Chris Sears @OmegaLimit@qoto.org

@show Is that on all platforms, or just YouTube?

@Qbitzerre @anubis2814 @RustyBertrand

The problem with this line of reasoning that that the result of Clinton losing in 2016 was nominating and electing Biden. I've heard people saying that Democratic politicians losing will move the party left for about a quarter century now, and that still hasn't happened.

The real power base in the Democratic Party is where voters are delivering consistent wins in close elections, and that has been Georgia over the past four years. It's hardly a bastion of left-wing politics. Georgia has been the difference between Minority Leader McConnel and Majority Leader McConnel. Winning Georgia was a 32 Electoral College swing toward Biden.

If the left wing of the Democratic Party wants a bigger voice, then they have to deliver wins against Republicans in competitive races. Beating an incumbent Democrat in a primary and winning in a safe district doesn't move the needle. Flipping a swing district moves the needle significantly.

The right wing of the Republican Party has as much power as they do because they show up to vote for every election, every year, in every district.

Just to be clear, I am not defending Biden or saying he is above criticism. He is absolutely wrong on Gaza. Where we disagree is about the amount of leverage we have to push the party in any direction. A competitive primary won't give us a candidate who's right about Gaza because that’s not where the party is as a whole. Threatening to vote third-party will just get you ignored and the candidate looking for Republican votes to make up for the loss.

It sucks, but the only way to change it is to see it as a decades-long project of small wins and fight it out for the long-haul. Republicans have literally been doing that since the end of Jim Crow, and they've almost completed their victory.

@anubis2814 @Qbitzerre @RustyBertrand

I agree that there is no next time.

What Republicans learned in 2020 is that if you have too many people that are more loyal to the Constitution than the leader, then you cannot overturn elections. That isn't a mistake they are going to make again. Look into Project 2025 by the Herritage Foundation. They detail their plan to put loyalists in place if a Republican wins.

@show @transport_evolved_main Re - getting off Apple and moving to OpenSource for vide production: A good person to talk to is @thelinuxEXP He runs his channel using the hardware and software you described.

@TCMuffin @RustyBertrand My great-grandfather lived from 1897 to 1991. He got to see Halley's Comet twice: in 1910 and 1986.

Every math teacher has been waiting for this day.

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I gave up on #adventofcode a few days ago. It started to feel like a chore. However, I am looking forward to #genuary. I'm going to work through some of the prompts from last year to warmup on #p5.

Here is my sole completed prompt from last year. I finally fixed the glitch from the first frame. It turned out that I needed to move the camera before drawing the mobius strip.

https://editor.p5js.org/Prof-Sears/sketches/KFMfxBoYv

I just completed "Scratchcards" - Day 4 - Advent of Code 2023 #AdventOfCode https://adventofcode.com/2023/day/4

Old school looping FTW. I think I've used regular expressions in every puzzle this year.

Solution: https://editor.p5js.org/Prof-Sears/sketches/8vroArJcz

I just completed "Gear Ratios" - Day 3 - Advent of Code 2023 #AdventOfCode https://adventofcode.com/2023/day/3

Grades are submitted. I've decided to go back to Javascript. I may yet finish more than a dozen days.

Solution: https://editor.p5js.org/Prof-Sears/sketches/qvir3se0J