Every last vote helps. Glad she’s using her platform to stand up for reproductive rights.

You do it by comparing the state voting results to pre-election polling. If the pre-election polling said D+2 and your final result was R+1, then you have to look at your polls and individual polling firms and determine whether some bias is showing up in the results.

Is there selection bias or response bias? You might find that a set of polls is randomly wrong, or you might find that they’re consistently wrong, adding 2 or 3 points in the direction of one party but generally tracking with results across time or geography. In that case, you determine a “house effect,” in that either the people that firm is calling or the people who will talk to them lean 2 to 3 points more Democratic than the electorate.

All of this is explained on the website and it’s kind of a pain to type out on a cellphone while on the toilet.

I’d be faster without autocorrect than with. I feel like it chooses the wrong word more often than not.

Honestly, I miss the real keyboard from my 2009 Blackberry. No substitute for haptic feedback.

There are a wide range of computer skills. Being able to interact with a word processor extremely efficiently is a highly valuable tech skill. Someone who knows about processor architecture but can’t touch type is arguably more tech-savvy but also less useful in most office jobs. So I’d say that the secretaries were indeed tech-savvy in a way that was useful for their positions.

But have you tried mounting it on a drone?

That’s the sad truth of it. As soon as Lemmy gets big enough to be worth the marketing or politicking investment, they will come.

I probably can’t afford that car, but I definitely can’t afford that blender.

I wish the left was as far left as it used to be. Roosevelt or even LBJ would be a welcome shift from the corporate Democratic party that Clinton thought he needed to counter Reaganism.

The Dutch constructed enormous flood control projects to shut the country off from the sea. The Afsluitdijk and the Delta Works reduced the country’s coastline from 1,400 to 450 km. The measures needed to maintain its flood control works to accommodate sea level rise by 2100 are estimated at a cost of over €1 billion per year.

Look at a map of Florida and tell me how you’re going to close its coastline off from the sea.

A spectacular victory for the billionaire class that your friends are focused on the one black kid who gets a leg up and not the legions of white kids who got ahead through their parents’ donations and legacy admissions.

LBJ once said: “If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.” Clearly, 60 years on, it’s still true.

Exactly. Talk about the new jobs you’re going to create. Do NOT tell people you are banning their present livelihood. She would be insane to tell Pennsylvania voters she was planning to significantly restrict fracking.

Apparently, it’s a contributing factor, yes. NIH says that a review of over a hundred studies found links between PFAS exposure and liver damage, including steatosis.

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/study-links-synthetic-chemicals-liver-damage

And a separate dome for the kids!

“Major thinker” is a stretch. He’s more like the Malcolm Gladwell mom says we have at home.

I’ve always said, if you’re going to stare at someone’s ass for the next 200 hours…

They probably shouldn’t worry so much. Way more people have died in Boeing airplanes than in Boeing spaceships.

Republicans never advocated for those things at least for the past 50 years, and the comment you’re responding to is satire.

Israeli colonization, like that of America or Australia, is based on the violent displacement of indigenous peoples. We said that America was “settled” too. The language masks the same violence.

Oh yeah. Any time Netanyahu needs weapons, the talks are proceeding in good faith. Then once he gets the next shipment, they’re on the verge of collapse. Rinse and repeat.

It’s almost like the Israelis keep them concentrated, in camps. You might even call them “concentration camps.”