Sure, but there’s even less democratic freedom now that the rich can spend even more and now that we’re returning to politicians being able to blatantly select their voters.

Only if we put in the effort.

Yes, but with a reputable pollster, questions and weighting are informed by historical data as much as possible.

Also, most of the good pollsters, who polled close to Election Day, tend to fall within or meet their margins of error when the final vote comes in. For as much as people like to complain about polls, I recommend that they go look at the big pollsters, and see how close they were right before an election.

The problem isn’t the polls, it’s that shit has been gerrymandered into a near 50/50 split and a winner is lost within the margin of error.

The big box store bulbs suck. Pay more for Phillips bulbs.

Paywall. Archive link please.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Hate sex

Missouri = immigrants are taking our homes. We need less people!

Also Missouri = teen pregnancy isn’t a raging problem any more. We need more people!

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When I say, “Set a timer for 5 minutes,” it sets a timer. (18.2db1)

General > Apps > Default Apps

Wait, wait again, and wait some more

Looks like there is a new waitlist for devs who want to see part 2 of Apple Intelligence.

IMHO, this is how integrations with chat GPT should work. Default to a local model or a private cloud model, and if that doesn’t work, ask the user if they want the query to go to another LLM. And let people turn off the external LLM prompts entirely.

Let make it opt it. And make opting out very prominent.

On one hand, yes.

On the other hand, that new Death Star approach scene was pretty tight.

Gen X: “I believe you mean 1999, not 2005”

We’ve yet to define that. That said, the big reason for the move is because of community complaints around content regarding elections, political candidates, systems of government, foreign policy, etc.

Agreed. They are being intentionally passive aggressive and they are trying to create discord in this community. They often say that they expect downvotes.

IMHO, if a user is repeatedly trying to get a rise from other users, then it’s time to go.

It’s like a little bother holding a finger to your face and saying “I’m not touching you.” They’re following the rules and not hitting their sibling, but know they’re being a pest.

I’ve handled users like this similarly in some of the communities I head up here. I try not to touch the content unless it is obvious misinformation and that violates instances rules. That said, if their content and or comments are clearly intended to create discord, pester, or pester in a passive aggressive manor, then they get the boot.

I wish we had some sort of sort filter that hid aggressively downvoted content and comments. That way the “knights of the new” could bury problematic content.

People don’t like the idea of mods having to censor users, but they also don’t want their feed full of downvoted posts or infighting.

So basically:

“Arnold Palmer is from here. I used to admire his dick in the shower.”

Sad thing is that this needs a quick response, and that’s not happening.