Depending on what you have a taste for, I seem to remember seeing this in Emacs:

https://github.com/magit/forge

I so hope this is fake, because this is so stupid, even by Space Karen standards.

Yes, this. During university, I’d try to work odd jobs during school year. Coordinating that was “fun”, and these were uncomplicated jobs. At one point over the summer, I was trying to juggle three rather menial jobs. Luckily, one was fairly flexible, but the other two just assumed they could set you up with less than 12 hours notice for a schedule, and would threaten firing if you could not make it. Still later, I had a work-study job that paid very low (for the university) and I still had to juggle something else, since that was only about 4 hours per day. I have nearly always worked 40+ hours since in IT, but I remember those early days well. It’s no picnic to have more than 1 job and trying to live anything like what would be considered a normal human life. And that’s when I still had the cushion, part of the time, of living with my parents, or having some of their help with campus housing. I cannot imagine trying to do the same while juggling children, their school, their homework, and getting them to school/activities as well as spending any meaningful time with my wife…

In the years since The Rapture of the Nerds was written, I think America is coming closer and closer to the biting way the “Christian States of America” was written in that book…

That line in the OP made me wonder if even despite it all, they are voting for the likes of little d. You know, because something something Brandon and the Kenyan Usurper.