I don’t know if the new majority broke the rules or not. I’m not a lawyer nor a judge. Chief Justice Ziegler may have a point but it doesn’t help when she does her disagreement through the public lens.

For as much as I am happy that Protasiewicz won the election, I am not happy with how the election was run. Instead of it being an election for a judge, it was made to be an election for a politician (on both sides) who gets to wear a judge’s robe for a very long time.

Anyone who can put two brain cells together can understand that a judge will lean certain ways based on their own ideology, but impartial conduct is crucial to a well maintained judiciary.

This is how coups start; this is how coups get justified. Delegitimizing our court system is exactly what some on the extreme political left and right want. Putin and Xi are allowed their power because they put their people in the right political positions AND their people in the right judicial positions. Trump tried to do the same thing, and right now is banking on it for 2024.

I am so going to try this - thank you!

Autumn - fall colors are the best time of year for me.

2nd - spring knowing that the snow will be melting and the flowers will soon be blooming

3rd - winter as I prefer colder weather to hotter

4th - summer

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My first experience with Linux was in the mid 80s when I was in the service working with AT&T 3B20 and Sperry UNIX servers as an admin. I enjoyed just about every aspect of the OS, but most government, contractor, and civilian jobs required desktop software that Linux either couldn’t install or the open source equivalent just wasn’t good enough.

Over the many, MANY, years I have kept experimenting with the various desktop environments, but with my current job a large percentage of our servers are Ubuntu or RedHat Linux (although we’re being forced to migrate to Windows Servers for many of the same reasons yet again).

That being said, with the ability for many Microsoft Office365 products working well enough as web-apps, my home laptop runs 100% KDE Neon, and with the exception of needing a couple Windows-only programs (which no longer runs on Linux) I’d probably be running KDE Neon on my work laptop as well. If I can ever get Cisco ASDM to work with Wine and/or Bottles, I will be switching over soon after.

The DEs in the last few years are light years ahead, and I am personally very impressed with just how smooth everything works. My hope is to get back to a semi-40 hour work week in a few years and help contribute - not as a programmer, but perhaps as a QA tester or the like.