Do you think they looked at all the best demographics and polling they could get and said ‘nah, let’s go a different way lol’?

Yes, because the policies that are popular with their base and with the middle are not popular with their corporate donors and they have even refused to release their post-mortem analysis of the 2024 election.

There was no way to make any of that work, and thinking there was, that it was their strategy or the candidate, misses the point. ANY non right candidate will lose again if this issue isn’t understood.

I agree there that the “left” needs to coalesce more and quit with the purity test B’s at least on the national stage

No, you have policy proposals which she came in with very few (maternity leave, child tax credit, and removing the filibuster were the big ones) that addressed the economic security that the middle loves. She instead focused on culture wars, pointing the finger at Republicans in the Senate, and refusing to distance herself from Biden. Nothing in her proposals was exciting for the middle class and while her platitudes played well in opinion polls, 6.2 million less people came out to vote for her compared to 4 years prior. That’s a lack of excitement - people viewed her as more of the same rather than something new and promising

I’m not sure we’re on the same page. I’m not claiming she needed to move further left, I’m saying that using words to court the middle rather than policy doesn’t excite anyone and doesn’t get them to come out and vote. So doing talk show rounds, getting endorsements, etc at best move opinion polls but don’t impact votes and at worst only appeals to politicos who were already going to vote for her while turning off others

How’s that been working out for Dems? That’s the exact approach they’ve taken and have gotten humiliated at the ballot box. This isn’t about how far left they court, it’s about bold policy that actually helps the middle if they want their vote. Instead it’s vague platitudes and “we’re not as bad as the Republicans” without anything to back it up. So while it gets them points in opinion polls, it doesn’t translate to votes

Tankies might hate Ukraine but most of the left is very supportive. My point around Cheney and Kamala campaigning together was that it only went for the middle but absent policy proposals that bring some energy, at best you get a bump in the opinion polls but don’t actually bring people to the ballot box.

Trying to get the middle in the most boring way possible. Dems will never learn that being the ‘safe option’ doesn’t get people out to the polls

Damn, wish I had known about that before I went the takeout method

Only works for federal crimes

For databases, many like postgres have a ping / ready command you can use to ensure it’s up and not have the overhead of an actual query! Redis is the same way (I feel like pg and redis health checks covers a lot of the common stack patterns)

Agreed, people immediately think of junk foods like Doritos or soda when they hear “ultra-processed” but are surprised to hear by most definitions, yogurt and multi-grain bread for breakfast is “ultra-processed” as well despite those things being world’s apart in terms of health impact

Encrypted Matrix or mattermost server with jitsi?

Depends how close they are. Most of my friends (that are into self-hosting and collecting Linux ISOs) are across the country / world. So mailing encrypted SSDs works best for large transfers and nextcloud for small transfers

She’s not wrong. The only people I know who support / like Kamala work in the administration