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  • Trump Takes Lead in 538 Simulations

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  • And if you or anyone else is dumb enough to see "trump has a 51% chance of winning" and that somehow makes you not want to vote, damn, how many tries does it take you to put your shoes on the correct feet? Three?

    I already voted, so don't attempt insinuate that I'm not voting. You do realize that most people do not vote, right? And that most people are indeed idiots when it comes to politics? It's those people that will not turn out when it's needed because they saw a pollster say their candidate was ahead.

    We're in a country where a known racist conman was elected.

  • Trump Takes Lead in 538 Simulations

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  • They sure didn't get 2016 right, which is what I referenced and what caused distrust. Just because they got 2020 right doesn't mean they'll get 2024 correct. It's meaningless and only serves to make people feel like they don't have to turn out. They definitely don't just "predict the future".

    Also, I'm not sure if quoting the very pollsters that got 2016 wrong will make people trust them now. It's certainly not working for me.

  • Trump Takes Lead in 538 Simulations

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  • No matter what Nate says and how many times you link his website, polls do not matter.

    ETA: maybe, just maybe, you're being downvoted because you keep linking the same article from the same pollster to defend polling.

  • Trump Takes Lead in 538 Simulations

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  • Again, even if he isn't an outright right winger, that's fine. I'm willing to back off on that. But polls do not matter, and in fact the only thing they seem to do is reduce turnout. I really don't care about Nate's thoughts, and never have since 2016. I think a lot of people stopped trusting polls and definitely stopped trusting him back then.

  • Trump Takes Lead in 538 Simulations

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  • Nate Silver IS a right winger, though, so I don't believe anything on his site, and I especially don't believe him on this topic. Even if he wasn't outright a right winger, polls do not matter and are frequently incorrect for various reasons.

    Plus, he's no longer affiliated with 538.

  • Kamala Harris continues to underperform in critical states

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  • "I dIdN't VoTe fOr EiTher oF tHeM" is their usual response to something like this, even though they're fully aware that voting third party while we have the EC is just voting to spoil the better candidate of the two major parties.

  • Trump Takes Lead in 538 Simulations

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  • Just fucking vote. Polls don't win elections. Plus, the majority of the most recent polls are backed by red wavers. I wouldn't put much stock into them regardless, but especially not the most recent ones.

  • Damm ads

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  • It is true that some podcasts make money via other means, for sure. I didn't intend to say all podcasts, but many (most?) do have ads as the only way they make money. However, do you not want a Sponsorblock for others so you can have your cake and eat it too, just like you do now with adblockers? That's how you really give them the middle finger.

  • Damm ads

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  • That's just not true. There will always be ads in podcasts, no matter if I listen to them or not; it's how they make money. That's not apathetic, it's a fact. If someone made a sponsorblock for podcasts, it would help immensely, which is what my original comment was about. Blaming one single person for there being ads in podcasts is something else.

  • Damm ads

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  • Unfortunately, the masses will still listen, so myself not listening will do jack-shit. The real way to do that would be a service or app that strips them out entirely.

  • Trump hotel attracted would-be judges, ambassadors, pardon-seekers, House Democrats say

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  • AI-generated images have become a new form of propaganda this election season

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  • 'Is Trump okay?' Confusion as 'exhausted' ex-president abruptly ends friendly interview

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  • Is Trump okay?

    Is the sky red?

  • Damm ads

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  • If you have some magical podcast app that can do that I would love to know what it's called.

  • Presidential candidate Jill Stein is on the Ohio ballot but votes for her won't matter

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  • Votes for her and other third parties never counted for anything past spoiling in the first place, so what's new?

  • Trump judge releases 1,889 pages of election interference evidence against the former president

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  • Trump voters won't care. But some republicans that lean centrist do exist, maybe it'll finally convince them to have some decency.

  • WD unveils new high-capacity 32TB SMR and 26TB CMR disk drives

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  • This is one of the reasons I use unRAID with two parity disks. If one fails, I'll still have access to my data while I rebuild the data on the replacement drive.

    Although, parity checks with these would take forever, of course..

  • Tim Walz breaks free from his bubble

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  • Oh no! Not calling me a sock puppet deep in a nested comment, and with images! The horror!

    Nope, still just insane. You gunna post another image of a sock puppet and look even more insane?

    Why don't I get the pretty, meaningless graphs?

  • Tim Walz breaks free from his bubble

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  • Oh no! You looked at my post history. I'm so scared!

    Nah, just kidding. It still just makes you seem insane, especially given the context.