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    Puerto Ricans must vote for Kamala Harris

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  • So a U.S. citizen who (having immediately prior lived for a qualifying period of time in a US State or in DC) currently lives in a foreign country has more rights than one currently living in Puerto Rico. A USian in Canada can vote for the President, but one in Puerto Rico cannot. That's .. ridiculous.

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  • The best that can be said about this is that no precedent was set this time. (I mean legally speaking - this is unprecedented, but it can't be cited to justify future purgers.)

    Also, https://giphy.com/gifs/reaction-LSmULmByAQHQs

  • Trump threatens to drown out his closing message in the final days of the election

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  • For us, the pro-Harris camp, this is a good thing.

  • The world needs a US president who respects evidence

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  • I think the reason that this happened is due to structual issues in the way US Presidential elections work (e.g. the Electoral College), hence I'm hopeful that the 127 DC States plan - https://www.vox.com/2020/1/14/21063591/modest-proposal-to-save-american-democracy-pack-the-union-harvard-law-review - will be in reach soon if Dems get all three Houses in this election, or at least after the 2026 midterms if Harris wins this year but Dems lose the Senate. Then we can fix all these issues via Constitutional amendment, and with fairer elections, more leftist candidates will have a better chance of winning the highest office.

  • Trump Takes Lead in 538 Simulations

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  • Thanks, it's been a great discussion. I missed that on the VoteHub polls but I see it now, and you're absolutely right - they've gone from Harris 270 when I first commented to the GOP having 297 now in the EC. Meanwhile, if my memory serves correct, Nate's model is holding steady at a 54% chance of a GOP win, suggesting that VoteHub was just delayed in getting this shift factored in. Shoot.

    (But apparently Harris had a good afternoon on the 29th, yesterday, if one ignores AtlasIntel.)

    Something new though - it seems like the Harris campaign is feeling optimistic as of the day before yesterday -https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/28/us/politics/kamala-harris-donald-trump-2024-election.html / https://archive.is/EwIkC - I wonder if they have internal polling showing different results.

    So I take solace in this quote:

    Polling averages show that all seven battleground states are within the margin of error, meaning the difference between a half-point up and a half-point down — essentially a rounding error — could win or lose the White House.

    So I think I have to concede my original point that the polling aggregators are being polluted - seems like they're reflecting a real red shift after all. But in the end I can still hope that the red shift maybe wasn't enough, as currently it's still a toss-up (even Nate Silver says so).

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  • Unfortunately, this is exactly right. Republican vote suppression at it's finest (i.e. it's lowest moment).

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  • That's a very good point. It's not a bad idea as it would indeed introduce significant friction. Even if eventually worked around completely, that would take time, during which there may well be a lot of persuasive complaints.

  • Paddington Bear given UK passport by Home Office | Paddington | The Guardian

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  • Only in the Spanish dub, which doesn't count. You've made a solid argument that is beyond my ability to refute. Instead I'll accept your position as the correct one and adopt your views as my own.

  • Jon Stewart Is Taking Trump’s ‘Enemy Within’ Threats Very Seriously

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  • You're right - I must have forgot this was on Lemmy. If we were on FB or something like that then not everyone would get the implied /s - but fediverse users are quite a bit better in this regard.

  • Democrats brace for a possible crack in the blue wall and signs of North Carolina slipping

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  • It's unfair to point that out without also pointing out the current GOP presidential candidate is a former registered Democrat in Republican clothing.

  • Musk Petition Signers Still Waiting for $47 Payments

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  • Wondering if this is some kind of loophole - by a technicality, he's not guilty of vote buying if he doesn't actually pay up?

  • A note on Universal Monk:

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  • jordanlund wrote,

    Oddly, on a personal level, I have no beef with the guy.

    So I was just pointing out another example where this user could have tried to troll or inflame me, but instead went with the "no-beef" approach, for whatever reason.

    After seeing how that user banned DMs, I don't see how anyone could be against the current permaban. I was just pointing out that somehow I was one of the rare few who somehow got along with that person while they were still here.

  • A note on Universal Monk:

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  • Ah - I can see why they'd prefer an automod (they'd not have to worry about configuring or changing the server software in that case).

    Unfortunately, as far I can tell, none of the existing automods out there support deleting posts by a rate limit. It's not impossible to add this functionality, but it'd take a bit of work and time from a dev.

    For example, I think for lemmymodbot one can modify the User Processor at https://github.com/noenfugler/LemmyModBot/blob/master/lemmymodbot/processors/userprocessor.py to accomplish this.

    Under line 8, add this line to create a user/seen hash

    userpostseenhash = {}

    and replace the entire execute function with something like this,

    if content.actorid in self.userpostseenhash: if int(datetime.now().timestamp 1000) - int(userpostseenhash[content.actorid].timestamp 1000) = 300 1000: handle.removething("Posting too frequently, take a break")self.userpostseenhash[content.actorid] = datetime.now()

    (Oh, and at the top of the file, also add above the first line,

    from datetime import datetime, timedelta

    )

    But for lemmy.world (even if just looking at /m/politics) it would likely OOM from the in-memory hash due to the volume of users, so it'd need to be extended leverage the database for the lookup.

    Something similar could be implemented on top of threativore, I think around this line might be the easiest place to implement the check of the username/timestamp, https://github.com/db0/threativore/blob/main/threativore/threativore.py#L285

    Edit: Forgot to add, all the above code changes are completely untested by me, use at your own risk, etc.

  • 7 Signs That Point to Kamala Harris Defeating Trump

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  • Thank you, you've just made my day.

  • Not allowed to work from home

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  • Coming from someone who successfully did exactly that - because it's quite tough. Immigration to most countries is quite competitive and expensive, with a lot of hoops to jump through. Those who can do it typically are much better off than the average Tommy and Gina (edit: Bon Jovi for those downvoters who don't get the reference).

  • Not allowed to work from home

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  • Unfortunately, true. Countries in the Anglosphere generally don't allow immigration at all past the age of 50 or 55 unless you're married to a citizen or something, so odds are good you aren't even eligible to get in by the time you hit midlife.

    And going outside of the Anglosphere requires becoming fluent in a language other than English - and even then it's not so easy to immigrate.

    Of course, one can always head to Svalbard - they don't require work visas or residence visas, as per https://www.sysselmesteren.no/en/entry-and-residence/ - but it's pretty cold that close to the North Pole. Plus you'd have to learn Norwegian.

  • 41% Plurality Of Republican Voters Agree That GOP’s Anti-Trans Rhetoric Is ‘Sad And Shameful’

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  • Which is very unfortunate. I do see hope here, as 41% means a majority of Americans are against such things (since almost all Democrats would also agree, obvs).

  • 41% Plurality Of Republican Voters Agree That GOP’s Anti-Trans Rhetoric Is ‘Sad And Shameful’

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  • Remember that the GOP used to be the party of Abraham Lincoln who ended the Civil War and slavery.

    There are still some who hope to restore the party to its old glory, despite how far it's fallen since.

  • Not allowed to work from home

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  • Ditto, but this is actually a bonus for me.

    "Didn't you see my email and message last evening?"

    "Not until I got in today, because it came after I had logged off and I can't see that stuff on my personal phone because, you know, IT policy."