@taiwan_girl said in Interesting political moment: @Jolly said in Interesting political moment: Trump/Biden - Probably the most even political divide of all time in America. A 5% shift in votes cause huge changes. So, it wasnt a landslide win? 555 (just teasing with you @Jolly ) This last election was bigger than a 5% change when compared to the last election.

INteresting (and a lot true) in that article.

The balls is also knowing where to puncture. I guess they sent a pic of the scan but still, u r basically blind, and what if u go in and brains start spilling out instead of blood. That would be messy.

It could happen. We will see tomorrow.

Luke was tipping in London…

I see no evidence of tyranny in either act or intent.

To me, political commentators need to keep politics in a political perspective. Which is to say, a commentator can't expect me to care if they believe a candidate is morally compromised, until they can convince me that the compromise will come out in the wash in the results of that candidate's political career. There has been no convincing attempt at this that I've seen. Most commentary doesn't bother attempting to establish a link between Trump's character and his political actions. The commentary is just an attempt to establish that Trump is not a guy you'd want to invite to dinner, or whatever. (Never mind the status seeking apes engaged in the commentary would have twisted into pretzels to coax Trump to dinner, before he became a social pariah for tribal reasons.) If someone doesn't like Trump as a human being, ok then, but it does not mean you shouldn't like him as president. Actually I like him as a human being and a president, but to each their own. I don't require any personal fealty from those I like as people and politicians. I require them to behave in ways I expect them to behave.

The predictive stuff is nice, I'll grant you. That's what makes it faster.

Craig Fugate, the FEMA director who coined that phrase ‘Waffle House Index’, started off as the emergency manager for Alachua County (Gainesville, FL) where my sister has spent her career. She remembers when his office was an old closet in a county building. Odd coincidences led to the very unlikely scenario of she and I having personal connections with two consecutive FEMA directors.

Thanks for bringing this thread back up while Lucas is currently over the Atlantic…

@xenon said in Olive Oil -- tracked by IBM Blockchain Technology!: I don’t see what blockchain adds. Sure it’s a tamper proof ledger, but are we really worried about falsified olive records? And there’s still data entry happening - so the system can theoretically be falsified anyways. There’s no good use case I’ve seen outside of digital currency so far. Actually, yes. Organized crime has been in the olive oil game for years, adulterating and mislabeling oils for profit. Sometimes they can contain harmful substances. Terralyssa is the brand I use regularly. I'm glad this exists.

I thought Nomadland was quite good. Did not realize that it won best picture.

@jon-nyc said in No Easy Fix: Fix is straightforward but politically difficult. Remove most or all zoning and other regulations that limit new construction. Just not in my backyard. Havent there been some city's/counties that have done that, at least for zoning of residential? Wonder how that is working out

Try mahn-gee-oh-neh.

Not cabinet but seemed like the right thread. https://x.com/samstein/status/1875301236649685006?s=46

@Copper said in Parking Rip-Off: They need capital letters on the days of the week and DD/MM is backward. shit u caught me, i wrote that text, and backward is MM/DD

@Tom-K it helps that I know all these guys personally. The problem is I’m getting to an age where I’m the oldest one around and there’s are lots of young people that I don’t know. This guy I just picked up the phone and called and he said come in tomorrow.