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I think he should have given you credit, you were clearly first and he responded to your tweet so he must have seen it! But he might have just forgotten he had the conversation wit…

I can't remember exactly what the now flagged comment said, but there is something odd and affected about adopting the slang/jargon of people a generation younger than you.

His tone is so histrionic. I'm glad the influence of people like this is now somewhat lower than 5 years ago.

Yes, that's also a very plausible explanation

He does some bad things but he would not get away with anything as extreme overturning an election based on a pretext like this, nor with widespread voter fraud. Eventually he will…

That’s different, the austrian example was about actual mistakes in the way votes were counted, cast, who were allowed to vote etc. Not the same as «we blame foreign bots» and some…

If these forces are so powerful, why don’t both sides use them and cancel each other out? It seems like people only invoke these explanations when their side loses, when they win i…

Yes, I think we agree!

A couple of other possible explanations: 1) People voted who don't normally vote, the main reason Trump has often overperformed polls. 2) Pollsters wanted to avoid a preference cas…

He seems like a bad guy. If you thought he would manage to kill democracy you're wrong. Especially with the EU support for civil society and the possibility of sanctions if he did …

This is exactly right. While I think it would be suboptimal you could imagine "rerun the elections if the winner breaks campaign finance law or gets support from abroad" as an esta…

Good news: I heard on a podcast with someone from System76 that they plan to support Fedora with an official Cosmic spin!

Same thing happened to me, I kept contacting him every six months or so for a couple of years and did not get a response for years after an advertised feature of the paid subcripti…