If you’re within probably 1.5 hours of the Minneapolis/st. Paul you’re probably among sane folk, maybe within 30 of Duluth as well, but if you’re out in the boonies and such you might be finding people who, while polite, might be flying a trump flag and think “city/colored folk” are the problem.

So he put himself in the position of “I’m not smart” or “I talked to Putin”? Imagine putting yourself in checkmate like that

“is usually written by an over worked engineer”

I’m in this post and I don’t like it.

But really these scada systems are rarely well defined by the time implementation happens. Often the architect has a great plan, but by the time it’s passed to a manager, a non-software engineer, to the product engineer to the automation team to the contractor the end result is “X data is pushed in With Y form and we use either a,b,or c date time stamp any nobody knows”

As they should be. Walz is a veteran, sensible and overwhelming attentive to his constituents compared to most political figures, a teacher, a coach, and genuinely wants the best for people. Not Democrats, not Republicans, but people. Why wouldn’t you be swayed by somebody who has proven again and again they want the best for everybody in the limits of the situation?

Minnesotan here, been very pleased with the direction of policy and commitment to constituents he’s had. Bummed he won’t be the gov when he’s VP but that’s just me being a little selfish.