brianary

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I'm just shocked at the vanity of people aggressively voting third party. They value the purity of their voting record more than other people's lives. They think they're the first generation to figure out morality or the secret cheat code to change the system.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

If intent matters and results don't, I'll write in my favorite fictional candidate!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Most people can't afford to move.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Cars don't scale.

As soon as there is real traffic, cars become inefficient trains.

If you're somewhere that doesn't have much traffic yet, it'll seem fine, but that doesn't always last.

If you can make a bicycle work, that's much healthier and cheaper to own and operate for all those people that can't afford a car, or don't want to be indentured to it. Cargo bikes even work fine for groceries, depending on your family size.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

His communications director who?

Brian Griffin at podium

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Not a problem for the FRC, and 2023-W20 compares just fine with 2024-W20. Same part of the year, and the weekend is in the same spot.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

If that were true, intercalary months shouldn't have been necessary.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Months are the craziest, weirdest, stupidest measure humanity has used for this long. ISO8601 week dates make more sense, or even the French Revolutionary Calendar. Humans organize all of society by weeks, not by months. Compare last January to next January, or last February to next February for metrics. Do they have the same number of weekdays vs weekend days? Even if they do, do they happen at the same point in the month so you can compare the flow of the month? Now compare two weeks, and that's apples to apples. Group by weeks instead of months and your irregular, bumpy graph smooths right out. We only hang on to Gregorian months out of inertia.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

I wouldn't even notice it as unusual, even though it isn't my usual order. It could vary by region or profession, or maybe it's just you that notices it this acutely. In plain English emails and other narrative text, I always use "Sat Aug 31" (adding the year only when ambiguous), which is short but complete, and includes the day of the week, which is much more important to humans than the month anyway.

[–] [email protected] 110 points 7 months ago (7 children)

Saw this on Mastodon:

I guess it needs to be said again, but politico is owned by a fascist German billionaire who has repeatedly said his goal is to get trump elected, and help the far right transnational movement. He literally is on record telling people in the newsroom at politico to pray for Trump

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Did it? I didn't bother with the article, and only shared a screenshot of a post about the headline.

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