brianary

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (18 children)

That's not what you said. Your original "only" indicates that you think that votes + splitting your opponents votes isn't a strategy.

If splitting votes didn't matter, there wouldn't be so much effort put into gerrymandering. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/REDMAP

Voting is a practical, strategic act, not an ideological one.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (6 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (20 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

It's true, but Idaho, especially the northern Idaho panhandle, is particularly bad. There's a history of white supremacy, with the Aryan Nations compound that was located there, apparently funded in part by Sea Monkeys. Allie Brosh mentions living near them in one of her books.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-oct-01-tm-29473-story.html

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

True, but two copies is one, and one is none. Multiple backups are critical, especially as archive.org has been targeted by the last few book publishers, who want it gone. As politicians and news sites quietly modify their content and hope nobody notices, this should really be a service of the Library of Congress, too.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Weird that we're still doing "heiress", after abandoning "aviatrix", "actress", &c.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

I did not attend the funeral, but I approved of it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Sometimes science intersects with fiction, sometimes it intersects with politics.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Adtech has been controlling the Overton Window too long. That's what fueled the rise of (actual) fake news, as originally observed coming from Estonia, radicalizing dumb Americans.

https://www.canadaland.com/podcast/774-the-ad-money-fuelling-fake-news/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

The FDA is a joke. I repeatedly got food poisoning from a bag of hard boiled eggs before I figured it out. I reported it to the FDA/USDA to try and get the batch tested to keep anyone else from getting sick, and they just had me call someone that ended up being a lawyer for the store that sold the eggs, whose sole interest was to tell me I couldn't prove anything so I shouldn't sue.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (3 children)

He took a series of very shallow breaths, and then said as quickly and as quietly as he could, 'Door, if you can hear me, say so very, very quietly.'

Very, very quietly, the door murmured, 'I can hear you.'

'Good. Now, in a moment, I'm going to ask you to open. When you open do not want you to say that you enjoyed it, OK?'

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'ΟΚ.'

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'I understand.'

'OK,' said Zaphod, tensing himself, 'open now.'

The door slid open quietly. Zaphod slipped quietly through. The door closed quietly behind him.

'Is that the way you like it, Mr Beeblebrox?' said the door out loud.

Life, the Universe, and Everything

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's actually meditation, isn't it?

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