@saevus@BradRTorgersen You are building a meme force of extraordinary magnitude. You forge our tradition in the spirit of our ancestors. You have our gratitude.
Regardless of what's really going on, what Talarico's smug, awful advisors are doing is extremely unethical. Obviously, this is way more than "the flu". If you recall, these guys came to LA to take a bunch of money from wealthy Californians. It was one of my buddies who hosted him, actually, and raised a ton of money.
That money is meant, in good faith, to help the candidate campaign. If your campaign then goes dark for 2 weeks, you owe your donors an explanation and peddling some bullshit like "oh he's just got the flu" is unacceptable. If your candidate is incapacitated...the ethical thing to do is to give back that donor money.
When I was campaigning, I was doing vitamin IV's, we had a full on supplement regime, I wouldn't even drink water out of plastic bottles...I owed it to my donors and my supporters to be firing on all cylinders, nonstop; you can't afford to have a down day, let alone a down week...or 2 weeks, now, in Talarico's case.
Unless they're pulling some bizarre viral PR stunt, and we're just waiting for the punchline...what these advisors are doing is despicable. It's bad enough if they drove their candidate into the ground, but this "damage control" radio silence is just wild. Incredible cowardice and incompetence on display here.
@tanpukunokami Don't eat microwave popcorn. Get a stove-top popper (or a covered pot or wok) and use coconut oil. Salt to taste. Much better than microwave popcorn.
@DangerousQuest@ShamashAran I found a 3D printed On Air sign. Coded a Twitch client to light it up when a Twitch stream goes live. Maybe not the best place to start, but got me hooked on them.
@BrianRoemmele Microsoft one was another one. Their licensing deal required a Windows license with every PC. Compaq sold a Application Server with Linux, and Windows would not boot by default and they provided no instructions on how to install Windows. So they were free of the M$ tax.