I voted

This election feels as consequential as the two that were significant for me in 2016: That year’s US presidential election, and the Brexit referendum in the UK.

I did not want Trump to win in 2016, and I wanted Britain to remain in the EU. The irony of both of those choices is that they were the both inherently conservative, in the sense of maintaining the status quo, yet were campaigned against by the right-leaning Republican and Conservative parties in those two countries.

Here I am yet again, with a strong preference for the progressive party with the conservative candidate. No wild economic ideas, no violent threats against vulnerable groups, no threats to tear up existing allegiances with longstanding allies. In general, the ability to express nuanced statements about complex issues.

None of this is a discussion of VP Harris’ policy positions. I think there’s two reasons for my not being concerned about that:

1. She’d likely remain consistent with the current administration in many ways, for better or worse.
2. The other candidate’s policy positions can be tricky to reason about since they are presented so erratically, but when they come through they are isolationist, inflationary (tariffs), and socially conservative to the point they have that strong urine-soaked whiff of facism and racism.

It’s troubling that the result of this election appears to be on a knife-edge. Other people clearly frame things very differently.

Then he suggested NotchMeister which decorates apple silicon mac laptop notches. Mine now appears to leak some kind of noxious gas when a mouse strays into it.

I guess what has been happening in California will also happen on the East Coast.