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Gary Numan and the PolyMoog. It was his core sound.

And yet people continue to blame Biden for high energy prices. Boggles the mind.

You could go to the Harris website and read their plans, they discuss all your points.

https://kamalaharris.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Policy_B...

Now compare that to Trump's non-existent plan. No one cares, that is what is so depressing.

That was a key element of the Harris platform, but nobody gives a shit. Trump boasts about fixing everything overnight with no specifics, and gets a free pass.

The US is, right now, producing more crude oil than any other nation in the history of the world. Harris repeatedly stated that she would not ban fracking. And yet, we keep hearing this BS about how Biden / Harris needed to do something about fossil fuels.

Of course what we need to be doing is halting all burning of fossil fuels ASAP, but that would be a losing electoral strategy. Who cares about the looming climate disaster, we need cheap gas...

Where is Hari when we need him

It was enacted so that the minority of slave owners could get their 3/5 slave representation without letting their slaves vote.

If everyone else (and specifically Texas) went proportional, then why not. Until then, CA changing the votes would be a massive give-away to Republicans.

BTW, people are overlooking that Nebraska doesn't allocate proportionally, they allocate the votes according to the outcome of each congressional district, which are probably gerrymandered. The overall winner gets the 2 votes for the senate seats.

US military used to issue glasses like that, which were known as Birth Control Glasses...

The author was specifically referring to the original 3 book rules, which pre-dated Forgotten Realms by 13 years.

I'm not sure what you mean here. I had the original books, the supplements, then "Basic D&D" and "Advanced D&D". The rules were the same, just repackaged. The original rules didn't "recommend" using Chainmail, they assumed you had a copy and knew the rules, which was a source of confusion for newbies.

I remember being disappointed with AD&D as it was just the same old shit rules, with Dave Arneson's name cynically removed from the copyright. The next year I discovered Runequest, and later in College, Champions, and never looked back.

I think by the 80s D&D was well known, and not just because of the TV show. This was before 2nd edition, which came out in 1989.

I vaguely remember looking over 2nd edition, they tweaked a few things, but the core mechanics were the same.

3rd edition did shake things up a bit, and were the first version I considered worth playing.

Scala 3 has had union types for 4 years now. Scala can be used to do Haskell style pure FP, but with much better tooling. And it has the power of the JVM, you can fall back to Java libraries if you want.

I don't know exactly what you are trying model with this hypothetical circular dependency.

However, circular dependencies can be represented with lazy (aka non-strict) references and deferred function calls (aka thunks / call-by-name), and are IMO easier to reason about than mutable imperative techniques for representing such relationships. They also have the advantage of being totally thread-safe.

The OP (Lihaoyi) is the author of an important set of Scala libraries, and Scala is an example of what you are describing. Scala is a hybrid OO / FP language that is not dogmatic about purity. You can be totally imperative if you want.

It is common in the Scala ecosystem to implement performance-critical library code using local mutability and null references. Internally the function is imperative; to the caller, it is functionally pure.

Housing is presumably more expensive here. I know my uncle has a house twice as large as mine at similar cost, although that was 20 years ago. But then of course you have to pay much higher AC bills.

The tax thing is just something I hear in the California reddit groups when people discuss the never ending claims of a "California exodus". Allegedly, people have moved to Texas and discovered that they aren't actually saving money compared to California, and the weather is way worse.

Then that would result in lower cost rental units. While not what everyone wants, it would be a great improvement over the current situation. There are also ways to create tax incentives that could discourage your scenario from happening.

The billionaires are trying that in California, and us peasants are quite suspicious of the deal...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Forever

Texas actually has higher taxes than California, despite the lack of income tax. They make up for it in property tax AFAIK. California actually has low property taxes for many property owners, thanks to the controversial proposition 13.

Desirable urban areas of California are expensive because we don't have enough housing.

Maybe you are talking about Ultima Online, because the original Ultima games predate Time Bandits. Also, Marvel multiverse would have been mostly influenced by DC Comics alternate Earths, with Earth-2 introduced in 1961.

And it was probably heavily influenced by DC Comics alternate earths. Earth-2 was introduced in 1961.

I've lived in the Bay Area for 60 years, and never witnessed or been near a shooting. They do happen more often here, but violence is far lower than you would think from the media and online anecdotes.

I don't plan to work in an office ever again, and it is not because I am an introvert. I am saving 2-3 hours of my life by not commuting.

At age 60, I have worked with exactly one black programmer. I've only interviewed one black programmer (who was actually from Africa, not an American).

Unless things have drastically changed recently, I have no idea how normal companies can find black programmers. As I understand it, the FAANGs are able to hoover up a lot of the diversity to meet their DEI goals, because they can outbid everyone else.

1) I don't need to hear anything from Ivanka Trump ever, thank you.

2) Platforming dishonest hacks like Tucker Carlson does the nation a disservice, unless he is going to call out all the lies as they happen. While I have not listened to the Carlson interview, based on what I heard from Joe Rogan, I do not believe Friedman will significantly push back on right wing misinformation, for whatever reason.

That is a work-around for the worst flaws of the EC, but keeps in place the unfair distribution of EC votes that favors small states. It also will not allow any meaningful alternative to first-past-the-post voting, which is what people here keep asking for. We can't have ranked-choice voting for president without a constitutional amendment.

Many people are butt-hurt their guy didn't win and don't like her.

Anything a washed up hack like Carville suggests should be viewed with suspicion. At this point, it has to be Harris. She is also the only person who can use the money from Joe Biden's campaign fund.

Bullshit.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-democratic-senators-bald...

A variety of media pundits suggest such ludicrous schemes every election year; we have a recent, laughable proposal that Democrats should nominate Mitt Fucking Romney (age 77).

Interestingly, all these unity ticket proposals seem to demand Democrats bow to the whims of centrism with a split ticket; it is apparently perfectly reasonable for Republicans to have a ticket with two far right politicians, such as Trump / Vance.

First we have to git rid of our ludicrous electoral college system. This requires a constitutional amendment, which must first be approved by 2/3 of both houses of congress, then ratified by 3/4 of the state legislatures.

Since that is the only thing that has enabled Republicans to barely win presidential elections since 2000, we will not get anywhere close to passing such legislation, let alone get it approved by 3/4 of the state legislatures.

As a side note, the last attempted constitutional amendment was the Equal Right Amendment, giving equal rights to women. It was proposed in 1972, and is maybe close to finally being approved.

https://www.equalrightsamendment.org

Lex seems to love prominent tech bros like Zuckerberg and Musk, and has also done a softball interview of Joe Rogan, in which Rogan was allowed to spew unsubstantiated alt-right statements. If you don't like any of those people, Lex might be a turn-off.

His attitude seems to be that he will interview anyone without pre-judgement, and try to find common ground with them or something. "Woke" people like myself view that as enabling bad actors.

I have listened to some great interviews from him, so it is a mixed bag.