Elective is a terrible name for what it actually means which is basically just “not emergency.” Even if it’s super necessary, if you schedule it in advance, it’s elective.

I think your ratios are backwards? ((1*75%)+(2*0%))/3= 25% but ((2*75%)+(1*0%))/3=50%

Edit: unless it’s anything 20% to 50% that works.

We have tons of video evidence of cops planting evidence for smaller things than this.

You got to read more of the sentence:

The killing has sparked public outrage and dark humor on social media, reflecting widespread frustration with health insurers

The outrage isn’t about the killing. The outrage is about the health insurers. The killing is just the spark that got us all to talk about it.

It isn’t a win. But it isn’t a loss either. It just doesn’t matter.

Maybe it’s a step towards losing that holier than thou attitude and actually getting things done.

when basically the only messaging we sent out during the entire 2024 campaign was that we were the morally superior choice. That someone who doesn’t respect the rule of law has no business being president.

And how exactly did that work out? I don’t think moral superiority is at all a helpful thing in politics.

So keep your kids and the pedophiles safe; don’t send your kids to church.

Yeah. Everyone deserves a fair trial. If what you did was awful, a fair trial will show it. I don’t think Cannon is capable of being fair if there’s any relation to politics.

No. She has the Florida case about him retaining classified documents.

This is the federal case about him trying to overturn the election.

There’s also the Georgia case about his conspiracy to overturn Georgia’s election results.

GDPR has a weird quirk of applying to all EU citizens whether or not they’re currently in the EU. Cars are physical things and it is harder to make different models. A check of “Is California billing address? Show button. No? Don’t show button.” would be trivial to implement and would probably result in enough money to make it worth it.

Probably can’t avoid everything Disney, but I will try avoiding situations where they could physically harm me or my family.

They’re the exact same mistake. Since the commenter you were responding to wasn’t the one to originally make the mistake, but instead was arguing with someone who’s premise relied on that mistake, it’s weird to only get on them about it.

The reason people go to “No relationship with reality” is because many people use the polls to say “will” instead of “favored” or conflate “will” and “favored.” When that’s the standard you are often presented, of course you are going to come to conclusion polling doesn’t have all that much to do with reality. Because it isn’t that predictive. Especially when you’re looking at things where we take this somewhat fuzzy number and turn it into a binary yes or no while the cloud of possibilities comfortably encompasses both outcomes.

So when talking to some making definitive statements about the outcome of an election based on polls, how they are using polls only has a tenuous relationship to reality.

This is a thread where someone made the statement “Trump would win if the election was today.” based on polls. You said yourself, that’s not what polls are for. Take it up with the person who is misusing the poll to make definitive statements like that rather than the person saying you can’t trust the polls for that.

Are you mad about people putting pronouns and tribal affiliations in their email signatures? Because, yeah, that’s fucking awful.

No. I’m pointing out that all the green countries aren’t equal. Like some allow gay marriage and some do not. Some allow legal discrimination against LGBT+ folks and some do not.

Mostly I was surprised to see Russia as green and had to look up why.

And this is just the legal status, as in, is it criminal to be in a homosexual relationship. Not do LGBT+ have rights, are there anti discrimination laws, are advocacy groups allowed. And certainly not how LGBT+ folks are treated in society.

It doesn’t even say they didn’t applaud, just that it wasn’t enough applause. It could have been a totally reasonable amount of clapping and this lady was mad there wasn’t a standing ovation.

Yeah, it’s hard to understand. If they’d written sentenced to 23 months instead of jailed, it would be a lot clearer. As it is, it sounds like he was in jail for 23 months and then “held” somewhere else.

Because discrimination based on certain things is pretty reasonable. Not allowing convicted sex offenders to work in schools is a type of discrimination. Not wanting kkk members to hang out in your bar is a type of discrimination. Even “no shirts, no shoes, no service” is discrimination.