OldWoodFrame

I saw a bird in an airport.

We can go faster than sound that's what a sonic boom is.

I read the link and saw the numbers. Is there a deeper link that disproves something I said?

If it goes down in value at the same rate as the last month or something, it'll be ~$1 billion at the end of September. I forget the exact math but something like that.

Trump can sell his 115 million shares on September 25th, everyone trying to get out before that happens.

Absolutely wild campaign finance workaround though. If he sells it all he's still on track to get $1 billion or so. That's his personal wealth, which can be contributed without limit to his campaign.

I'm highly suspicious of the results, as you should always be when a group with a stated political goal releases a poll that shows their favored political goal is what a politician should do.

You have to think there was bias in the presentation, eg the question was framed particularly softly like "if Kamala announced she would abide by current US law including the Leahy Law suspending arms shipments until there is a ceasefire which would save the lives of civilians on both sides" or whatever....that is all 100% true and consistent with what they're saying, but in real life if she did that she'd get millions of dollars of negative ads framing the decision differently.

Or maybe they just ran the poll 5 times and didn't release the others because this one was the best result for them. That doesn't make it an illegitimate poll, but it makes it more likely that the numbers are the high end of the potential benefit from such a stance.

One other way this poll could be true but misleading is that maybe this declaration brings her from 44% to 49%, but it puts Trump from 40% to 51%. Or whatever. It's possible that with no clarity, she goes from 44% to 52% because you can't literally vote undecided, and the 49% number is actually her doing worse than she would have.

I wonder who Dan Quayle is voting for

It's wild how much the slowness of the judicial system distorts society. Rich people delay forever and evade punishment...this was a crime from 2016, 8 years ago, he was found guilty in May and won't even get his sentence until late November, let alone start serving it.

But, this is also a cause of some of the major issues at the Southern border. The immigration system is so bogged down that it can't process the volume, judges are doing bulk decisions with seconds reading each case, people are being released into the US until their case can be heard which can be a long time, and that process is so politically toxic that both parties have switched to flatly illegal methods of rejecting legal asylum seekers or other legal immigrants.

I'm not a legal expert but can we get some proposals to speed this all up? Do we just dump resources at it, get more judges so they can have fewer cases? Change the laws? Something needs to happen here.

It is still a ball.

It's Hand Ball.

And Handball, well really that's a FUTure sport. We'll call it...Futball!

Reddit is like this too on the app. Some of the worst algorithm recommendations I've ever seen. "You like (your local city subreddit), you might also like (some city you don't live in subreddit)." Why?

The worst is that is has ruined my porn account because it doesn't recommend NSFW subs so I have to scrape past random unrelated garbage like the Pokémon card valuation subreddit and /r/cement, I counted and it went 40 posts between NSFW posts once. On my account that is exclusively subscribed to NSFW subs.

"Arguing online" is unattractive? It's actually one of the more relevant signs of intelligence if one can state their points coherently. In this 3-part essay I will...

I kinda hate this framing because it makes it seem inevitable and ever-present. Even on the right it's more like 5% true hate, 28% normal Republican who does not find true hate disqualifying. There's plenty of reason to discredit that or disagree with it etc but it's not the same as being in the 5%.

I was just listening to an interview with an evangelical who was lesser-of-two-evils on Trump, he'll vote for Trump but he's not a True Believer.