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    TIL: ACLU has a webpage that provides answers to scenarios you might experience while you are voting.

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  • It can happen, but it's hard to imagine that it could change the outcome.

    https://www.npr.org/sections/biden-transition-updates/2020/12/14/946080856/who-are-electors-and-how-do-they-get-picked

    Generally speaking, the parties send a slate of names to be electors. If Trump wins a state, the electors sent by the GOP are sent to Washington. If Harris wins, the Dem electors are sent. Many (not all) states outlaw faithless electors.

    When it does occasionally happen, it's a useless vote that wouldn't have changed anything anyway. For a group of party loyalists to all work together to flip the outcome would be ... unimaginable, frankly.

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  • You have not experienced Shakespeare until you have read him in the original Klingon.

  • Boeing allegedly overcharged the military 8,000% for airplane soap dispensers

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  • You didn't think they actually spent ten thousand dollars for a hammer and thirty thousand for a toilet seat, did you?

  • Upgrading an old system to an SSD

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  • I can't give any first-hand experience, but this article:

    https://www.technewstoday.com/sata-2-vs-sata-3/

    says that all SATA generations are backward and forward compatible with one another. If the physical connector fits, it should work. Just at the lower speed of the controller.

  • I Don’t Know Why Women Keep Laughing at Me When I’m Out Driving my Tesla Cybertruck

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  • TIL that Elon Musk was an illegal immigrant

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  • I just realized why some people hate replicated food...

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  • Corollary to 1), it's not just an original recipe, it's an approved recipe. With hundreds of people on board a starship, they'd each prefer that the dish were prepared in a slightly different way. Maybe a little more butter, or salt, or whatever that secret ingredient they tasted that one time on Risa.

    Unless every person uploads a precise molecular composition of the end dish, it will not be quite to their taste. And if somebody wants a seriously unhealthy version of that dish, will it pass muster to be aboard the ship in the first place? Starfleet has standards, after all.

    So it's the average, least-offensive-to-the-most-people version, and it's that same exact dish every single time.

  • TIL ballots in Montana vary the order of candidates in order to eliminate first-listed advantage

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  • Jack left bsky a while ago.

  • Dax Machine

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  • Is my Dax machine broken? I know what you're sending, but I keep getting

  • "It's a bird!" "It's a shuttlecraft!" "No, it's Tuperman!"

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  • Strong enough to bend a bar of solid transparent aluminum?

  • Which scene in a movie/series do you think didn't make any sense to the plot ?

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  • Forget the rebels, why build the death star(s) in the first place?

    It's easier, faster, and waaaaay more effective to just send a few dozen small ships throughout the galaxy with an extra hyperdrive or two to be ready to blow up any planet with some space junk. Any time. Any place. No centralized base for the rebels to stop.

  • Why do shows on streaming platforms waste time with "previously on" recaps?

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  • I appreciate the 30 second heads up of which exact previous scenes will be important in the upcoming episode.

    Even if I've just binged a bunch, and don't need a recap of the broader story arc, there may have been a name drop or specific reference that could have been missed.

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    What is the Mount Olympus of the USA?

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  • I know this isn't what you're asking, but there are two Mount Olympuses (?!) in the USA.

    The one in Washington has a similar prominence to the Greek mountain (2,389 m to 2,353 m).

    The one in Utah has a similar peak elevation (2,752 m vs 2,918 m).

  • TIL that the “S” in “Harry S. Truman” isn’t an abbreviation. His middle name was just “S”.

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  • There's also Ulysses S. Grant. The "S" was apparently just a mistake on his enrollment at West Point. His birth name was Hiram Ulysses Grant. He tried to switch his first and middle names, but ended up with the initials USG instead of UHG.

    https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ulysses-S-Grant

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  • Foreword written by Georgia O'Keeffe.

  • Giuliani’s attempts to overturn 2020 election partly thwarted by wrong number

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  • Giuliani, Cuomo, Bloomberg, Adams....

    Somewhere along the line, I'm sure NYC has had a decent mayor, but the recent history has been pretty fucked up.

  • Childless GOP candidate borrows family for weird photo shoot

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  • What’s the craziest or most outrageous (maybe even NSFW) incident that led to someone being fired from your workplace?

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  • Unhinged entry level employee screaming and swearing and threatening the CFO and spit in her coffee mug.

    An email went out to the whole company telling us not to let him in the building before he even got back to his desk to be fired. This is a software company, not exactly the type of place that has armed guards, but the (ex-military) information security dude set up in the area packing for a few weeks after that.