Can you imagine Trump trying to even navigate stuffy legal language? Nevermind writing some.
A few Lemmy users ain't gonna cut it. This is one of those things where it won't go away until the subject of the stories goes away.
Counting down the days, personally... I just don't know how many days there are to count down.
The long, drawn out metaphorical explanation was unnecessary and frankly kind of condescending.
I'm not over here trying to be some champion of the electoral college and I'd be more interested in seeing a real push for ranked choice or one of its cousins.
The point I was making was that if you sat at home and didn't vote at all, your chosen candidate would never see the inside of the oval office and I went into my understanding of why it is the way it is. Ultimately, voting under the current system is not entirely worthless as you seemed to claim in the original post I responded to.
We've had something like 59 elections in total and 5 of them involved the winning candidate losing the popular vote but winning the election by way of the electoral college. Only one of those elections - the very first - involved anything even remotely close to your example (but still not42.3% vs 31.6%). The other 4 had a difference of like 2% or less between the two leading candidates.
The electoral college was devised as a compromise between direct democracy and congressional voting and I'm sure it was done in good faith to try to make sure everyone was represented, but this system seems to truly show its cracks when we're facing an insanely stark national split like we see today and there's no argument that we should probably shake things up and get rid of it.
I mean, that's not entirely accurate - a vote for a presidential candidate is a vote for the slate of electors tied to said candidate - effectively a vote for your candidate, albeit indirectly. Electors can, however, be required to vote according to popular vote as required by the state they're electors in. Or they could have pledged to vote according to specific party. I don't know for sure, but I assume state elector requirements override party pledges.
My understanding is that when it was devised, it was a compromise between direct democracy (which would honestly be potentially dangerous - how many people do you know where you can't help but go, "Fuck... This guy can vote.") and election via congressional vote. It certainly ain't perfect and I have no bias towards it, but it's a system like anything else that people tend to point at and blame when things don't go their way or just ignore or even defend when things do go their way.
No, that's "predestination." You're thinking of a medical condition one had before they signed up for an insurance policy and then got denied coverage for.
Won't catch me standing in the way - it's pretty entertaining, anyway.
Sure, but at this point he's in an endless tailspin. Could also just stop talking about him at this point altogether, probably. Whatever supporters there are, he'll never be able to dig himself out to face down Trump now.
The initial video was kind of funny, but we could just focus on how fucking awful he is.
I can't remember what it was specifically, but friend basically ruined a major plot point in Witcher 3 for me fully knowing I was a good ways out from discovering it on my own. As a kneejerk reaction and knowing he was about 20 or 30 hours into Fallout 4, I told him who runs the Institute and what relation that individual has to the protagonist.
He was angrier than I was because I had assumed Witcher 3 turned out the way he revealed, but my spoiler absolutely blindsided him. He never ruined anything for me again.
If you're envisioning a sloppily torn scrap of paper with "KILL EVERY1" scrawled on it with crayon, I could see where you're coming from, but paper battle maps with points of interest/focus being used by a pretty primitive (comparable to who they're up against) fighting force makes more sense, though.
If this was planned so tightly that they didn't let the bulk of their fighters (or large swaths of lower rung leadership) know details until days (or less) before the attack, then it stands to reason they'd hand out infosheets. That seems to be what happened here.
Who are we kidding anyway? They're still going to go up 80% over the same period of time.
How do they account for a service like privacy.com which allows you to generate multiple dummy card numbers for a single card?
If the cost of subscription is, instead, the barrier to entry then all we'll end up seeing is parties who have the resources for wide spanning scams or propaganda or whatever it is - and if they're paying then they expect to profit or score gains in some way that justify their costs, which likely means they're effective at what they do
They're there... err... the remains are, at least.
Edgy teenager shit, probably.
Like drawing an anarchy symbol on stuff.
PSA: At every Exxon Mobil I've been to, when the screen on the pump starts vomiting up ads as you're pumping your gas, if you tap the 2nd button from the top on the right side of the screen, it mutes it.
Enjoy your peaceful gas station visit.
For real - who the hell wants to be commando-crawling through a datacenter in slacks and loafers? Total fucking nonsense.
I went full remote in early 2018, so now you'd have to put a gun to my head to be in anything more than shorts and a wifebeater while I work. I'm popping into the office this Thursday and for a minute, I was afraid I didn't have any long jeans left for the occasion lmao
Seriously. I joke that I specifically became a sysadmin because a T-shirt (and occasional polo), jeans, and sneakers or boots is already formal for me.
... it's only partially actually a joke.
Hah, fair enough. I've never been there, but I've always wanted to try living somewhere in the PNW at some point. This is clearly a him problem and I wonder if being a working stiff would have begun tainting his view of NY with time, too. He doesn't realize it, yet, but what he's doing in that regard is looking back fondly on his college days.
I feel bad for this dude, but not for the reasons he wants me to.
Nearing 40 and being pretty staunchly no-kids, I always got along great with all of the devs and admins I work with who have kids and we find plenty to talk about. I always thought what I do for a living is pretty cool, but I certainly never expected that to be my ticket to getting laid or being praised as some big-brain special boy. This dude felt one-dimensional because he is one-dimensional. Maybe he just never really spent the time developing his personality and maybe its time to do that now. It's one thing to love what you do, its another entirely to make your job your identity - you gotta bring more to the table in social situations than shop talk and Squid Game.
As for complaining about a routine... I mean, that's unfortunately how being an adult works for 90% of us. We have jobs, we often end up kind of worn out even if we sit at a desk all day, and it can suck - you make the best of it and break the monotony as best you can. If he wanted to be in the remaining 10%, he probably should've put in the effort. Those folks he mentions at Y Combinator, or starting nonprofits probably busted their asses to break through. Even content creators who put out quality content often are often run ragged from overworking. Did this dude think staying in NY and taking a 9-5 there would have magically given him extra energy?
Fuck outta here with this garbage, Business Insider.
14" M2 Max MBP - Are the throttling/overheating issues overblown?
For the first time in my life, I'm in the market for a personal MBP. I had to get my ancient MBP for work replaced last week and they sent me one of the new 14" M2 Pro models and I absolutely love it. As I spent more time with it, I decided I think I want a piece of the new MBP line.
During the course of my initial belaboring of the options (primarily: 14 vs 16, M2 Pro vs Max) and the fact that I'm a manchild who doesn't want to wait 3 weeks for a more customized build, I've kind of landed on the default configurations for the M2 Max in both 14 and 16 inch - this would allow me to simply pay for the thing online with my Apple card, get my monthly installments, and just leave the house and go push through the throngs of people at the Apple store to pick it up near instantly. I popped by an Apple store y esterday just to get some face-to-face time with a 16 inch to decide if I could stomach the size.
I have an old ThinkPad X1 Big Dong Xtreme Edition or whatever ridiculous marketing na
WT2, Brol the Tyrant King, Controller (Steam Deck)
I'm playing a necro bone spear/corpse explo build that's perfectly suitable in like 95% of cases during my playtime in WT2. Mother's Judgment was the only problematic boss fight I've had so far and a few tries/learning her patterns sorted that out. The Brol fight leaves you with near-zero breathing room to get your shit together and launch a proper assault.
Is it just me, or is this battle near impossible with a controller? I read a write-up of the fight and he supposedly only calls in a new wave of trash mobs every 25% of his health bar, but at around 50% while I'm scrabbling to raise summons and regen mana by consuming corpses and spamming Bone Shards when possible, he keeps calling in mobs and melting my summons.
I've had him down as low as about 10%, but I've never been able to beat him on WT2 on the Steam Deck.
Also, wtf happened with controller targeting between Immortal and D4? I felt like they got it pretty much right in Immortal (the ability to choose a direction to fire
Melodic variation in music composition?
I'm in a place a lot of people get trapped in: lost in 4 or 8 bar loop hell.
Whether I'm sampling or arranging chords and melodies purely with synths, I'm generally able to come up with really catchy loops but I nearly always hit a wall face first when it comes to expanding on what I've created.
The laziest approach to this (and one I kind of default to) is to just keep adding elements to the original loop (add some hats after a while, add another synth playing an arpeggio off to the right with the gain low, etc) , but this just leaves me with a really heavily dressed up version of the loop by the end - at its core, it's just the same exact melody for 32 or 64 bars or whatever with a bunch of crap that's been slowly tacked on over time.
Alternately, I'll remove elements or remove the drums for a few bars... these things can be nice and are certainly very useful techniques for general variation, but they don't tackle the core problem: creating actual melodic variation in what I'm wo
our girl Bean
She'll be 5 months old tomorrow. Came home with us from the shelter nearly 2 months ago after only one visit. She pretty quickly decided she needs to sit in a chair in our home office since my fiancee and I both sit in chairs. As soon as she figured out that chewing on the arms of this chair is bad, she got it back permanently. It's her chair now.
EDIT: I have no idea why the image is forcing the 90 degree turn. Tried reuploading after forcing EXIF data and it didn't help. She's pretty cute at any angle, though, admittedly.