Probably, but it's going to be based on anecdotes. This one actually has polling.

Yeah, kids are allowed to vote (and go off to war, and get themselves into crippling debt) at 18 but their decision making doesn't mature until after they're 25. Maybe adulthood should start a little later.

Remember, if they're voting in their first election this year, there's a decent chance they were under ten before Trump emerged on the scene as a politician. They don't remember what it used to be like. They think this is normal.

I mean, yes, and in those three months will be the democratic vote to actually nominate the candidate. I don't see any value in having another vote before then.

Also, since it's apparently legal for a president to do anything he wants, I find it tough to figure out how they could've done a coup on him at all.

Actually, there are several popular journalist creators doing deep-dive explainers on short form video platforms, and they're doing it in a way that gets them millions of views. It's not the platform or even the length of the video. In almost every measurable way, we're better informed now than when newspapers were the only form of news.

I think the problem is actually that there's too much information, and as a result the important stuff is getting buried (or rather, the unimportant/misinformed stuff is being treated as equally true).

Well, there was. It was on January 6, 2021.

For that to happen it would need to have been in March at the latest. Biden did the right thing, but he waited quite a long time to do it. At this point, support needs to coalesce around one candidate.

Not that I disagree. I absolutely don't. It's just too late for processes like that at this point.

Happy to help.

In any case, not for the average person.

Definitely not for the "normie" then.

Would that I were so lucky.

I'm just a guy with a digital version of the book easy at hand. You're welcome!

Ok, so I am not an expert, and I am not the OP. But my understanding is that Secure Boot is checking with a relatively small list of trustworthy signing certificates to make sure that the OS and hardware are what they claim to be on boot. One of those certificates belongs to a Microsoft application called Shim, which can be updated regularly as new stuff comes out. And technically you can whitelist other certificates, too, but I have no idea how you might do that.

The problem is, there's no real way to get around the reality that you're trusting Microsoft to not be compromised, to not go evil, to not misuse their ubiquity and position of trust as a way to depress competition, etc. It's a single point of failure that's presents a massive and very attractive target to attackers, since it could be used to intentionally do what CrowdStrike did accidentally last week.

And it's not necessarily proven that it can do what it claims to do, either. In fact, it might be a quixotic and ultimately impossible task to try and prevent boot attacks from UEFI.

But OP might have other reasons in mind, I dunno.

"Back the blue, no matter who?" I mean, I'm not going to put it on a Punisher sticker or anything, but...

You honor me, friend. Far more than I deserve.

Elementary.

Same. I've kept the Christian and ditched the conservative; but honestly I think running headfirst into what basically amounts to socialism aligned me more closely with Biblical values than I ever was as a Republican.

It's been a whirlwind-y decade.

Hey Its Me Ur Loch Ness Monster

Yeah, I mean technically. I dunno, it's a little bit tough to say that since there's nobody else in the race (and thus she's the only one with any momentum at all). She got the nod from the current president and the non-binding support of enough delegates to clinch the nomination. It's not like there's a whole lot of doubt that she's going to be the nominee, unless something unexpected goes down over the next few days.

And to be clear, I don't think that diminishes how impressive her feat is. I just think it's more about the fact that she's managed to reinvigorate the entire political center-left in just a few days, and flip this race from "a 2020 rerun" to "something completely new."