{"id":1902,"date":"2020-02-04T16:15:28","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T21:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/control-h.org\/wordpress\/?p=1902"},"modified":"2020-02-04T16:15:28","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T21:15:28","slug":"searching-your-jank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2020\/02\/04\/searching-your-jank\/","title":{"rendered":"Searching Your Jank"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

First Sunday talk<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite a bit of discussion about Russian botnet influence in 2016 election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I posted something in the Slack channel about her being unhinged at one point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nobody<\/strong> has provided any<\/span> evidence that what the Russian botnets did changed a single vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wired had the best synopsis of what Muller’s indictments included<\/a>, but even that doesn’t show that anyone was convinced not<\/em> to vote for Hillary. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The majority of people who voted in the 2016 election voted for someone other than Hillary (including me; no, I didn’t support the President, but I definitely voted against<\/em><\/strong> Mrs. Clinton.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She also had an implicit contention that the rash of stories about evidence of governments being agencies being afflicted with ransomware induced people to not vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wait, what?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The local water department got hacked, so I’m not going to vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lots of skepticism, there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The third thing was a forceful encouragement to go vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While I normally do vote, for most of my life, I’ve gone specifically to vote against<\/em><\/strong> <\/em>a particular candidate (see 2016, where I went to vote against Hillary and Trump).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve also heard Katherine Mangu-Ward make several compelling arguments against voting. She wrote about this back in 2012<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As someone with views that don’t neatly-align with either of the two major parties, I appreciate it more these days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It leads me to give credence to the Ancaps’ argument that maybe we’d all be better off with less government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I worry a lot about what’s going to happen to me, personally, if on eof the Medicaid For All (yes, I know they call it Medicare, but it’ll be Medicaid). People like me will just not be treated, aside from palliative care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Solu-metrol is cheap. So are various oral analgesics. Add in anti-depressants, and all is good. Worry less about the long-term effects; maybe we’ll die sooner, and save money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First Sunday talk. Quite a bit of discussion about Russian botnet influence in 2016 election. I posted something in the Slack channel about her being unhinged at one point. Nobody has provided any evidence that what the Russian botnets did changed a single vote. Wired had the best synopsis of what Muller’s indictments included, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shmoocon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}