Lurker > Starks

The new maps weren't very different from what we have now. Very subtle tweaks upstate. Maybe 1 newly competitive seat. Locks down a few seats for both parties. I thought they had a chance in the legislature. This is the 2nd time in a row we've rejected our independent redistricting commission.

Not sure what emerges from this chaos. Another Hochulmander? Yet another court-appointed special master? Not sure at this point. But I like chaos. I like new and exciting shapes.

If Uncommitted is only in Nevada's "None of these" 6% territory, it's just a protest vote. One that can still cost you the general.

Waxitron_Gazer posted...

yeah nintendo's REAL competition is a shitty chinese android system. how foolish of them.

The point is that it won't even beat Android handhelds from even 2 or 3 years ago.

I'm not comparing it to x86 handhelds as the Switch 2 is targeting a lower price point.

I'd say the bar for a 5-alarm fire would be 20% Uncommitted with Phillips at 5%. Counterpoint: Nobody seemed to care about Phillips getting 20% in NH and theoretically winning delegates.

Michigan is interesting. You choose your ballot. Anyone can crossover.

Nintendo is making a mistake in releasing a device way too late that may not even beat an Aya Odin handheld.

[SCENE START]
EXT. FLAVORTOWN RUINS - DAY
A wasteland of rusted fryers and toppled condiment bottles stretches to the horizon. Dried-up rivers of nacho cheese wind through the bleak landscape. GUY FIERI, his once vibrant hair now dusty and matted, emerges from a bunker.
GUY: (Coughs, voice raspy) I'm smelling something...not funky...not fresh...but dangerous. Gotta find a pocket of that sweet, breathable air.
He dons a makeshift gasmask an inverted deep fryer with a tattered Hawaiian shirt as a filter. A single, precious bottle of Donkey Sauce dangles from his belt.
INT. ABANDONED DINER - DAY
An overturned "Welcome to Flavortown" sign hangs askew. Guy cautiously enters.
GUY: This is outta bounds...the last time I was here, the burgers were outta SIGHT. But now...
A mutated, monstrous RAT, its eyes like glowing hot sauce packets, skitters across the floor.
GUY: Whoa, Nelly! Time for Plan B!
He whips out the Donkey Sauce bottle, using it like a flamethrower. The rat hisses and retreats.
EXT. FLAVORTOWN OUTSKIRTS - DUSK
The sky is an ominous shade of burnt mac-and-cheese orange. Guy stumbles upon a mangled billboard. He squints.
GUY: "Diners, Drive-ins...and Dives?" Nah...that ain't right. More like Diners, Drive-outs... and Don't Even Think About Divin' In For a Second.
His stomach growls. He wistfully eyes the Donkey Sauce bottle.
GUY: (Whispers) Soon, old friend. Soon.
He trudges on, silhouetted against the toxic sunset.
FADE OUT
[SCENE END]

ChatGPT: GPT4
Gemini: Ultra 1.0

I've been using both for ideas to automate my workflows and random shower thoughts. ChatGPT is a lot slower and still has a GPT4 daily limit for paying customers. Ignoring that, both ChatGPT and Gemini give excellent answers. ChatGPT has much better image generation through DALL-E 3 and Google just yanked their Imagen 2 image generation. Imagen cannot draw historically accurate races or anime, it's an utter failure. Interestingly, Microsoft CoPilot or Bing Create, whatever it's called now, is more willing to generate copyrighted characters (i.e. Elsa memes). Gemini is a continuously updated model and I don't ever have to worry about how old the training or dataset is. It's also an entire extension of my Google ecosystem.

Unless OpenAI has something transformative for GPT 4.5/5 or truly figured out AGI, I think they're toast.

It's a kids show that doesn't insult your intelligence and is very wholesome. Good animation also goes a long way.

https://youtu.be/ohlW9SbhLzc?si=lemTZSFIq0ZYUJ6D

There are Chinese theater/dance alternatives in the New York area but none can really match the production values of Shen Yun.

And they're really leaning into the "China before communism" now.

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The B-21 would replace the B-52, but perhaps only after the 2040s or '50s. And at that point it would be outdated in its own right.

Yiddish terms for minorities and observant folks.

It doesn't have to be consistent. They just want a puritanical "see no evil" society that they can feel good about.

Trump needs to start liquidating assets today.

Optical and magnetic media is done unless we're talking about long-term vault storage.

SSD cartridges are also a shitty answer. Unless the cartridge can be updated, it serves as nothing but a key once the day one patch completely makes it worthless.

boxoto posted...

have fun with your sperm battle fiction

Stay mad and uncultured.

MrDrMan posted...

1.5% is peanuts. Its not enough to change behavior. On 100K thats only $1500 back.

I do agree with interest and purchase protections though.

At least 1.5% for non category spend. 3% for dining is also essential. And then 3 to 5% for gas, groceries, rotating categories, portal travel, etc. Maybe 10% for rental cars if you like full price booking.

So many people don't want their money to work for them. It's upsetting.

You should be making 5% interest on your cash and at least 1.5% cash back on every purchase.

You're not doing that without credit cards or cash management accounts. Your money won't grow in a bank and your debit card has no protections if you ever get fucked by a purchase.

Trumble posted...

Well, on account of that no one else is seriously attempting to carry out a genocide right now (Russia are attempting an illegal annexation and committing some horrible atrocities in the process, sure, but their direct goal isn't genocide), I would say Israel automatically earn the position of worst human rights abusing nation in the world.

Russia's foreign policy bible denies Ukrainian identity and sovereignty. When you pair that with the utter joy that Russians are going through as they whittle away at Ukraine frontline villages and launch waves of missiles, you're getting into genocide territory.

Senta posted...

I don't even have a credit card. I've never had one, so my credit is mostly nonexistent.

I just don't like them.

You're basically inviting yourself to never be eligible for a loan or a mortgage. Start building your credit before it's too late.

There's going to be a point where all these judgments and is Deutsche Bank loans come due. He doesn't have enough liquidity for every single one. His only hope is that people still want to lend to him.

The president must transmit a report to Congress. The joint session is not required. Doesn't make this any less petty.

That just means he's still accruing a shit ton of interest during the appeal and hasn't stayed the judgment. He's in a race against time for this appeal.

People aren't going to have a full understanding of Trump's health until those debates. He's by dodging the primary debates that would otherwise expose him.

ButteryMales posted...

Just keep wasting your time. If it's not project 2025 then you'll have to scream project 2029 ect.

I've been screaming about the Southern Strategy for a long time.

This is not a one-off ffs. It's an ongoing effort to oppose fascism and chuddery.

Biden isn't above embarrassment and neither was Obama when he barely won the AR and WV primaries in 2012 as an incumbent.

Oh boy. Haley wins 6 delegates. CD1 and CD6.

https://www.thegreenpapers.com/P24/SC-R

It's a VOD PPV for most Americans.

It's crazy how all of these bugs and glitches made it into Blue. It's as if there was zero quality assurance and assumed nobody would ever care for 20 years.

If it already runs Doom, that ruins the fun of trying to run Doom on it

CableZL posted...

https://twitter.com/AnnaBower/status/1760859847321391517

Trump has now started the "presidential immunity" bullshit with the classified documents case. He wasn't president when the illegal conduct happened.

He's racing against the Supreme Court and their meeting today. I doubt they rule on either of the cases but it's coursing through his mind.

They don't have public support even among conservatives to be against IVF. And even if they did, it would contradict their plans for 6-week or 16-week bans.

If Posobiec was trying to be edgy or ironic like the "we're all domestic terrorists", he failed. This was full mask off.

It didn't crash. Just waiting for the first downlinked images.

America is still a pretty sweet deal

If I want to join the New York State Guard or Naval Militia, I'm not allowed to YOLO it. I'd be part of a well-regulated militia in terms of organization and actual regulation. It satisfies the originalist and textualist interpretations.

But some random group of militia types in Idaho get the same protections while terrorizing society? That doesn't sound right. Yet at the same time, individual gun rights and collective gun rights don't seem separable.

But this is great. Beresheet, Hakuto, Luna, Slim, Peregrine, etc all failed in one way or another.

No private company has done this before. And no country has done it flawlessly since China's Yutu rover.

Maybe we need to put LRO or other orbiters as a relay to improve communication.

There's nothing to do yet. They have to safe everything and get the equipment ready.

The main landing guidance system failed and and somehow the backups worked well enough.

State guards are protected. Private militias? Maybe not.

Not even Super. It's Z.

For an extra fee, you get to see John Cena's prototype

Same reason why a ton of Japanese and Korean cars aren't sold in the US because the manufacturers decided in advance that we don't want them.

You can't see me unless you pay up

And then you can't scroll away from it because the eShop is so buggy and slow

Jupiter posted...

This is an example of what would have gotten us corrected for being wrong back in my 2nd grade class. But like I said, that's not an excuse to refuse someone's pronouns.

There is nothing in the English language that requires a determinate gender.