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    7 months ago

    Fuck if I know, do you know how long the process typically takes? I certainly donā€™t. I was googling this while walking the dog, Iā€™m no expert.

    I work as a government contractor and from my experience things can be held up by the silliest little things, and processes take a lot of time.

    When the recent XZ security exploit, everyone was all worried about it nearly making itā€™s way into Debian, a popular flavor of Linux, and at work we just laughed and said that means weā€™d have to worry about it it in 10 years because weā€™re that slow.

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      Well then, yeah, Iā€™d say itā€™d earn them a little grace, and I appreciate you actually talking about it instead of going down the ā€œuR uH rUsSiAn TrOlL111one!ā€ path. I still think itā€™s convenient timing, but itā€™s nice to see this was at least set into motion awhile back.

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        Yeah, an argument could be made that 2022 was a Senate election year, and this was fueled by that, but at that point weā€™re invalidating 2/4 years a president has to make changes.

        On top of this, I wouldnā€™t be surprised by the first year being slow as they get situated, meaning year 3 is the only year that ā€œsincereā€ change can be expected to be made, which is kind ofā€¦harsh. Iā€™d hate for my accomplishments to only count 25% of the time.

        I also really appreciate the discourse - I hope you have a great day.

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          Now that I think about it, didnā€™t Biden come into a locked GOP senate? I suppose it could be possible they were making it difficult as well maybe? Anyhow yeah, same. Thanks for the engaging conversation choom.