wizardbeard

Ha! You're a funny one.

The issue seems to be that Microsoft has started to reuse KB#s for updates across different channels, meaning update KB 5044284 (the update in question) can be a Security update for Windows (Desktop) 11, and be an optional OS upgrade for Windows (Server) 2022, just shaeing the same name.

Because that's obviously a wonderful idea with no potential downsides.

That appears to be what happened here, but additionally a mistake was made and the Server patch was labelled with the details (that it's just a security update) for the Desktop one.

Also doesn't help that Microsoft only has one documentation page for any given update number, and the one for this one only lists the details of the desktop update.

Don't forget that framing things in ways that maximizes emotional response (fear, anger) increases views, which increases ad views, and directly contributes to their bottom line. They have direct incentive to increase anxiety and worry, so everything is couched in scary hypotheticals of varying often undisclosed amounts of credibility.

They could, or they might not. The biggest thing is that we already have been through 4 years of Trump. We have some idea of what that will look like, we aren't going in completely blind.

As far as this "being the last election", there's too many safeguards in our governmental system and too many armed people (in both the civilian and military population) with deep vested interests to ensure real elections still happen for that to change.

There's a hell of a lot of posturing and hot air going on and that has gone on from Trumps camp that has absolutely no true way to get force behind it.

Things will be bad, but panicking will just make it thay much harder to distinguish true threats and problems from what isn't.

Think of it like this: Your car is stalled on a train track, and there's a train coming a few minutes away. There's also someone with a gun in your backseat about to shoot you. The train makes more noise, but the more immediate threat is the guy with the gun. Being more calm helps to discern those sorts of distinctions, and that the best solution would be to run from your car rather than try to pump the gas.

For every could, might, and may there's a didn't, might not, etc. You could start pissing blood tomorrow, but I assume you're in good health that you probably won't. But you still technically could.

The news media across the board is optimizing for ad views to support their existence with money. Keeping people stressed out increases viewership, so it's in their best interests to put everything through a funhouse mirror and rely on technicalities and speculation to stoke emotional response. There's been studies done and books published on this.

Bad times are not end times.

We had four years under Biden to find the skeletons from Trump's last presidency. Please point me to them, as obviously I've missed something huge like roving squads of minority slayers or something.

It's going to fucking suck. Yes, people will die as a result of horrible policies and the general sociopolitical climate, but people claiming that minorities are literally going to be hunted en mass are out of their gourd.

Too many armed civilians spread through all the population demographics for that to work to the level a lot of people are screaming about.

At least they seem to have moved on from Russian bot.

All of that's true, but not how the general voting population works. We have to live in the world that exists, not the one where everyone is paying as much attention as they should.

Alternatively, this should be massive fucking sign that the general voting populace is so desperate for any change that they'd go for horrible changes rather than perpetuating the status quo.

Usually it's not random, it's meant to help convey speech cadence or how certain words in a spoken sentence might be stressed more.

Like how farm is larger because that word would be stressed more in that spoken sentence.

It wasn't the time before we lost either.

Saying you understand why something happened isn't being smug or in any way happy about the outcome.

Stop externalizing your poor mental state and take a break from the internet or something.

Panic doesn't help anything. Neither does horror. We survived one Trump presidency, we'll survive this one, despite it being monumentally worse.

Do what you can to help those you can around you. Work in and grow the support structures in your local community, family, and social circles.

Panic leads to stupid, rash, not well thought out decisions. It should be avoided as much as possible while you take a long, honest, realistic look at the situation and evaluate what is and isn't in your power to effect.

You're right that passive defeatism isn't helpful, but you don't have to go straight to the other extreme of emotional turmoil.

appealing to institutionalist values within an extremely populist cultural zeitgeist

I feel this so much in my fucking bones. They've been doing that since Hillary's campaign. I think I've given up hope that they'll learn, considering they've had this long already.

So... money laundering and a tool for storing assets in non-liquid form, as usual with the high end art world.