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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It can happen, but it's hard to imagine that it could change the outcome.

https://www.npr.org/sections/biden-transition-updates/2020/12/14/946080856/who-are-electors-and-how-do-they-get-picked

Generally speaking, the parties send a slate of names to be electors. If Trump wins a state, the electors sent by the GOP are sent to Washington. If Harris wins, the Dem electors are sent. Many (not all) states outlaw faithless electors.

When it does occasionally happen, it's a useless vote that wouldn't have changed anything anyway. For a group of party loyalists to all work together to flip the outcome would be ... unimaginable, frankly.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 days ago

You have not experienced Shakespeare until you have read him in the original Klingon.

[–] [email protected] 122 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Undocumented Immigrant Offending Rate Lower Than U.S.-Born Citizen Rate

This study offers one logical conclusion: if you want a safer country, deport native-born Texans.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Jack left bsky a while ago.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Forget the rebels, why build the death star(s) in the first place?

It's easier, faster, and waaaaay more effective to just send a few dozen small ships throughout the galaxy with an extra hyperdrive or two to be ready to blow up any planet with some space junk. Any time. Any place. No centralized base for the rebels to stop.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago

I appreciate the 30 second heads up of which exact previous scenes will be important in the upcoming episode.

Even if I've just binged a bunch, and don't need a recap of the broader story arc, there may have been a name drop or specific reference that could have been missed.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago

I know this isn't what you're asking, but there are two Mount Olympuses (?!) in the USA.

The one in Washington has a similar prominence to the Greek mountain (2,389 m to 2,353 m).

The one in Utah has a similar peak elevation (2,752 m vs 2,918 m).

[–] [email protected] 87 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

There's also Ulysses S. Grant. The "S" was apparently just a mistake on his enrollment at West Point. His birth name was Hiram Ulysses Grant. He tried to switch his first and middle names, but ended up with the initials USG instead of UHG.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ulysses-S-Grant

[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Unhinged entry level employee screaming and swearing and threatening the CFO and spit in her coffee mug.

An email went out to the whole company telling us not to let him in the building before he even got back to his desk to be fired. This is a software company, not exactly the type of place that has armed guards, but the (ex-military) information security dude set up in the area packing for a few weeks after that.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There are things I disagree with Harris about, but this cycle, I'm a single issue voter.

That issue is "never having to experience Trump in any office ever again."

Hopefully my politics can be a little more nuanced next time.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago (3 children)

The thing is, there will come a day when only bots will be able to get these right. The only way into a site will be to answer incorrectly, to prove you're human.

 

Just because a 3060ti is technically capable of ray tracing doesn't mean I want you to keep turning it on every time the driver gets an update.

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