Think about it. If he gets in, he’s GOING to be dictator. He has the support to order anyone that doesn’t agree with him to be killed. Everyone knows he’s a fucking a moron and they used him to fatten their bank accounts. Now, some that still believe in democracy are afraid they’ll end up dead. Time to support democracy.
VOTE!! Volunteer to give rides to those that couldn’t vote without it.
There’s a real danger of the electoral votes being rigged this time around, I almost think people need to call their representatives to make sure that the representatives are aware of this and the representatives call to set up some kind of auditing authority to make sure there aren’t any shenanigans whilst certifying results.
It’s great to finally see this happen but we should all be wary of “good” political news. The headline only says “dozens” of republicans after all. A trolling brigade tactic is to get people thinking “Harris is going to win by such a landslide I don’t even have to vote”
If I had to guess, considering what Republicans are like, I would say spite. I believe that in their own minds, they’re not voting for Harris; they’re voting against Trump. While there are plenty of Democrats and Independents who will also vote against Trump by voting for Harris, like myself, the reasons for doing so are dramatically different when it’s hard R Republicans doing it.
I think it’s the camel’s back that breaks. Loading straw on top, straw by straw, it’s that one that’s the tipping point of what it can carry.
I’m wondering the same. They did something similar 8 years ago, didn’t they? George Conway? Or was that 2020? At what point do they just start another conservative party and jettison this one.
In all studies, we made certain that the participants and the people in the images were from the same nationality, since cultural familiarity is critical for the face–name matching effect to occur.
Additionally, this survey was conducted by Israelis, and since it says it was translated into English in the paper, I assume it was conducted in Hebrew. They say “socioeconomic cues such as age and ethnicity are experimentally controlled”, but I don’t see that they explain how. My suspicion is that the results are affected by non-facial cues like clothing, hairstyle, facial hair, and indeed age. For example, if I showed you a picture of an old woman and asked if her name was Doris, Helen, Megan, or Kayley, which do you think it is? If I showed you a picture of a guy with short dark hair, possibly graying, beard stubble, and a collared denim shirt, is his name Edgar, Clarence, Emil, or James?
Further, since they did some kind of control over the prompts, I have to assume they presented faces and names the respondents would be familiar with, meaning this does not necessarily hold outside of Israel and Israelis (and I assume mostly people ethnically Israeli Jewish). This reinforces my belief that their methodology is flawed, and while people might look like their names, their faces themselves do not change to fit, rather there’s a correlation with other factors like age (i.e. name popularity over time), grooming style, and so on.
I’m not bothering to open the study again, but from what I remember, the strong cropping was for the AI analysis. For the people, they cropped like in the example.
Oh, yeah, you’re right. Not cropped. I read that wrong:
Across the human social perceivers’ studies (Studies 1, 2, and 4A), the facial appearance of the targets in the images consisted of headshots cropped around shoulder height, and included facial accessories such as individuals’ hair, eyeglasses, and any subtle cosmetics they wore. To ensure that the hair is included in the image, facial images were cropped around shoulder height, occasionally including the top of the shirt in the frame, as depicted in Fig. 1. We did not include images of individuals wearing stereotypically recognizable accessories such as religious items.
So, sometimes articles of clothing and certainly makeup were present.
Not sure why this was removed for rule 1, as there was no attack on anyone’s person, it was entirely a criticism of the study.
Unless it was for describing journalists who refuse to provide direct references to the studies they write about as “fuckers”, in which case I can edit that part out once the comment is restored, even though it was not directed at any one person.
Nebraska and Texas have some of the highest effective property tax rates in the country.
Hawaii has one of the lowest, and California’s pretty low too.
There’s definitely regionality – the Midwest has (mostly) high, and the western Great Plains states low – but it doesn’t really map to Democrat-Republican status.
In Canada, Alberta has no sales tax because they make so much money from oil. In normal conditions and with a working government that is not idiotic, such a system could work. However they have a stupid government that only does this to buy votes so when oil drops they drown
So, in this context, does North Dakota have an alternative revenue stream to compensate?
they have a stupid government that only does this to buy votes so when oil drops they drown
Remember, Peter Lougheed first won the region for the conservatives on a platform of fiscal resilience through diversification and using oil money specifically to fund the development and growth of people and sectors currently ignored. The ignored people liked this.
Then the party, after winning, gutted the plans.
So, it’s not like this is their plan. It’s their plan, despite alternative plans winning in the polls to get them the region, which were then gutted in favour of their plan. Said another way, they could have been better, the voters wanted better, they didn’t get better, the voters didn’t bury them for it. They’re the “stop hitting yourself” of voters.
It’s funny to see the aesthetic transformation of Tesla’s vehicles overlaid with the timeline of Musk’s weirdification. I mean he was always a shitheel fuck, but in the past he was a lot more confused about who to game and how to game them.
I imagine they’re referring to the difference between a car that looks like a normal sedan, vs something Christopher Nolan would have used to build the Batmobile around for The Dark Knight.
Edit: I realize that sounds too complimentary. I assure you it wasn’t meant that way.
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