BreadstickNinja @ BreadstickNinja @lemmy.world

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Every last vote helps. Glad she's using her platform to stand up for reproductive rights.

You do it by comparing the state voting results to pre-election polling. If the pre-election polling said D+2 and your final result was R+1, then you have to look at your polls and individual polling firms and determine whether some bias is showing up in the results.

Is there selection bias or response bias? You might find that a set of polls is randomly wrong, or you might find that they're consistently wrong, adding 2 or 3 points in the direction of one party but generally tracking with results across time or geography. In that case, you determine a "house effect," in that either the people that firm is calling or the people who will talk to them lean 2 to 3 points more Democratic than the electorate.

All of this is explained on the website and it's kind of a pain to type out on a cellphone while on the toilet.

I'd be faster without autocorrect than with. I feel like it chooses the wrong word more often than not.

Honestly, I miss the real keyboard from my 2009 Blackberry. No substitute for haptic feedback.

There are a wide range of computer skills. Being able to interact with a word processor extremely efficiently is a highly valuable tech skill. Someone who knows about processor architecture but can't touch type is arguably more tech-savvy but also less useful in most office jobs. So I'd say that the secretaries were indeed tech-savvy in a way that was useful for their positions.

They won't. Their goal is theocracy. They'd prefer it tomorrow, but they'll chip away incrementally if need be. That's what they did with the courts, which is why we're here in the first place. They're still voting for Trump.

Exactly. I hate these articles that encourage complacency. Pennsylvania is on a knife's edge and everyone needs to vote. You could write an article about the signs pointing in Trump's favor in PA just as easily if not more.

Register to vote. Check your registration to make sure it's active. Tell your friends to do the same. Make a plan to vote. Help your friends make a plan to vote. These are the only messages that are helpful in PA.

But have you tried mounting it on a drone?

That's the sad truth of it. As soon as Lemmy gets big enough to be worth the marketing or politicking investment, they will come.

I probably can't afford that car, but I definitely can't afford that blender.

I wish the left was as far left as it used to be. Roosevelt or even LBJ would be a welcome shift from the corporate Democratic party that Clinton thought he needed to counter Reaganism.

The Dutch constructed enormous flood control projects to shut the country off from the sea. The Afsluitdijk and the Delta Works reduced the country's coastline from 1,400 to 450 km. The measures needed to maintain its flood control works to accommodate sea level rise by 2100 are estimated at a cost of over €1 billion per year.

Look at a map of Florida and tell me how you're going to close its coastline off from the sea.

"Let's all laugh at an industry / that never learns anything, tee-hee-hee."

--Yahtzee Croshaw

A spectacular victory for the billionaire class that your friends are focused on the one black kid who gets a leg up and not the legions of white kids who got ahead through their parents' donations and legacy admissions.

LBJ once said: "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." Clearly, 60 years on, it's still true.

Exactly. Talk about the new jobs you're going to create. Do NOT tell people you are banning their present livelihood. She would be insane to tell Pennsylvania voters she was planning to significantly restrict fracking.

Apparently, it's a contributing factor, yes. NIH says that a review of over a hundred studies found links between PFAS exposure and liver damage, including steatosis.

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/study-links-synthetic-chemicals-liver-damage

In my opinion, the game runs out of steam about halfway through, so the issue may not be on your end.

It started really strong but it felt like a lot of the initial promise didn't pay off.

Still a decent game, maybe a 7/10. Just not as great as I hoped it would be after the first couple of hours.

And a separate dome for the kids!

"Major thinker" is a stretch. He's more like the Malcolm Gladwell mom says we have at home.

I'm primarily a Civ 5 player and my issue is not with quick movement or quick combat (both on, of course) but the actual time to process enemy turns. It's a 14 year old game running on my absolute monster of a gaming PC, but it's still sluggish, especially with larger maps with more opponents. I can't imagine the Civ AI is that computationally intensive so I've never understood why it takes so long. I'd also like more customization options in cities so they auto-govern better in the late game, which is also a huge time suck especially when going dom.

They probably shouldn't worry so much. Way more people have died in Boeing airplanes than in Boeing spaceships.