A funny thing that the Kamala campaign could do with the hundreds of millions of dollars sloshing around their campaign is just slap a big timer on the footage of trump confusedly wandering around on stage and run it as 50 different YouTube preroll ads
I've been a developer for maybe eight years and I don't think I've ever come across a block of code that made me literally gasp and scream. Until this morning.
While nowhere near as harmful as the denialists, it's still important to recognize the maladjustment of the continuists and push back on their dogmatic demand that the pandemic persists. For the most part, though, we roll our eyes and accept their insistence that it be spoken of in present tense.
As variants of COVID emerged in the past few years, they zealously prognosticated doom: the sheeple may have forgotten COVID, but COVID would soon show it hadn't forgotten them. Woe unto the sinners as the latest pestilence struck the land! Yet the vast misfortunes foretold never quite came about.
Balancing out the COVID denialists, in intensity, if not in harm, emerged a group of, I don't know, COVID continuists? People vocally and vehemently determined that 2022, then 2023, and now 2024 are still the darkest days of spring 2020. They've dwindled as normalcy persists, but aren't yet gone.
But the Biden admin WAS creating policy informed by data and science, it's just that this handful of critics had wildly different ideas on what policy to draw from them. Ideas many would say were fundamentally out of step not only with the political realities, but the very data itself.
During the Trump presidency, a lot of criticism was rightly directed at the admin for making policy without due consideration of the data and the science. As the Biden admin drew down mandates, a handful levied the same criticism, accusing them of putting politics over facts.
I'm sure that each of these pain points can be mitigated by skills that can be built up, but the barrier to entry is too high for me to hurdle with limited time and mental bandwidth. Might just go back to a subscription service as the actual cooking and eating are fun!
I took a break from my HelloFresh subscription in the spring with a hope to do more cooking on my own, but... It's really hard to make the time to figure out a meal and gather ingredients. Avoiding the burden of planning, shopping, and having misc. leftover ingredients around really is fantastic.