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I think the person you replied to started working on their reply in the time I added everything after the first line.

Solving the problem "low turnout" requires getting people to vote. When people who don't vote are turned out, they tend to vote D. Strengthening the democratic process and increasing turnout for Democrats are currently the same thing.

It does if they enforce their non-discrimination policies. The oppressed need jobs too.

Also, news media's love of simplification has really twisted people's view of states other than their own. Georgia is about as "blue" as California or New York, but most of it is concentrated in a few counties in Metro Atlanta amid 159 state-wide. People mistake resolution for politics.

If an alleged "blue" state had as many counties as Georgia, those county election maps would look awfully red too. But since they don't, the counties that lean D take up more space, and the extremes on both ends are attenuated in a larger pool so red doesn't look as red.

The south in particular is notorious for having lots of counties. It was a way to get more money during Reconstruction. There's a reason the most prosperous former Confederate states have more counties even if you exclude those formed post-Reconstruction.

>> "For those unfamiliar, Long Island City is across the East River directly east of Upper East Side in Manhattan."

This doesn't really help if you're not familiar with NYC geography...

I had to check Google Maps. It's across the river southeast of all the famous stuff in movies.

This is what happened with Android. Google bought it, released it, and made a big deal out of how it was open. Then they slowly moved functionality over to their proprietary systems under the guise of ensuring people could get some security updates on phones the OEMs stopped supporting.

What lawsuit happened in the '90s? All I see on the Wikipedia page started in 2003. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO%E2%80%93Linux_disputes#Tim...

Are you sure it was a lawsuit and not the state of the still very new Linux in the '90s? From what I recall, Linux didn't have a good reputation before 2.6.

Who is supposed to issue this apology?

The person writing the press release for such an apology didn't do anything, so there's nothing for them to apologize for. The people responsible for Microsoft's anti-OSS stance are minimally involved in 2018, if at all.

There are plenty of people and companies who apologize without putting action behind it. Apologies are a nice gesture on a personal level, but they don't mean anything without action, and they don't mean anything at all at a company level. Microsoft is, at a minimum, showing it wants people to think it's changed. People unwilling to give them a chance are not going to be persuaded by a press release with apology in the title.

I think this is why they had to bring in an enemy from across the galaxy for DS9. All the other militaristic Alpha Quadrant civilizations had seen humans in war and did not want to get on their bad side again. The Dominion hadn't yet seen first hand what lengths humans will go to when threatened.

I think it's more common in creative fields. Companies even solicit free design work (for example) under the guise of contests.

Sometimes I find interesting things in it. For example, you can open a terminal set to the current directory by putting cmd in the path bar. This also works with other commands and arguments, so you can do stuff like notepad [filename].

Sites with articles are the worst here. A lot of them break reading view/save for later tools. I end up with the next article instead of the one I'm on.

I got the same list from Wolfram Alpha. I wonder why so many people get different results.

She also got millions more votes. That election turned on a few tens of thousands of votes in a couple of states due to the way the electoral college works. Money paid for the targeted ads responsible and built the company that made it possible.

One of the local coffee shops solves this problem by also being a music school: http://hometownrhythms.com/

They also have regular musical acts. The Athens/metro Atlanta area has a lot of cover bands.

I still see people call policing maps "crime maps" as though you could map out all the crime like in SimCity.

mIRC is still under active development.

I call those people annoying. I was born and raised and have lived my entire life in the US. I'm quiet, still, and prefer the same in the people around me. You can't assess over 300 million people by the few who can afford to travel.

Gopher and HTTP had a similar situation. Gopher had a lot going for it, but the future licensing situation was unclear. HTTP was free, clear, and widespread by the time Gopher became GPL.

I (and probably the person you replied to) take all these words for granted. It didn't occur to me someone hadn't heard of them.

Check out the thesaurus entry for cantankerous for some more useful, related, and probably less common than I think terms: https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/cantankerous

Conceits creep in if you only read one perspective. Think about all the people who think Western culture is the source of all civilization because they only read things that affirm that view.

Any given culture's canon is big in volume, but small in context.

I thought they only did wind. Thanks.

I used to use one of their weather maps. North Georgia gets a lot of random, unpredictable storms from the gulf. I used one of their maps to see if one of the thousand tiny half mile wide storms would pass over me. If it did, I could be in for a heck of a storm and need to unplug stuff. If not, all that effort would be wasted.

They had a map. It would show you all the little cells that rose to the level of concern along with speed, direction, and predicted location by time. I could match those cells to a violent-looking cloud sliding by in the distance. I could never find that map after the redesign. That was the only reason I went there.

I have to assume all their designers are from places where storm clouds come in big, predictable blobs instead of tiny terrors that miss you 90% of the time.

I get the impression most stock news is generated, not written. Maybe they use the same software I heard was taking over in sports commentary.

People said the same thing back when the web was the thing and everyone depended on Google search traffic. They didn't listen. They're not going to listen this time. Whatever the solution is, it won't be telling people not to follow the latest proprietary gold rush.

Correct. It's a useful term because we have some shared experiences even if we go off in different directions gender-wise.

A wave of AMAB people in my circles came out with their own experiences after Terry Crews shared his. I think it's a lot more common, possibly to the point of parity.

It's a catch-22: it's assumed half the population can't experience it. They're strong (and will be assumed the agressor if they fight), all men want sex (not necessarily with women, or that woman), etc. There's a whole suite of victim blaming and denialist rhetoric to match what women deal with.

So there's no research, education, or advocacy, and the lack of data is used to justify not devoting resources. I've personally been propositioned and harassed in inappropriate ways. Underreporting is a known problem for women, but too few people apply the same logic that leads to that conclusion to other genders.

(1) sounds like a good idea from an outside perspective, but it fails in practice. I can't speak for women, but I see a lot of LGBTQ+ spaces full of people I want nothing to do with. Just because people share marginalizations doesn't mean they're going to get along or want to go into business together.

It's important to make all spaces welcoming so people aren't boxed into spaces that subdue their potential by forcing them to work with people they don't mesh with just to be in an industry that suits their interests and talents.

Heading down to the Sears Outlet to buy a scratched but perfectly functional version of the company for 90% off.

The point of link shortening was to allow links within the constraint of 140 characters.

That is exactly the problem with Quillete and many sites/personalities across the sociopolitical spectrum: they carefully craft headlines and articles to tick all the bias boxes of their target audience. Making people stop, think, and maybe look deeper is a fine thing to do.