Balatro should just be renamed to Flush, every single time I win it’s because I use the “discard until you have a flush” strategy, and augment that with Jupiter, wild cards, steel cards, and jokers that give bonuses for flushes or single suits.

No, pretty much no President besides Trump would even consider doing traitorous shit.

Garland and the Biden administration and Jack Smith took great care to ensure that Trump would be held accountable for his crimes in a way that was professional and followed due-process and could not be seen by a reasonable person to be a political witch-hunt.

75 million people fucked it up by voting for Trump again. Biden fucked up by not bowing out and holding a primary, but Jack Smith and the DOJ put together a great case that likely would have resulted in him being held accountable.

Great to see this feature coming back, now do this for a phone and add back removable SD card.

Still haven’t found a use for a non e-ink tablet…

It’s more that local authorities are offering incentives to big tech to bring in those data centers, ostensibly because they think it will benefit the area, but more likely because it is benefitting the local authorities personally through kickbacks or campaign donations.

It’s crazy to me that they don’t do a basic check before publishing the video either. Watched a video from a hugely popular developer on LinkedIn recently and every time he said ChatGPT the caption had LGBT or something else that was so clearly wrong. With the amount of followers this guy has you’d think he could take a glace at the captions before publishing.

This is the first I’m hearing of Aurora, that seems promising. I’m guessing you’d use FDroid for anything that is available there but use Aurora for anything that is only on the Play Store?

That Democrats were aborting babies after they are born, and that immigrants are eating our cats and dogs.

Thoughts on pros and cons? Do you still install apps through the play store or are you using FDroid?

That’s something that often gets lost in primaries it seems… regardless of which candidate you prefer, which one is going to beat the Republican nominee?

Definitely getting “can win in Texas” vibes from Talarico.

Oh yeah, it’s perfect for corporate America. If fits the bill perfectly for abuse through corporate consolidation:

• working class people NEED it to survive
• workforce theoretically doesn’t require an advanced degree so is therefore ripe for exploitation

These two things together are the holy grail of American capitalism because it means if a handful of companies control all the daycares then they can screw over both labor and consumers through corporate consolidation.

We know the government will never break up the conglomerates, so that leaves unions to hold the ghouls accountable in which case they just close any daycare that unionizes, look for scabs, or try to replace humans with AI.

I think at least one class a day for some sort of technology literacy is important. Maybe some typing courses or web development or coding courses or graphic design or even how to create chat bots…

But as much as I’m into tech I agree that kids shouldn’t be staring at screens all day.

This also works for your friends who have kids

Isn’t that a well known crypto-spammer tactic?

An ad for what?? Red Bull?

Curious what your preferred streaming box is, considering changing my Android TV so that it launches to HDMI, disconnect from internet, use a streaming box that isn’t as slow and has a hardwired connection instead.

I don’t think the congressional districts are actually relevant to the electoral college, but the # of electoral votes is based partly on how many congressional representatives the state has, which is based on the state’s population.

Most states award electoral votes solely based on the popular vote of that state. So if 5,000,001 people vote Democrat in California and 5,000,000 vote Republican, all of California’s electoral votes go to the Democrat.

Many people would like to see gerrymandering ended, but I don’t think many people want to see congressional districts eliminated entirely. Congressional districts ensure that different parts of the state are represented in congress. For example, in a state like Massachusetts if the congressional districts were eliminated, then probably all of the representatives would hail from the Boston area which is the most densely populated.

In fact, one way that the negative impacts of the electoral college could be partially eliminated is by using the congressional districts as electoral districts, as described here: Congressional Districts as Electoral Districts

This would result in more states awarding partial electoral votes, but would have downsides such as allowing gerrymandering to influence the presidential election instead of just the congressional elections, and it would still technically be possible for someone to win in the electoral college but not in the popular vote.

The best way to eliminate the electoral college in my opinion is for more states to award electoral votes proportionally. So in the California example above, half the electoral votes would go to the Democrat and half to the Republican.

Hades feels like this to me. In fact the game dialogue seems to enforce this. I guess that’s why it’s considered a rouge-lite?

I agree, but this is related to the drawing of congressional districts and not related to the electoral college for presidential elections. So this is relevant for determining which party controls the House of Representatives, doesn’t affect how many electoral votes for president California has or how those votes are awarded.

I wonder if this is related to localization. In some languages, Fuck You and Thank You would not have the You in common.

Warm white 2700-3000k is fine for bedrooms Soft white 3500k is better for awake spaces that aren’t task spaces White/Daylight 5000k+ is for getting things done, I use them in the garage, the basement, and for some of the kitchen lights

I used to hate integrated LED fixtures, but I put in under-cabinet lighting that can switch color temp so that is nice because I can set it to daylight during meal prep and warm during eating.