Bob
3 months ago
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100%
I ain't paying any attention to speculation. He hasn't dropped out until he's actually dropped out.
Bob
3 months ago
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Ohhhh Shhhhoiiiit this is a step in the right direction!
Chicago
Cyclists Attacked By Driver And Passenger Who Opened Fire During Group Ride In Uptown, Video Shows
Bob
3 months ago
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No one would ever try to drive through a large group of cars going past, why force your way into bikes?
Bob
3 months ago
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I think the amazing thing is how much improvement you get from going from "choose one" to "choose all you like." (AKA approval voting). The ultimate goal is proportional representation, but approval is such an easy first step.
Bob
3 months ago
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100%
If we had Approval Voting people would be able to vote for third party candidates independent of what they do concerning major party candidates. And, their support would always be shown in the final tally on election day.
Bob
3 months ago
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100%
Probably the first time I've ever looked at a presidential lineup and simply hoped the two front-runners fall over dead as soon as possible.
Bob
3 months ago
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100%
They're finally getting rid of these guys because they're old and no one wants to take care of them. That's all.
Socialist Rifle Association
Look how happy he is
Bob
3 months ago
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Yeah I'll agree with that. The love and respect ain't mutual though. They never give it back.
Socialist Rifle Association
Look how happy he is
Bob
3 months ago
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They don't want to help, they want to rule. The emergency gives them an excuse to take control.
St. Louis, MO | Gateway to the West
NYT-No Tables for Anyone Under 30 at This St. Louis-Area Restaurant
Bob
3 months ago
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Yeah that sounds legally dubious
Lemmy Shitpost
Everyday, as an American
Bob
3 months ago
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I mean, yeah, 1000 people is enough assuming there's no sampling bias. But if you've got sampling bias, increasing the sampling size won't actually help you. The issue you're talking about is unrelated to how many people you talk to.
Your own suggestion of splitting up the respondents by state would itself introduce sampling bias, way over sampling low population states and way under sampling high population states. The survey was interested in the opinions of the nation as a whole, so arbitrary binning by states would be a big mistake. You want your sampling procedure to have equal change of returning a response from any random person in the nation. With a sample size of 1000, you're not going to have much random-induced bias for one location or another, aside from population density, which is fine because the survey is about USA people and not people in sub-USA locations.
Bob
3 months ago
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Ah. I personally wouldn't care, then. In fact, I would be honored in this situation l. But, I'm sure there are those that would feel differently.
Bob
3 months ago
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A degree should have no sensitivity towards anything outside of the classroom. Did you pass all the classes you needed to? You get your degree. Full stop.
Antifascism
Anyone in the Cleveland area know this nazi?
Bob
3 months ago
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95%
I think we need to talk about your discord notifications....
Bob
3 months ago
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100%
The oil companies reconglomerated, in part, because we stopped enforcing anti-trust nearly as much as originally intended when we started using the stupid-ass Chicago school of thought from the 1970s onwards. It's only in the last ten years or so that's it's become legally reasonable to say "hey actually the Chicago school of though kinda sucks." Standard Oil in particular is a bad anti-trust example because Rockefeller was such a personality cult that everyone around him was completely wrapped around his finger. In any case, you can still punish companies for price fixing if you've force them to be legally separate, which you can't do if it's all one legal organization.
The telecom industry is another example where anti-trust break-ups didn't lead to more competition, for somewhat similar reasons. They were broken up by geographic regions and each region made gentlemen's agreements not to expand into each other's territory. When we stopped enforcing anti-trust as much, they bought each other out.
In general, however, breaking up monopolies is effective, so long as doing so actually creates competition in the marketplace. This is most effective in markets with low barriers to entry or ones where there's already a large number of smaller companies that are simply too small for meaningful competition with mega-corp. It's least effective in markets with extremely high barriers to entry or ones where it's easy to collude and get away with it. In any case, it's still worth it to break up monopolistic companies because it still reduces their power, even if it does so more effectively in some markets than others. Among other benefits, it makes it easier for new competitors to establish themselves in the market, since their competitors have a harder time utilizing unfair practices the smaller they are.
Bob
3 months ago
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I mean, just break up the massive corporations. Capitalism requires seller competition in the marketplace in order to provide an incentive to drive down prices. If there are too few players, they can easily make unspoken agreements to fuck over consumers.
Bob
3 months ago
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I very much wouldn't. I'm not interested in the kinds of things a young trophy wife is going to offer. I think being a rich megastar would be bad for my dating game, because it would attract all the wrong people.
Lemmy Shitpost
Everyday, as an American
Bob
3 months ago
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100%
The way statistical sampling works, 1000 people in a population of 300,000,000 is actually good enough for most things. You can play around with numbers here to convince yourself, but at 95% confidence 1000 people will give an answer to within 3% of the true answer for the 300,000,000 population.
Lemmy Shitpost
Everyday, as an American
Bob
3 months ago
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100%
Suddenly trying to convince all my friends and family I'm from France.
Lemmy Shitpost
Everyday, as an American
Bob
3 months ago
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100%
YMYDYMYD
Lemmy Shitpost
Everyday, as an American
Bob
3 months ago
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100%
Lol, I'm sorry you're getting downvoted for speculating about improving weights and measures in a thread about wanting better weights and measures.
Lemmy Shitpost
Everyday, as an American
Bob
4 months ago
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88%
I kinda thought the title made it clear I was an American.
Lemmy Shitpost
Everyday, as an American
Bob
4 months ago
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40%
DST is good actually. Fite me.
Michigan
Bob
4 months ago
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100%
Ew.
Lord of the memes
One bomb
Bob
4 months ago
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85%
A million percent AI.
Bob
4 months ago
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100%
Lemmy has lots of "both sides" bullshit, to the point where people are now making fun of that argument before it even presents itself.
abcnews.go.com
Bob
5 months ago
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Sure, but don't make promises if you're not gonna keep them. I'm all for nonproliferation, and I see the failure to help defend Ukraine to be a big problem in when convincing other countries they don't need nukes.
Bob
5 months ago
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75%
This is what happens when you promise you'd protect a country if they gave up their nukes, and then you don't protect that country when they get invaded.
Iowa
Bob
5 months ago
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100%
Hells yeah! A reminder to everyone: progress takes a lot of slow and hard work. They want you to give up. Start a fight and keep it up!
Greentext
Bob
5 months ago
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60%
What is it about role-playing that's strictly masculine? Like, why does the group have to be gendered?
Lord of the memes
lipids
Bob
5 months ago
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100%
I just fucking tried to look up cholegolasterol.
Religious Cringe
Bob-onic plague
Bob
5 months ago
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100%
Don't pin this shit on me.
youtu.be
Bob
5 months ago
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100%
Put some soles on these and make thieves wear them instead of throwing them in jail.
The Right Can't Meme
Now this is just rascist
Bob
7 months ago
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I dunno what's so confusing. Clearly Jews invented black people in order to mess up society so they could, uhh... so they could... get a strike?
Religious Cringe
How is it a legal fiction if it is true
Bob
7 months ago
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What is the law, but a bunch of rules we made up?
The Right Can't Meme
Conservatives love to dehumanize immigrants, don't they?
Bob
7 months ago
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I would rather it not exist in DC either, actually.
Old School Runescape
Ladies and Gentlemen: Vertical OSRS
Bob
7 months ago
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I wish I could reproduce it. Somehow running it in split screen (which goes force it into vertical) caused it to stay vertical even after I opened OSRS by itself. But, no matter what I've tried since I can't get it to do it again.
Yeah. They did exactly that 
A look into relationships beyond just friends and romance.
If you live in New Hampshire, I suggest you call your state legislators to support this bill. [Approval Voting](https://electionscience.org/library/approval-voting/) is a very small change that goes a long way! If you don't live in New Hampshire, send this to someone who does!
Alt text: A photo of Mike Pence in a leather biker vest with a bunch of bland patches on it, like two different Indiana patches and an American flag patch. He's got both hands outward and his fingers are pointing, reminiscent of that old Steve Martin sketch where him and Dan Aykroyd are The Festrunk Brothers, "just two wild and crazy guys."
So I'm interested in grinding up some fruits (strawberries or whatever) and just throwing them in a jar and preserving them. Basically I want to make a jam without pectin or sugar. How terrible of an idea is this?
The state legislature is trying to make it harder for the people to have a say in their democracy. Vote "No!" Retain the right to amend the constitution, or else the bar will be set so high only the legislature will get to propose amendments! That's it. That's the post. Drag your friends to the polls, too, while you're at it.
First off, yes, I'm getting rid of my account, but I decided to have a look around on the official app and 1) It's hot garbage 2) I'm subscribed to a bunch of subs I've never even interacted with before in my life. What gives? Did they just sign me up for shit without asking? They sent me emails after promising they wouldn't, they've lied about a lot of stuff, but every time I'm surprised they're such dicks for some reason. Has anyone else experienced this?
youtu.be
What a match! Holy shit! That's what rugby is all about!
actionnetwork.org
Hey everyone, Missouri Agrees is running a fundraising campaign so they can put Freedom Voting Up for referendum. You can donate through any of the campaigns [here](https://actionnetwork.org/groups/show-me-integrity-action-fund) and your impact will be TRIPLED. +1 from the individual campaign and +1 from an anonymous donor. They're aiming for 1.2 million by July 1st, so every dollar counts. It's an all or nothing fundraiser, so if we fall short everyone gets their money back. Don't know what Freedom Voting is? It's also called Approval Voting and you can read more about it [here](https://electionscience.org/library/approval-voting/). The short answer is it gives you the freedom to vote for everyone you like instead of having to just choose one. That's it. Instead of "pick one" it's "pick any number." It fixes a huge number of problems while also being ridiculously simple. If anyone has any questions of course I'm open to chatting.
Okay, it took a good amount of learning, but I've figured out how to get most of what I want with a custom keyboard build. Here's my goals: 1) Ergonomic 2) Quiet 3) Dvorak 4) But a normal person can still use it 5) Cheapish because I'm a cheap bastard With those in mind, here's what I've finally settled on: Board: YMDK - Split 75% 84 Acrylic Kit Keycaps: YMDK - 9009 Retro 143 - Blank Switches: Haimu x Geon HG Red Silent Linear Switches A.K.A Haimu Heartbeat See photos at the bottom of the post. My plan is to take the switches to a fab-lab with a laser engraver and engrave the labels on the side of each keycap. Since the DSA profile is the same for every button, and I'll have extras, I'll have more than a few chances to get my laser settings correct. By labeling the keycaps myself I can put the QWERTY label on the front side and the Dvorak label on the left or right side. By using this split design, I can combine the two halves to give people a totally regular looking keyboard that functions just as they expect. Total cost including machine time: $182 What do you think? Do you think there's room for improvement?   
Hello hello I'm planning out a keyboard for the future, I've figured out the features I want, but I'm having a hard time understanding how to get them. The learning curve is steep, it seems. Are there any websites that have a good filter for their databases? I'm trying to find quiet, low-travel switches. My plan is to put them on a Keychron V10 QMK Alice Keyboard. For the keys themselves I'm going to try and find a set that's blank on top, but with the markings on the side. I've seen them in real life, I just haven't gone looking for them in real life. Then, I'll add stickers on top for an alternate layout. That way, I'll always have a visual reminder of which key does what, so long as I remember which mode my keyboard is in. So far I haven't found a website that lets you filter by travel distance, which is annoying, because I can't put in the kind of work needed to look at every listing to find out the travel distance. Thanks!
Hello all, The way I see it, the kind of person willing to be an early-adopter is the kind of person with gumption. They're willing to deal with uncertainty, they're willing to stake out a claim based on principles, they're willing to put in a little extra work where it's needed. Alight, maybe, maybe not. But if that sounds like you, I want to recruit you to lead a referendum to switch Ohio or a local government in Ohio to Approval Voting. If you haven't heard of Approval Voting before, here it is: 1) Vote for everyone you like. 2) Most votes wins. That's it. But OH BOY does it fix a lot of problems. Under Approval, [it's always safe to vote for your favorite candidate](https://electowiki.org/wiki/Favorite_Betrayal_criterion). With Approval, [you can't submit an invalid ballot](https://electionscience.org/library/approval-voting/). And best of all, Approval voting doesn't have [spoilers](https://youtube.com/shorts/zAEITqsdvNE). Approval Voting helps show how much support every candidate in the race actually has, since there was nothing stopping anyone from voting for them. Everyone's final total represents their approval rating! If this sounds like a good deal to you, let me know and we can talk about what it would take to switch your elections to approval. If you have any questions, fire away! I'm even perfectly happy to tell you what kinds of problems and limitations approval has, because all voting systems have problems and limitations! P.S. I couldn't find any community specific rules and I'm not sure if this counts as advertising or spam per the site rules but if it does let me know and I'll delete the post. P.P.S. I do actually live in Ohio, I'm not gonna go around recruiting people for projects in a state where I don't live.