I don’t understand how this is legal. I thought map drawing had to be done after the census, not every election.
This strategy surely does have other risks. The last general election slightly skewed red by 1 point. You simply need to have the trend shift a point in the other direction and a lot of these and more become blue.
I’m assuming you already know about the Illinois district that’s shaped like a U?
He’s quoted saying it in this podcast. A really good one if it sparks your interest. If not, then you’ll just have to take my word for it.
https://slate.com/podcasts/slow-burn/s8/becoming-justice-thomas
Well, you and Clarence Thomas have that one in common then I guess.
Gonna disagree with you there. BloodSugarSexMagic was nice when it dropped. Music video of them dancing in their underwear with P-funk was revolutionary at the time.
Their stuff in the 2000s though? Yea, too overproduced.
Flea slappin’ bass though…that dude is a legend.
Yo, this ain’t Russia, punk. We got them guns and insta-flu-nesters too.
How deep would you like to go?
And then someone can reply that it’s not really as red as we’ve been made to believe. And that sometimes, in just the right light, standing on Mars, the sky would look blue, too.
Oh look, if it’s not the consequences of my own actions. Rest assured they’ll do it again next time too, because the GOP has now sufficiently bribed them.
I feel like Alabama is gunning to be a Dollar Store Florida. Excellent for retirees, good for sports ball, pretty much shit for everyone else.
So I guess that would make Texas something akin to Bucees - bigger, still a bit shit compared to other large competitors, and ideal for some real weird people watching.
Huh, shower thought. Over here, we call it corn sweat. Over yonder in the Sahel, They call it reversing desertification.
Kind of corny, I know, but why don’t we just move our corn production over from the east Midwest to the west Midwest?
Jamming, here again, I’d be very surprised if a disgruntled teenager or 20-something going postal is going to put enough plan and prep to purchase jammers in their act. For those that do, drones can be tethered now.
And yes, drones can bump and do bump into things, but I think you’re underestimating just how sophisticated these the professional versions of drones have become over the last few years. We’re not talking the $100 versions with a cheap camera that you and I have anymore.
I’m going to disagree with you here. I think this is an excellent use of drones. If anything, Uvalde taught us that human versions of policing have one major defect/feature…they also don’t want to die.
You throw a swarm of drones whizzing into a high pressure scenario, the shooter’s fight or flight response is going to be triggered. They’re either going to pop off a few last shots…which they likely were going to do anyway before getting caught, or they’re going to run to the nearest open door and shut it to hide.
No lethal explosives needed for this use case. A few flash bangs, maybe some tear gas, a taser or two would likely do the trick in all but the most dire of situations.
Now, what this says for our constitutional rights on the other hand…at some point we as a collective society are going to have to decide whether we want to be “free” or whether we want to be “safe”. Personally, I’m none too happy with the way I’ve seen things progress over the last 24 years.
Not necessarily disagreeing with your premise but the sun is slightly warmer right now.
Did not notice the magazine this was posted on until it was too late. Cortisol levels adequately charged, going to need to take another round or two on the punching bag now.
Window units are not that expensive. Unless landlord is a slumlord, if you say you’re gonna leave if said landlord doesn’t fork up for a window unit, they’ll probably do it. Evicting someone and getting a new tenant is much more of a hassle.
Apple, especially when it was considered a “luxury brand.”
Looks like Bitcoin does indeed suck, but Etherium and one called Avalanche(?) Are more environmentally friendly.
I’ve had this odd thought lately that I just want to put into the ether. And honestly, I’ve been a free trade person pretty much all my life, because I think free trade can and should empower societies to trade what they’re best at, and it has the capability to help pull billions out of poverty.
But one thing I’ve always thought was fucked about free trade is the countries that we exploit, that is, those that pay the kind of wages the US suffered through in the 1800s and early 1900s. The kind of labor that works too long and still barely struggles to survive.
What if the tariffs do balance that a bit better? What if American workers get a fair shake to do work for American consumers? What if this awful, awful dark period in our lives somehow gives the Vietnamese or Cambodian worker a better life because the US is no longer willing to buy goods from countries that exploit their workforce?
I personally don’t want to be part of the tomato problem if I can help it. This is on no way an endorsement of the current administration, but why the fuck did it have to be this administration that acted upon this? Why couldn’t it have been prior administrations over the last 30 years?