I’m not sure. I said in another comment in here that maybe having the public vote on districts would make it harder to pull off. Like, if the entire state needs to look at the map and say “That looks fair”, maybe it’ll be hard to make those paint splatter ones.

For many people, in-group is the only thing that matters.

There are no good republicans, but there are some exceptionally nasty ones.

Right. Unless you don’t check for hours, as in my original post, and I end up getting a kind of wine you didn’t like.

If you’re having a real time conversation, you’d see if they’re typing back right away

Cool. How walkable and transit-able is Denver?

I remember once in college buying condoms when the cashier was my (woman) friend’s mom. I’m pretty sure she thought I was fucking her daughter, since we hung out a lot, but I wasn’t and had no interest. Still got a stink eye.

I wonder if “I know it when I see it” would be good enough if it had to pass a public vote. Do you think the regular people on the street would vote to support gerrymandering? Getting good voter turnout and education is its own set of problems, admittedly.

Do you immediately close the text app after sending the message? In the scenario I described, I’d see the “they are typing” indicator and then wait for their message.

Gerrymandering should be a crime and conviction should mean removal from office and a life long ban on working in politics.

Now we just need a way to do that that isn’t vigilante violence.

It is kind of frustrating how every system needs to resist people (usually conservatives) from acting in bad faith.

For anyone in the future, I figured out how to turn off the edge tiling thing (which is what it’s called when a window touches the edge and it wants to resize it)

gsettings set org.gnome.mutter edge-tiling false per https://askubuntu.com/questions/1107089/how-to-disable-auto-resizing-of-windows-when-moved-to-the-top

I don’t think the board wants to do that, because the board is composed of CEOs and friends of CEOs. The rich have class solidarity. They’re not going to fuck each other over like that.

I don’t understand some people. Maybe it’s the ADHD?

Like, I’ll text them “Should I bring something to the party?”

They’ll immediately reply, “Sure. How about wine?”

I’ll immediately reply, “Cool. What kind?”

And then no answer. For hours.

I can only assume that they threw their phone in the river as soon as they sent their text message. Maybe it was overheating.

I just wrote elsewhere in this thread but to repeat myself: I think the real job of a CEO is to schmooze with other CEOs and rich idiots. They get funding. Everything else is pretty much a liability, and would be better handled by someone with relevant expertise.

My understanding is CEOs are mostly good at schmoozing with other CEOs and investors. A lot of investors operate on vibes, so having a CEO that can vibe with other rich bros can open pathways to funding. That’s about it. Everything else they do is a liability or could be better handled by someone with relevant expertise.

Also, we probably shouldn’t be driving most of our productivity based on the vibe check of a few rich boys.

I don’t think I know what gamemode is. Is it https://github.com/FeralInteractive/gamemode ?

I’ll do some searching for crackling next time I’m at the desktop

Yeah I don’t get it when just playing music or watching video. It’s mostly been when playing Guild Wars 2 in scenes with a lot of players. I wonder if there’s something like “when the CPU is in high demand, the audio gets less priority” happening. I saw some posts about a cpu “niceness” value but I’m not familiar enough to fuss with it, and it’s not a big deal right now.

I switched to linux because fuck microsoft. So far it’s been fine. A minor issue with crackling in the audio in one game, and I can’t figure out how to disable the “drag a window to the edge and it wants to tile it” thing (popos with the default gnome desktop environment). But those are minor things- my windows install I couldn’t get the bluetooth to connect to one device, and a bunch of other little annoyances were inescapable.

Oh dang I didn’t know this was happening or I might’ve gone.

Loans are forgiven if you die, right?