rdrunner

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[–] rdrunner@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I don't so much mean weird situations, but perhaps just the demographics get skewed. Now that I think about it, I perhaps have a dumber question:

What the hell are exit polls are how are they conducted? The name implies they're conducting with folks leaving the polls, but if they're voting at home then how are they polled? This could also just simply boil down to why do we trust polls so much anyways

[–] rdrunner@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I gotta say, I fucking hate doing dishes. I'm not sure what it is about it, but I just have this almost irrational dislike for washing dishes (especially pots+ pans). Sure, I'll do it when it needs to be done, but my God do I dread it. Is there something wrong with me? Oh absolutely, but there's plenty else to fix before the dishes issue lol

 

With the post election analysis going on right now, there seems to be a ton of weight being put behind exit polling (so and so got x% of women voters, etc) to the point where they just are presented as fact. As early voting and mail-in voting increases around the country, aren't those exit polls getting more and more unreliable? I don't see that discussion happening anywhere and perhaps I have a misunderstanding of what an exit poll even is. I've never been polled in any way after voting myself and as I understand it polling is already not as reliable as they're presented. So should we put as much trust into these exit polls?

[–] rdrunner@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I believe that he does, and he knows shit will cost more, but he ALSO knows that his followers have no clue whatsoever. So prices will increase, and he'll blame it on one of their many "others". Keeping them scared and mad is the key to their control over them

[–] rdrunner@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Solid state batteries are more energy dense, meaning that if all you want is 300 miles of range on a charge (perfectly fine with it's faster charging), then you can have less battery for the same range. Now how much lighter I'm not sure, but it's in the right direction!

[–] rdrunner@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

Maybe they could focus on making better mice! The super light x 2 is falling behind more and more every year

[–] rdrunner@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Oh God, Y2K. My dad was in the Air Force and his unit was responsible for a big base's networking. My dad had to go into work that night as they expected the entire base's network to just erupt. We were all so worried about it and then ... Nothing happened at all, he was home by 2am.

[–] rdrunner@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

I think this is honestly it. I was in 5th grade and remember all of it (and the world response to it) very vividly. I really miss being able to greet people at the gate when they came to visit :(

[–] rdrunner@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

I know a couple current and former USSS agents, they're hardcore trump supporters. That's not to say they all are as I don't know them all, but they are law enforcement after all.

[–] rdrunner@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Ahhh America. "Yeah we're wrong, but we can afford lawyers for centuries, lol good luck" land of the free

[–] rdrunner@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

If iRacing and my other sim racing gear worked with Linux I'd make the switch asap. I already have popOS on another hard drive and everything other than iRacing has worked well

[–] rdrunner@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago
[–] rdrunner@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

In the case of makeshift drones dropping grenades in Ukraine you'd be right. However, these aren't off the shelf drones repurposed for dropping bombs, these are strikes from military drones just like the ones the US uses regularly (wonder where Israel got theirs)

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