Juuuuust a bit outside.
The Ravens beat the Saints in a terrible game of football. The Bills Josh Allen may have another elbow problem. The UCL round of 16 draw is out and there’s some big matchups. The Astros had their World Series parade yesterday and somebody tried to bean Ted Cruz (who shouldn’t have been there) with a White Claw. And I think that’s about it for sports.
This dude was running around like a chicken with his head cut off. Or he flew the coop and got wasted. Either way, it’s funny.
Get out of the cities: part 3,462. Do they not have cops anywhere in Philly?
Nobody’s obligated to accommodate you.
Are they unfamiliar with how the club scene works? Because it’s always worked that way.
The fix is in. Or they were caught trying to fix it. One way or another, it’s gonna be questionable.
You’re not an airplane. You don’t need to announce your departure.
This should be a teachable moment. They can start by teaching people the difference between a nazi uniform and a DDR commie uniform.
This makes a lot of sense. They need to allow people to go straight or even turn left on red if nobody is around.
I don’t care if this scares you.
I don’t give a shit. And I’ll continue not giving a shit. They don’t like it, they can quit their job.
Here’s a fan-fucking-tastic song. Absolutely beautiful. And here’s the masterpiece. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this wonderful Tuesday. Don’t forget to vote or not vote. I don’t care either way.
GO VOTE!
No.
Can I fill out your ballot for you then?
I refuse to indicate acceptance of the outcome by participating in the process.
Anyway, I live in NJ, so Dems never lose.
Well here in the People’s republic there is a great chance we send that lying corrupt cunte Blumenthal packing, and even the governor is worried he will pay for the shit he has done to the people of the state.
There’s a truck driver who says otherwise.
That was beautiful. However where I live in north Jersey just outside of NYC, Dems never lose. And they never lose statewide.
Chris Christie says, “what?”
Chris Christie actually says, “Are you going to finish that?”
Zeldin actually has a slim chance here. (Well, we’ll see what that really was.)
Plus I couldn’t pass up the thrill of voting against Kathy and Chuck (and Max Rose).
Sounds like some insurrectionist talk.
You’re not my supervisor.
Done. 45 minutes in line.
My polling place was empty*. And only the R candidate had peeps there with sample ballots. But the R candidate is running against a D incumbent.
*in the suburbs of Richmond, VA.
I was the first voter this morning, with the second person arriving as I was filling out my ballow.
I did early in-person voting Thursday. I expect it will be a cluster today.
“Get out of the cities: part 3,462. Do they not have cops anywhere in Philly?”
Yes. And they are all busy protecting the very people that defunded the police and left the people most in need of police protection to the machinations of the criminal element (which includes practically every one of these city governments).
Philly is bad enough above ground, isn’t it nuts to go underneath that?
That’s where the CHUDS live.
“The fix is in. Or they were caught trying to fix it. One way or another, it’s gonna be questionable.”
Government wants to pick this winner too?
Sorry ladies, the floor has a lbs/square foot load limit. There’s a club built on a cement slab down the street.
Tres hardest hit?
BTW, what are they models for? House curtains? Large family size tents?
Not that bad actually if you don’t mind a little extra somethin somethin:
https://www.ellahalikas.com/swimwear
It looks like there is some airbrushing that affected mass on these pics compared to the one linked…
More than not bad. Indeed, much better than the boy substitutes that seem so… InVogue among certain sets of people.
“You’re not an airplane. You don’t need to announce your departure.”
This spawn of Cthulhu will be back in less than 2 weeks as people start calling out the 2022 fortification attempts and she will be there to screech about even though the 2020 election was perfect, now there is a ton of electoral chicanery….
“”I’m going to get out, and if it settles down and I feel more comfortable, maybe I’ll come back.””
That sounds awfully wishy-washy.
LOOK AT ME!
/cunte
This is always the appropriate response.
Empower others to speak out – outside the club with the other fatties.
How awesome would it be if Fetterman won both the powerball and a senate seat in the same week? He’d get himself a sweet tramp stamp for that bulge on his neck and go full Bullworth.
Fetterman is the bulge on the neck of the Fetterman monster… Can a neck bulge win? I hear that Dillon fella told us all ladies have bulges, but while I think he is an idiot for saying that nonsense, having a bulge win the nearly 2 billion dollar Powerball kind of makes one havequestions…
Can a neck bulge win? Well, a soiled diaper “won” in ’20…
I’d rather he won a senate seat than a billion dollars.
“We’re calling on CPS because this issue goes deeper than just some costume. It goes deeper than the misconduct here at Jones, but the misconduct of the district,” said student Jaheim Johnson.
Call out the Thought Police. We must fight totalitarianism with totalitarianism.
“It appears to be a targeted attack — either the offender was specifically targeting this individual for the purposes of committing a robbery or other unknown reasons,” Philadelphia Police Captain Jason Smith told WPVI following the shooting. “We have 14 fire cartridge casings at the scene, so there were bullets flying all over the place.”
Sounds like Philly cop aim.
Doubleplussgood duckspeaking!
I’m not seeing why we should elevate pedestrians and road hazards by impeding traffic flow
I don’t get how a car making a right on red impacts a cyclist. The cyclist should either waive their right of way to allow the car to turn in front of them, or the car would be turning behind the cyclist (this is less likely). Unless they’re talking about asshole cyclists who ignore the traffic lights.
I’ve never seen a cyclist obey traffic signals. I will allow for the possibility that is has happened, I just have never seen it happen.
I’ve seen it happen once. It was unusual enough to remember.
You must never have had a cyclist go bye you at top speed on the right, ignoring the stop light signal or stop sign, while you are looking at traffic before you turn…
I have…
Aren’t those the ones who also spew profanities when the cars lay on the horn?
You have also had this experience?
Considering I’m a cyclist, I hate those people more than you. Here, most road riders know better, as most of us know someone who’s gotten injured or killed due to a car not following the rules of the road.
This is exactly what they mean. This is vision-zero non-sense. They claim to want to reduce pedestrian deaths through better engineering, but the real goal is to make driving in urban areas as difficult as possible by throwing as many pedestrians under those cars as possible so they can call for outright bans on cars.
Yep.
Someone should edumacate Councilperson Taplin on the difference between de facto and de jure.
It’s one more step in making the city unlivable.
When was the last time you drove in Berkeley? I worked there, and they have done everything to make driving impossible.
Ten years ago I had a volunteer position for a nonprofit in Berkeley and I would not drive there. I lived over in the Central Valley at the time and when I had meetings I’d drive as far as Oakland and take BART the rest of the way. I can only imagine how much worse it’s gotten since then.
Are they unfamiliar with how the club scene works?
As a guy I’m aware that I have to arrive with hot chicks in order to get in.
If I already have hot chicks, what use is the club?
To show off your hot chicks, duh.
And you can then trade them for other hot chicks!
well you may be friendzoned by hot chicks, the least they can do is get you in
How else you gonna knock them out?
Qualudes.
Seriously man, blunt trauma is too risky.
I think he was referring to the club sport of roofying the victims…
The fix is in. Or they were caught trying to fix it. One way or another, it’s gonna be questionable.
I hope my numbers are the ones…
#metoo
People keep saying it’s free speech, but all speech is not free speech,” Goldberg added
That’d be like sitting next to Whoopie and yelling “free churros” in a crowded theater.
If it is leftist approved speech, it ain’t free speech.
If there’s a fire in a crowded theater you can yell fire in a crowded theater. Also, she’s just too stupid to realize the potential implications of what a she’s saying.
We need our Glib experts to comment on this event…
The blonde on the left is apparently actress Heather Graham. I see an aging actress with a lackluster career desperately seeking publicity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYgZ6fNrnNE
Bingo!
At least the crazy ones are advertising it now. Gives you fair warning.
Don’t disguise twitter links, and trim off all the tracking shit.
I lack a Twatter account, so I can’t do that.
You don’t need an account, just something such as Notepad, TextEdit, etc. that can edit text.
You can even do it in the URL field of a browser.
Tried that and never works.
The ? is the signal of the tracking info starting. On any URL, when you paste the link, delete the ? and everything after.
Somebody needs to write an article on that, busting paywalls, etc…
FORTIFY!!!!
I thought they already lost in the PA Supreme Court?
Yes… And they are ignoring that loss, cause without doing precisely this, the results cant be fortified…
And the later challenge can be declared moot.
If they do it anyway in defiance of the court, it’s not like the court will have the balls to invalidate their “win”.
Once the ballot is out of the envelope, there is no mechanism for distinguishing the ballots that met the standards and those that don’t, and you can bet they will mix the disqualified ballots – which are highly likely to be products of ballot harvesting efforts and carelessness – and the legit battles, to make sure there is no way to prove how much fortification happened…
At which point, they should all be arrested and that district disregarded for the results of the elections.
All the cameras in that precinct will have suffered issues and all the monitors will be team blue operatives that swear nothing happened.. and the media will give them all the cover they need as the Fed Gov sends in the DOJ & FBI to make sure nothing happens to the criminals.
But then, if even one legitimate vote gets tossed, muh democracy!
Fake votes invalidate real votes one way or another.
Better to dump the pot of shit-laden soup than the drink it.
This was already ruled on.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday invalidated a lower-court decision that had allowed undated mail ballots to be counted in Pennsylvania, injecting new uncertainty into election rules that could affect thousands of votes next month.
Seems pretty obvious that undated ballots should not count, never mind that “mail-in” should not even be a thing.
But one plaintiff is blind! Blind I tell you! How can she be expected to follow those rules in casting her ballot?
No I’m not joking and yes the question of how she marks her ballot isn’t just begged, it screams into the void.
Marked the same way she dives – by brail!
“injecting new uncertainty.”
Ok. “Get your ass to the polls on election day, or make sure your ballot is there *by* election day” is not uncertain.
““I do not want to work for the rest of my life,” the blonde brazenly stated at the outset of her viral clip. “Does it look like I want to get up at 6 a.m. every f**king day for the next 60 years?”
“No! I’m too pretty for that!” Welch subsequently snapped, before taking a sassy sip of her iced coffee.”
https://nypost.com/2022/11/07/im-too-pretty-to-work-f-k-getting-up-at-6am-every-day/
Narrator: She wasn’t that pretty.
Yeah, she’s pretty average if you ask me. This is what you get when kids are told how awesome and special they are their entire lives without ever having to do anything to earn it.
Some poor guy is going to end up welded to that bitch via child support and alimony for the rest of his life one day. She’s a peach.
He deserves it for letting his dick do the thinking.
Thinking With your D – Psychostick
Slave to my Dick – Subhumans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNbYNlKxjn4
Yeah, I grew up in surf country, and she is a solid 7, no more and no less.
I’d give her a 7, but I hate nose rings/studs so downgraded from there…
Still, no problem with her not wanting a soul sucking job. Absent from her rant is wanting to raise a family/be a wife.
“I’m very nervous to start on the desk because although I may look very beautiful, smart, and talented, I’m not actually smart at all,” the TikTokker additionally quipped.
And somewhat self-aware.
She’s a 7.8
I’m amazed at how many average looking women consider themselves 9’s and 10’s. Is it because the explosion of obesity in society? Not fat now equals beauty? I don’t get it? I wouldn’t have dated her when I was 20, not in my league.
7 at best, not bad looking but jeez. Ugly on the inside though.
That bitch will be too high maintenance for any man that isn’t a fucking beta.
She will be a trophy wife for a tech semi-millionaire.
Yes, just not being fat puts you in the top 50%, immediately. So if you are average looking and not fat you are in the top 75%… Sad but true.
Seems like an act for clicks to me.
Look at the kids these days. Back when we were young, girls tried to keep it tight. That is no longer the case. Now if they aren’t morbidly obese and have colored hair, they’re at least an 8. You see stories about female teachers nailing boy students, but not many male teachers nailing female students. That’s due to the lack of talent pool.
must… not… make… joke… about… jiggling duration
“Sorry, ma’am, studio 54 is not a dress size”
“The right turn on red is an almost uniquely American maneuver, largely prohibited in other countries” —
Round here you cannot right turn on red, but in certain intersections there is a small green blinking light that tells people they can turn right even if the main light is red
“”From the way we design our roads to the rules we set for them, cars are given priority in the public right of way at the express detriment to pedestrians and cyclists,” Berkeley councilmember Terry Taplin wrote in the budget proposal, first shared by Berkeleyside, that was approved on Thursday. “One such example is the de facto right given to cars to turn ‘Right on Red’ at signalized intersections.””
I don’t get the logic of this what does one have to do with the other?
The signalization of intersections enacts performative toxic masculinity, victimizing BIPOC (Black and Indigenous Pedestrians of Color) oppressing Black and Brown bodies with the hegemonic violence inherent to capitalism.
“Right” turns, “Red” lights. “Turn on right”, Right, Red, Turn on Red…Red=Republican=Right-wing=Vote Republican…legal right turns on red lights are an expression of extremest right-wing nationalism and is therefore a threat to our democracy.
It’s all there, man! Can’t you see?!
What should we do first? Submit the article to Urban Planning or Social issues, or grant applicaiton?
I say take the cash, thank you.
Here in Ohio, we can make left turns on red as long as both roads are one way roads, and there’s no sign saying it’s prohibited.
Switzerland (I dont know about the rest of Europe) had the Green-Yellow-Red-Yellow-Green cycle. I am pretty sure that would quadruple accidents in the US overnight, as poeple gunned it on yellow anticipating the green.
It worked in Switzerland as everyone turned off their engines at red lights, so the yellow was when you turned back on.
Note: all my swiss information is now 31 years out of date, so there may be a better expert around here somewhere.
A week ago a student dressed up in what the school called a “German military uniform” and many students perceived as a Nazi uniform, and goose-stepped across the stage during a costume contest. The incident was caught on video.
Does this mean we have to cancel Charlie Chaplin?
“I feel like the administration completely mishandled this event, and also the fact that they allowed a student to come into school dressed as a Nazi is just absolutely disgusting to me,” said Max Korte, student.
I do nazi the problem. Toughen up, butter-cup.
That’s precisely the problem today: snowflake asshats are given credence. The proper response to these tantrums is a timeout and/or a spanking.
A blitzkrieg of social media attacks always happens after these provocations.
I don’t get the fuhrer over this.
That’s because you’re over all of it.
It’s Kristall clear to me.
Nacht funny
I’m left in the Nacht und nebel about why anyone is listening to these tantrums.
Are you saying we need a final solution to all of this?
They said the humiliation they felt has inspired them to try to change the culture of how bigger bodies are policed in spaces like clubs.
“I said to my friend if it’s not me being discriminated against because I’m Black, it’s because I’m curvy,” Jay said. “When does this end? Like, when does it end?”
Make it stop. I don’t want to ride this ride anymore.
You’re not “curvy”, you’re obese.
quack quack quack
Orwell’s Newspeak has nothing on today’s Wokespeak.
Excuse me, it’s “bodies of size” not “bigger bodies”.
“Near-Earth Gravity Wells”
Oh, that was a communist uniform? Well, we still need mandatory Antifa training.
I like the way that ABC link includes “antisemite” twice in it.
I’m Headly Lamar and I approve this message.
Regarding the Important Work Twitter Curators Did Every Day:
https://twitter.com/St_Rev/status/1589954169569673216
Many celebrate the end of the bureaucracy erected around what they consider every American’s constitutional right to carry any firearm they want. But permitless carry laws have created a dilemma for officers working the streets: They now have to decide, sometimes in seconds, if someone with the right to carry a gun is a danger.
Is the person carrying pointing it or brandishing at someone?
“Kentucky is one of the states that allows a citizen to ‘open carry’ – meaning it is perfectly legal to walk down a public street carrying a loaded gun out in the open,” said Tussey’s attorney, Greg Simms.
*clutches pearls*
It is always amusing watching lefties dance around the real reason they want gun control, especially “urban” lefties.
Which real reason?
“Guns scare me. I have a right to not be scared.”
“We don’t want far-right-wing gun nuts to do something if we keep going full authoritarian.”
It has to do with black and brown people.
Not a professional shark. But I read this, and immediately thought of this prophetic experience….
Without any objective assessment, it’s easier to discriminate.
That’s the goal.
While watching the news today, remember if you hear:
“Delays in counting” or “More mail-in-ballots to be counted”
It means they are cheating. Back when we had paper ballots, we knew who won before bed time. Technology that makes that process slower is just corruption.
They believe the bouncers at The Highlight Room should undergo sensitivity training.
Stop it. You’re killing me.
You identify as diabeetus?
Small Cox…
Setting the stage for election fortification.
As early Election Day results come in on Tuesday, it will likely appear that a Republican candidates vying for any number of the federal or statewide races appear to be leading their Democratic opponents, even by large margins.
Their leads will dwindle, or crumble completely, after perceived “dumps” of votes are recorded by state election officials who count mail-in and absentee ballots in the days — or even weeks — following Election Day.
If the system can’t handle the voting in a reasonable time, it needs to be scrapped altogether.
And those in charge kicked out, possibly jailed for eating public resources.
Then hold a new election that can be trusted.
Mail in ballots. Blows my mind that is even a thing.
These existed to allow military personnel stationed outside of the US to get a chance to vote. After all, who deserves an exception more than the people our corruptocracy sends to fight their wars of profit? Then they expanded it to disabled and immobilized ill people. Then to anyone that could provide proof that they were not going to be around. And once they inflicted the Kung Flu on us, they made it so any harvester could do this. Why do you think that one of team blue’s biggest and most demoralizing failures was their inability to federalize elections and precisely this practice of mail in voting combined with harvesting, huh?
Of course they’re gonna cheat. That is what power, and fear of losing it, does to people.
And our electoral system is according to these people that have called anyone that pointed out some seriously fucked up shit went down in the 2020 election THE ONLY system one in the US that has no flaws. The fact that it is by design put together so you can’t track or audit anything, and that so many team blue want people to be able to not have to identify themselves to cast votes, in a process that rewards the winner with indescribable power and access to wealth, should not make anyone think even some sane people -and the psychopaths attracted to government would for sure – might feel compelled to just do whatever it takes to carry themselves over the finish line.
Muh convenience!!!
Yeah, no sympathy. making voting convenient just means low information voters that would be too lazy to particpate would cancel out the votes of those paying attentio.
It’s a little ironic that Dems think they have a corner on that market.
It was inevitable after the process became racialized.
*applies to much of what is wrong in the US today
Tardiest Tuesday: Peace, Love, and Understanding
Hey, my wife says that kind of stuff to me all the time.
#Nonationaldivorce
Hate sex?
Sorry, man. But you do tend to go on hate filled rants yourself.
How else can you set it up for hate sex?
Heh. Took my misthread and made a decent joke.
Well done.
Much appreciated.
Left-wing Alex?
Essays like that traditionally end with the sentence “Goodbye, cruel world.”
assorted MAGA racist freaks
Band name?
just to store them in and keep them out of the sight of decent human beings
Off to the camps, dissenter!
oh-so-edgy memes
You’re just jealous that the left can’t meme.
Covers and B-sides album .
I’m guessing that this one spends a lot of time weeping over microplastics and similar trivialities…
10 Greatest Westerns of All Time, Ranked
https://collider.com/greatest-westerns-of-all-time-ranked/
Unforgiven should be number one.
We all got it comin’.
Ain’t that the truth.
Deserve’s got nothin’ to do with it.
Uppity Ned hit me in the head with a shovel.
Granted, I may have that quote wrong.
Deserves got nothing to do with it.
Yep, just above Lonesome Dove.
That’s one I haven’t heard of for some time.
It’s available for streaming on Starz now. It’s the widescreen remastered version they did for the Blu-Ray release in 2008. (It was originally shot in full screen, but framed for 1.78 for a possible theatrical release.)
Shane should be number one, and this buttplug didn’t even mention it…
How about we stipulate that there were a lot of good westerns, and most of them were overlooked.
Granted, but if you’re making a top ten Westerns list and Shane isn’t even on it, you are extra wrong.
No. Once Upon a Time in the West is number one.
Unforgiven should be shit canned.
/ducks
Eh.. 3:10 to Yuma is a decent watch — but I can’t bring myself to watch it again (tried a few times)… just no pop there. The Magnificent Seven was much better when it was called The Seven Samurai thank you (don’t f with Kurosawa!). Never watched Django, so no opinion…
Unforgiven is definitely up there with The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, I think I probably would give the nod to Unforgiven personally — but I reject that they left out Pale Rider.
No mention of The Shootist or The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance either.
Only one before 1960 immediately tells you it’s nonsense.
A few duds in that list – Magnificent 7 and Django being the biggest two. McCabe and Mrs. Miller should be on the list. Two recent westerns I thought were pretty good are Old Henry and The Power of the Dog.
+2 for McCabe! That is a great movie.
Not a single one with the Duke?
Yeah, great list.
I stopped at 3:10 to Yuma (2007). It was the first entry.
You’re not an airplane.
Have you seen Whoopi lately?
“It’s been a little over a week since Elon Musk took over Twitter and this place is a mess,” Goldberg said.
What exactly has changed in the last week?
Not Whoopi’s definition of rape.
Maybe a dirigible.
^this
Not really. Blimps have to be full of hot air to fly. Whoopi is full of shit.
Give it time, the methane will off gas
Whoopi isn’t an airplane. Those have to be able to produce enough exhaust to create lift that gets them to defy gravity. Whoopi is more akin to a fucking 300K ton commercial tanker ship. her natural environment will be floating in water cause otherwise she would collapse on her self.
What happened to her posture that she looks like she’s doing that Shia LaBoef “Just do it!” gesture even when she’s sitting?
What’s he been up to lately? How will possibly outdo his magnum opus “He will Not Divide us?”
I thought I read he converted to Catholicism and is now making movies espousing purty promises?
The fix is in?
We are not going to know the outcome in a number of key battleground states on Election Night. Here’s why:
According to this, calling elections other than the 2020 one into question is gonna be allowed.
Cheating is the only explanation.
“Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids.”
Biden defended the “historic” $5.8 billion in funding he budgeted for HBCUs as president.
“HBCUs don’t have the endowments others have, but guess what, you’re just as smart, you’re just as bright, you’re just as good as any college in America,” Biden said.
“That money is to build laboratories and other things for the future that you need to have access to,” he added.
I still can’t believe that quote is bandied around. What a tool.
Separate but equal laboratories?
RHEEEE!
They are gonna do it to us now!
I do agree that public investigations never do a DAMN THING and I would rather see real action, i.e. voting to repeal stupid bullshit, tying Biden’s hands, and acting on solid evidence to impeach and /or remove. No more stupid pointless dog and pony shows in Congress.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11402619/Demi-Rose-exposes-ample-assets-sheer-black-nightie-Costa-Rica-getaway.html
Nope. Cheeky.
That song got some airplay on the Bavarian pop station when I was living there. My first encounter with them and still luv them today.
I prefer the original version by Love although that cover is pretty good.
Wait, you guys literally have the choice of voting for Putin and democracy? Those weren’t on the ballot when I lived in the US.
Oh you could. You might not have noticed it since it was listed past the seventeen pages of cheese-related ballot questions.
That’s not fair. I’m sure WI has plenty of ice fishing ballot questions too.
Based on commentary above, I feel compelled to ask you if you setting em up for hate sex here, Not Adahn….
Couldn’t do that until they shipped you off, man…
I don’t know what the VA Governor has to do with presidential impeachment.
Propagandist actually looks nervous.
Wind-up monkeys beat tin drum
Abortion ranks among voters’ top issues for the 2022 midterms.
The question for Democrats — who are in a historically unfavorable position as the party in charge of the White House and facing growing concerns about inflation and the rest of the economy — is to what degree the energy unleashed by this summer’s U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade can be harnessed at the polls, and to what extent that energy can overcome voters’ economic worries.
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Butler, of Emily’s List, said she is hopeful abortion rights will be top of mind for voters in what many political observers are suggesting may be a difficult midterm for Democrats.
“Voters are whole people; they carry their whole selves into the ballot box,” Butler said. “And what we have experienced as a nation is that our economy ebbs and flows – but once our fundamental freedoms are taken away, we don’t know if we’re ever going to be able to get that back.”
Without free unlimited abortions for all, America is a dictatorship.
Um… no, it doesn’t.
But I guess if you pretend it is enough times, NPR readers will believe it.
The ran audio of an abortion taking place….to them, it is top issue
That’s how far gone they are. They obviously thought that segment would normalize abortions and abortion seekers.
They’re completely out of touch with everybody else.
Are you serious?
That’s disgusting.
LGT people and menopausal women are really interested in abortion rights! For REALS!
Sure… it is definitely in their top 100, after all!
And one can have a top issue but it doesn’t drive their voting or actions.
“Among the top” is a really weaselly phrase, isn’t it?
It might be…but not in the way they think.
In the linked Gallup Poll abortion was second for extremely important issue…it was also second for not that important.
Abortion ranks among voters’ top issues for the 2022 midterms.
Not by my observation.
they carry their whole selves into the ballot box
Not if they vote by mail.
Hey, I bought my wife a six pack of ‘bortions for AntiChistmas this year, ’cause you just know there is gonna be a run on them!
‘Orning ‘ordles… sorry, not in a quippy mood.
Daily Duotrigordle #251
Guesses: 35/37
Time: 05:00.82
https://duotrigordle.com/
Daily Quordle 288
4️⃣7️⃣
8️⃣6️⃣
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Meh-tastic.
Daily Quordle 288
7️⃣3️⃣
6️⃣9️⃣
Daily Quordle 288
8️⃣5️⃣
9️⃣🟥
Blew four guesses total on missing just one letter in a word.
Daily Quordle 288
4️⃣3️⃣
6️⃣7️⃣
Daily Quordle 288
6️⃣3️⃣
5️⃣7️⃣
Daily Quordle 288
9️⃣4️⃣
8️⃣7️⃣
quordle.com
Struggled today.
6 4
5 7
Daily Quordle 288
6️⃣3️⃣
7️⃣5️⃣
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Daily Quordle 288
5️⃣3️⃣
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quordle.com
georgeism but for wives
its very simple. we tax you on the declared value of your wife. and if anyone offers you more than the declared amt you gotta sell her
this will improve society by alleviating the tax burden on incels and also reallocates wives efficiently
fathers pay unmarried daughter tax until marriage. his declared value is a brideprice. FIL financing can be arranged for suitors who have earned his approval of course
https://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1589735750794637312
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something something vast tracts of land”
DA FUQ?
some people think outside the box
Violates basic principle of Georgism, as children are a product of work.
Glad we’re solving the big issues.
“Tyson Foods CFO arrested after entering wrong home, falling asleep”
Market failure.
Hold on to your wallets.
As COP27 Begins, U.S. Seeks Billions in Carbon Credits to Wean Developing Countries Off Fossil Fuels
That’s waging war on the third world.
Yup. The agenda is to keep these people away from reliable and cheap energy so most of them die.
By buying off the politically connected in those countries.
I heard Bjorn Lomborg say this the other day: “We’re telling poor countries that we got rich on fossil fuels, but you’re not going to.”
The powers that be in those countries get to line their pockets while the people continue to struggle and suffer in the name of Gaia, got it.
Speaking of the fix being in, the original announcement about the delayed lottery drawing said results would be available Tuesday morning. Now the VA Lottery page says they are closed today because it’s election day. Suspect this is the case for all the other state lotteries. Yet, the lottery manages to have drawings Friday and Saturday nights, which are also outside of normal business hours. Something is fishy here and the longer they delay, the more suspicious we should be.
Not going to be surprised these lotteries are also fixed in this day & age of government picking winners & losers, that they want to rig this one too…
We have been told to reschedule any and all production changes that had been on the books for today because of the election, even if our stuff has fuck all to do with the election or the systems it uses.
I am going to be generous and assume policy makers know nothing about technology – because that would fit their pattern of past behaviour.
Maybe they are worried CIA/NSA code to tamper with elections is of the same quality as anything government related, and will cuse prod problems for you?
I doubt it. Knowing the people who gave the order, they think we’re the problem, not the system.
Tardiest Tuesday: Because Being Able To Afford Food Is an Insignificant Thing
Wow. Why would you visit such a site, even for research?
I hate myself.
I don’t see what miscarriage has to do with abortion.
Absolutely zero of those things is even remotely likely to happen.
If I were not already going out today I would think twice about putting a bra on to go vote.
Just jiggle it at em, Mojeaux!
Shake Them Titties when you vote bitch
free the vote, free the nipple
Is it a campaign bra?
One trick pony
The PA Supreme Court is absolutely terrible. Make your opinion and stick with it, not this revisit when you get yelled at. Making election rulings up to the day of the elections is going to really put PA in thr spot light this year…again.
The PA SCOTUS has no say on this topic anymore: the US SCOTUS already ruled….
Ha, you think the shitbirds on our state SC care? They were elected to do this!
With all the lawsuits going around can anyone tell me what the rules are at the moment?
Most of the new restrictions on carrying have been stopped by a TRO.
Yeah. Nothing’s been overturned, but some of them are currently not being enforced.
The biggie that I believe hasn’t been enjoined yet is the default ban on carry into private places.
According to the article, that was enjoined as well.
*happy dance*
COMPLY CITIZEN!
Everything always distills down to, “Thou shalt not get caught.”
But none of the people who have what I want to buy will sell to me without the paperwork
Re: Philadelphia… Mrs. Tree and I just got home last night from a long weekend there. I’ll write more later about my observations from a Glib perspective, but wanted to say 2 things:
– As a major history and architecture geek, Philly’s the best city in the US and everything was great. Best trip ever.
– Credit where credit is due: I was expecting the official NPS tour of Independence Hall, to be totally woked out. They were not. Wokeness level actually approached negligible at Independence Hall itself, and our guide (Mr. Larry McClenney) did an excellent job.
Independence Hall is so much better since they added the red lights and Marines.
Now that Elon owns it the truth can’t stop coming out… And the people that need the power to censor are not gonna be able to do it…
The only way that adds up is if the mysterious telco was looking for data on people who were not their customers, since they already own the phone for those who are their customers, giving them more information than some twitter app programmer can get their mitts on.
Exactly what I was thinking.
I love the comment at the end that he thinks Elon will do far more nefarious things with Twitter.
Fuckhead.
Election day misinformation
Social media platforms including Meta’s Facebook and Instagram, Twitter, TikTok and Google’s YouTube are readying themselves for another heated Election Day this week.
The companies now regularly come under close scrutiny around election time, something that accelerated following findings that Russian agents used social media to sow division in the run-up to the 2016 election. During the last presidential election in 2020, the platforms faced the challenge of moderating election denialism as an outgoing president stoked the false claims himself, leading several of them to at least temporarily suspend him after the Jan. 6 insurrection.
This year, the platforms are using all of those experiences to prepare for threats to democracy and safety as voters decide who will represent them in Congress, governor’s offices and state legislatures.
Those pesky Russians.
What if we have a total blackout for a week, and then unveil the winners?
I think they’ve repeated the bullshit so much that they believe it themselves.
Give it enough time and any drunk will remember their Big Fish story as the truth.
Of course, they’re correct but not in the way they think they are.
My life is complete. My wife handed me her ballot review and said “you decide” I have become Man
*reports Obe for voting fraud*
Dammit… when did my wife indulge in bigamy!
My lady said she’s not voting.
I provide my wife with a cheat sheet. For all I know she picks the exact opposite pair of what I say though.
That’s usually what we do. And it’s a shared cheat sheet in the common interest of our family…fuck everyone else.
“Got a letter telling me that if I don’t vote, this group will … report to other Elizabeth’s in the state that an Elizabeth didn’t vote?
(How is this a real thing???)”
https://twitter.com/ENBrown/status/1589449194040803328
She’s not the target audience. They really want to hit the Hispanic voters with this stuff. It’s a veiled threat to those who may have illegals in their family.
And what is the New American Majority you might ask?
Can the unmarried women and young people be white? That seems problematic.
I also suspect they’re double-counting to inflate their numbers.
Not to mention ignoring the nonmonolithic nature of those populations.
I’ll vote a little later this morning. Usually I vote for any Libertarians on the ballot, but this time screw it, straight Team Red. Then I’ll call my mom and dad later and tell them that Mrs. TOK and I negated their ballots.
‘Historical data studied by Streets Blog revealed that around 84 people across the United States die every year in right-on-red accidents, the majority of which are pedestrians and cyclists. ‘
Sounds like they should keep turn on red. It saves a minute a day for every person in the country, then it is more than worth it.
That’s even fewer people than get shot by rifles, Combine those two and you’re still below the number of people beaten to death with bare hands.
I mean, you’re down among lightning strike deaths, which is around 28/yr
Sounds like we should spend billions changing how things are done, if it saves even one life, it is worth it. 😉
After reviewing your proposal, we have determined that it would have a negative effect on the number of lives saved, we are hereby indicting you for attempted murder.
That is would actually improve things a lot. There might be a lot of executions the first year or two, but then we’d see some big returns by not wasting money.
‘Taplin’s proposal cited a 1981 study that revealed between 1 and 4.6 seconds of time are saved when turning right on red. ‘
This doesn’t pass the smell test. You telling me no one saved more than 4.6 second by turning right on red? The study must have had interesting variables. Even if it were one second, saving everyone in the country one second every day is worth 100,000 years of life saved every year. That’s more years than 86 people have between them.
Given how long the reds run around here, I can tell you ever right on red I’ve made has been worth more than 5 seconds saved.
I strongly agree. There is a light on my local road that is a few minutes long, when I turn right on red I save up to two minutes, particularly if traffic is light so I don’t have anything to wait for from the oncoming traffic. That’s why I highly doubt a study from 40 years ago. Kinda suspicious to pick one so old, unless that’s just the only study they found that supported their conclusion (which it still doesn’t, if you do the math)
If they knew more about traffic lights, they could argue that in-road sensors that change the light timing according to traffic pattern invalidate the need for right on red. (I disagree in that case as well)
But I don’t expect activists to actually learn a damn thing about the subject they want to change.
Not when you have morons who don’t understand that if they don’t pull up to the line, the light won’t change. And while I’m heavy, and my bike has metal in it. Neither are enough to trip the sensors on the lights here.
I see more people pulling past the line to wait out the light than stopping short, but idiots come in all varieties.
I remember way back, seeing some ass (he must have cut me off or something, dont remember what, pull entirely past the sensor box at a left turn. I was behind him, also making that left turn, so I stopped short of the box.
Pissed him off. I think he waited thru two cycles before running the light. But I could see him cussing me out.
UCS:
On one of my regular cycling routes, there are three sensor lights. I routinely have to point to the bar, and wave people up to get them to trigger the light. I’m as far to the right as I can get, with one foot on the curb, so there’s plenty of room.
And if they’re making a right on red, I’m waiving my right of way to have them turn in front of me… because I’m not a moron.
You’re a rate one Neph. As many idiot drivers as there are there seems to be at least as many idiot cyclists.
On multiuse paths not a single bicyclist passing me and my son (pedestrians) rang their bell or called out to warn us. Yes, we should be in the right (and mostly were) but overtaking a4 -year old at high speed should give you some cause for caution and warning the adult in charge of said 4-year old.
Just venting my spleen to you. Fuck most bicyclists.
Lack:
I’m well aware. I hate the asshole cyclists more, since they give the rest of us a bad name. I damn near took someone down who passed the girlfriend and I without notice, and almost hit her (we were walking).
The population in my county has grown by over 250% (from 218K to 787K) since 1981. Traffic conditions are a tiny bit different now.
How many of those 84 were their fault. There is a log blog that hypes pedestrian deaths. More than half are “pedestrian was walking in the road at night wearing dark clothing”.
I am a little nervous about today. Hopefully the cheating is kept to a minimum, and the crazies aren’t out burning cars this week.
Sorry, Other Kevin. Most likely you will need your steel underpants. I expect mostly peaceful protests by tonight in every major city.
Sadly I think you are right. The antifa fucks had hundreds of riots teed up in 2020.
I hope they do. It’ll make for good commercials in 2024.
Election denial is ok when WE do it.
That is awfully close to “well, they have insurance!” for a burning business. We all know the cars that will get torched will be those that belong to people who will suffer greatly, and might not be able to replace such, especially with prices today. 🙁
Don’t ever be like these cops.
Classic contempt of cop.
With cops that abundantly deserve it. Oy.
Jacobin
@jacobin
The international left should affirm Iranian protesters’ feminist and democratic message of “Women, Life, Freedom.” If we don’t, we risk ceding the public discourse to neoconservatives and liberal hawks who will use the protests for their own purposes.
https://twitter.com/jacobin/status/1589161914273259520
Lunatics to the left of me, psychos to the right
You’re in the horror section of the video store.
I’m amazed you found a video store.
We actually had a video store. It was a great little place with a complete movie need. He had a small theater built in and would throw b-day parties, which I am guessing where he made his money. Covid policies destroyed him.
Russia 🇷🇺
@Russia
Russia government organization
🗓️ Today marks 1⃣0⃣5️⃣ years since the October Socialist Revolution of 1917 – a major turning point event in human history.
With complex background, in retrospect it enabled many social benefits we enjoy nowadays and is widely celebrated by many people around the globe.
https://twitter.com/Russia/status/1589497269040328704
Imagine if fucking Germany hadn’t put Lenin on that train.
Imagine if he hadn’t survived the assassination attempt.
Not enough people talk about using time travel to kill Baby Lenin.
I’m sure this is justifiable based on a law.
The FBI, through the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) has announced that a mandatory wait period for 18–20-year-old legal adults, as enacted by the gun control known as Cornyn-Murphy or the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, will go into effect November 14, 2022.
Gun Owners of America reported on this issue in October 2022, when the FBI launched their Enhanced Background Checks for 18–20-year-olds in the state of Maine.
Those under the age of 21 will receive an initial delay that could last about two weeks. This delay is supposedly to allow the FBI to contact local law enforcement and check with state databases to enhance the background check system’s effectiveness. This is nothing but a way to make it more difficult for young adults to own firearms. It’s a mandatory wait period that anti-gunners have now added to a background check system that is broken well beyond repair.
Thanks John Fuckface Cornyn and the rest of the bipartisan rinos.
Higher IQ is not associated with enhanced investment performance in stock traders.
https://twitter.com/DegenRolf/status/1589981803280207873
“Rape victimization [of adolescent females] was predicted by greater curvaceousness and weight but was unrelated to interviewer-rated attractiveness.”
https://twitter.com/DegenRolf/status/1589604652219125761
Having insider knowledge and a congressional seat, howver, were.
People with the lowest ability to evaluate scientific evidence overestimate their skill the most.
https://twitter.com/DegenRolf/status/1588783545061093377
these sound like solid studies to me as I can Evaluate SCIENCE
Was he saying that the media was full of lying fucks, or that people that see through politicized sciences are bad?
fuck knows they used several scale to determine reasoning but I assume it is mostly bullshit like all such
JFC…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1544612322006407#sec0005
So this is your sample collection.
are you denying science ?
Not a surprise, just like funds can’t beat index funds consistently, at the same risk level.
The only way to have enhanced performance is to take larger risks.
I am reading several of his books. One of my favorite books, The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis is about him and Amos Tversky
Good morning, Sloop!
The music seems very appropriate for today.
Maybe it’s because I run in better circles, but Twitter hasn’t changed one little bit for me.
I don’t think it’s changed for anyone.
Trump is still banned.
So hasn’t changed….
I am still banned.
My other account is movies/TV/screenwriting stuff so it’s chock full of lefty-ism.
Solo
Since taking ownership of Twitter, Elon Musk has been “straight-up alone” and “winging this,” Chris Sacca, an early investor in the company, said.
The venture capitalist posted a series of tweets on Monday where he analyzed Musk’s leadership style. Since taking ownership of Twitter on October 27, Musk has fired some of the company’s top execs and outlined plans to lay off half of its employees.
He’s also announced big changes to some of the platform’s features, including charging users for verification and the possibility of introducing tiers of content moderation.
“This guy is alone,” Sacca tweeted. “He has plenty of ‘pals’ and is the life of parties and dinners. But the hard truth is that he is straight-up alone right now and winging this.”
He’s not asking you and the rest of the bozos who made Twatter a biased cash burning cesspool for advice?
Oh no.
Yep, just like with SpaceX, where he’s out there designing and building spaceports and rockets and satellites all by himself.
And he did bring over some of the SpaceX execs to fill slots. So it’s just a flat lie that he’s got no one with him.
Just Stop Oil
@JustStop_Oil
🦺 Louise, 24: “I’m here because I don’t have a future. You might hate me for doing this, but I wish you would direct all that anger and hatred at our Government. They are betraying young people like me — I wouldn’t have to be here if they did their duty.”
https://twitter.com/JustStop_Oil/status/1589538978616594433
the government should totes do whatever feel right to brainless 24 year olds
Idiots that have been brainwashed by evil anti-humanist marxist to believe a terribly stupid lie, complain when people dismiss their idiocy.
You’re right, Louise. You have no future, but that has nothing to do with fossil fuels.
What will it be like when 60-year old Louise wakes up every day to find she’s still here?
“Why does it take young people like me?”
Because you’re a useful idiot.
Today.
Tomorrow who knows.
That didn’t take long.
The voting machines have already stopped working in Maricopa County, AZ and Mercer County, NJ and Bell County, TX and the election just started!
That’s because mail in ballots skew D…
Dude, white people can’t be victims of disenfranchisement.
According to twits? So substantive!
No, according to corporate media, the board of elections and the cops.
https://6abc.com/new-jersey-election-midterm-elections-2022-nj-voters-voting-in/12429544/
NJ officialdom, no worries there!
There’s fuckery afoot.
🗓️ Today marks 1⃣0⃣5️⃣ years since the October Socialist Revolution of 1917 – a major turning point event in human history.
With complex background, in retrospect it enabled many social benefits we enjoy nowadays and is widely celebrated by many people around the globe.
To be sure, not everyone benefited equally.
Relevant
This idiocy is like saying Polio or Malaria also have positives i.e. the death of humans….
“I got a work session scheduled, but had to cancel it when I was reminded that Friday is Veterans’ Day and no one will be around”
– Actual Vendor
You might hate me for doing this, but I wish you would direct all that anger and hatred at our Government.
Don’t worry, little girl. I have plenty of hate to go around. I hate you and the government with plenty to spare.
I hate the government for weaponizing, politicizing, and abusing this bullshit, but I can reserve hate towards people that refuse to do the easy work to figure out they are being gaslighted.
“In Maricopa County, about 10% of polling places are experiencing problems with tabulators. One machine became operative after it was cleaned. Voters can still place their ballots in a slot in a locked container; they will be counted at the downtown tabulation center tonight.”
https://twitter.com/yvonnewingett/status/1589996311348400128
There is no cannibalism in the Royal Navy!
Fun fact: In Romania all votes are counted by hand we have no machines. Another fun fact: people would think it ridiculous not to have your ID to vote. More fun fact: fraud is probably rampant
Being a more advanced country, we have simplified and automated our fraud. Now it only takes a few key-stroked to ensure democracy wins.
here they buss people in different locations to vote on special lists (you can vote in another place than your place of residence for country level elections for example, not for mayor and such) and people forget to compare the special lists for duplicate votes. It is very inefficient and bad for the climate, all those bus rides
Sounds like New Hampshire.
Just returned from my turn at ending Democracy.
Picture ID is required here. I *think* if you don’t have one you have to fill out a “provisional” ballot which will be counted if you can prove who you are… some other way?
A high-fiber diet synergizes with Prevotella copri and exacerbates rheumatoid arthritis
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41423-022-00934-6
“Twitter isn’t going to get better for users, the advertisers aren’t coming back at scale, and his huge investment just isn’t going to pay off unless there is genuine dialogue leading to thoughtful progress and stability,” he added.
Whycome Musk not do like I want?
With any luck, Musk will turn that sinking ship around, and when he does… people like this dope will pretend they knew he was right all along.
He absolutely will. It was already a sinking ship (again) losing millions a day(?) I think. Salary reductions were needed immediately. Anyone giving Elon advice who formerly worked with Twitter would be ignored as a useless turd who wasted money.
So my wife is texting me while waiting in line to vote.
Some woman has freaked out that almost nobody is masked. My wife and one other guy basically told her “too bad”.
It’s NJ – if she was this concerned about the commie cough she could have voted by mail.
So my wife is texting me while waiting in line to vote. – ask her what she is wearing?
she could have voted by mail. – maybe she also voted by mail
I suspect she was more distressed that they were wrongthinkers who had cast off the talisman of obeyance.
Lulz
Well here in the metro NYC bubble you will still see plenty of masked people, particularly in the Asian and Black communities.
The adoption by Asian communities was high even before the plague.
Yeah, East Asians have been wearing the mask during flu season for decades. Now it’s year-round and nearly universal.
The gymnasium where I just voted had a sign on it ostensibly requiring the mask.
Maybe 1 in 5 was wearing one – none of them poll workers.
There was a sign at the door about 6′ apart and wash your hands. 🙄
I wonder how many of those are just leftovers that people haven’t bothered taking down?
They were still wiping down pens between uses…
To be fair, I don’t know where those other voters’ hands have been…
So the State provides a means for these people and they Stull don’t take it so they can go wag their fingers at people they demand do it. These are the people who’s votes are scary
But if she’d just voted by mail (not discounting the possibility she did both,) she would have missed this perfect opportunity to have a public freak-out and draw attention to her victimhood!
In part of my town, and not the part I live, a not insignificant number of women have just about zero interaction with the “unwashed”.
Other people buy their groceries, cook their food, maintain their homes and, most importantly, raise their children.
I really have no patience or tolerance for those who cannot survive without hired help.
Where’s that line drawn? There are some tasks where I’d rather pay someone else than spend my time on it.
Admittedly those as tasks like plumbing and roofing, which don’t come up everyday.
I’m assuming you can make it to the grocery store and unclog a toilet.
I’m not paying a plumber to unclog a toilet, and those delviery folks kept screwing up my grocery orders…
I take great pleasure in not accepting the I Voted sticker.
The old geezers always look crestfallen.
Never gets old.
Seinfeld: Ribbon (Clip) | TBS
I stopped taking them when I had one under the lid of every garbage can in my house.
They didn’t even offer me one. 🙁
Me neither. Crotchety old men just sneered at me. Probably because I, too, am a crotchety old man.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/judge-gives-over-1000-georgia-voters-extra-time-to-mail-in-absentee-ballots_4848650.html
Uh huh. They announce on Saturday they discovered over a thousand request absentee ballots weren’t sent. Somehow didn’t figure it out when the ballots went out. And the remedy is now a thousand ballots can be returned after the polls close and results are being announced. Pull the other one.
https://www.powerball.net/news/powerball-jackpot-rolls-again-and-tops-2-3-billion
I got zero matches – that’s worth something, right?
Like showing off in math class and getting every question just so slightly wrong.
If it were I’d be rich. I’m GREAT at getting zero matches.
As am I in voting.
Goddamnit I was already looking at realestate
They were not supposed to hold a drawing where I didn’t win.
Nobody won, so you’re still good.
“EXCLUSIVE: Oregon woman, 32, with long history of mental health problems now sues carers for green-lighting her ‘woman-to-man’ double mastectomy that was FAST-TRACKED after brief Zoom sessions”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11399015/Oregon-woman-sues-trans-care-team-abhorrent-misdiagnosis-left-MUTILATED.html
“Oregon woman who struggled with mental health for years before getting approved for a double mastectomy after just 2 short zoom sessions is suing clinicians for misdiagnosing her”
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1589792641142902787
Medicine is a politicized pile of shit.
If she wins, that will slow down the psychos a bit.
It’s not just the lack of trans safekeeping, it’s pain medication, covid, “equity”, etc.
I’m skeptical as to how much luck she’ll have, but I wish it the best. It’s pretty obvious that two hours and not asking her about her psychiatric history for what is a life-altering procedure is malpractice. And I strongly suspect that the people doing this are doing so out of ideological fashion. The prospect of getting sued into penury might be helpful for righting the ship for the medical profession.
*sigh*
Vendor is trying to evade work, which results in more meetings, wasting more time than the work would take.
I had a math formula for that. Normal time for project completion x (number of vendors involved +1) = correct ETA
It would be easier if these meetings didn’t run over time and keep going over the same ground.
I know, they always do that.
At 4 AM this morning, I was reading about how the Doge of Venice was elected: https://www.theballotboy.com/electing-the-doge
It gave me an idea. I don’t know if it is original or not, but I thought I would share. Ranked Approval Voting.
It is sort of a combo of Ranked Choice and Approval Voting.
I really dislike the idea of approval voting, but I like this idea. I am sure it is gameable, but not yet sure how. That is why I turn to you idiots.
So here is how it works, for a ballot with N candidates, you list your top N-1 choices in order.
Round 1 everyone gets there first choice counted. If anyone has a majority, they win, everything ends. When N=2 this is the same as Plurality or Ranked Choice. Its a boring case. Duh.
In no one gets 50+%, then we go to round 2. Unlike ranked choice, no one is eliminated. Ever. In Round 2, everyone gets all there 2nd choice votes added on. If, at this point, one (or more) candidates has greater than 50% of the vote, then the candidate with the highest total wins. If not, repeat with 3rd choice. And so on.
Lets take a simple example, a 3 way race with an R, a D, and a L. Like GA senate, for example. Round 1 the R gets 49%, the D gets 48%, and the L gets 3%. GA would go to a runoff with top 2. In ranked choice, the 2nd choices of the L voters would determine who wins. In ranked approval voting, everyone’s 2nd choice counts, so we will have a total of 200%. Someone will get to 50%, probably 2 or even 3 someones.
But who wins? The realistic answer is whichever of the R or D candidates is hated the least, so the opposing voters are wishy-washy enough that they would rather vote for them than the L. But with enough spite, if enough R and D voters voted L as 2nd choice, the L would win in a landslide. In an multi-candidate race, it could get really interesting.
So, what do yall think?
“At 4 AM this morning, I was reading about how the Doge of Venice was elected”
Cocaine is a helluva drug.
My bladder called, what else was I supposed to do?
Apparently get your prostate checked.
I think the Doge election procedure id too convoluted.
It seems like probably a few too many rounds. But I see how it makes corruption harder, and makes the selection of the selectors pretty strong. I bet there was a historical reason for every round added on.
“probably 2”
In a 3-way race, it is guaranteed that at least 2 candidates will have 50% after round 2.
Which leads me to a question, how many rounds needed based on candidates? N-1 is most likely too many.
2 candidates: 1 round
3-4 candidates: 2 rounds
5-6: 3 rounds
yeah, the pattern, is N/2 rounds, rounded up. Often you wouldn’t need that many, but that is the most needed.
Does it work for breeds other than Shiba Inus?
Some woman has freaked out that almost nobody is masked.
Tump voters!
My suburban metro NYC enclave turned from RINO to Team Blue a bit over a decade ago and never looked back.
Same thing, really. The RINO was just a mask.
Let the good times roll!
American consumers borrowed another $25 billion in September, according to newly released Federal Reserve data, as higher costs led to further dependence on credit cards and other loans.
Economists were anticipating monthly growth of $30 billion, according to Refinitiv consensus estimates.
The data isn’t adjusted for inflation.
Consumer borrowing in September increased at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 6.4%, according to the report. Revolving debt, which includes credit cards, grew by 8.7%.
“In normal economic times, that would be a huge jump,” Matthew Schulz, chief credit analyst for LendingTree, wrote in a tweet. “However, it is actually the second-smallest increase in the past year.”
Nonrevolving credit, which includes auto loans and student loans, increased by 5.7%.
The economy is booming. Thanks, Joe!
The personal savings rate, which is the percentage of disposable income allocated for saving, not spending, was 3.1% in September, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis. That’s the second-lowest rate in more than 14 years.
Nothing to see here.
I think the Doge election procedure id too convoluted.
That depends. If the government is paralyzed while awaiting the outcome, it might not be such a bad idea.
All the schools are out so teachers can vote. The kid is losing her mind.
What?? It takes teachers all daggone day to vote?? I put in for an hour of vacation so I could do it before work without going out at the crack of dawn, waited in line, spent time fighting with a fussy touchscreen, and still had time to go pick up milk and something for breakfast before heading to the office.
A lot of them are working the polls, and others are voting over and over again.
I agree with you. Hell, the teachers could have done early voting after school and it would have taken ten minutes. The library (voting station) is one block from school.
Look at you — capable and shit!
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I really have no patience or tolerance for those who cannot survive without hired help.
[insert dimly remembered apocryphal tale about wealthy old geezer freezing his ass off while waiting for butler to light fire in fireplace]
More info on that viral video.
Viral Video of Blind Man’s Arrest Sparks Probe of Florida Deputies
None of it will be good for your blood pressure.
Holy crap balls.
I guess it took a minute for the sense of humor to come back and whisper “It’s all fun and games until somebody get their eyes poked out.”
“The two deputies didn’t heed his pleas, however, arresting Hodges on a charge of resisting arrest without violence.”
Again with the “arrested for resisting arrest” gambit.
Looks like they arrested him for resisting arrest solely because he threatened to get them in trouble for the harassment.
What took them so long?
The European Union has “serious concerns” about the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act, saying it breaches international trade rules, according to an official document seen by CNBC.
The sweeping tax, health and climate bill was approved by U.S. lawmakers in August and includes a record $369 billion in spending on climate and energy policies. The landmark package comprises tax credits for electric cars made in North America and supports U.S. battery supply chains.
European officials have acknowledged the green ambitions associated with the package, but they are worried about “the way that the financial incentives under the Act are designed,” the document, which will be presented to U.S. officials, says. The EU listed nine of the tax credit provisions that it has an issue with.
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“We are concerned about the consequences due to the Inflation Reduction Act,” Christian Lindner, the German finance minister, told CNBC, saying, “our common approach should be that value partners should stay preferred trade partners,” he said.
When asked if the solution would be to start working on a new trade deal with the U.S., Lindner said: “We should be open for it, if both sides agree but at the moment we have to analyze the Inflation Reduction Act with its consequences for our industries. And we have to inform the U.S. side about our serious concerns, I am not sure they are aware of our concerns in the way we are concerned.”
What are they squawking about? We got rid of our “America first” administration two years ago.
I was most distressed to find I had left cheese in my fridge for a while uneaten. I have to make sure no mold has gotten to it. Then I want to make white sauce to go with chicken, peppers, and onion I’ve got in the fridge. Debating whether or not it needs pasta. My first thought is Penne, but I haven’t checked to see if I’ve got any penne
Does cheese ever really go bad? I think it just evolves into different cheese.
Just cut off the moldy bits.
Aspergillum cheese is not my cup of tea.
Not now. Wait a few months until the apocalypse comes.
Eating food that causes you to vomit has limited uses in a survival situation.
How is that poor student ever going to be able to join a British comedy troupe if he’s not allowed to express himself?