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@ciatmusings Dwarf Fortress, Descent 2, Doom,Starcraft.

HRC democrats were the original election deniers. Trump is just copying their playbook.
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@currentbias I really don't see people reacting to data any more. Those who mask are committed to masking forever, and those who don't are not putting them back on with the rise and fall of cases. At this point masks are a lifestyle choice not a reaction.

@flexghost The fact that she doesn't understand why people are upset and disillusioned with old school politics is the reason she lost in 2016.

It's not just chronological age it is too old to try to change the way we've always done it, even in the face of crisis. We can't stop supporting the Netanyahu genocide because we have always supported Israel. We can't pack the court and save reproductive freedom because the court has always had 9 justices. We can't completely restructure our industrial base in the face of a climate catastrophe because we have always taken a hands off approach to industrial policy.

This is old institutionalist thinking. It is why Clinton lost and why Biden is not cruising to victory against the worst candidate the GOP has ever ran (for the third time)

Let's talk about "throwing your vote away" by voting for a candidate that "has no chance" of winning. In my state only one candidate will have any chance of winning in November. If I vote for someone else have I thrown my vote away. Do you feel the same about neighboring states where the other candidate is the only one with any meaningful chance of winning?

If your answer is that I should vote for your preferred candidate regardless of their chance of winning my state because I have a moral duty to oppose the other guy, then why should I not vote for a third party candidate and oppose both morally bankrupt parties?

#USPOL #election #ThirdParty

Today I am #grateful for two different co-workers who caught something I overlooked. Really saved my bacon.

@w7voa The IDF has issued an apology for their indiscriminate use of a baseball bat and promises to use a bar of soap in a sock in the future.

@seanbala

This is why I keep harping on reinvigorating career specific technical training. Most students will be better prepared for a job in their field after 18 months of focused training by professional trainers than by 4 years of random courses taught by people who would rather do research anyway. Our post WWII history ended up sending far too high a proportion of people to 4-year universities.

@Zeb_Larson @academicchatter

@julesh I'll add Reykjavik, Iceland an Anchorage Alaska to your list.

I don't want the whole world to give up what we call Daylight Savings Time, I just want California to stop switching and always be UTC+7:00 which in my part of the state is only 35 minutes off of local mean solar noon. If our neighbor Arizona can do it we can too.

@floatybirb depends on where in the south one if from. Either way it comes from the phrase "I'd rather vote for an old Yeller / Blue dog than support a carpetbagger Republican."

@FantasticalEconomics did you miss the part about the patient being a quadriplegic?

"Arbaugh explained that he had largely given up on playing Civilization 6 prior to having the surgery, as he needed ”complete help” from a friend in order to play, and the time intensive nature of the game had made prolonged play sessions untenable."

@floatybirb I think it would be The Blessed Virgin Mary or St. Patrick who were the choice of Italian and Irish Catholics for a Roman Catholic holiday to put on the calendar - a campaign promise from FDR to Catholic workers in 1936. He chose Columbus instead because that choice faced less push back from Southern Yellow Dog Democrats who were also an important part of the '36 Dem coalition.

@AccordionBruce @luckytran @MatWright except of course that every study that has studied mandatory mask wearing has concluded that there was no significant difference in infection rates or deaths at a population level. What I'm saying is that the research backed statement would be "We have adjusted our recommendations because our previous ones where quite burdensome with no discernible effect on contagion or deaths."

@anubis2814 @raganwald Ricci v. DeStefano has set a clear process that you screen for acceptable candidates first then hold blind evaluations like test or auditions. You do not want a candidate who scored best on your blind test coming back and using that fact in a discrimination suit.