jj4211

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[–] jj4211 7 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

A lot is made of the 'drop-off', which is easily explained by the fact that Trump is a unique phenomenon. People are shocked that some Trump voters might swing towards a democrat downballot, and I can't imagine the mindset personally, but I acknowledge it exists. Remember, they aren't Republican voters, they are Trump voters. Further, NC has a history of voting for democrat state offices and republican federal offices.

I think if they were going full tampering, you wouldn't see the drop-off, because they'd rig the down-ballot as well.

As to the graphs look funny, well, I think I'll need to see more analysis from more data by a broader set of analysts. I know that statistics will say anything if you torture the numbers enough, so I'm not going to get too invested in visualizations from one source.

Scrutinizing the vote is fine, but feel like this looks more like denial than an educated analysis.

For this case specifically, again, a 'Trump' voter is not a republican voter, the democrat party is way more energized to vote against a would-be Trump ally than before the election. Finally, I don't know about this race, but it's possible that those two in particular have something in the local population making the democrat more popular. For example in NC the republican governor candidate was way specifically a problem, so there's a much easier explanation for why he lost by an anomalous amount.

[–] jj4211 2 points 1 day ago

Whatever his effect was, Obama was perceived exceptionally well. They basically have him a Nobel for just getting elected.

[–] jj4211 2 points 1 day ago

You are right... Except for USB c powered systems of course, and arguably laptops.

[–] jj4211 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Every port on a computer I can think of is female except DB9, which is almost never used except as part of a chain of adapters. So obviously cables are male and the computers are female.

[–] jj4211 16 points 2 days ago (4 children)

agggggggggggggggg

He must have died while typing ...

[–] jj4211 14 points 2 days ago

Bread and circuses

[–] jj4211 13 points 3 days ago

I have not previously disclosed this to protect our child's privacy and safety, but in recent days it has become clear that tabloid media intends to do so

Yeah, five months passed without anyone in the media caring about her or this baby. She got impatient and wanted to yell it from the rooftops whole blaming the media for the attention seeking behavior.

[–] jj4211 1 points 3 days ago

Take a few mg of mg

[–] jj4211 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Note that it being only part of a key is a technology choice that does not require the reality map to it. It may seem like overkill, but someone may not trust the political process to preserve that promise and so they add the birthdate, just in case something goes sideway in the future. Lots of technical choices are made anticipating likely changes and problems and designing things to be extra robust in the face of those

[–] jj4211 10 points 3 days ago

Frankly the whole exchange sounds like Hollywood tech jargon.vaguely relevant words used in a not quite sensible way....

[–] jj4211 1 points 4 days ago

Do you really need pagent for that versus just ssh-agent?

[–] jj4211 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I will say that it's super easy to say "someone else (not me) should assassinate these guys". I think that's the biggest gripe, that people are all too willing to volunteer other people to take the risks while themselves shying away. Either you personally are willing to take the advocated action or if you think "well for me, personally, the risk isn't worth it", well then maybe if it isn't worth the risk to you, you should not be advocating that it is worth the risk to others.

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