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DomeGuy

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  • If you speak a language that has a formal 'you', when do you use it?

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  • AOC reacts to question if Chuck Schumer should remain leader

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  • Schumer resigning as minority leader wouldnt change one damn thing.

    The only resignation that would matter would be from his Senate seat, and while Hochul has some progressive bonna fides from her endorsement of Mamdani I dont think there's a good choice for an appointed senator who could make much of a difference.

    Maybe someone like Zephyr Teachout, but I'm not sure she'd want the job or that Hochul would pick her.

    (And if AOC herself wants the job, I'd want her to get the benefit of winning a statewide dem primary first.)

  • Democrats sweep all 30 House of Delegates seats in Northern Virginia, flip 13 seats statewide

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  • Okay, so who filled these rolls in the NYC Mayor's Race?

    Cuomo, who was endorsed by the outgoing mayor, was the establishment. Mamdani, who ran an insurgent campaign to beat both Adams and Cuomo in the ranked-choice primary, was the opposition.

    That the choice was either Cuomo or Mamdani was so obvious that the leadership of the Republican party endorsed Cuomo over his own party's nominee.

    That's not what happened in the primary...

    The DNC primary was not a winner-take-all election. We could call them "single ballot plurality wins" or "first past the post" if the difference is confusing to you.

    And then when your candidate loses you're going to come back here and yell at me for voting wrong. Hell, even when you win, you're yelling that I've voted wrong.

    Where the fuck did I say that? Go ahead and waste your vote all you want. Sometimes both plausible winners suck, and "they both are equally bad" is a perfectly fine fucking message.

    Just don't expect any rhetorical accolades for voting "either" from the rest of us.

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  • Essentially every winner-take-all election comes down to the establishment and the opposition. Either you like the team in charge and vote for them, want them replaced and vote for the most likely challenger, or find both choices equivalent and do something else with your vote.

    NYC's mayor election is a great example. Every adult who looked at polling knew that it would either be Mamdani or Cuomo, and those who still voted for someone else were communicating very effectively that both choices were equivalent to them.

    Look, you can do whatever the hell you want to with your vote. Spoil it, waste it on a "third party" vanity campaign, or just skip the election. Just don't pretend that your wasted vote is somehow not a declaration that whomever wins is as good to you as the runner up.

  • Democrats sweep all 30 House of Delegates seats in Northern Virginia, flip 13 seats statewide

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  • In a winner-take-all election, anything less than a vote for the runner up is an endorsement of the winner.

    You're not "refusing to take part" in the election, you're just voting "either is fine by me."

  • Judge denies Bitcoin company's request to block local election in Hood County

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  • Remember that Bitcoin is still using the inherently wasteful "proof of work" pattern to incentive the necessary hash computations.

    And that it's less of a currency than it is a speculative security. Kind of like in-game currency for a MMO that allows real-money exchange, but without the game and somehow with even less stability or efficiency.

  • Maybe there was a cure for human cancer, but it didn't work at all in mice.

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  • We know a bunch of ways to kill cancer cells. Unfortunately, we usually want to avoid killing the non-cancerous ones, which is considerably harder to do.

  • Why can't we (states) ignore clock changes without the federal government? The federal government doesn't seem to care about standing laws.

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  • I wager we could get New Hampshire, Vermont, or Texas to challenge the uniform time act as a violation of the 9th amendment just for the fun of it.

    I wouldn't put it past California, either.

  • Vance Blasted as ‘Hindu-Phobic’ for Wanting Usha to Convert to Christianity

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  • Civil war

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  • It's not toxic masculinity to view large male genitals as more masculine. Sure, it's sexist small-minded heteronormative bullshit, but it's not toxic masculinity.

    (Toxic masculinity as generally used refers to ideas about how men or boys should behave which are not compatible with either a healthy society or an individual's mental health. )

    (There's some variance on this where it shares some overlap with "hyper masculine" folks who have unusual presentations of characteristics usually caused by the male sex hormone, but I believe smaller genitals are also a potential consequence of excess steroids or testosterone.)

  • Civil war

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  • While you're exactly right on the topic, your timing's a bit off.

    Racist American assholes have been lying about the civil war since 1865.

  • I want to ask about a laptop in the future. Will it be safer than a computer?

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  • Most laptops or other portable computers are not repairable. Heck, even desktops these days are highly integrated with often just three chips and maybe a graphics card inserted into a motherboard.

    If you really want reduced telemetry, switch to Linux NOW and only use systems that F/OSS folk approve of.

    If you don't need a PC for gaming, consider something like a raspberry pi.

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  • How so?

    The comic looks like a pretty clear joke that identified the issue in a straightforward issue.

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  • Correct.

    Pointing out that way too many things are simply harder for Americans who appear black is called "recognizing that there is a problem", which most adults agree is the very first step to solving problems.

  • You’re Being Lied to About Graham Platner

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  • I'd like to see widely-citable sourcing for the claims that he apologized and actually covered the Nazi tattoo. Ideally with "before" and "after" pics.

    "Right winger pretends to be woke to get D Senate seat, then fucks us all over" is a hell of a scam, and it's arguably happened at least twice since Obama was in office.

    And, yeah, "so called centrist dems fearmonger over candidate to their left" is way more frequent a play. Which is why seeing citations that are more than "we read his reddit history" are worthwhile

  • In defense of the White House ballroom

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  • In all honesty, "limit the state dinner to who the white house can seat" sounds like a perfectly reasonable alternative to tents.

    The home of the national manager doesn't need to be a venue big enough to seat every last member of Congress, the cabinet, the supreme Court, every other statewide elected official, AND a foreign dignitary with their entourage.

    If we do need a venue that big, it should either be part of the Capitol or a free standing structure.

  • TIL: According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, inflation has been less than 3% for the last 12 Months

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  • You seem to be blurring the line between "good for me" with "good for the economy".

    Why would a bank loan you money if you're not paying enough in interest to offset the cost of inflation? Historically in such systems banks charge loan fees instead, and with those fees loans tend to be net-higher since capital seeks other investments, such as commodity trading (which tends to drive up the price for necessities, too!)

    Bank loans for large purchases are, btw, very good things. If you are going to be not-spending $2000 a month for 20 years to buy yourself a home, it's better for everyone if you can just live in said home while you do.

    Please note that I'm NOT refuting your other points. Wage stagnation and income inequality are very bad things, and inflation does tend to exacerbate those things.

    (We also haven't talked about deflation,

  • TIL: According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, inflation has been less than 3% for the last 12 Months

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  • A small amount of predictable inflation is good for the economy. You get to pay your car loan back with dollars that are smaller than the ones the bank fronted in the first place, and the bank has money to load at all because it makes sense for everyone in town to deposit their extra dollars rather than just hiding them at home.

    It'd be nice to have some revaluing of physical currency though, since the spending power of a single dollar today is about what a nickel was a century ago. I wouldnt mind if tiny metal discs with Jefferson's face said "one dollar".