nickhammes

Oh. My. That is somehow even worse than I thought.

Yeah I didn't know about the "purchasing the right to call himself a founder" thing until fairly recently. I probably would have started in a similar place if I had

My respect for him tanked in 2014 when I first met someone who worked for him, and heard what working for him is like. Abusive managerial style sounds.. too gentle. Somewhere during the Trump administration I lost my last ounce of respect for him, and somewhere in the last few years I started losing respect for people who still think positively of him.

Between his sense of humor that reads as '15 year old on 4chan', his aggressive bigotry, and abject lack of redeeming qualities, I'm not sure what he could do to change my mind at this point. If he gave a billion to the Trevor project and apologized for the bigotry, I'd be skeptical about his angle.

The best part is if the question goes up to SCOTUS, it might well get consolidated with Cannon's dismissal, and they're considering one legal question in cases against a Trump and a Biden.

If you parked in their lot, the waitstaff will yell profanities at your driver?

I just followed their instructions to delete my account, citing their CEO's unprofessional use of their mailing list, and my resulting discomfort with them having my mailing address. You may want to consider doing the same.

I don't think anyone intends public funds to be quite that sticky; public education is itself a public good, and having once attended a public school really has nothing to do with developing a product 20 years down the road.

Also, writing open source code can support a viable business. Not every example has been successful, and some have been sold to hypercapitalist owners who wanted to extract more profit, others have failed to keep up, but Canonical is doing alright with it, Red Hat did for a long time, among others. Plenty of bigger tech companies also employ people to write open source software, despite it not being the company's main business, React, PyTorch, TensorFlow, and so many other projects. Those engineers definitely aren't working for free.

I don't think it changes anyone's mind, but it could affect who shows up to vote.

It's not evidence that this was staged, but it does seem rather like evidence that he had a plan in the event someone tried this.

There's a lot of time, a lot can happen, but this just justified a lot of the nonsense narratives the right wing has been trying to push.

I really hope you're wrong, but it certainly helps him.

Yeah the truth is we don't know. There are lots of possible causes we can't rule out at this point, it seems dangerous for a publicity stunt, but it's possible. Someone afraid and somewhat unhinged, among other possibilities.

Giant Growth isn't that great, I'd usually rather have protection abilities like Indestructible or Hexproof, an aggro ability like Trample, or a [[Fog]] effect. Even if it costs more.

A lot of green combat tricks are more expensive Giant Growths that give you added value, and to my eye this is strictly better than a few of them, one of the most versatile save for [[Gaea's Gift]], and one of the best.

Not every green deck wants combat tricks? But this is a pretty good one. I'll definitely pick up a few.