Honestly, this kind of makes sense. Walz’s aw-shucks mannerisms could get people to a “oh, he tried real hard” reaction a lot easier than Trump’s rage-fueled, impassioned, principled defense of his own rallies.
Honestly, this kind of makes sense. Walz’s aw-shucks mannerisms could get people to a “oh, he tried real hard” reaction a lot easier than Trump’s rage-fueled, impassioned, principled defense of his own rallies.
574 registered voters were polled. So while it’s not necessarily meaningful for the election, it is significant and could help drive strategy.
Skip the sharp blow and use a microfiber. You can get them in packs of like a million from Costco and they work way better than anything else.
Yep, this is what I go with. Yeah sure, my insurance doesn’t cover them and they’re a little less durable than the ones I get from the optometrist, but I can buy four pairs and still have not equaled my deductible.
Can’t possibly be the bridge as a whole. When I said “certain sections,” I meant, like, every third square centimeter or something. If the entire bridge inertial dampeners were completely offline, our heroic crew wouldn’t be jumping madly across the bridge, they’d be a thin paste of organic material on the wall.
Actually, having individual sections fluctuating could explain some of the wilder dives Kirk & Co did during battle sequences, now that I think about it.
Really, Don? This is your big play for the news coverage this weekend? Weak.
Yeah, but they’re maneuvering at appreciable fractions of the speed of light when they travel at impulse, so there’s no way anyone survives if they’re all offline. They have to mean that the primaries are offline, or they’re offline in certain sections, or something like that.
When you’re talking about a ship’s capacity that’s approaching five digits, that stuff would have to be moved around a lot.
Foodstuffs from the Conestoga is behind the new sensor package from Starbase 80, but we can’t install the sensor package until we get to a drydock, so we have to move it over there and get the ingredients for Thanksgiving out–but we’re also supposed to deliver half of the potatoes from the shipment to the Boyle when we pass them at Deep Space Two, so we have to crate them into a separate container, and the stasis container we need for them currently has Vulcan plomeek bulbs in it for a diplomatic function on Tendar IV, so we can’t move them over until Wednesday. Meanwhile, in Cargo Bay 2, we literally have a whole entire shuttle that for some reason the commander of the shuttle deck decided just had to be put here, but that means that the restraint units are inaccessible, so we’ve had to jury-rig some force fields to hold everything together. Plus, because of some sort of requisitions mistake, we got sent a double pallet of PADD-xe’s, when what we really needed were PADD-xt’s, so that was taking up every spare parts locker and case in Cargo Bay 3 until we could offload them to some environmental observatory or something, but then Lt. Cmdr. La Forge had this weird idea yesterday to pull 250 of them and try to network them together for…something?..and they’re still strewn all across the floor since he left to deal with a plasma injector leak yesterday afternoon, so I guess we should put them away? I mean, I don’t even know if they’re still functional–and THIS is when the Vendorian terrorist leader decides to pull up and have a tentacle-measuring contest? Does he have any idea how busy we are right now? I don’t have time to deal with artificial gravity fluctuations or inertial dampener overloads today, I’ve got potatoes that are about to rot!
And when the trauma you’re expected to deal with is “run a glowy light over any plasma burns and bring anything else to Dr. Crusher,” I think a physical therapist could probably get qualified in a few hours at most.
Help clear sickbay in preparation for casualties, prepare plasma burn kits and dermal regenerators, monitor comms for damage reports and put together response teams.
Make sure everything is tied down well and then prep for damage control, probably. Cargo bay officers are probably under the Quartermaster’s purview, so there’s probably a lot they need to do to support repair efforts.
I would imagine civilians’ biggest responsibility in such a situation would be “stay out of the way and lock the doors.”
So if I’m doing my math correctly, that’s 49%-45% for Harris in the popular vote. And that 49% is pretty much right on where she’s been polling in traditional polls. But Trump has been polling way higher than 45% recently—so if this is in any way true, he’s got a much tougher path to victory ahead of him than the standard numbers suggest.
WELP that’s enough internet for today.
Yeah, do we have any evidence that people have stayed home because they thought everything was settled and there wasn’t any need for them to vote?
This seems to be received wisdom, but this will be my sixth general presidential election, and in that entire time I haven’t seen any news or studies or polls (or even any anecdotal stories) about it.
Do we have any evidence that that has ever happened, ever ever? Based on the exit polls, we didn’t see that in 2016 (Democratic turnout was about what we expected it to be). And we know that people really like to play for the winning team, even if the team is already winning.
I am pretty confident I’ve heard that the opposite is true–that hopeless feeling like the other side is certain to win, and your vote will not change anything, can get people to stay home–but I haven’t heard anything compelling suggesting that complacency can get people to sit out an election.
That’s supposed to keep you from being monitored by bad actors over public Wi-Fi, iirc.
Actually, as someone whose company has been working on updating extensions from MV2 to MV3 for the past four years, the timeline has changed. A couple of times, I think. Originally, MV2 was supposed to be entirely deprecated by the beginning of this year, but they’ve pushed it back twice and extended enterprise support even further.
Like Upton Sinclair said, “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” Once they’re out of the party, they can’t be fired or voted out for saying it.
Also, they’re spineless.
Every time I’ve ever tried it I get a droplet of water stuck in the crevice where the lens meets the frame and have to go get a towel anyway.