You can always tell the direction of the statistic, by the poster responsible for posting it. I noticed myself skimming the thread title, not immediately recognizing whether it was pro or anti vaccine, and just looking left at the poster to confirm one way or another.

https://twitter.com/hugolowell/status/1616451669264601091?s=61&t=f8WJfaRbaSOfojovReM96g

@Axtremus said in Ohio’s New Voting Law: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/01/19/ohio-strict-voter-id-law/ For years I have been looking for a guy who was unable to vote because of the ID rules. Is there even one guy, any guy? I can't tell from the post story because of the pay wall.

Well, if you wanted a jersey, you're SOL... https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/ivan-provorov-jerseys-sell-out-nhl-player-refuses-to-wear-pride-jersey

Sad indeed. A lot of CSN&Y in my music library. Been a tough month. First Ian Tyson the end of December, last week we lost Jeff Beck and now, David Crosby.

Yep, I'm that good.

Cutting tree limbs. A delivery driver saw him fall and called 911. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/rep-greg-steubes-25-foot-fall-seen-by-delivery-driver-who-called-for-help-911-audio/ar-AA16yil9

@Axtremus said in USA is a "no-fly" zone: https://www.npr.org/2023/01/19/1150196884/faa-notam-flights-deleted-files The contractors did it! (It's like the IT version of "the butler did it.") https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/faa-notam-statement A preliminary FAA review of last week’s outage of the Notice to Air Missions (NOTAM) system determined that contract personnel unintentionally deleted files while working to correct synchronization between the live primary database and a backup database. ... You knew that was going to be the end result. My question is why would a contractor be in a position to do this?

@mark that's what Amtrak does. [image: 1674216644723-screenshot-2023-01-20-at-6.09.42-am-copy.jpg] [image: 1674216732755-img_8108-copy.jpg]

@Axtremus Yesss

@Axtremus said in End the Proxy Vote.: can all be done remotely. Link to video

@Copper said in I, for one, welcome out new robot umpires: What used to be a 2.5 hour game is now a 3.5 hour game, with timeout for reviews it will become a 4.5 hour game. 250+ pitches to review every game The double play at second will never be the same Foreign substances under the pitcher's belt reviewed No more framing pitches, this is a big deal What if Russian hackers get into the software? Sports betting shops will be hacking into systems Will an umpire just stand there handing new balls to the catcher and reading the newspaper in between pitches? Uh, the box has the call before the umpire can raise his hand. Catchers can still frame pitches, that's mostly for the batter, not the ump. A pro game (3.5 hours) is a bit longer than a college game (about 3 hours), because the pros don't have a pitch clock...The college pitch clock is 12 seconds. The pros have been experimenting with a 20 second pitch clock in the minors. That pitch clock has shortened the game by 26 minutes. The MLB rules committee voted last fall to institute a 15 second (nobody on base) pitch clock, coupled with a 20 second (base runner(s)) clock. I doubt hackers will hack the box. And the umpire will still have plenty to do.

Of course the lawyer will claim that. But didn’t events prove otherwise?

So my BIL is blind and consulted with the state department about accessibility in its IT systems and websites. He left a couple years ago though.

@Jolly said in Chunk it.: Cleaning out closets...Found a Nikon N65 with a 70-300 Nikkor lens. Chunk it? Not necessarily. Film is back and in a big fucking way. A few years ago, I'd have said that you can make back what you spent on the lens but chuck the camera body. Now, I'd say check out Keh.com and submit both.