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The problem is "a candidate dem voters want" doesn't have any obvious choices.

Like Harris isn't that popular, but the optics of skipping over a black woman when the VP would typically be the heir apparent? You think Gavin Newsom would be a good choice? Californians don't have a lot of good things to say about him right now. I haven't seen a lot of other names floated.

I think we have a different understanding of ranked choice.

In your example, you have 3 candidates, and candidate 3 isn't very popular. He isn't many people's first choice. At the end of round 1, candidate 1 has 45% of the first choice votes, candidate 2 has 46% of the first choice votes, and candidate 3 has 9% of the first choice votes. Candidate 3 is then eliminated, and those who voted for him have their votes go to their second choice candidate. That should leave either candidate 1 or 2 winning. The only way he wins is if he had more first choice votes than one of the other candidates.

If someone who is everyone's second choice but no one's first choice wins, that sounds like approval voting or something similar, not ranked choice.

Edit: Looking at the referenced election, it looks like he was the most popular among the people who didn't want the 2 popular candidates. The first round was 8 candidates and a simple ballot. The second round was a runoff election with the 3 most popular candidates and a ranked choice ballot. He won the first round of that. No one had 50%, so instant runoff, but he also won the second round of that.

To avoid that situation, you would have had to change the run-off rules to only allow the 2 top people instead of the 3 top people. But it still was an in person run off that gave you the result you dislike.

You know the alternate name for ranked choice? Instant runoff.

In your opinion, why does making everyone come out a second time produce better results?

I think the second sentence makes it not. If the guy didn't have a really good reason for doing so, the other people on the plane wouldn't have supported his actions. It's clickbaity. But the title to me makes it sound like the guy might be a hero.

According to Mayo Clinic, penicillin and amoxicillin also can make birth control less effective. But most other sources agree with you. I wonder if it's relatively new information that those antibiotics don't affect it or what.

Yes, but then he went on to be an adult bullying children.

Yeah, the re-do your life idea really gets scary after you have kids. There's pretty much no way you get them back.

Complement as in "Hey nice guns." Not add to them.

I'm used to Dr., Mr., Mrs. all needing the dot.

I'd also add the medical ones which all use x, and most use the first letter of the word, but not all, so it's kinda point 3, kinda not:

• Prescription: rx
• Symptoms: sx
• Diagnosis: dx
• History: hx

It doesn't even say they didn't applaud, just that it wasn't enough applause. It could have been a totally reasonable amount of clapping and this lady was mad there wasn't a standing ovation.

That's obviously not what they meant.

They get the desire to make a group of kids chill out and sleep.

The blurb and headline make no insinuation of sexual abuse.

Jan 6th

Vaccines!

Party all summer. Oh wait, variants.

I personally got my PhD and moved states to start at my new job. So it was a busy year for me.

Pixel Pass

Killed 8 months ago, Pixel Pass was a program that allowed users to pay a monthly charge for their Pixel phone and upgrade immediately after two years. It was almost 2 years old.

Well, that seems particularly scummy.

Prices usually don't fall. Falling prices are generally seen as really bad. Prices instead stop going up so fast.

The "requires human intelligence and perception to solve" after having just solved it at least feels a little sardonic.

It's usually not "To residents in California" but "...contains chemicals known to the state of California to cause..." So they're just referencing the list California keeps. Which may be different than anyone else's list.

The answer depends on the context. Topologically, it's one. I personally like zero. If I say "There's a hole in my straw!" You'll not think all straws have holes. You'll think there's something wrong with it.

If you read the article it's explained that some SSL implementations put random data in the time field (OpenSSL was given as an example). Microsoft knows about this and so needs a certain number of closely matching timestamps to be confident about the new time to change the system time. However, if you get particularly unlucky with a string of random timestamps that match, you end up with a random time.

The first D in DDOS means distributed, as in the requests are distributed across many different machines and IPs; so the second option.

Except the healthcare needs of trans gender people who have medically transitioned to any degree are often closer to their gender than their sex assigned at birth. The body chemistry differences between men and women are primarily affected by hormones. Unless you're specifically looking at the organs that are different, you probably need to go by gender.

Seconds before maniacally trying to get the Kong haha

Are you mad about people putting pronouns and tribal affiliations in their email signatures? Because, yeah, that's fucking awful.

That's not how that works. Even if we somehow managed to bypass filing deadlines up get this theoretical candidate on the ballot (that have likely already been printed, and in many cases mailed out), they don't really have time to get their message out and persuade voters. You don't just start running for president 3 weeks from super Tuesday.

The only way Biden isn't the democratic nominee is if he steps down or is really incapable. And then it's pretty much guaranteed to be Harris. I don't think most people want that.

If democrats wanted a different candidate, they needed to start like 6 months ago minimum.

Nah. Lincoln was the republican president 169 years ago. Also Teddy Roosevelt was pretty cool. Trust busting and all.

They can oust any and every speaker at will, keeping Congress at a standstill and the government in chaos as long as they can get a simple GOP majority vote.

They don't need a GOP majority vote. They need a house majority vote. And unless dems have some compelling reason to keep the republican speaker (unlikely), it only takes a handful from the GOP to oust the speaker. I think McCarthy only lost 8 republican votes.

There's no moral way to enforce it

If he was hospitalized for the influenza, getting MRSA while there isn't all that surprising.

What do you mean by specifically searching? Because it totally comes up for me.

A first term incumbent in Alabama who hasn't even served half his term. They aren't losing much seniority and unless they run a known pedophile again, he'll be replaced with a republican.

Are you mixing it up with Google Forms? I think most people would never have used surveys, whereas forms is pretty popular. And they sound the same.

Right? Even when skimming papers, it's usually: read title & abstract, look at figures, skim results & conclusion. If you don't notice that the figure doesn't have real words, how is anyone making sure the methodology makes sense? That the results show what the conclusion says they show?

Take that to its logical conclusion: a ballot that can be hundreds of millions of names long. There has to be some criteria to be a candidate on the ballot to make names on the ballot useful.

Lead is in soil and water. Stuff grown in that soil and water will contain some amount of it.

I'm not a dude and I was talking about the commenter not the person in the story.

I think it's that case that a lot of these viruses have "long" versions. We just call it things like ME/CFS.

I think public perception is shifting to viewing people in a suit and tie as out of touch or sleaze balls. It certainly doesn't garner my respect.

We're strongly advised not to grow anything edible within 10' of our septic leach field. I don't see how septic shows the average home owner that human sewage can be made safe.

It may amaze you to know that not everyone immediately will recognize this as a truth social screenshot.

You don't. You just get the "up to 36". It's not a pyramid scheme where the goods all flow to the top.

Podcasts are (generally, Spotify excluded) on an open standard. They're just RSS feeds. So, the content can be aggregated by anyone. So it's primarily the UI that will be different between different podcast players.