As maligned as iTunes is, I could go days and maybe even reboots after pausing without losing my place. Music in iOS just forgot what I was playing three hours ago.
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Coder who dabbles in writing and is currently Austin-based after stints in New York City and Connecticut. You can find my writings at both this microblog as well as on my long form blog found at the totally trustworthy wormsandviruses.com.
State preservation is more of an ideal than a reality in i(Pad)OS, isn’t it?
“Great”
One aspect of this last campaign that puzzled me was Trump’s 2020 slogan: “Keep America Great”. How could this be the slogan of an impeached president in the middle of a grossly mishandled and devastating pandemic?
Here’s the thing though. Trying to make sense of modern Republicans while assuming rationality is a fools game. Trump voters aren’t rational. They are racist. Take Trump’s first campaign slogan and how quickly his sycophants claimed its victory. To them, Trump made America great the moment a white man defeated a woman to replace a black man in office. Everything else was gravy.
“Keep America Great” only makes sense if a) you are a racist, b) “great” means “white”.
I don’t think I am the only one who has struggled to understand the movement that ultimately led to Trump’s election. The media has been unable to put their finger on the seemingly elusive motivations of what has undoubtedly been the dominant party in American politics my whole life. We all understood racists voted Republican and that Republican candidates catered to racists, and as ugly as that was, that was in the background. We didn’t want to acknowledge the even uglier truth that racism was the driving force.
So rather than address it head on, we did what anyone does when trying rationalize something irrational. We talked in circles. Republicans care about small government. No. Republicans are deficit hawks? Not that either. Republicans about personal freedom. Not really. We were afraid to see the racism so we did all this work twisting ourselves in knots trying to find reasonable policy where there was none.
All that did was benefit the racists.
This next decade will continue to be the biggest test of America’s democracy, and I’m not wasting any more energy trying to rationalize the acts of racists. Will you?
I finally got around to emulating both of Mac OS X’s parents.
While yesterday provided great relief, “going back to normal” is of no comfort. That “normal” elected a fascist. Going back to it will lead to the same result, only the next fascist may not be so incompetent. That normal is not good enough. We have to be better.
In celebration of today’s inauguration, I had a nice healthy dinner. It was Brussels sprouts…
…that were fried…
…and served with gnocchi…
…that were also fried.
There was some wine too.
Anyhow, I feel a lot better.
(Reads Biden Peloton bullshit.)
Ah, I see. After years of lowering the bar for Trump, news orgs have already transitioned to holding the presidency to the highest of real and completely made up standards.
What bias?
Bill Clinton was president when Tom Brady was drafted.
God willing, Brady will be playing his 14th conference championship game under a fourth U.S. president.
Metrics Bias: When data analysis doesn’t account for ease of measurement, leading to false conclusions.
Example: “Obnoxious Ad Campaign A” performed better than “Tasteful Campaign B” because it generated more clicks.