Now, it's in Cali, where it's not as strong a statement as in some other states, but it's still got a lot of precedent behind it.

Universal Blue[^2] has some spins that got a glow up, but their dev team gives a bit of the "everything old is bad" vibe.

OpenSUSE's MicroOS[^3] desktops aren't ready for nontechnical people, but their atomic upgrade strategy is much faster and simpler (btrfs snapshots). I'm keeping an eye on it.

^1: https://fedoraproject.org/atomic-desktops/

^2: https://universal-blue.org

^3: https://microos.opensuse.org

A bunch of Americans have been taught that protests only "count" if they don't inconvenience anyone. Laws have been changed to make effective protest impossible. It's legal to ram protesters with your car in Florida, for instance. The cops use force to suppress protests and the media tells everyone your protest was invalid because it broke the law.

If we press the point more aggressively, we'll probably start another civil war. The right holds Rittenhouse up as a hero, and that's not an isolated thing. For decades, average, rank-and-file GOP voters have made jokes and jabs about shooting liberals. It used to be a few tasteless blowhards, but it's commonplace now. See also comments from Kevin Roberts about how the "second American Revolution" will be "bloodless if the left allows it."

There are resistance movements extant and forming, but it's a wicked problem. The size and population of the US requires more resources and participants to make an impact. The speed at which the situation is changing makes it hard to find purchase to do so.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_mill

In some cases, time pressure can focus me and get me to a solution faster, but I then need downtime to recharge. I don't think I've worked in that sort of environment since working in food service or at a movie theater.

Deadlines often just stress me because I can't effectively reason about the intervening time.