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Mole

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  1. So it’s percentage of precincts not fully balanced.
  2. What does 71% out of balance count actually mean?
  3. Growing up the child of an engineer, the phrase, "as an engineer" was uttered at least once a week in my house.
  4. How do you know someone is an engineer without asking them? Don’t worry, they’ll tell you.
  5. So the operative part of this tweet is EX head of state? Because, otherwise, he ain’t the first French head of state to stand trial...
  6. It’s been a while, but I worked in a few real paint stores during college. Back then, if someone asked for a Pantone color or anything else, we usually didn’t have formulas for those in most paints. We’d have to dig out the Pantone or whatever deck and match it anyway. We mostly only had formulas for our company’s colors and sometimes those were iffy in certain kinds of paint. The few related things that I remember: 1. Just because it looks burnt orange on your screen doesn’t mean it will look burnt orange on your bench. Try to at least look at the color deck. 2. It never really looks like the card either. There are too many variables (sheen, lighting, etc.). It’ll be good enough for outdoor furniture, but probably not good enough for half of this board. 3. If we had to match, we’d never match in a quart. A gallon was the minimum for a match. If someone wanted less than a gallon, they’d have to find something close that was in our deck. 4. Good matches took time. The computer scanners took a beating and were pretty inconsistent, especially for colors with as much colorant as burnt orange would take. You also wouldn’t be a priority, since the overwhelming majority of the business would be professional painters. Give it most of a day or so and you’ll get a better match. Matching well is a skill beyond just running the machines. It’s not highly skilled work by any means, but it takes some practice and knowledge to do it well. Things may have changed since I worked in a paint store, but I bet the same crusty salesmen are working there, so it probably hasn’t changed that much.
  7. Cool. That sure sounds like enough to remove a president and minimize the continued destruction. True patriots.
  8. So here’s one bit out of many that I struggle with. Let’s say I think the Trump claim is true. It would be the most destructive scandal in American history. It would be destructive in a fundamentally different way. It would be terrible for everyone and hurt everyone. On the Texas Ags threads as well as the crazies in my own circle, they don’t just think it happened, they’re rooting for it to have happened. I don’t get rooting for such a terrible and destructive event, even if I believed it to be true. I’d rather to have simply just lost. The desire to be right is a terrible thing.
  9. This post was dated 10/21. Little did any of us know how far Rudy would come in just one month. What does the next month being?
  10. One of or a combination of two things: 1. The standard of reasonableness has shifted so that anything short of a raving lunatic seems reasonable these days. Call it the glass half-empty instead of bursting into flames scenario. 2. The raving lunatics can have a moderating effect on many normal people. Seeing your side become so openly destructive can be a call to self-reflection. This is the glass half-full scenario.
  11. Mole

    Confrontation

    The ‘Mats seem pro confrontation.
  12. Victory in Diseases is my favorite hymn.
  13. The system has been updated during COVID. Now you apply for a ballot by inputting name, date of birth, and DL number into their website. There’s no signature on the application for a mail-in ballot. You do sign the envelope which I assume is matched. I also assume that the ballots and envelope are separated.
  14. Man, she’s the worst. She and Perdue made me send Roethlisberger and thank you email for doing the job he was hired to do. Also, having only read an out of context quote of Warnock’s “anti-troops” sermon, the fact that preaching the Gospel is considered anti-American by the Christian Right is an indictment of everyone of their proclaimed values.
  15. I think the last four years serves as a pretty strong rebuttal to this assumption.
  16. Honestly, we've all known how this will play out for weeks (aside from the completely wheels-off Rudy stuff), but it's still surprising to actually see happen.
  17. Not current and not political, but entirely relevant to everything political these days:
  18. This seems like a pretty good political philosophy.
  19. Depending on how your interpret it, “directly” might be too strong of a word, but his rallies were a clear source of death and suffering for communities — even for those who didn’t attend. They found a notable increase in cases in locations that held rallies vs similar locations that didn’t. Applying county specific death rates to the increase gives the ~700 number. It aligns with every other observation that large, unmasked gatherings lead to increased spread, so it seems reasonable to me, unlike your deadly fart scenario. Here’s the study: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3722299
  20. There was a study that directly linked just his super spreader rallies to 700 deaths. That’s a lot of lives directly sacrificed to honor an orange god.
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