with the substitution of Iran (or the Middle East at large) for Vietnam

Ford's granting of a pardon to his predecessor, Richard Nixon, along with soaring inflation caused by the 1973 oil crisis, created a tough environment for the Republican Party.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1974_United_States_elections

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970s_energy_crisis#Arab-Israeli_conflict

I'm sure Vietnam played a part, but it was also corruption and high gas prices caused by US involvement in the Arab-Israeli conflict, same as now. History repeats itself.

The magnitude of the change is bigger than in 1974 but the Dems will have fewer seats than they did at the start of 1975. In 1974, they gained 4 Senate seats, leaving them with 61 total. In 2027, they will have 54-56 senate seats.

Kansas, Iowa, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Alaska all have Republican Senate seats up for reelection in 2028. All five of those states also had Republican Senate seats up for reelection this year and the first four at least, and possibly the fifth, have flipped from red to blue. If 2028 goes like 2026 and Alaska and Mississippi flip this year, Dems will have 61 seats in 2028, enough to break the filibuster for contentious votes along party lines. In terms of the end result of the makeup of the Senate, 2026 is more like 1972 election in which the Dems had 56 seats after the election and 2028 may be more like 1974 depending on how optimistic you are.

Shout out to Wikipedia for documenting all of this.

AI-generated website trash. Find a different source.

I think that's a reasonable reaction to the further encroachment of robots into parts of life where they didn't exist before.

I'll also say that if they decorated those things in a way that didn't make us feel like we're living in the WALL-E universe, I'd feel a tad bit better about it. Like, make it steampunk or something.

The hate is at least partly because there is and has always been a holy war over programming languages. Your choice of programming language greatly affects me. The software you write in language A (usually) can't interoperate well with the software I write in language B. You end up with duplication of effort and many implementations of a thing, one for each language, usually more than one, with differences between them that makes things complicated. You have more choices when there are more languages, adding complexity to the making of software. I would say Rust gets the brunt of the hate because it's new, but in 2026 that's not really true anymore.

http://idema.org/?download=7934

To make things more confusing, there's a goofy formula which tells you the actual capacity of a given advertised capacity. A drive advertised as 1 TB will always have exactly 1,000,204,886,016 bytes. It helps to have consistency, but nobody seems to knows where the formula came from.

https://superuser.com/questions/1037272/why-does-my-500gb-hard-drive-have-a-capacity-of-exactly-500-107-862-016-bytes

And that's only one of the hundred or so reasons he's the most corrupt president in modern history.

What Would Jesus Buy?

Take care of your wetware.

I just created !PapersWeLove@programming.dev if you're interested in sharing/discussing academic CS papers.

It's okay. Your continent's specialty is cheesemaking. And bread. You guys make good bread.