Maybe, oh, just build public housing at scale instead of relying on a patchwork of underfunded and undergoverned agencies and P3 initiatives?

I’m going to say Win8 & 8.1.

Say what you will about the UI, they did great work on the underlying kernel, file system and APIs. If they’d continued to refine it, it’d be damn near perfect.

They really started to lose the plot with 10; it kept a lot of what made 8 good (and steals a lot of goodwill from 8) but you can see the adware and telemetry start to creep in.

The next best I’d have to give to Vista, which also did some much needed revitalization, only to see 7 get the glory because Microsoft flubbed the hardware requirements and vendors were sloppy with drivers.

My favourite is NT3.5: full microkernel, no GDI in kernel space, no printer drivers in the kernel, less registry issues. We’d have skipped a lot of pain from the 90s and 2000s had Microsoft not went backwards with 9x and NT4.

How much of this is decline at the expense of Windows 11, due to Steam lowering barriers to entry, fatigue with Windows' hard selling, and/or extending the useful like of hardware that W11 abandoned.

If Democrats want change, this is how to do it:

1. Win general elections; vote blue no matter who. 2 Primary out the corporatist candidates every chance there is, right down to the level of school trustee.

This actually works, as we've seen with the GOP and their turn to rabid fascism. It can also work for good.

Yeah, because just letting Russia have what it wanted worked out really well the first two times. I'm sure that of Ukraine just rolls over That the Russians won't be back in two or so years.

It's because he's their creepy fucker.

If Jesus came down from heaven and ran as a Democrat, these people would all still vote Trump.

Do not underestimate the power of tribal instincts in social primates.

This is why you don't commit war crimes: it puts your whole diaspora I'm danger.

Jesus only physically attacked one group of people.

Religious capitalists.

If it weren't tragic, it would be funny.

So, they feel that Israel needs "living room?"

You assume they want electoral reform at all

They don't.

They'd rather lose now and keep the system that would net them another majority of seats (without a majority of votes) in the future, then implement a system that would see them never realize another majority ever again.

The Liberals would rather lose every seat in Parliament and be reduced to zero than implement real electoral reform.

Maybe if they cut back on Disney+, lattes and avocado toast they could sell these for less?