Texas is a suppressed, nonvoting, fairly purple state.

It’s the turnout that kills us here. In 2018 when Beto nearly defeated Cruz, we had 46% turnout.Historically we have like 25-45% turnout of eligible voters in midterm elections, which are the ones where our state-wide executive offices are elected. We only breach 50% for presidential elections, and even then I think around 63% is the highest. The districts are so gerrymandered, I thin kit would be difficult to flip the state house even with a surge in voters. But if we can flip the Gov. Lt. Gov, and AG in a midterm then we’ll finally have some capacity to try and unfuck the district maps.

If Texas Republican voters give the nomination to Ken Paxton and then lose the main election, they thoroughly deserve the loss.

I made a minor edit.

demvote splitter Talarico

Uh, Talarico announced his primary candidacy 3 months before Crockett.

Looking at their responses on vote411.org and comparing my stances on istandwith.com, they’re like over 90% the same. Also, their policy positions really aren’t that far apart from each other. Crockett is rated as being pro-Israel, while Talarico doesn’t really have a record on that issue. And looking at polling for the general, https://www.realclearpolling.com/elections/senate/2026/texas, they’re both pretty even against Paxton and Talarico has a statistically insignificant better chance against Cornyn than Crockett.

welcome to Talibannessee

Jack Smith was appointed in Nov. 2022 and filed the first charges in June of 2023. Call out Biden and Garland, but Smith was pretty focused and hit the ground running.

I see that https://www.trackaipac.com/ says she’s pro-Israel, but even they don’t indicate she’s received any money. I’m just saying if there’s no proof that she’s taken AIPAC money then stop using that as a talking point against her. Use her voting record and statements, things that are verifiable.

I see that https://www.trackaipac.com/ says she’s pro-Israel, but even they don’t indicate she’s received any money. I’m just saying if there’s no proof that she’s taken AIPAC money then stop using that as a talking point against her. Use her voting record and statements, things that are verifiable.

I don’t know about Crockett. She’s taken money from AIPAC.

I keep seeing this claim but can’t find any source for it. I can find lots of links saying there is no evidence that she has. Like this

https://factually.co/fact-checks/politics/do-james-talirico-jasmine-crockett-accept-aipac-donations-fdd37f

Uncle Clarence is chomping at the bit to hear a case to overturn Obergefell. He said as much in his concurring opinion of Dobbs.

hey my kids used to play this! weird game.

you learn more by having to read a whole page to find a sentence and then write your full sentence answer by hand than you do by hitting ctrl-f, ctrl-c, ctrl-v on the keyboard. You miss out on the surrounding contextual information.

If it’s open source it can be verified that it’s not storing the data.

And I 100% agree that software scanning an ID is an overall bad way to verify. With a CC# validation at least that shows up on my statement, but if my kid is sneaky enough to get mine out of my wallet I have no way of knowing.

I feel like #1 and #2 are problems whether its client side or server side. As for #3 I would lean in the direction of there being a one-time check with no persistent knowledge. Like when you flash your ID to the bartender to order a drink. A client app that scans the ID and returns the answer to the requestor.

But I don’t think there is any way to reliably implement this sort of thing. I think it should really just be left to parental control and monitoring.

Some kind of cryptographic signing of the executable could probably help with that.

Ultimately I don’t believe there can ever be a foolproof solution and the emphasis should be on client-side parental controls.

This goes in a better direction than web sites doing it themselves, I think. The government put out an open source tool that runs locally and the browser just gets a yay/nay return code from it.

I just bought a few WD drives direct, but their web site has a problem with validating virtual credit card numbers. I’m the few days it took to resolve it the price went up. Fortunately since I had the support ticket I was able to get refunded the difference.

What if it was just an off the cuff joke?

You know Russ, I’ve been known to fuck myself.

I guess you’re not thinking of “locked down” in terms of independent developers finding the iOS and Android “play by our rules and be distributed thru our app store or we’ll make it hard for users to run your software” to be a barrier to distribution.

I was referring to this

If this technology is successful, the end result could be that we would see our Linux laptops one day being as locked down as an Iphone or Android device.