If you’re “entirely serious” in the literal sense, just to be super clear the answer to “why can’t the Democrats run an intellectual Canadian?” is that a Canadian is disqualified from the office of the President in the Constitution. Unfortunately, they didn’t think to prohibit megalomaniac felons. That’s apparently on us. :(

CA has only elected democratic (vaguely to the left of the median Democrat, if fairly rank-and-file) senators since 1992. As long as she didn’t leave it to chance and die during her term (…) while she coincided with the honestly fairly moderate-but-still-republican Gov Schwarzenegger, she could have had a hand in picking her replacement.

As others (including myself) have noted, any Democrat-led SCOTUS nomination or major piece of Dem legislation would have passed more-or-less the same. I’d be curious if there was some analysis of where a particular Dem Senator from CA was a “swing vote”. Meanwhile now we’re in a vacancy and her missing vote definitely matters (again, thankfully likely with less impact than RBG’s).

That last paragraph is all sorts of reasons why she should have retired 15 years ago (at 75!) When voters would have easily voted in her (possibly even hand picked!) protege.

We’re now left a mess because someone with an ego didn’t retire when they could have. Wait this is starting to sound familiar. Thankfully the consequences aren’t likely to be as dire this time.

It is a problem with The Court though. Sure, Sotomayor is classy here, but only because she chose to be. The things coming out about Thomas shouldn’t be allowed but no one is functionally capable of doing anything about them, even though we have rules in place for other civil servants - that’s the problem with the court.

Thanks for all the feedback!

The flatpak (I think that’s what people are talking about here) was what I was using before and IIRC, there was at least one point where the dev threw his hands up and stopped working on it, as someone (MS? Mojang? Google?) was making his life harder. That’s probably my biggest complaint about Bedrock, actually. It’s not nearly as buggy as its reputation claims, but lordy there’s a lot of hands in that pot. And that’s before you even start talking about cross play from the Switch…

I was actually hoping to hear that somehow Proton and the Windows version of Bedrock was the way to go these days, but glad that there’s at least something.