“Ad hominem” is when you try to discredit an argument BY attacking its speaker. Someone saying something about you that you took negatively doesn’t mean they’re trying to attack your argument that way. They might just be changing the subject off of noticing problems with your approach.

Well, that’s what should have happened.

Every election here is a missed opportunity to put in an actual resistance to take the system down. People make a million excuses on why we all need to settle for the worst or second worst candidate, and that’s who we end up with, every time, because the population talked themselves into it.

Assuming the FBI isn’t just making it up

It’s not great at coding. I’m on about my fifth “rewrite large system that’s a pile of AI slop” job this year, trust me.