Based on their reply, I think they’re definitely blaming Obama for it.

Everything in the link you provided says that Obama could have done a shitton more to ensure that the Senate Judiciary Committee actually did their jobs.

Uh … I’m seeing a whole lot of letters being written urging the senate to perform their expected duty. Not seeing anything actually proposing actions Obama could have done other than withdraw Garland and nominate someone else. But why would he have when the Republicans told Obama point blank that they would not hold any hearings or votes for any candidate and they followed through for all judicial appointments (not just SCOTUS, there were like 70 federal judges nominated in 2016, and over 100 empty seats at the end of his presidency) unless Hillary won so she couldn’t nominate someone more liberal) and Garland was already a name that the Republicans had name-dropped themselves as a reasonable nominee and they stonewalled him anyways. Maybe you could direct link to the parts of the article that say what specific legal avenues Obama had available to force the Republican committee to advance the nominee and McConnell to hold a floor vote. Something that 29 Democratic state attorneys general and the 194-strong Democractic House Representatives and 44 Democratic US Senators all overlooked.

America is now two good shakes away from a Fascist dictatorship. The midterm elections - or America’s own “Night of the Long Knives”, which seems all the more likely due to the rhetoric surrounding Kirk’s assassination - Will cinch this future in the bag.

Don’t disagree with you at all on any of this. But it’s decidedly not Obama’s fault that the SCOTUS seat went

The fact that Obama didn’t fill the position that Scalia opened when he died is probably one of the biggest missed opportunities in America’s recent history

Blaming that on Obama is a real bullshit take on reality. Like it was one of the biggest stories in 2016 and hugely factored in the campaign rhetoric for every federal office. I have a hard time giving you the benefit of the doubt that you’re genuinely unaware why the seat wasn’t filled.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merrick_Garland_Supreme_Court_nomination

I doubt company recruiters looking for full-time employees will care about your email domain as long as it works. However, if you’re trying to land contracts as an independent consultant then absolutely a custom domain for your firm shows a level of invested professionalism, in my opinion.

It may be as simple as having sent an attachment without a body.

The eggs are fine. You could replace the bacon with a veggie burger patty, or 96% lean burger patty, occasionally tuna salad. Or chicken salad.

Microsoft was already an established player in the smartphone market when the iPhone came out. It was Apple who came into the market and ate the lunches of MS and Blackberry.

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I mean, yeah, they are. He said before the election that he would be a dictator and the MAGA crowd was all like “yup, totally necessary, we’re all for it.”

who needs the web?

Anybody who cares enough to confirm whatever stupid bullshit the AI probabilistically regurgitated without actual understanding.

I’m not lamenting technology being a thing. I’m lamenting how its adoption is hindering learning basic stuff like writing out all your work in pencil for math class. If everything is multiple choice quiz, they learn to work through the problem step by step or have the chance for partial credit by showing they understand the overall process even though they made a minor arithmetic mistake.

Sure, a tablet and stylus for free-hand writing can solve that. But why add that additional cost of providing that to every student in primary school instead of just using pencil and paper for it?

That doesn’t mean learning how to interface with textbooks shouldn’t also be a thing though.

For sure they need to learn modern technology. But I don’t think they’re learning the actual source material as well this way. All of my childrens’ teachers feel the same.

Scanning the page with your eyes and brain is still better than hitting ctrl-f and having it pointed out for you. You’ll at least subconsciously pick up on other material on the page. And if they exact phrasing they’re scanning for manually isn’t found verbatim in the text, they’ll still be able to find relevant parts of the reading.

I agree about hating carrying textbooks around. But now as a parent (whose career is in software development and automation) with my kids having everything digitized … I hate it. Crappy platforms. Logins not working. Having to click back and forth all over the place to go between the assignments and the source material. Kids are just learning to ctrl-f for a keyword to find the answer instead of reading the surrounding context and memorize little fragments from a study guide to scan for in multiple choice online quizzes and tests. It absolutely sucks. Go back to pencil and paper please.

Close. Conservatism is collapsing the United States of America into irrelevance.

You know evangelicals don’t follow the pope, right? They’re pretty antagonistic towards Catholicism in general

Exactly why I thought they would have been turned off by him equating himself to the papacy.

Hi it’s still broken on my machine.

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See, the data is right there to raise the rates on the data centers causing the rise in demand and not the households.

Trump is a conflict of interest that walks

Trump is the interest. So he can’t be conflicted about it.