{"id":56328,"date":"2025-03-05T06:07:16","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T14:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=56328"},"modified":"2025-03-04T18:21:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T02:21:13","slug":"open-thread-march-5-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/03\/05\/open-thread-march-5-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread March 5 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, The computer I keep the most up to date things on still wasn&#8217;t booting. I did some looking up on the other computer, did a little playing around in the system settings, and surprisingly (at least to me) got it to boot. Checking what I did against what I had planned, I hadn&#8217;t done too badly. I&#8217;m including a few items today which were lost from yesterday, and the rest tomorrow. Thanks for bearing with me. One thing I did fail to mention is that Trinette has been unwell for a bit over a week now &#8211; she is getting better, but it&#8217;s slow. I&#8217;m sure she would appreciate prayers, healing vibes, or however you communicate with the universe (and I would also appreciate on her behalf.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/heathercoxrichardson.substack.com\/p\/march-1-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Heather Cox Richardson<\/a> from (late) Saturday and including a previously aired interview even older. But some things take time to reveal themselves, and I think this may be one.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wonkette.com\/p\/gop-blocks-bill-to-give-grandma-2400\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wonkette<\/a> got the title wrong &#8211; it&#8217;s clear from the article the correct figure is $2,400 a year. Which makes it even more disgusting that it was blocked. Wealthy people already get a free ride. But they still want even more.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wonkette.com\/p\/why-are-these-snowflakes-so-upset\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wonkette<\/a> is singing my song. Someone should respond to some of these gripes with something like &#8220;Tell me you are both ignorant and insecure without telling me you are both ignorant and insecure.&#8221; Also, I have noticed (and I never use the phone for anything which can be done by email) that companies are NOT using &#8220;Press 1 for English&#8221; or anything similar in their menus &#8211; haven&#8217;t for years. They do have &#8220;Press 5 [or whatever] for Spanish,&#8221; but it&#8217;s clear English is assumed to be the default. If these snowflakes didn&#8217;t know that, they can&#8217;t be using\u00a0 phones for personal business much, if at all. Also, with regard to the poster from World War II, I might point out that, in a war, if no one on our side can &#8220;speak the enemy&#8217;s language,&#8221; it is impossible to get any kind of intelligence, which almost certainly will cost lives. That is why the Din\u00e9 code talkers were such game changers. (It&#8217;s pretty easy to tell when something pushes my buttons, isn&#8217;t it.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z5SmcVoaF2Q?si=EkvYjn_hFcgLgL8X\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/31tVtcOEbQ0?si=BbY5Pggf35P2nBia\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-56252\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/intheway.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"555\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, The computer I keep the most up to date things on still wasn&#8217;t booting. I did some looking up on the other computer, did a little playing around in the system settings, and surprisingly (at least to me) got it to boot. Checking what I did against what I had planned, I hadn&#8217;t done <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/03\/05\/open-thread-march-5-2025\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":56112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[4355,6234,4531,6259,6258,3811,3910,3851,4920],"class_list":["post-56328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-doge","tag-dogs","tag-gop-histrionics","tag-languages","tag-personal","tag-public-health","tag-social-security","tag-technology","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}