Yep, this is the thing people often forget about gerrymandering. The entire point is to take a large margin of victory in an area, and use it to offset your opponents margin in another area, usually by carving into your opponents margin with several of your own.

The more gerrymandered a set of districts is, the more likely they are to be tipped by an unexpected change of turn out by a given group.

One group gets complacent (my vote doesn’t matter in this state, since my party always wins!) or one group gets fired up… And suddenly the story flips.

This is correct for a given transaction, but there’s no consensus needed to open a Bitcoin wallet. That is usually just a private key in an encrypted envelope.

The Polynesian people had many ways of detecting land far beyond the horizon using ocean currents, temperatures, weather patterns, animal movements, and others which they used to island hop all the way through the Pacific Islands.

I have little doubt it was a well informed theory before they got into their vessels.

https://media1.tenor.com/m/OibcqkA9ZlgAAAAC/arrested-development.gif

I’m going for Mussolini.

Modern transistors aren’t just silicon though. The silicon is doped with various materials, presumably gallium, boron, arsenic, phosphorus, and cobalt, among other elements.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doping_(semiconductor)

Is she volunteering?

Trump is notoriously a zero sum true believer, despite it being routinely mocked, disproven, and sociopathic. He fully believes that help given to people who are not him is wasteful and harmful to him, at least indirectly.

• Linkwarden archives to multiple formats out of the box, including PDF and full HTML.
• Both Linkwarden and Karakeep use https://github.com/Y2Z/monolith in the backend. Monolith is battle hardened and widely used and accepted.
• ‘far from stable’ isn’t referring to the archiving, it’s referring to the frontend, tagging, etc. Features this blog post doesn’t even offer
• a hastily cobbled together, manual (more mistakes allowed), untested system is more fragile than standardized software used by many thousands daily

Or just use Linkwarden or Karakeep (previously Hoarder)

“Should I, ahh, write the check, sir?”

“No.”

You think they did a good job of building a platform and communicating a message? Energizing their base? Pushing back against the GOP’s instanity rather than normalizing it? They didn’t even have a competitive candidate until the 11th hour for fucks sake.

I actually liked Kamala. And I thought Joe did a good job of appointing and trusting competent people in general during his tenure and letting things normalize. But really, they ran a piss poor election and shouldn’t have let Biden ever claim candidacy for re-election.

100% agreed on this in the current state. But the new DNC chair is part of a more progressive and assertive variety of Democrats (DFL) from my home state in MN. Similar factions have been forming a growing coalition in the DNC and got him elected, and have started the process to unseat the existing ragdoll leadership.

I’m not saying we’re converting the DNC to a party of Democratic Socialists, but the progressive factions are working together (finally) and capitalizing on the DNC’s failings.

We can only hope they’re successful.

For those uncertain, it means that suddenly Johnson isn’t so sure he has the votes to pass his agenda, and now the Republican party will meet behind closed doors to negotiate or intimidate members try to bring the “rogue votes” to heel.

I predict more and more votes in both the House and Senate are going to go this way as the rats begin to flee the MAGA sinking ship. As ashamed as Democrats should be of their performance and platform last election, Trump and Congress (and DOGE) have already done some deeply unpopular things. And I think threatening social security might be the straw (or in this case, the thermonuclear device) that breaks the camel’s back.

The swing voters and non-voters, surprise surprise, it seems voted in ignorance of MAGA’s very clear plans to destroy as much of America’s institutions as possible. Institutions relied upon disproportionately by the Republican base and the ignorant swing voters. In my humble opinion, main stream media and social media needs a lot of the blame here for sane-washing last election cycle.

Now we get to see if the DNC leadership sees this as a natural pendulum swing and sits back and continues to learn nothing, or if the growing discontent in the party will continue to gain steam and the leadership continues to get pressure to change.

Hopefully the progressive element in the party continues their momentum. Getting the DNC chair and Schumer’s recent blowback are glimmers of hope.

Much as I would love a true progressive party, in the current system I think we have to settle for a democratic party acting as a coalition of anti-Republican/MAGA factions until we can fix our fptp voting system.

Donate when you can tho

Yeah but 1gb/s by me is $80/mo minimum…

1 Ethernet port does not a router make.

Panama. Greenland. Canada. Gaza.

It truly feels like Trump is desperate to cement his place in history with a territorial expansion. I honestly think these seeds were planted by Putin to destabilize Euro-American (and NATO) relations.

Wake me up when they finally do transparent aluminum.

Silly. They’re looking for a fall guy, not actually addressing the problem or being responsible.