there were talks for the US government to take a large equity stake as part of a bailout, but those fell through

I’m really surprised I didn’t get auto-duped. Usually submission of the same url gets forwarded to the old post if it’s recent enough…

is it? it's insanely ugly and interactions seem bizarre

Previous iterations have been a bit dated in terms of UI, but modern versions are pretty good. What interactions are bizzare? Leaving comments, approving a change and running presubmit tests are all pretty straightforward.

In a way it's really sad how many swings and misses Canonical has taken in its history.

I'm fine with a company getting things wrong from time to time. What I don't like is the attitude where they walk into the room and start moving the furniture around while smugly dismissing or ignoring talented and established people. Then after a bit of milling around they just give up and leave the room and everyone has to clean up the mess.

We have rights and representative republics to restrain the will of the people for a reason.

The representatives proposed the legislation, and the people want this. This is democracy working as intended regardless of your preferred flavor.

There was a recent leadership change at the EFF

They're still on youtube with low hundreds of views. Surely video content requires more effort to boot.

> Nate Silver, [...] made a post about this recently

Yeah and he put together an insane chart + data that's not tethered to reality.

What makes it not tethered to reality? Do you have a different chart?

It's quite tethered to reality.

> I’ve been seeing a phrase “id/acc”.

I'm curious where, because the top google hits for this are a one-like twitter post, and your comment.