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Bernie is one example of not running a fair primary, but not specifically what I was referencing. I was referencing the 2024 Democratic Primary specifically, and then mentioning that very few in the past have been fair to candidates. Not just because of the way the party treats the candidates publicly, but because of the way funding works and the direct control the leaders of the party have over that funding and how blackballing works if any candidate doesn't follow the party line. Which would be fine if there were allowed to be more than two viable, active parties at once. But the electoral college, among other things, makes that almost impossible, thus why Bernie had to run as a Democrat in the first place when he doesn't usually belong to the party.

Spoken language is about communication with the immediate group of people you're interacting with, and is fluid, so while I agree with the idea you suggest of enum on an intellectual level (as well as several others), using the generally accepted way to pronounce things verbally reduces misinterpretation, so I pronounce things as they are generally pronounced. Spoken language is too ephemeral to be imprecise or use your own flair, IMHO. It's a communication method that has shared rules, not a self-expression medium that is owned by you alone like what clothes you wear. There's way more wrong with how the English language pronounces things than a few niche technical terms, but those weren't decided by any one person. In fact that's why it's such a mess, but it's functional.

Just my opinion from a sociological and practical standpoint. Probably contributing to that, I'm AuDHD and so misinterpretation is something I've struggled with my whole life. So precise communication is something I've spent a lot of time perfecting, especially at work. For reference, I've been a software product analyst, product manager, engineer, and currently architect as well as I used to run a nonprofit focused on ethics in the software industry, so I have had to do a lot of communicating ideas around software at many different levels for decades with both technical and nontechnical people.

No, all the problems left of fascists have with Kamala were even moreso with him. The only way Democrats could have won was to hold a fair primary which they haven't done in a long time. They needed to get people voting for a candidate and not against the other guy which has been the strategy of both parties for ages, but doesn't work well when one side has people voting for him and your side actually wanted to vote against you, but were never given an alternate.

I just skimmed it, but it's starting with a totally nonsensical basis for calculation. For example,

"In fact, the entropy of English is only ∼ 1 bit per character."

Um, so each character is just 0 or 1 meaning there are only two characters in the English language? You can't reduce it like that.

I mean just the headline is nonsensical. 10 bits per second? I mean a second is a really long time. So even if their hypothesis that a single character is a bit we can only consider 10 unique characters in a second? I can read a whole sentence with more than ten words, much less characters, in a second while also retaining what music I was listening to, what color the page was, how hot it was in the room, how itchy my clothes were, and how thirsty I was during that second if I pay attention to all of those things.

This is all nonsense.

Yeah, Seattle took away most of the shelters, too. It's nowhere near as cold here, but it is often raining and rarely warm.

The electoral college was designed to keep the wealthy minority in power, and it works well as intended. At the time that meant places with fewer people, since slaves weren't counted, needed to compete with large cities with more diverse opinions. So the electoral votes don't scale linearly by putting a low cap on them and a minimum. And additionally, it created a necessity for a two party system since if no one gets more than half of the votes, then the whole thing is meaningless since a single person then decides, which can be both controlled by the wealthy super-minority much more easily than having to control lots of parties. And you can confirm this even more by the fact that the electoral votes are not tied to the vote at all. The vote is just a suggestion. The state representative can vote however they want.

The people who would create the sanctions are the same people funding the dictators. There are no well-defined sides anymore based on political philosophy or anything else. It's just two powers in the world now, the wealthy and the religious fanatics. Both prefer dictators because it's easier to keep a single dictator distracted with political toil who will then keep the people distracted with meaningless hate-driven decisiveness. Much easier for the tiny minority to keep power than actually running functioning economies and centrist or left wing political structures of any kind.

But...but...the unemployment rate is so low. They must actually want to be homeless. /s

Used to be an easy way to collect and share photos or something from a website with friends. It was especially useful with things like making a collection of fashion that you liked and then discussing similar fashions with friends. It actually at one point would recognize some pieces of clothing and then create links to buy it. Actually a useful advertising kind of thing IMHO. But it became bloated and full of tracking nonsense rather than helping people share things and so it lost its usefulness. It seems it's mostly populated by bots now to drive SEO.

No it's the cost. Reprocessing wouldn't create weapons grade materials in most cases. Not anymore than the enrichment for the existing reactors anyway. Problem is that it requires expensive equipment, lots of security, and doesn't produce nearly as much energy as the existing reactors, at least not in the short term, and companies (especially publicly traded ones) only really have incentive to care about short term profit.

Then you have the problem of limited supply in a given area, and if you need to get it from all over the world, the transportation is definitely a security issue and major expense. And once you reprocess all of the existing waste, it takes time for more to be produced. Then you aren't making profit.

It's just not a profitable undertaking, so it will never happen. The general conceptual technology has existed at least as long as nuclear reactors. But hasn't been developed at all. That's the reality and will remain the reality. Especially considering that other, truly renewable energy sources are cheaper to build, and don't require as much security and maintenance to produce as much energy.

The biggest thing that would solve a lot of problems in renewables would be investing in battery and other efficient energy storage. But the fossil companies own most of that tech now, have traditionally shelved it after buying it, and with the current political atmosphere, are being incentivized to more aggressively dig for more fossil fuels rather than plan for the future. Especially in the US with the next administration planning to increase oil and coal production and eliminate the environmental restrictions that make it more expensive to dig up, process, and use what little remains.

The waste. There are currently no operational longterm storage facilities much less permanent ones. It's too expensive, so companies just go bankrupt or governments like the US just stop funding them and the waste sits in pools waiting for a natural disaster, terrorist, or war to damage them and poison the soil and water tables for generations. The Pacific Ocean already got a taste with Fukushima, but it's enormous and could absorb it...mostly, but what if a tornado hit a facility in the landlocked Midwest US?

Anyone who provides services to Trump prior to payment is stupid. If credit scores applied to people born wealthy, his would be 0. And they won't even go that low.

It was actually pretty cool when I started and real people used it.

It's basically an enhanced "undo" button. If everything that has happened in the last x minutes is recorded and suddenly a computer stops working or a file goes missing or a data breach happens, you can easily undo the change.

Alternately, there is speculation that it's being marketed to companies to gain visibility into repetitive tasks to help automate them as well as to crack down on employees who just wiggle their mouse every so often to keep the monitor on or whatever people do to pretend to be busy during the 5 seconds they get free after months of in uncompensated extra work they put in.

You're seeing how changes in circumstances cause changes in estimates. If the first time the next truck going out was tomorrow because today's was full, but now they have a promised overnight delivery for a bunch of stuff going in the same direction, they might put your package on that plane instead. If you have Amazon Prime then your membership pays for the extra fees for the faster delivery that is now available, but otherwise you're probably going to pay more if you select that faster option.

Or maybe there was a return or cancelation for that same product and it happened to go to a warehouse local to you, so now there's a closer option.

Lots of things change and Amazon tracks that stuff in near realtime.

Sounds gross to me. The human body is dirty. All that oil and dead skin gets caked into the jeans like any other piece of clothing. That then starts to decompose and attract bacteria and other microbes in addition to holding on to your body odor. Those microorganisms can't survive on denim alone, but that skin oil and flakes are plenty to keep them alive for a while.

Unwashed clothes are a common cause of acne and other skin conditions because even if you wash your skin, the oil and bacteria just rub right back off of the clothing into your pores.

I'm not saying you have to wash every piece of clothing, every time you wear it. But be logical. If you wear it with clothing in between, like a jacket or hoodie over a T-shirt, it doesn't collect as much gunk. If you wear it while exercising, it probably gets more gunk. If it's made of a material designed to repel water and oil, it probably doesn't need to be washed as much. But plain denim is absorbent and not directly a hostile environment to the microorganisms.

But, security... Aren't tens of thousands of children's lives a small price to pay to stop the violence?

/s

Don't worry, Americans' social services were diverted to design and build them. The Philippine social services are just going to the bank accounts of the weapons manufacturers, not the manufacture of those weapons. See, it's less immoral, right? /s

A reversal of the cuts my health insurance is making and further to have all of my healthcare paid for by the insurance I pay a ton of money to have. Especially hurts since the insurance company is my employer, or at least I used to. Now they have the same parent company or whatever they call it these days.

I have accessory drawers, but they have organizers in them and I never put sharp things just randomly strewn i n a drawer. I have some baskets with random stuff in them for like extra cotton balls, the other of a 2 pack of soap, and stuff like that which could be considered "junk drawers", but none of it is junk really. And I do have in my basement workbench a drawer that has random leftover parts from projects like screen spline, insulation spools, etc. That could definitely be called a junk drawer, but non of that is dangerous to reach in and grab, nor will any of the items damage each other when fumbling through them.