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Election reforms. IRV, public campaign financing, nix the electoral college, proportional representation, etc.
Prior to the 2016 election, I was hopeful that the freedom caucus and the rest of the far right was getting too crazy for the general public, and that its support would collapse leading to a bit of a normalization of politics.
Wishful thinking, in retrospect.
I heated up some soup that I made a while back and froze. I make some good soup!
A 0x0 px jpg (trying to get an old webcam working, unsuccessfully)
I live in the suburbs of a decently sized but not super large city in WI.
- Convenience store: 120 m
- Chain supermarket: 2.6 km
- Bus stop: 5 m
- Park: 450 m
- Big supermarket: 3.1km
- Library: 1.5 km
- Train station: 58.9 km :(
3·9 months agoThat does seem to at least help. It seems to be harder to trigger the problems with higher values. I could still get it to happen with the quant at 2048, but I had to really work at it.
I notice that the + Firefox line seems to show up with a quant of 900 even when the minimum value is higher than that? That seems weird.
Two spaces after periods.
I had a cherry chutney hamburger at a restaurant somewhere in Missouri. I ordered it because I thought it was a weird combo. IT WAS DELICIOUS.
According to tv tropes, an either/or title: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EitherOrTitle
I have a couple that I found for youtube that block the cards on top of videos, and the little info things in the corners.
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4·2 years agoAfrican or European?
I am disappointed that this is not about Fords being delivered by drones =D
One of my favorites is the “ladder paradox” in special relativity, although I originally learned is as a pole vaulter rather than a ladder:
A pole vaulter is running carrying a pole that is 12m long at rest, holding it parallel to the ground. He is running at relativistic speed, such that lengths dilate by 50% (this would be (√3/2)c). And he runs through a barn that is 10m long that has open doors in the front and back.
Imagine standing inside barn. The pole vaulter is running so fast that the length of the pole, in your frame of reference, has contracted to 6m. So while the pole is entirely inside the barn you press a button the briefly closes the doors, so that for just a moment the pole is entirely closed inside the barn.
The question is, what does the pole vaulter see? For him, the pole has not contracted; instead the barn has. He’s running with a 12m pole through what, in his frame of reference, is a 5m barn. What happens when the doors shut? How can both the doors shut?
I will admit that I have never used this thought experiment for any practical end.