The city is buying me like 15 grand in new software licenses this year, but I can’t convince them to spend another 2 grand on a new fucking computer because mine is “supposed” to be good for 2 more years.

The lesson was to vote in the primaries.

We used to have a bit of that.

Until the aftermath of the election of 1800, the Vice Presidency went to the 2nd-place finisher instead of a running mate. It’s why Adams (a Federalist) had a Democratic-Republican (Jefferson) as his VeeP.

But then they ended up having the VeeP run against the sitting President in 1800, and it was a fucking mess. So they changed the constitution to put the VeeP on the ballot.

I’d like to take a moment to point out that the third-party candidate did not, in fact, win.

My work laptop was upgraded to Windows 11 and performance has severely suffered.

As someone who usually uses 3 monitors (sometimes 4) and does GIS, it’s an issue.