IMO the headline is kind of bad. There’s lots of people that don’t understand majority vs plurality. He’s still winning the plurality of votes. A better headline would be “Donald Trump Has Won a Plurality, NOT a Majority of the Votes Cast for President” or something.

I wonder how much of that is a “shy tory” effect, where people feel more free to give honest opinions now or something. I also wonder how different the results would be if more specific questions were asked. The term DEI has been absorbed into the culture wars like Critical Race Theory and people tend to have an instinctive reaction. Kind of like how progressive and leftist policies are quite popular if you poll people about specifics, but if you say “Universal Basic Income” or the like, people tend to turn their thinkers off.

Wrong community. This dystopia is about get real interesting, real fast 😬

Lots of rain. Should be snow 😢

It’s actually vertical Japanese swearing. He’s got a book of swear words in every language in his utility belt, right next to the shark repellent.

Another comment explains the moon landing one. It’s a hexbear comment and probably not federated to a lot of instances, so copying it here:

The Moon landing line is a pretty important thing to study, actually, since we know what the rehearsed line was: “One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” Without that “a” it’s a very silly line.

Armstrong for years claimed he said the line right and that it must’ve been garbled in the radio transmission, and in recent years has been vindicated as better signal:noise algorithms processed the recording and found the missing word. Researchers aren’t blowing money to find out if Armstrong was a liar, they’re using it to develop more sensitive receivers, better transmission protocols, and more advanced algorithms to parse signal out of noise, all of which have massive impacts in other domains. An algorithm that’s better at parsing data out of noise in particular is going to be useful in loads of places like MRI machines where improving resolution will take billions in research but improving parsing is just updating the software.

Can’t really blame people for defederating though. It’s a slog to find the treasure in the shit. In this same thread there’s both “Death to America” and “kill all honkeys” non-sequiturs. I can see why they drove off their admins in a stupid struggle session recently. I’m just waiting for another struggle session when they discover the etymology of “bad” and have to rename !badposting@hexbear.net:

It is possibly from Old English derogatory term bæddel and its diminutive bædling “effeminate man, hermaphrodite, pederast,” which probably are related to bædan “to defile.”

That’s exactly what I was wondering. Simple objective, very difficult problem, maybe have to invent new algorithms. Kind of like this:

I think it’s either “Charlie Brown discovers something basic that amazes him” because he’s 4 years old in these early strips, or “He’s been confusing cats and rats in some written context” like “Beware Of Cat” or “Danger: Rat Poison”.

Either way, not his best strip, but they can’t all be zingers.

Thanks, this is a great comment!

Here’s the tweet in question: https://xcancel.com/DOGE/status/1858540521096089876#m

Anyone know what studies it’s referring to?

Some of them I’d rather not know 🙄

“Democrats have moved so far to the left. We had an $18 billion surplus that has disappeared, they’ve raised taxes, they’ve overspent,” Van Binsbergen said. “In business, we budget. We plan. The government needs to have a little bit more of that as well.”

I would vote for him if he ran for president. He’s not perfect, but he does actually try to push forward on fixing things. Hopefully we’ll have elections in 2028 🤞

This is just sad and a dick move

Bonus panel better than the main comic

Other than the happy ending on some cuts providing a different tone for the ending, I don’t think there’s any difference in the story/aesthetics

Yeah, Blade Runner is also amazing at capturing the aesthetic. I watched the final cut version of it, which is the only one that Ridley Scott got complete creative control over. Haven’t watched the other cuts but did check out the monologue voiceovers on youtube that are on some of the other cuts, and I didn’t care for them. The happy ending on some of them also seemed silly. There’s a whole Wikipedia article about the various versions lol.

Haven’t yet watched Blade Runner 2049 yet, but I’ve heard it’s worth watching. Not quite as good as the original, but not much worse.

Does not like tall skinny icebergs

Unsurprisingly for the Star Tribune, seems like a reactionary response

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It’s got a lot of neat features, but I was surprised by the steering most of all. Wish I could get crab mode on my car for parallel parking