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Never said he was. I said he doesn't "come off like" that kind of person. What I'm saying is he's better than Pollievre at keeping the mask on, not that there's anything better under the mask.

Sorry, you're absolutely correct, I should have added "... or a pair of thigh highs."

Shameful oversight on my part.

None of us are free until all of us are free

Who's saying he isn't? At this point they're trying anything.

But I'll grant that Harper is, at least, not a guy who has spent the last ten years regurgitating whatever bile comes out of Trump's mouth. At this point Pollievre is completely toxic to older voters because he's seen as a reflection of the US politics that lead to our closest ally declaring us an enemy. Harper should be completely toxic, but given time people tend to forget the bad that someone did, and you're left with just the fact that he at least doesn't come off like a whiny teen on 4Chan yelling about "THE WOKE RADICAL LEFT" or whatever dog whistle for "queer people" they're using now.

Sketch? Nah bro, that is exactly the kind of "This looked sick in the early 2000s and we haven't bothered updating it since" level of design that I want to see from a hardware vendor. That's a company that's just sitting there quietly trucking along, making nerdy devices for nerdy people. That's a website that was never intended to be viewed by anyone other than a 30+ year old sysadmin who owns at least one beard grooming product.

“The main thing is that they [the Americans] don't interfere in our affairs and don't tell us how to live,” said a senior Russian official familiar with the Kremlin’s negotiating logic. “That they don’t hinder us in doing what we are doing.”

That being invading and subjugating weaker neighbours.

1. Cool your jets. I'm not deriding 338 or the usefulness of polling in general. Modelling is a very difficult science and 338 are very, very good at it.
2. By their own numbers their likelihood of correctly projecting a seat goes down dramatically when one parties odds of a win aren't higher than 70%. Translated backwards that means that the projected riding level poll numbers you see become significantly less meaningful.

What this means is that while models like 338 are very good at predicting the overall trend of the election, in close or complicated races like the one being discussed they are not as indicative as people would like to think when it comes to, say, making tactical voting decisions. They are, ultimately, just making somewhat informed guesses about what these numbers are. In the aggregate those guesses tend to be right, but that doesn't mean you're getting accurate and direct data about how your particular riding is leaning, and people need to understand that.

Keep in mind, riding level polling doesn't actually exist (in any meaningful way) in Canada. What these models do is take the historical vote distribution for that riding and adjust it based on national level polling trends. Don't treat this kind of projection as remotely reliable at the riding level, it doesn't actually tell you anything about what's happening in your locality.

As always, the election is the only truly accurate poll. So get out and vote.

Yeah, I contemplated this idea, but you'd need a network of dealerships all within no more than about 450km of each other. Actually, a lot less than that if you want to deliver something like a cybertruck this way. And Tesla just doesn't have that kind of infrastructure, especially in the Midwest and South. And that means there's no good way to get a car from Fremont or Austin to anywhere on the East Coast either. At best you could maybe make this work in California.

But also consider the scale of what you're talking about. Generally you're looking at selling thousands of cars per day for a successful production model. Can their dealerships handle charging thousands of cars per day?

three months

7.81 Mooches to be exact.

This is such obvious BS. Putting aside that Tesla are always making claims about self driving that they can't deliver on, let's just consider the basic logistics of doing this for any customer who lives more than about 300km from a Tesla factory (of which there are two IIRC, and one of those is in Austin and the other is in Fremont)...

How the fuck is the car going to recharge?

It's not like it's going to plug itself in, and there are no staff at Tesla supercharger stations as far as I'm aware. With the range on a typical Model S even getting to LA might be tough if it gets stuck in traffic. Fremont to LA is just under 600km if you're lucky.

A fact well known to everyone who read Watership Down as a child.

What's the conflict? Just don't. Hockey isn't worth betraying your country, or a one way trip to El Salvador.

Our most recent scheduling we had to put off by a week because one player was going to a concert.

Then we couldn't schedule for the following week because a player had their mom's birthday. And the weekend after that would be Easter.

Then the player who was going to the concert remembered that they forgot to buy tickets. Which they told us about on the Friday before the Saturday we were originally planning to play.

this new gadget makes it easy to take Windows system events, and feed them into Copilot, looking for potentially malicious activity. And while it’s not perfect, it did manage to detect about 40% of the malicious tests that Windows Defender missed. It seems like LLMs are going to stick around, and this might be one of the places they actually make sense.

Yes, the pattern recognition engine is good at pattern recognition.

In all seriousness, it really would be great if we'd focused development of transformer models on stuff like this instead of everyone getting caught up in the fact that they can kinda sorta pass the Turing test and deciding that the singularity had arrived and they could be the ones to sell tickets to it.

"No one in my generation had autism"

Sure thing. Uncle Barry, who collects every issue of Mechanics Monthly, and has spent over $10,000 on his model train set that is a perfect scale recreation of King's Cross Station, is completely neurotypical.

Yes, people do get "weird" when you literally call them "evil".

"I don't like the way that drinking alcohol is seen as a neccessary component of socialising in our society." <-- Completely reasonable statement, even as someone who drinks I agree wholeheartedly. North America in particular has a serious problem with a lack of third spaces that aren't bars or other places that serve alcohol.

"Alcohol is evil" <-- Absolutely deranged thing to say, deserves to be down voted into oblivion. I cannot even begin to imagine what would possess someone to willingly share this thought with the universe.

Damn. Fucking. Right. Bud.

Same bud

Then why were they allowed at PP's very tightly controlled press events? No one gets into those without being very carefully vetted.