We do know if Perot functioned as a spoiler. We know because after hw bush lost a bunch of people threw around the spoiler accusation and that prompted several groups to analyze the results in depth as you said would be necessary over the next decade.

It turns out that Perot did have more pull amongst conservative voters but the electoral college effect was only to reduce Clinton’s margin of victory.

Which sounds crazy unless you grew up in an area that was filled with conservative voters who had no desire to get behind hw bush after he lied about taxes.

Clinton’s success came from being conservative enough to rob pissed republican voters from their party, not from Perot siphoning off hw bush’s base.

Anyway, I’ll leave aside the question of how anyone can suggest that a regime actively supplying and denying a genocide while suppressing protests against it doesn’t count as fascist already and ask: if you really believe that project 2025 represents a move towards one party autocracy, and you remember January 6, what makes you think that Biden being declared the winner is going to stop the fascist state you fear?

If you truly believe that the republicans are as big a threat as you say then it doesn’t matter how people vote, they’ll just attempt a coup better this time. You’d make more sense if you were telling people to arm themselves instead of vote.

Hell yeah!

Take some time to get familiar with using chroot or boot-repair to fix the bootloader when a windows update inevitably breaks it.

It’s wild that you chose Perot as your example when he’s generally accepted as having not been a spoiler and his anti-nafta platform dragged it kicking and screaming into daylight for everyone to see.

If anything, Perot ‘92 was a great example of a non spoiler third party forcing both major parties to actually be held accountable for their policies.

When both parties don’t represent you, vote for one that does!

I mean yes you’re right but also most microorganisms that cause disease die quickly without their little droplets and particles to cling to.

On the other hand, procedure masks rely on those droplets to be the microorganism carriers that they can more easily stop instead of falling back on electrostatic attraction as the lil guys float through em.

In conclusion, infectious disease is a land of contrasts and while hospitals can rely on technologically advanced hvac systems to maintain a narrow range of temperature and humidity that represents a trade off between reduced micro environments, reduced airborne transmission and safely storing all their poultices and potions, normal people need to just do our best and maybe should accept the reduced mold and microorganisms over all in exchange for more chance of airborne transmission when cleaning our homes and workplaces (which are all fucked if there’s airborne transmission anyway because no one has appropriate air cleaners in their home or workplace).

Yep. As long as you pick install alongside it won’t screw up windows. If you don’t see that option in the “disk selection” part of the process then bail out.

Nah, you’re gonna boot from usb and go through till you get the option to install alongside and pick that.

It’ll only show you that option if you have some unallocated space on your disk from resizing the c drive though.

alright, go through the ubuntu installer and pick the “install alongside” option when it comes up. it ought to be at the same time that it offers you the option to erase the disk altogether. the “installation type” menu. if you don’t get that option, stop and say so.

e: i just finished installing ubuntu desktop lts alongside windows 11 in a vm using the process you’re doing. its the disk selection menu, not the installation type.

they keep doing that because people keep voting for them. stop voting for them.

if all the people begging the democrats to move “left” always vote for them anyway, why would the party ever meet their demands when it could pick up more support by moving “right” and courting the opposition’s base?

stop supporting parties that don’t align with your values and politics!

me neither anymore tbh, especially when meetings are scheduled around someone elses time and i gotta take off work or whatever to make em.

if you really feel left out, just don’t vote for people that don’t align with you no matter who else is on the ticket and help out the people around you when you can.

sometimes the best activism we can do is just taking care of each other!

right on, you have enough space to not end up in trouble!

in windows, right click the start menu and choose “disk management”

it’ll bring up an old looking MSI that shows your drive and the different partitions it has.

right click the C drive and choose “shrink”.

you’ll get asked how much you want to shrink it by iirc. type in the number and click okay.

once that is done, the disk management window will show the new free space.

if everything goes as planned, make sure you turned off bitlocker and restart into windows.

what politics do you have? what motivates you?

I like the party for socialism and liberation and it’s a great time to like them because they’re running a presidential candidate on a platform of palestinian statehood and an end to arms shipments to israel, but you might have different values.

what do you wish you could vote for?

every ballot is tallied. if one of the parties wants to pick up votes in your district they look at what people voted for in the past and try to either adopt that platform or clearly tell people they already have that platform.

if, as the OP states, our elected representatives don’t actually represent us, the first step is to say in a way that cannot be denied or covered up what positions they would need to take up in order to represent us.

okay, that’s fine! make sure to turn off bitlocker.

once you’ve done that you’re gonna resize your partitions in windows. i’ll walk you through that.

so your C: drive is 210 GB, how much free space do you have on it?

if you see an option with a write in part, write in someone instead of casting a vote for a candidate you don’t like.

if there’s not an option to write in your choice, don’t fill that part out.

someone else commented and talked about being in a place where everything is pretty much dominated by the republican political machine. in those cases it might be better to focus on mutual aid and working in local county and town meetings instead of attaching yourself to a party.

if you’ve got the time, putting the screws to someone in a county board of commissioners meeting over spending a bunch of money on the local cops riot gear that they never use instead of straightening up peoples screwy culverts is a sure win.

sometimes i see ballots like that too. if you don’t have an option, but there’s a write in line, write in something, anything. if there’s no write in line and you don’t see a candidate you like, leave that field blank.

some places are already dominated by a party machine. in those cases it might be best to do mutual aid like helping the people around you instead of volunteering for a political party that is unpopular and going to face insane opposition anyway.

I don’t have all the answers for everyone in every case and place.

I like party for socialism and liberation. If they don’t have a candidate listed on your states ballot but they’re running one you can write em in.

What kind of politics do you have? I suggested psl because they’re running on a platform of Palestinian statehood and an end to weapons shipments to Israel and those issues seem to be what’s disgusting people with the democrats and republicans this go around, but what else motivates you?

Wow, where do you live that there aren’t any third parties that align with your values or politics?

I wouldn’t. Go ahead and make a new bootable usb using rufus or something.

What’s your partitions look like right now?

~stop voting for politicians who don’t align with your values and politics~

Imma just start typing and see where this goes:

Sd cards arent the same as usbs or ssds. They seem the same because it’s like the same thing right? But they’re not.

Most usbs and all ssds have a controller that actually handles writing and reading to and from the memory chip. The controller lets them do things like recognize bad spots and write data elsewhere, perform secure erase functions, wear leveling and all sorts of the kinda stuff we expect of components we’re gonna use as hard drives.

Sd cards almost universally don’t have that controller. The goal for sd cards was to provide bulk storage to all kinds of embedded devices like cameras and later, phones. Because there’s no controller, there’s no wear leveling, no overprovisioning, no secure erase. That’s fine because the goal was always to just slam the sucker full of pictures and never erase it till it gets full, then start all over again.

But if sd cards aren’t acceptable hard drives then how come we use them in little sbcs like raspberry pi and whatnot?

Well the install process in that case almost always writes the system to the card first instead of doing a million reads and writes to figure out what repositories are available, updating packages, etc. sbc systems using sd cards as their storage are also (or should be!) configured to do minimal writes, with constrained log sizes and minimal swap.

So don’t use an sd as a usb or hard drive.

People might say that I’m wrong in replies to this post. They’ll say that sd cards are fine and that they have over 20k write cycles on their hyinx megacard128. Sd fails silently. I am not wrong. You literally just had problems installing from an sd. I can’t tell for sure if your problems came from using an sd or misconfiguring the new partition scheme but it sure as heck didn’t help that you used an sd as your install media.

Okay, now you said you have windows back up and running. Is it fully recovered and working good?

Is it using the whole drive?

Do you have all your files back?

Have you made a backup?

If you answer these questions I can walk you through the process of setting up windows to dual boot Linux in a way that won’t fuck up.