We need to run an exciting candidate. Their race doesn’t matter. Elections these days are about getting your base excited and making the opponent’s apathetic. AOC is exciting. While her being a minority woman will piss off far right voters, it won’t be like it was with Hilary, who had decades of media attacks conditioning the right to absolutely despise her.

The dad looks like he’s about to pelt his kid in the face with that football.

Yes, it’s AI.

Yeah that touchscreen tablet convertible machine is what has me psyched. I’m not the target for it, and already own a 16, but I could see that thing selling well. I honestly think they came out with the desktop because they just kinda felt they needed a desktop.

Mostly. About 30% is/was cash, but most of that is/was for humanitarian stuff, like rehousing refugees. Also, the US has been watching its donated equipment and cash very closely and can tell you exactly how much is going missing. Even in the US there will be missing money and equipment, and the US routinely donates things to countries more corrupt than Ukraine, so it’s not like they’re completely inexperienced at this. Anyway, not much has gone missing, and as the war goes on Ukraine has become less corrupt as a result of necessity and US aid, especially around military stuff.

Here’s the thing, we scientists need our cheerleaders. We spend our time getting good at doing science, so it’s worth it to hire someone who is good at hyping and advocating for our work. Go listen to the recordings of James Webb trying to explain to JFK that we need to do a shit-ton of science before we can get to the moon. JFK just plain doesn’t understand the magnitude of what he’s asking for. He thinks we could do it in 6 months. This lady is our champion.

To be clear “up above in my head” are the actual lyrics, but I only learned that fact a few weeks ago. I like my version better.

I feel like accepting a trans person is, in fact, conditional on their support for other trans people. Like, it doesn’t have to be their whole personality, but full-throatedly supporting the anti-trans administration is the exact opposite of supporting the trans community.

Yeah my bad, that was a little ambiguous. Very funny to accidentally blow this person’s mind though.

'Cause I’m in too deep
And I’m trying to keep
up above in my head
All the thoughts in my head
'stead of going under

If it gets the job done, I’m willing to make that compromise.

I got it on a Pixel 7, but I uninstalled it because I’m not trying to have Google spy on me for yet another reason.

He certainly reads at a very low level, and I’ve seen analysis of his speeches explaining how we know this. I don’t know if he’s always been that bad at reading or if this is a new thing in the last 10 years or so.

Let’s see if I still remember:

Alpha
Bravo
Charlie
Delta
Echo
Foxtrot
Golf
Hotel
Indigo
Juno
Kilo
Lima
Mike
November
Oscar
P???
Q???
Romeo
S???
Tango
U???
Vector
W???
X-ray
Y??? Z???

Nah no worries. Not everyone can know everything.

COVID started under Trump and he tried to pretend like it wasn’t a big deal. Do you not remember him catching COVID while in office?

Edit: There’s an extremely long lag between elections and taking office in the US since the dates for both at the federal level were established in the late 1700s and we haven’t bothered to change it. Elections at the beginning of November, take office in January.

I, in fact, do not know how the sausage is cooked. It’s great!

Sorrrrrt of. It does reduce the spoiler effect, but ordinary Approval Voting does a better job. Note the chaos in competitive RCV elections. While these simulations are fairly simplistic, the concepts and lessons hold true when looking at real-world elections, more complicated simulations, and mathematical proofs.

We need like eight more parties. RCV won’t change hardly anything if we stick with single-winner elections. Gotta switch to some form of proportional representation, like Sequential Proportional Approval Voting.

I would assume that the post got to their feed through an intermediate instance that they are federated with, yeah?