Mostly out of curiosity but what’d HW do? I think we can squarely put more of the war on drugs on his shoulders than Reagan’s but, outside of that, I can think of so many more concrete things Reagan did to worsen and destabilize America (even if the effects were much later) than I can for the 1-term HW (but that may just be unfamiliarity, on my part).

“Thogh thaughts are tuff,” in a more blessèd timeline.

Really wish you didn’t, though.

Yeah; those are reasonable. Not overly-checkable stuff like the school you went to and degree you obtained.

This.

I remember, when Unity first came out and Gnome was considering mockups for Gnome 3, so many people complaining and me thinking that, yeah, maybe these weren’t perfect but they so clearly contained improvements over Gnome 2.

It was an exciting time to be joining Linux because there seemed to be real desire to experiment with new work flows and UI ideas that improved the standard computing experience.

I feel like time’s kind of borne out my feelings, there.

Yeah; took me a full year (granted, half your experience but still); once the husband joined me in applying to jobs around the clock did I start to make any headway (and that was still another 4 months). It was brutal.

Some people just like a little coffee in their sugar.

For a second, I read your fruit predilection literally and was like, “Is…watermelon controversial, now? Are they [the people who banned you] cartoonishly racist?”

I follow you, now; sucks but expected…