stinerman [Ohio]

That’s absolutely true, especially for a paper like the LA Times. I am dubious that there is any appreciable effect when it comes to random blogs and so forth.

In California, it doesn’t matter because the results are already known. In other states the calculus is a bit different.

Voting for a minor party in terms of the effect on the outcome is approximately equivalent to not voting.

first past the post voting is a broken system and that main party candidates should make more effort to fix this glaring hole in the voting system.

The Democratic Party would rather lose to the Republican Party than change the rules to allow for a multi-party system.

That aside, the major parties don’t want to reform the system they have because it’s worked very well for them. Our parties are incredibly old by world standards. The Democrats have been around since the 18th century, and the Republicans have been around since the 1850s.

I think this is not quite correct. You’re absolutely right that 6 weeks is basically the same thing as a full ban, but it’s based on last period rather than from conception. Which is even worse. They assume that women conceived the day after their period.

A woman could become pregnant late in her menstrual cycle, but the 6 weeks counts from the previous period. So she could really be only a few weeks from conception but closer to 5-6 weeks based on the ban math.

In college (2003ish), I ran a desktop PC without a case. Hell I ran the processor (450MHz P3) without a fan, just a passive heatsink. It ran fine.

Gerrymandering is a hell of a drug.

“Donald Trump makes me, a white christian, feel like I’m important.”

No. Cops have convinced a majority of people that they need to be able to break the law in order to protect them.

This lazy doctor earns more than double my salary. It’s depressing.

Wait until you find out how lazy people with inherited wealth are…and they make way more than double your salary in passive gains.

“Free speech absolutist” means “you are required to hear everything I have to say and you can’t criticize me for it.”

Also white supremacy is a hell of a drug.

There’s a guy who works as a product owner at my employer. He has a PharmD. He got fed up with the metrics for how many prescriptions he had to fill. Now he does software.

It’s crazy to think that someone has a terminal degree in a really technical field and he nope’d out because of how bad it got.

I could only imagine if each record label had their own streaming service. People would go nuts.

I looked it up and still have no clue what it is.

I’m shocked he doesn’t have an IRA (unless that doesn’t count). Given his previous jobs, it passes the smell test that he doesn’t have a 401k.

I’m sure his pensions are invested in a wide range of stocks and bonds, but he doesn’t directly hold them.

Live look at @TheFonz.

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