Depends on what you mean by matter. The point of the criminal justice system is, theoretically, to determine who breaks the law, and to punish people who break the law. In that sense it matters because Trump was found guilty in a fair trial by a jury of his peers.

If what you mean is that it will change the politics of America, certainly. Trump is now running with the specter of a conviction hanging over him. Even assuming appeals and pardons, that fundamentally changes the nature of the election. It raises real and serious questions about how he could serve if under house arrest, parole, or in prison. It forces us to reckon with the balance of powers in this country - can a person dodge justice because they attain high office, or do we hold them accountable no matter what?

If what you mean is in reality, no it probably won’t do shit.

And why do old people randomly capitalize nouns? Every Sentence reads like the just read the Written Word for the first time and wanted to give It a Try For Themselves

I know those are all real but this sentence is objectively hilarious

Because leaf blowers are fucking annoying and we need hope

Others have weighed in on the academic, but a lot of the American conservative braintrust is (literally) in think tanks like the Heritage Foundation, Federalist Society, John Birch Society, etc. These organizations vary from “pretty right wing” Heritage to “nearly literally fascist” John Birch Society, and they put out a LOT of papers and material they use to…I’ll generously say “inform” the public discourse.

In 20 years cell phones (as phones not portable computers) went from a tool that united people in new and exciting ways to a way for solicitors to spam us. It’s to the point that I don’t know anyone who answers their phone if they don’t have the caller’s number saved.

This is a choice that we have made. We could legislate this behavior and we as a society choose to act as if it is inevitable.

What is happening in your life

Honey I’m calling in sick tomorrow, new Noah Caldwell-Gervais just dropped

We will need some catapults too. We’ll need to make sure we can get people in, after all

Fair. I still don’t think that entitles Apple to a cut of purchases in the app, but you’re right that a download fee sucks.

Why does providing the App Store entitle them to a percentage of in app purchases instead of, say, a fee per download or something?

“You don’t need to use us for payments but you still need to pay us for the payments we had nothing to do with” is perfectly monopolistic

Most of the…land? This is the verbal form of “map more red libs get owned”

You know, where the people live

Probably not illegal per se but definitely cheaper and easier to fuck over: Texas labor protections are functionally nonexistent

We went from “the fundamentals have changed” to “the 90s were a long time ago” real fast. Regardless of who made the point initially you are arguing it. Full redesigns are expensive, inefficient, and likely to introduce new vulnerabilities. The existing implementation is refined by decades of real world use. We can incorporate new lessons without a full redesign - if we can’t then we should stop being software engineers.

A full redesign is usually the type of project a CTO I worked for pejoratively called “computer science projects.”

In what way have the fundamental assumptions of SSH changed?

Whole system rewrites are almost never a good idea

Which states rights? The right to do what, exactly?

Yeah even as a kid I found this whole “fundamental disagreement about how to run a state” argument to be nonsense

They still view the South as righteous. In Texas growing up I had history teachers refer to it as the war of northern aggression