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2 days agoFirst it was GPUs because crypto, then this. Wonder what useless thing the tech bros will cover up with in a few years!
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2·2 days agoI get what you’re saying, but the line I was quoting implied packing voters for your own party into one district, not the opposition. That would achieve the opposite effect.
Right, that link illustrates my point: they used to have one blue and two red districts, both very solid. When they split Nashville into pieces, the voter demographics haven’t changed so they ended up with 3 red districts, but less so than before.
Hey guys, we ignored 49 other states so we had 20 seats flip red, but we won 2 in Tennessee!
Overall I agree with what you said, but…
gerrymandered to be a safe Republican district
That’s not what gerrymandering is/does. People do it to end up with more districts for a party within a state, and they get that by splitting them up such that margins are thinner.
This is just a typical “in the middle of nowhere” district that makes it so Republican
I’ve got kind of the same thing for my daughter, except that she’s so medically complex you basically resign yourself at the beginning of the year to paying $5500/year for the deductible on top of the premiums you’re paying no matter what so you might as well get your money’s worth.
To be fair, we’ve gotten excellent care and I can only think of two denials. Daughter was born 3 months early so that requires a lot of appointments and stuff but she’s doing really well now compared to where we were.
A phone you can crumple up like a receipt before you put it in your pocket
Like all the Antifas at the Capitol on January 6!
Tell me more about how the left is the violent party.
71·4 days agoThe WHO hasn’t been RFK’ed, has it? I can’t keep the different organizations straight anymore. But also it’s not recommending beef tallow so I guess that’s a good sign.
Immediate edit from TFA:
the U.N. agency
Ah yes. Yet another bullshit NY Post “article” that mostly consists of a smattering of brief quotes from sources less relevant as it goes on, trying to fit the narrative they want to push.
Except… They’re doing it on Kash Patel? He must be on borrowed time.
Yeah, I guess I should have been clear that’s part of what I was thinking (although to be honest I’m mostly a schmuck who pays for a few streaming services and uses that)
What exactly would be the main choking point? Horsepower of the Pi to take that stored file and stream it to the client?
How about a Raspberry Pi? I’ve got one (Raspberry Pi 400) running my Home Automation setup with a couple USB 3.0 ports. Was thinking there’s gotta be some add-ons for Home Assistant to put some external storage to good use.
Don’t need anything too fancy. Just looking for some on-site backup and maybe some media storage
8·5 days agoLately I’ve been getting into Sabrina Cruz’s Answer in Progress videos. She’s got an episode about the recorder that’s a lot of fun to watch but also informative.
You’re absolutely right! You should celebrate your vast knowledge with a bottle of Coca Cola® as you’ve figured out how to outsmart big tech, hard as good companies like Facebook try to serve you with relevant advertisements to help you improve your life (like how Maybelline can help your complexion issues) try, you’ve definitely outsmarted me!
Exactly that. Sorry if my wording sucked!
One point that I don’t think gets enough attention: gerrymandering gets more districts for a party by chipping into districts usually held by opposing parties. That dilutes the strength a party has in each district.
Can you imagine if the R’s gerrymandering drive ends up gaining Democratic districts because they stretched their leads too thin?
That may have been part of the reason Indiana didn’t move forward with it.
You don’t need to tell me what AI can’t do when I’m facetiously drawing attention to something that AI can’t do.
The formerly-blue district around Nashville, yes, that was butchered and extended out to the sticks to get R votes. But in doing so, you also put more blue voters into those red districts. If you push it too much, a big enough blue shift in those now-kinda purple districts can get multiple Dem districts - all when you tried to take away the one.