I helped my wife make a qr code quilt (it says “quilt”). There wasn’t quite enough border around it, and you can get it to scan, but it’s not super reliable.

And yet here we are with Biden off the ballot. How did that happen?

I voted Uncommitted in the primary, so no, you can fuck off with your assumptions.

And those posts were often at the top of the upvotes, so what are you complaining about?

Did you also not read all the posts leading up to that on how fucked we were with Biden as the candidate? Nobody was idolizing him.

I don’t care much about this particular case, but I don’t want this to be the norm, either. I don’t want to have to drive from McDonalds, OH to Walmart, KY on the I-71 brought to you by Microsoft.

If he’s trying to flip elections, he needs to at least pretend it’s being operated in good faith.

If she wanted to be President, mayor of NYC isn’t a path that’s out of the question. It’s one of the only places where the office of the mayor gets a lot of national attention. It can be more prestigious in practice than NY governor.

That said, former NYC mayors haven’t exactly done well in runs for the President, either. Rudy ran in the Republican primary in 2008, and his performance was summed up as “noun verb 9/11”. Bloomberg tried in the Democratic primary in 2020, but nobody wanted to vote for a stodgy billionaire. I conclude that this would not be a good fit for her if she wanted to be President. This conclusion comes to you from two datapoints, which is the typical level of data to produce strong conclusions in the media.

They also figure it out with FLIR cameras. A grow operation is going to produce a lot of heat.

This sometimes results in other amazing police work. Like going on the local news and showing the millions of dollars of marijuana plants that were seized in a raid. And then someone points out that they’re actually tomato plants.

I’ve seen very little worth playing on any consoles. Conversely, my problem with the Steam Deck is finding time for all the games I want to play.

deck just fails at new games.

That assumes the PS5 has games worth playing in the first place.

I can’t wait to buy movies from Sony only to have them invalidated a few years from now.

It’s about the same as the inflation-adjusted PS3 price, but here’s the thing: the PS3 had a difficult first couple of years. If not for the Red Ring of Death, Microsoft could have come out ahead that generation. One thing Sony is good at is capitalizing on its competitors’ mistakes, and combined with price reductions on later models, they pulled out a victory. Being >$750 inflation-adjusted dollars at launch wasn’t why it won.

The writer of the article, Thom Hartmann, was deeply involved in that. Sounds like he can’t let go of a bad idea.

Really? Because I remember:

• Hillary up +4 in the polls in the final count: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/national-polls/
• Hillary actually winning the national vote by +2.1 (within margin of error of above): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_United_States_presidential_election
• James Comey informing Congress about additional Hillary emails on Oct 28; too late for many polls to absorb the information. These emails turn out to be nothingburgers.

People learned the wrong lesson from 2016 polling.

No, wait, don’t tell them. Let’s spread this around more.

What if we are Trump’s dementia therapy? Us, the whole damn country?

What if we are Trump’s dementia therapy? Us, the whole damn country?

The era of that was also the first time these studies were being done predominantly with non-smokers. It was hard to disentangle the health effects of smoking with everything else. Smoking rates drop through the 80s and 90s, and wine and coffee suddenly look pretty good compared to how bad we thought they were.

Hear me out. Let’s tell him he already won the election, and we’re even bumping the inauguration just for him, because his work will be so important. We make him a cardboard set of the Oval Office (painted gold everything) with a nice chair and desk, and a TV that only plays old Fox News clips about him. Staffers regularly bring random papers for him to sign. Mostly Del Taco orders.

And then we never have to hear about his stupid ass ever again.