[-] booly@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago

As of 10:30am ET on November 11, populous states that have counted less than 95% of the expected votes include:

  • California (72% counted): current count is 7.27 million to 4.79 million.
  • Washington (91% counted): 2.07 million to 1.39 million.
  • Maryland (86%): 1.66 million to 0.97 million.
  • Oregon (87%): 1.16 million to 0.86 million.
  • Colorado (94%): 1.69 million to 1.34 million
  • Arizona (92%): 1.47 million to 1.65 million
  • New Jersey (94%): 2.14 million to 1.91 million

Just eyeballing those, and a few other smaller states with a significant number left to count, it looks like we can probably expect a few million more Harris votes to be added, and maybe another million or two Trump votes to be added.

So a quick eyeball estimate is that the 2020 minus 2024 gap should probably shrink by about half when it's all counted.

[-] booly@sh.itjust.works 10 points 6 days ago

As of right now, California is reporting about 72% of the expected total, at about 12 million votes. If the ratio is maintained, we can expect about 2.8 million more votes for Harris from California alone. And Trump can expect another 1.8 million from California.

There are a couple hundred thousand votes to count in each of Oregon, Maryland, and DC.

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[-] booly@sh.itjust.works 47 points 3 weeks ago

The "Stan Kelly" persona itself is a fictional satire. The work is actually done by cartoonist Ward Sutton, whose standard political cartoons under his own name criticize the right wing directly.

[-] booly@sh.itjust.works 77 points 1 month ago

The ifunny watermark really tips this over the edge, comedically.

[-] booly@sh.itjust.works 67 points 1 month ago

Any idiot can build a bridge that stands. It takes an engineer to design a bridge that barely stands.

[-] booly@sh.itjust.works 49 points 1 month ago

Elmo is beloved and doesn't hurt anyone. Put some respect on his name.

[-] booly@sh.itjust.works 61 points 2 months ago

if it's immediately rewarding

Hell of a caveat there.

[-] booly@sh.itjust.works 50 points 2 months ago

Twitter has accounts that Brazil says violates Brazilian law.

Brazil took steps to shut down those accounts in Brazil.

Twitter refused to cooperate, going as far as to fire all of its Brazilian staff, so that it can't be reached by the Brazilian courts.

The Brazilian courts ordered all of Twitter be blocked until they comply with local law that they designate a corporate representative who can be served by court processes.

Brazilian ISPs complied with the court order to block Twitter.

Starlink did not comply, and Brazilian courts froze SpaceX's Brazilian assets, including bank accounts, and started making moves towards de-licensing Starlink, including its 23 ground stations located in Brazil.

The issue escalated to the full Brazilian Supreme Court, who ruled that the assets should remain frozen until Starlink starts complying with court orders.

Now Starlink says it will comply with the court order.

[-] booly@sh.itjust.works 61 points 2 months ago

It is a noise coming through the speakers themselves. As many have pointed out, it is almost definitely feedback of some form.

Like back in the day when leaving a 2G GSM phone next to some computer speakers, it would make certain buzzes as it was receiving a text message or phone call.

[-] booly@sh.itjust.works 52 points 3 months ago

I still think it's bullshit that 20-year-old photos now look the same as 20-second-old photos. Young people out there with baby pictures that look like they were taken yesterday.

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by booly@sh.itjust.works to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

Amazon is running a Prime Day sale on July 16 and 17. Setting aside the fact that this is two separate days, neither 716 nor 717 are prime numbers. They should've done 7/19 instead.

[-] booly@sh.itjust.works 46 points 5 months ago

Oh don't worry, malicious .exe files were all over the forums back then.

[-] booly@sh.itjust.works 92 points 1 year ago

That's the joke.

In the late 80's, there was a huge consumer push for tuna fishers to change their techniques so that they didn't kill dolphins while catching tuna. Before then, tuna fishers used to actually track dolphins, because following the dolphins generally meant being able to find the tuna faster. Then, they'd surround the tuna with their nets, indifferent to the dozens of dolphins they were drowning as part of the process.

By the 90's, there was legislation on how tuna cans could be labeled as "dolphin safe," and stepped up enforcement of the existing laws that made it illegal to intentionally kill dolphins.

During the height of this debate in the popular consciousness, of course, this comic came out joking about that link between dolphin deaths and tuna canning.

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