OldWoodFrame @ OldWoodFrame @lemm.ee

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Learning French in the US is such a let down. Spanish is the unofficial second national language and German has the best memes.

Super Delegates don't get to vote in the first ballot anymore, they changed the rules because the Bernie Bros were mad Hillary got a lot of Super Delegates. They didn't want the Super Delegates to be able to do...exactly what you're proposing.

Actually...I guess if we're talking rule changes I guess you COULD change it so Super Delegates voted on the first ballot again, and hope enough Super Delegates were on board, but what an insane crisis of legitimacy that would cause. Like I guess you could change the rules so Nancy Pelosi picks the next Democratic nominee but that's not a good way to make the voters feel heard.

Even if you could change the rules, the delegates were decided by the Biden campaign. Would be hard to convince more than half of them to change their vote without Biden himself asking them to.

Optionality is key, that's what I'm worried about losing in the next market downturn. Letting people work from home is great.

Forcing people to work from home to save on office real estate costs, preferences older and wealthier workers who don't need to build work relationships and can afford a home with an office.

1. That's 2 questions.
2. The more important question is asking how you convince Biden to step down. He has the delegates, he is the nominee if he wants to be. You could have the best candidate ever (they don't) and it wouldn't matter if you can't get Biden to step down.

There's a clip somewhere of a gay guy looking direct to camera saying with that basically-clapping-between-words flamboyant energy:

"Straight men! The women you want to sleep with, want to see your thighs!"

I can never find it so the quote might not be perfect but it really stuck with me. I joked about it to my SO and she gave one of those moany approval noises meaning like "so true" so I guess the man was right.

We have to learn to better frame the issues. When Japan was ascendant, everyone projected them to overtake the US in economic power and we got all afraid and passed a bunch of protectionist rules about car imports. Think pieces get written about how their economic model was better than the US and the US is a crumbling empire.

But it turned out it was a huge real estate bubble combined with/caused by the demographic benefit coming from a boom generation going into their prime labor years and once that generation started aging out there was a real estate slump and a balance sheet recession that lasted a decade, and they never recovered to the levels everyone was projecting 10 years prior.

Now literally the exact same thing is happening with China and everyone is all shocked. Guess what, it's going to happen again.

It's not to say the US will never fall to 2nd place in the global order, but it's not going to be from some country growing at 10%/year forever, that doesn't actually ever happen.

Do you think there's a real link between furries being gay, like the type of person who is a furry just tends to be disproportionately gay and online?

Or a sociological link like people who are open enough about sexual preferences will tend to be open about all of them?

Or a news bias link like plenty of hackers are gay but you don't hear about it, but if they are

Or is this always just the one gay furry hacker group?

Real answer, Elon made it more friendly to the far right (the racists and Nazis) and unbanned a bunch of them who had previously been banned for being too racist and Nazi. Then he introduced a subscription service where you pay to have Twitter spread your content.

So that started a doom loop: The far right bought the additional views, people who didn't appreciate the extra racism and Nazi views on their timeline left Twitter, but the view boost was paid for so it kept pushing those views to the fewer people who remained, then THAT volume of hate pushed more people away, etc.

It probably got to the point that they couldn't keep paid views high enough with just people who care about politics and they had to just push at all costs, eventually to you.

It's the right sentiment phrased incorrectly. Harris can take over the campaign funds entirely, because it's the same campaign. Nobody else can do that, so anyone else would have to start campaign fundraising from scratch as the DNC or a PAC they can't coordinate with has all the money.

Campaigns get a discount on ad spend and there's a lot of perks with being able to send exactly the message you want to spend. It's a notable advantage.

I do wish everyone would stop pretending the Biden replacement would be anyone but Harris. Everyone being cagy about who the replacement is just hurts Democrats, because it gives false hope to people who want someone other than Harris and thus encourages those people to both push for Biden to leave the race while still not being happy with the end result.

It will be Harris, if it's anyone other than Biden. Period. Literally the only way Biden doesn't endorse her as his successor is if he dies, and if he dies she will be the incumbent president.

This happened at my work with internal docs as we switched from an ancient intranet to a new service that had a ton more features but no backwards compatibility so all the pages got updated to PDFs with helpful links that went nowhere and it caused chaos for like 3 months.

The name was too cool. If they called it something super long like Non-electromagnetic interacting granular happening (NEIGH) we would all say it's too confusing and I don't understand, as opposed to "I get it and it must be wrong for reasons so simple a layman has thougnt of them."

Wait a minute that seems like evidence the large majority of Democrats don't feel he 'must step aside!' No, that can't be it...maybe they're just stupid?

Immunocompromised, I'm glad you took it but I'm really thinking of not taking Paxlovid next time unless there has been an update to the recommended dosage/length. I took it and basically got Covid twice in a row because I had a rebound after testing negative for 3 days.

I definitely stopped getting worse almost immediately after taking it but that was just so long in quarantine.

Two of them are still in the current legislature, it is accurate to say they are among the 536 people running the country.

And swore a Pickleball Court Oath to rival anything ever done at a tennis court.

I do not understand how this can happen.

Like obviously polls can be wrong but did the far right not win the first round of voting?

It's all a hypothetical, feel free to just decide you are that type of person. No harm in it.

In real life though, if money is no object, the difference between a 2017 normal car and a 2025 luxury car is literally just "do you want extra features and a bigger screen on a car that will last longer?" It just doesn't make sense to get the cheaper version, unless you are giving up something else because you only have a limited amount of money.

Sherbet and Smarties exist in the US but we call them different things and have other things we call Sherbet and Smarties.