I’m not opposed to pushback.

I’m opposed to pushback that also pushes out queers and anyone that doesn’t match the corporate/centrist definition of normal.

Pushback against the nazis, not against “weird”.

Be weird and proud.

or, adopt them as pets as a graduation present

Why are you proposing that we be as nice as possible to fascists?

I’m sure I’m not alone. America is a very pro-weird place.

It alienated me and others like me that identify as weird.

You can’t win the left while shit talking non-hegemonic personalities and preferences.

No, Clinton-era thinking is trying to fluster the Republicans without being concerned with alienating the voters.

Me.

It alienated me.

Most queer people identify with the label “weird”.

I also saw pro-corporate outlets praising it.

Just because it flustered republicans doesn’t mean it didn’t alienate voters.

I agree with the rest of your message listing progressive policies that the majority of Americans support. That’s the winning strategy.

“Weird” alienated voters. It’s an example of bad messaging that the dems doubled down on that made them lose.

They lacked a platform that promised anything but more of the same that Americans were tired of. They needed to present something new and hopeful, not just lob an insult that much of America identifies with. A suite of policies to help the working class attracts votes to your side. Calling your opponents weird attracts votes to the weird anti-establishment.

Weird plays into the republican’s hands, and it annoys the hell out of me how the dems decided to throw the election to focus on petty insults that come off as compliments to most observers.

A part of the problem is that they didn’t hold back on broken and alienating messaging like “weird”. They should have focused on talking about what they can do for the people.

Fair, I was assuming that their unease was moral not safety.

As if a life could sprout from nothing once the work ends.

Some people pour their lives into work/school to try to make a new, better life grow out. It almost worked there for a bit. Then everything was killed in 2018 and now nothing can grow back in spite of all my efforts.

Ok, but their other options are Boeing and Russian Soyuz.

Asking for a source in case one is readily available?

A good and healthy thing to do.

Demanding a source beyond what someone has the energy or time or safety to supply?

Entitled.

Changing our space program from that of scientific exploration and understanding our neighbors to one of colonization and conquest.

Science Mission Directorate cut by 50%?

It’s not the people building the rockets getting cut the most.

It’s the people studying the planets and responsible for understanding and protecting their state before human development s’encubre.

paying money for vidja cosmetics

You can use a symlink to point to the figures directory of a certain run of the code. Add git history to the mix, and now you have an auditable record of what version of the code’s output ended up in each version of the paper.

You can be so anal and precise about everything.

Right.

Do your writing in text files accompanying the image files (figures). The LaTeX code is just instructions for how to render the various text sources arrange the figures on pages to be printed or rendered as slides.

It separates the flowing creative experience of writing and documenting what happened in the experiment from the fiddling creative experience of rendering, editing, and presentation to ensure that the text and figures line up appropriately and are on appropriate pages.

Separating fact finding from presentation is an important barrier in the scientific method.