Bassman1805

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[–] Bassman1805@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Donald Trump won the popular vote in an election with record setting voter turnout. Lack of democracy from the electoral college or voter suppression didn't do this. People voting for Trump did.

[–] Bassman1805@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago

I died inside every time she brought up that Dick Cheney endorsed her. That should be a dirty secret, not a core campaign message.

[–] Bassman1805@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (4 children)

It's directed at people who absolutely cannot vote for Harris due to her stance on Gaza. Instead, they enabled a war on their LGBTQ neighbors.

[–] Bassman1805@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'd argue that 98% of US voters don't care about Gaza whatsoever. It's a wedge issue for a very small minority but was unlikely to significantly affect the race in the big picture.

Almost everybody I know bitches about the price of groceries (regardless of where they place the blame) but I only know a couple people in the Real/Outside World who regularly talk about the Gaza genocide.

[–] Bassman1805@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

It's not that "the crime isn't a felony in Florida", it's that Florida defaults to the felony-voter rules of the state where the crime was committed.

New York lets felons vote as long as they're not currently incarcerated, so Florida lets him vote.

[–] Bassman1805@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Yeah, but if you get caught with a paper trail and only one comma, nobody's gonna jump to your defense.

[–] Bassman1805@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

FWIW, I think this injunction was not about election integrity, but gambling laws.

But yeah, bribery is legal if you have that third comma in your net worth.

[–] Bassman1805@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

IT'S A TRAP! IT'S A TRAP!

There are two Finnish snipers!

[–] Bassman1805@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Even a non-IoT electronic device still runs on many different chips.

[–] Bassman1805@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Tech companies are terrified of becoming commodities, even though a good chunk of them basically are at this point.

Intel would probably be in a better spot if they'd just leaned into that rather than try to regain the market dominance they once had.

[–] Bassman1805@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The vast, vast majority of chips produced are "old generation" chips used for relatively mundane purposes. The high-tech stuff you see in the news is a minority (though it's pricey enough that it doesn't look that way in company earnings reports).

Think power supplies, middle-of-the-road CPUs, ASICs for common I/O like USB and ethernet, timing devices, and wireless communication modules.

[–] Bassman1805@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago (5 children)

The reason it doesn't work is that 1 is a scalar while i is a vector (with magnitude 1). The Pythagoras theorem works with scalars, not vectors, so you'd get 1^2 +1^2 = 2.

 
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