Hux

The maps were identical in 2020 (following a republican administration):

Oklahoma 2020

Massachusetts 2020

And 2008 (following a republican administration):

Oklahoma 2008

Massachusetts 2008

Once you get back to pre-social media era internet, you begin to see Oklahoma have shades of blue.

2000 1996 1992 1988

Perhaps we could collaborate on this.

Now that I have pulled Oklahoma’s electoral results going back to 1988, now you can pull Oklahoma’s education results going back over the same period of time and we can see if there is, in fact, a correlation between the quality of education (overall education rankings) and how the state votes in presidential elections.

I suspect that it was not purely the quality of education which influenced the “red shift”. I would bet that the lower-quality of education made the influence of social media more effective for those targeting the less educated to adopt a conservative political position.

Just share your findings here and we can work together.

The Cabinet list so far, as it was officially leaked moments ago on NudeAfrica.com:

State - Matt Gaetz

Treasury - Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino

Interior - A t-shirt cannon

Justice - DraftKings®

Agriculture - owner of that McDonald’s

Commerce - currently accepting bids

Labor - Immortan Joe

Defense - Vladimir Putin

Housing and Urban Development - it’s Trump, so probably Herschel Walker, ffs

Transportation - Elon Musk’s twitter account

Energy - V. Putin

Health and Human Services - sold off and privatized between Nestlé, Saudi Aramco, and Ticketmaster

Education - Kid Rock, Marjorie Taylor-Greene, and Lauren Boebert, and all sewn together as a human centipede

Veterans' Affairs - Captain Morgan; under secretaries Jack Daniels and Jim Beam

Homeland Security - Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, once the check clears

That trackpad and palm rest is looking like Gizmo Duck

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

I looked up my old character just the other day—my account must had been compromised because all of my gear was gone.

I could totally see myself going back to play again and pick up where I left off (after 18 years), but I don’t think that’s possible anymore.

I’m no fan of google, but I don’t see how it could be expected to act as the insurer for people who have fallen victim to social-engineering gift card scams.

It would be a pretty crazy precedent if the judge ruled differently.

We all see it, right?

Wasn’t it Blashlee Blimpson who had the blip synching bliasco on Saturday Blight Blive?

Mugs like that are exactly the sort of thing my grandparents would have had—good humored and in love, though arguable during a different time.

"That long," she snapped. Now, it was the Devil's plan that morning to make a nuisance of himself by granting wishes, and he decided there was no time like now to begin. "See here then," he said to the farm wife. "I will grant you one wish anything at all and that ought to cheer you up." "One wish?" said the farm wife. "One," he replied. "Very well," said the farm wife. "Here's my wish. Since I don't believe in fairy godmothers, I wish you'd go back where you came from and leave me alone." This wish caught the Devil off guard and before he knew it he had landed with a bump in his throne room in Hell. Up he rose, his hair on end with anger. "That's one I'll get someday, anyway," he said to himself, and back he went to the World to find another victim. The next soul he met was a very old man who sat under a tree staring away at nothing. "Good morning, old man," said the Devil in his best fairy-godmother voice. "It's a fine day, isn't it?" "One of many," said the old man. "One of many." The Devil didn't like this answer at all. It sounded too contented. "See here then," he said to the old man. "I will grant you one wish-anything at all but I can guess what you'll choose to wish for." "What's that?" said the old man. "Why," said the Devil, "seeing as your life is nearly done, my guess is you'll wish to be a boy again." The old man pulled at his whiskers for a while and then he said, "No, not that. It was good to be a boy, but not all good." "Then," pursued the Devil, "you'll wish to return to young manhood." "No," said the old man. "It was good to be a young man, but still—it was difficult, too. No, that wouldn't be my wish." The Devil began to feel annoyed. "Well then," he said, "surely you'll wish to be once more in your prime, a hearty soul of forty or fifty." "No," said the old man, "I wouldn't wish that. It was good to be forty and good to be fifty, but those times were often hard as well." "What age will you wish to be, then?" barked the Devil, losing his patience at last. "Why should I want to be any age but this one?" said the old man. "That was your idea. One time is as good as another, and just as bad, too, for that matter. I'd wish for something different—I don't know what —if I really had a wish." "Well," said the Devil, "I've changed my mind anyway. You don't have a wish." "I didn't think I did," said the old man, and he went back to staring away at nothing. The Devil ground his teeth and smoke came out of his ears, but he went on down the road until at last he came to a vain young man in fancy clothes riding on a big brown horse. "Good morning, young man," said the Devil in his best fairy-godmother voice. "It's a fine day, isn't it?" "Indeed it is, dear madam," said the vain young man, taking off his hat and bowing as well as he could from the saddle. "Well now," said the Devil, "you're such a fine young man, I think I'll grant you a wish. One wish, anything you like. What do you say to that?" "A wish?" cried the vain young man, dropping his hat. "Anything I want? Can it really be true?" "It can," said the Devil, smiling. "What will you wish for?" "Dear me!" said the vain young man. "Anything at all? I could wish to be rich, couldn't I!" "You could," said the Devil. "But on the other hand I could wish that all the girls would fall in love with me," said the vain young man, beginning to grow excited. "Or I could wish to be the Crown Prince. Or the King! I could even wish to rule the whole World, as far as that goes." "You could," said the Devil, smiling more than ever. "Or I could wish to stay young and handsome forever," said the vain young man. "You could," said the Devil. "But wait!" cried the vain young man. "Perhaps it would be better to wish for perfect health. What good are all those other things if you're too sick to enjoy them?" "True," said the Devil. "Oh, dear," moaned the vain young man, wringing his hands. "What to wish for! What to choose! I shall go quite mad, trying to decide! Health, power, money, love, endless youth, each a perfect wish all by itself. Sweet fairy godmother, I wish you'd tell me what to wish for!" "If that's what you want, all right," said the Devil with a smile as big as the moon. "Most people think the best wish of all is to wish that every wish they ever wish will always come true." The young man's eyes grew round and his cheeks paled. "Yes. Yes!" he said. "They're right, of course. That is the best. All right, so here I go. I wish that every wish I ever wish will always come true." "Too late," said the Devil gleefully. The young man stared. "Too late?" he cried. "But why? You said I could wish for anything, didn't you?" "I did," grinned the Devil. "That's true. But you used up your wish when you wished I'd tell you what to wish for!" And with the young man's wail of chagrin ringing in his ears, the Devil went back down to Hell, well satisfied at last.

I had to google ostretarian, because I had never heard of that one before.

I was surprised that searching for “ostretarian” was one of the few google searches I’ve ever done in which only a single hit came up:

https://lemmy.world/post/19700125

Or two, if you allow google to “expand” the results:

https://old.lemmy.pt/post/6637900

It seems like references come from this article by The Guardian last month:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/sep/12/ill-have-them-with-hot-sauce-should-vegans-eat-oysters

In which it refers to bivalve veganism.

Searching for “bivalve veganism” yields an article from a couple of years ago in which the practice is referred to as “bivalve veganism” or “ostroveganism”

https://www.vegetariantimes.com/news/can-vegans-eat-oysters/

Searching for “Ostrovegan” yields lots of varied results—making me think this chart just has a typo on a word which was just unfamiliar to me.

I spent some time, but at least I learned something new.

We’ve only got three pens, so don’t lose them.