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One thing I wonder about is the exit polling showing that Trump did better with Black and Hispanic voters this time. My first thought was that people who voted in person this year wouldn't be representative, but some claim that the studies also talked to people who voted early or by mail. But eithe...

Jeebus, nothing can come easy this year can it? I know some of the drama had more to do with the way the vote count happened but the polls were still way off. I'm curious if the polling industry can figure out what the deal was. This was worse than in 2016, and IIRC that was at least in the margin ...

Jeebus, nothing can come easy this year can it? I know some of the drama had more to do with the way the vote count happened but the polls were still way off. I'm curious if the polling industry can figure out what the deal was. This was worse than in 2016, and IIRC that was at least in the margin o...

Eric the .5b wrote: ↑03 Nov 2020, 13:58 Here's another reason:



I think people want to be able to ignore the president.

That's basically why my dad switched his vote for Biden.

I just see both sides as being too cowardly to do anything significant. Sure there will be the usual wailing and gnashing of teeth on social media. With very bullshit posts like the one that made the rounds after Trump got elected about the "wave" of racist incidents that all turned out to be old o...

I just see both sides as being too cowardly to do anything significant. Sure there will be the usual wailing and gnashing of teeth on social media. With very bullshit posts like the one that made the rounds after Trump got elected about the "wave" of racist incidents that all turned out to be old or...

Interesting and readable paper that addresses the question "how did Britain make sure their naval captains engage the enemy when they are far from control of the Admiralty" The British Navy Rules: Monitoring and Incompatible Incentives in the Age of Fighting Sail Thanks for posting this, I'm going ...

“goading his followers into starting a civil war” Remind me again how this is the narrative when it’s a bunch of Democratic areas that are now hardening neighborhoods, expecting violence from...not the right? Probably because Trumpers are already exercising violence. So they caused a traffic jam? T...

Unless the polling is completely out of whack, Biden is going to win. Possibly in a walk.

Ellie wrote: ↑24 Oct 2020, 22:04 This was in my parenting group today. Odds that she actually changed her vote versus deciding to lie for the sake of some peace?

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My sister definitely had a hand in motivating my dad to change his vote. First time he will be voting for a Dem POTUS in like 50 years.

Trump is currently behind in 8 of the 10 battleground states he won last time. Several of them he won handily last time. Barring some miraculous event, he's toast.

In season 3 O'Brien died and was replaced by his future self, and no one gave a shit. Keiko probably yelled at him for being late, and no one from Star Fleet gave a second thought to his sacrifice. The fact that O'Brien wasn't a raving lunatic by the end of the series is a miracle in of itself. Rem...

There is much Slack discussion today about the area wildfires. I get mourning the of life, and the mourning of poor decisionmaking to build woodframe homes in fireprone areas, but what I don't get is people sharing pics of fire-ravaged woodlands and reacting as if it were something to be sad about....

Hugh Akston wrote: ↑20 Oct 2020, 17:04

Remember when those nauseating displays of paid patriotism abruptly ceased from 2008-2016? Good times.

I think I'm more stunned that they talk to each other in that same goofy broadcaster voice even off camera.

Ellie wrote: ↑19 Oct 2020, 22:34

There's no way you could do that joke now is there? That's kind of depressing.

The NY Times Magazine pretty explicitly sneers at the idea that free speech is good: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/13/magazine/free-speech.html Aside from the obvious violations of liberty, there's never any evidence provided that free speech is the problem or that any proposed restrictions have ...

Well I was able to get an all "green" planet after a few tries although the means may have been questionable. I ran into a Dyson Sphere and contacted the inhabitants. They agreed to construct a world for the colonists. I agreed and they surrounded the ship and disassembled it down to atoms and then...

One of my favorite low-pressure games to spend a few minutes on is Seedship . Capsule version: you play as the AI controlling a colony ship full of humans in suspended animation, and you have to try and find a suitable new homeworld for them; you visit a lot of unacceptable or marginally acceptable...

For CPUs price to performance ratio is very much in AMDs camp right now. Look at something in their 3000 line. The 3600 hit the sweet spot a few months ago but that may have changed a bit. If you upgrade your CPU you will need to upgrade your motherboard and RAM as well. Newegg is okay but I know a ...

https://twitter.com/celestelabedz/status/1316799718807150592?s=19 If she thinks men are bad when we argue with women, she should watch us argue with each other. Nobody, men included, wants a world where men treat women with the same respect they show to other men. It's like the whole mansplaining t...

Recently watched Nightcrawler which I thought was quite good. It's about a sociopath, played by Jake Gyllenhaal, who finds his calling chasing down grisly accidents and crime scenes with a video camera to sell the footage to the local news. Gyllenhaal has a mesmerizing kind of performance in it. He ...

An interesting article on America's change from a high-trust to a low-trust society, what this bodes for us, what history suggests, and how we might turn things around. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/10/collapsing-levels-trust-are-devastating-america/616581/ I don't agree with it al...

Youtube channel of various space and moon landing footage up rezed with increased framerates using AI to interpolate the frames to 24fps, along with some frame stabilization. A lot of the old footage often having framerates as low as 6 fps. Changes what was once a grainy slideshow into something mu...

Does anyone here have a Plex setup? Kind of sort of. I have it setup so my Xbox can stream stuff from my PC. Haven't really used it for much else. How do you like it? In general it works really well. Streaming looks good. It's a little finicky to setup but once going I had few problems. Getting you...

Hugh Akston wrote: ↑02 Oct 2020, 16:46 Does anyone here have a Plex setup?

Kind of sort of. I have it setup so my Xbox can stream stuff from my PC. Haven't really used it for much else.