Senators are a state wide office and so aren’t impacted by gerrymandering. Them electing republican senators and democratic governors requires some split ticket voting.

I found this video and I really wouldn’t be able to tell if it was just sound. I think I have like 2 categories I can reliably do for strings: bow or not.

If you’re counting black triangles, the first is 3.

The pedantry is genuinely interesting and contributes to the conversation. It’s not like *it’s or something that’s pedantic for the sake of being pedantic.

Soundwise or visually? I can see the difference (big vs little) but I don’t think I could reliably pick out the sound between the two.

1×3+2 = 5

Sure you could claim it’s 5x, but why do that when the other rule you have already works?

If the first is only 1 triangle, I can’t see how the second would be anything but 3 triangles.

When they’re really little, high contrast is more clear and theoretically more interesting. There’s a lot of black and white toys aimed at newborns for that reason.

Night shift?

Totaled just means repairs will cost as much as the car is worth. If the frame is bent, that would probably do it.

This particular one has to be satire. That line. The “some dude” part. The “relentless debate machine.”

But it’s the only reason we have the ACA. Which, while only ok, is so much better than not having the ACA.

Did things suddenly become worse for those types of things around 2014? If that was the cause, I feel like you’d see a bump up in 2008 with the great recession.

In the US, it certainly isn’t. It’s viewed as a red flag for a US company to ask for a photo unless the job is something where appearance is an important quality like actor or model. I think the US grapples with this kind of discrimination more than many of the countries where it’s the norm.

Which is really just a system you can use to discriminate with plausible deniability: We didn’t not hire people because of X protected characteristic; the “scientific” computer program never selected them as a quality worker.

No, not explicitly gate keeping access. But as a woman, you have experience that tells you, if you take any shortcut or easy way out, even if all the guys do it, you will be “confirmed” as less competent. It tends to be that women start from a perceived position of “not competent” whereas men start from a preceived position of “competent.” A guy has to have some obvious mess ups to fall from that assessment whereas women have to do a lot to rebut the assumption that they’re incompetent. So, as a woman, you are constantly trying to prove yourself, and you have to avoid anything that might undercut that. Using AI could easily be one of those things that undercut it.

My dog hates being carried and fights it. She’s only 50 lbs, but I would not want to try to carry her up a flight of stairs.

That’s why self-made is in quotes. But many female billionaires are primarily heiresses little known or primarily known as a male billionaire’s daughter/wife/ex-wife. Swift turning millions into billions is about as self-made as any other billionaire.

She’s a “self-made” female billionaire. Her money isn’t from something like Walmart or Amazon, where it’s obvious how she’s exploiting people. It’s clear she’s very talented. And she seems smart and like she won’t get pushed around by scummy music execs (Taylor’s version).

Her music speaks to people and makes them feel like they’re understood and like they understand her. When she got a lot of hate (because most things teenage girls enjoy get a lot of hate), plenty of people felt personally attacked, and that made them more defensive and appreciative of her. She poked fun at the stereotypes making her more endearing.

In order to vote while on board, astronauts must fill out the Federal Post Card Application prior to departure, the same application used by military members stationed overseas.

I’m very curious if they thought to fill this out considering they should have been home for so long before the election.