASD, ADHD, and DID as conditions that are actively desired among certain subcultures. Which really can muddy the waters when it comes to mental health diagnosis.

And he is not going to run he says

I suspect there’s some skepticism recently because a sort of Internet subculture developed around it being “cool” and some folks are adopting it as an affectation, and further prizing a diagnosis as real cred. So some people are shopping mental health professionals in pursuit of a diagnosis for that subculture.