Well, votes misaligning beyond statistical possibility in one “category” of counties, with absolutely no statistical anomalies in another “category” of counties is irrefutable proof, mathematically, that something is wrong.

Ex: if specific counties that use a particular tool have a massive mismatch between presidential voting and senate voting, but there is absolutely no spread in similar-politically counties that use different election tools, then the only possible explanation is that the tools affected the results (i.e. “fraud”).

I believe that’s the evidence, from what I understand.

Now, there are people coming forward in large enough groups saying they all voted for a particular candidate in total numbers of people larger than the were total votes recorded t that candidate at that polling station, including reports of 0 votes for Kamela with voters reporting she wasn’t on the ballot for them. So that might give a new “lever” for investigation.

Regardless of election fraud, though, the election results are already certified; at this point, Trump is president, and even definitive proof of fraud won’t change that. What it could change, if the current Republican authoritarian government allows it (lol), is oversight and regulations at future elections.

Or, perhaps, the blatant corruption will lead to states seceding from the union.

American hegemony and global dominance is over, but how it falls apart is yet to be determined.

Not in general, no. Likely the opposite, I think, but there are so many complex interactions I wouldn’t trust anyone giving a definitive answer.

In general, undocumented immigrants do work that citizens are unwilling to do, and they’re generally paid so little that they produce a lot more value than they’re paid in wages. So, for example, produce prices will likely skyrocket when they can’t get undocumented immigrants picking their produce for cheap. This will squeeze wages up the entire supply chain and, due to inflation, real wages across the whole economy. This will also make American produce less competitive internationally, reducing exports.

The labour instability will also increase business uncertainty, which will reduce investment, which will further reduce economic growth.

Sure, there are a few people who might benefit, but mostly this will just mean there’s less total economic output. If people can’t hire a house cleaner, they’ll just have a messier house and get it cleaned less frequently (or do it themselves, potentially in lieu of doing other paid work). Are you or anyone you know going to move rural to pick lettuce? Or clean houses? Or sew clothing? (Etc. across all the “undesirable” jobs across the economy.)

Not necessarily. Depending where they grew up in Canada, they might have a decent background in basic French. Enough to get a decent accent and know their colours, days of the week, greetings, and other simple stuff. I think the provinces close to Quebec/New Brunswick generally have decent French instruction in public school, but BC/AB/SK have terrible French education at most schools.

But ain’t no way most English-speaking Canadians have the vocabulary or comprehension speed for any real functional use.

Exactly right. Look what two generations of undermining public sector education has done for conservatives south of the border. The UCP is salivating at the prospect.

Signed: teacher who fled Alberta, largely for political reasons. I thought I was taking a pay cut to leave, but I just checked and I earn more in this province now, too. Alberta did not give raises at all close to covering inflation since I left!

If Firefox continues to work, does that mean that it can be used as a workaround, potentially? I guess it depends on how the DRM works, if something like running it in a Firefox tab would work.

And surely blocking Firefox would be a bad move for Google since that would clearly be using monopolistic power in one market to gain advantage in another, right?

It’s the only program I regularly need to End Task and relaunch. If I turn my camera off and back on more than 5-10 times, it just starts crashing. Very frequently, others can’t turn their camera on at all, but only in Teams. There’s constant confusion about which Teams client people are using since Classic, New, Android, iOS, and web all have their own different bugs and missing features.

I think it works most consistently as a web app, but then you’re missing a boat load of features.

Good luck! You’ll need it.

Depends on the item and your goals.

If you’re a “car person” who always wants to have the latest model, then maybe leasing a car makes sense. Every 3 years, you get a new car.

Phones are similar; there are some plans where you are expected to return the phone every 1-2 years. If you really want the newest model all the time, then that might be a good plan for you.

But for a printer, that only makes sense if you’re a business with medium print volumes and no IT budget. For home use, that’s insane when a cheap last printer will last decades. We have a B&W laser from 2 decades ago and a used colour laser we got for free/very cheap (the power button is broken but it otherwise works great). I’m guessing we pay about 1-2% of an HP subsription.

Maybe I’m missing the article, but I think this is overblown. What’s changed is that financial firms can no longer make unsubstantiated claims about climate action, but the burden to do so opens them up to potential liability with no real upside. He even said that literally nothing has changed with how they plan to invest, but they don’t want to make a claim that they can’t support with strong evidence.

This makes sense. And it’s not a big deal.

Or that’s my reading of it, anyway.

STV is the GOAT. It’s the perfect system for Canada. How amazing would it be for left-leaving people in rural BC to have a local MP representing them? A 5-seat riding in rural BC might go something like 2 seats NDP/Green, 2 seats Cons, 1 seat whatever the BC Liberals call themselves.

STV brings roughly proportional representation, while not fracturing things too much (20%+ of the vote needed to get a seat), keeps representatives responsible to the electorate not the party (no “safe” ridings since another candidate from your party can be chosen over the incumbent, and no party list in MMP), and keeps representation tied to a geographic region.

I’m so ready for Canada to move to STV. The regulatory lurch that comes from (the inevitably polarized) FPTP has been terrible for Canada.

Heroes was great at the start, but that didn’t even last a whole season. The “Save the cheerleader, save the world” arc might be the best superhero TV ever made (10 or 11 episodes, I think?) then it rapidly went downhill to mediocre then terrible.

Nah. The need to regularly change passwords is unnecessary. If you use a sufficiently long password, unique passwords for every site, and 2FA/MFA for “important” logins, then you’re good.

Businesses requiring their staff to regularly cycle passwords is outdated and makes their systems less resilient, since it opens more angles for social engineering attacks or password security carelessness.

That was my thought. This gives plausible deniability that it’s not because of the Republicans and is, instead, about EV market fundamentals.

The only type of “reaction” content I like is experts validating or refuting non-experts’ videos in their area of expertise. I think they add a lot of value to these platforms by promoting critical thinking and the value of experts.

Then again, I hate shorts, so I rarely see even those. So maybe I’m off base.

MAM has, effectively, no ratio requirements at all since it’s so easy to get points. There’s some system to reward seeding low-seed torrents and large-file-size torrents, and to stay in good standing you only need to seed for 72h. Hell, they give out freeleech tokens like candy, too.

If you start by downloading some low-seed books to keep the swarm alive, you’ll have enough points to buy VIP status indefinitely. And because of that system, basically everything on the site is available and downloads in seconds. It takes me longer to transfer audiobook files to a phone than it takes to download.

I don’t think so.

Many people have been calling anything speaking against Israel and its actions (genocide) in Palestine antisemitic, when it’s not saying anything about Jewish people or Judaism. Criticism against the existence of or actions of Israel is, more accurately, anti-Zionism, which isn’t racism and doesn’t deserve any special protection, just like criticism of American hegemony isn’t racism.

I might have said this before ICE started kidnapping people off the streets with no due process. If AB became American, how would BC connect with the rest of Canada? Ain’t no way anyone is going to drive around, and flying over is too expensive.

I’m not crossing the American border anytime soon; likely never again in my life.

By definition, it is. 85-115 is the 1 standard deviation range for IQ and encompasses ⅔ of the population (roughly). So, 115 is “average” or “high average”.

115-130 is above average, while 70-85 is below average (“mild intellectual delay” used to be the term I think? Not sure if that’s still current). 145+ was “genius” and 160+ was “super genius”, back in the day; I assume those terms aren’t used anymore, but I haven’t looked into it. IIRC, about 97% of the population is 70-130 IQ.

My brother is a “genius”; I am not. (I was never told my exact score on the IQ test found for me as a child, but I know the range, and in both our cases came from a psychologist).

I’m more “successful” by most standard measures of success, but that might have more to do with his (undiagnosed and unsupported) autism than his IQ. (Career , house, family, etc.) In math, for example, he could get 100s without effort, until university. I could get 100s with significant but not extreme effort, or coast and get 80s-90s until university. We both got top scores on math contests at the local (academic) school level.

I don’t really think IQ is very valuable for having a “good” life. Emotional regulation, introspection, mindfulness, and other soft skills are more important, imho, and I’m actively working on trying to build more capacity in those areas, and they’re leading to more success for me than my speed at learning a narrow subset of things (what IQ measures).

I’m dealing with a lot of harm from how constantly being labeled “smart” was damaging for me, paired with my at-the-time undiagnosed ADHD. I struggle with a lot of imposter syndrome, need for external validation, and oscillating sense of self worth.

TL;DR: “Emotional intelligence” trumps IQ for life skills and general happiness, equanimity, and “success”.

I still have my second ICQ number memorized. I had a low 7-digit one before that, but I lost the account password.

I was kinda a big deal, ngl.

Edit: Also, wasn’t it ICQ (or was it MSN Messenger) that had the live chat option where you could see the other person’s text box as they were typing? You could anticipate the end of their sentences and start typing while they were typing. Or you could insult your friend then delete it cheekily and pretend it didn’t happen.

If you couldn’t type fast enough, you got left behind. I think 80% of my typing training was that chat app.

The 90s online was a magical time. (And this updated ICQ 2001 interface is way too feature-rich.)