CPAC straw poll winner for 2028 Republican Presidential candidate, ladies and gentlemen.

Or, announce they’re changing their name to the Washington TACOs, then later in the week announce they’re putting implementation on a 90-day pause.

Appreciate the clarification.

“The trouble at UnitedHealth comes almost exactly six months after the murder of Brian Thompson, one of its top executives.”

Curious that the article dilutes Thompson’s position to “one of its top executives” against terming him “Witty’s predecessor as CEO for over three and a half years.”

That would be after the low hanging fruit of Moldova. Neighbors Ukraine, Constitutionally neutral, does not admit stationing foreign military troops on its territory, can only be altered by referendum, and not at all during a state of national emergency, martial law or war.

It’s not like there was a Warren-level progressive in the running.

And if there were, we know from 2020 there’d still be cosplay communists insisting she wasn’t progressive enough.

Recommend also the seminal TMRC dictionary for several terms absent here, plus some memorably elegant definitions:

Kludge: A crock that works.
Crock: A kludge that doesn’t work.

Same again true of Peter Samson’s original 1959 and 1960 editions.

As I write this reply, three buttons appear below the text dialog, “Reply,” “Cancel” and “Preview.” Not having deleted the text from dialog, nor committed to “Reply” or “Cancel,” if I now decide to view your profile on this page by clicking your user name, it has no effect. This appears true of all links except !main and those to off-site URLs, for example, the donation heart you mentioned.

I also observe the “Cancel” button is not offered when typing a reply to your initial post.

i really miss the (relative) locality of the old BBS days

I was recalling BBS days with @TurtleTourParty’s “99.9999% uptime is overrated” remark. We really have become spoiled in little better than a quarter century. The typical BBS had one phone line. Once you got past a busy signal, you had to economize your time online to give other users a chance. You’d install an offline reader to download new mail, disconnect, reply at leisure, and upload when you got back in.

Aside from the local quality (enforced by a forgotten fact-of-life called “long distance charges,” defined as “not far outside city limits”), you never posted anything to discover someone else had replied simultaneously, because you were preventing them from doing so. I have fond memories of message boards that were games designed around this fact.

Have not tried it yet, but this promises to recapture some feel of the “good ol’ days.” I wish it included a sound effect of that satisfying “connected” modem squawk when you fired it up.

My preference is usually Chicago style, but this Detroit stuff will do.