As someone living in Pittsburgh, I hate this.

Traffic is going to be a mess on Monday.

Both Kamala and Trump have rallies on the same day…

BUT good poll results aren’t just “we polled 1,000 people and here’s who they’re voting for.”

Good pollsters take demographic data when they poll. They model the biases of different demos, and they correct for those biases in their models.

Yes, reducing underrepresentation at poll time would be ideal. But pollsters are smart and are doing their best to put out good models. Pollsters know Gen Z is underrepresented and are accounting for that already.

In other words, don’t let Gen Z underrepresentation in the polls lull you into a false sense of security. The polls are accurate. The race is neck and neck.

That’s exactly what I’m hinting at.

My hypothesis is that this is, in fact, the case.

Maybe the reps aren’t thinking this deliberately, but I suppose some in R strategy has realized this. They can tell the reps something simple like “FEMA response is likely to be bad for us in the election,” and the reps can be willfully ignorant, refusing to consider the consequences of their inaction.

Low voter turnout benefits Republicans.

It’s easier to prevent people from voting against you than it is to convert people to vote for you.

The game plan is to ensure chaos continues for the next few weeks until the election, in the hopes that people will be too busy trying to survive than to vote.

I wouldn’t be so sure about how “solid” the R position is in Western NC.

I know plenty of people in the Franklin/Highlands area who are voting D despite traditionally voting R.

The area still leans red overall, but it is much more purple today than it has been historically. Plenty of people are sick of Trump.

Republicans benefit from low turnout in a political climate like that.

The hurricane has wrecked lots of the south. Especially North Carolina.

It would be really convenient for the Republicans if that caused low voter turnout next month.

North Carolina is a battleground state this year.

Edit: Also, Asheville is one of the most Democrat areas of the state, and was also hit the hardest. It is pretty clear that he wants people to live hard or die to improve the Republican chances in November.

Are you suggesting we treat North Koreans like indigenous people in Ukraine?

Why would any country allow soldiers of another to “do their own thing” within their borders?

That’s a good idea. They could probably do something similar for the audio.

They’d have to code around the rest of the animation and audio effects, but the size of that code would certainly be smaller than the rendered audio and video.

Video codecs mostly work by tracking movement, predicting which pixels will change, and striving to only encode the pixels that actually change or change dramatically. In other words, compression looks for patterns.

All of that goes out the window when you try to compress static. There are no patterns. It simply can’t be compressed. This isn’t a matter of the algorithms not being good enough. It’s a fundamental limit of information theory.

Anything fancier amounts to embedding the intro into the compressor as a well-known pattern. And at that point, you’re better off just caching a 4K version of the intro as a standalone video file directly in the app.

Sure. But this is not that.

I’m not sure there is anything illegal about making up these stories.

Edit: All these down votes are just wishful thinking. JD Vance is a piece of shit, but he hasn’t done anything illegal. (That’s not to say he hasn’t done anything wrong, because he totally has.)

There’s JD Vance.

There’s Ron DeSantis.

There’s Jim Jordan.

There’s Matt Gaetz.

There are plenty of MAGA republicans in Congress who would step up. To say otherwise is to be living under a rock. Trump is far from the only prominent fascist ass hole in US politics.

Assassination would be good for MAGA. They’d worship him as a martyr.

I’d like Trump to die ASAP. From natural causes, like a heart attack from eating too much McD’s.

In other words “old baby got tired after standing out of his crib for two hours, blames mom and dad.”

The one graph:

Dude, no. I don’t want to live in a country where politicians are being shot.

Also, I’m pretty sure the blond woman on his left / our right is the one who died. She did not deserve that.

Not the time for jokes.

For sure, Giant Growth isn’t amazing, but it’s the baseline by which I compare green combat tricks. That is to ask “How much more does it cost and what else does it give you?”

In this case, the answer 1 for three good abilities. Heck yeah.

[[Giant Growth]] is +3/+3 at instant speed for 1.

So for 1 more you’re adding trample, hexproof, and indestructible. That’s a sweet deal. Hugely versatile.

As long as you’ve got the mana to spare, this seems like a clear upgrade.

As an American looking in, Corbyn has always been the face of UK’s Labour Party.

Why was he ousted? The article says something about an antisemitism statement, but surely that’s not the whole of it.

Motorola has been in the tracker game since way before Air Tags.

I remember getting a Bluetooth tracker with my Moto X circa 2014. Back when Tile dominated the market.