Jeannie Warner

Texas voter turnout falls in 2024 election despite record registration numbers A historic 18.6 million Texans were registered to vote in the 2024 election, and 61% cast ballots, a nearly 6% drop from the 2020 presidential race.

I will concede given these numbers that Texas has crappy voter turnout. The reasons are interesting though.
www.texastribune.org/2024/11/06/t...

Texas Voter Registration Statistics Learn more about Texas's Partisan primaries, partisan voter registration statistics, current voter totals, political parties, and more from the Independent Voter Project.

independentvoterproject.org/voter-stats/tx

Texas has more registered Democrats than registered Republicans. It's a red State entirely because of gerrymandering.

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I presume that computational thaumaturgy run on quantum computing via organic chemistry labs (because cell structure is more stable than vacuum requirements) or in a distillery are the most dangerous of all?

Exhausting! Uplifting! Fantastic!

We do a used gear sale, so a girl can get outfitted head to toe for like 90 bucks. Easy entry!

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Can we assume that these guys don't know how to collect and store and move money? I have the oddest feeling that what will help bring this regime down is a lack of funding because they just don't understand how to collect it, store it safely, and move it around.

Biden has always been coherent.

Don't be victimized by Republican rhetoric.

Well I think the deeds are heinous, they were heinous back in 2019 when Trump was president. And Biden as president didn't tell the DOJ what to do or what to investigate.

The whole weaponization of the DOJ rhetoric has been largely driven out of the GOP talking points.

So 2024. Election season. Biden had been working hard at doing things that are actually good for the country, good for our infrastructure, good for our manufacturing. Getting real things done.

Ghislaine was already in prison. Epstein was murdered during Trump's first reign.

The important thrust of it is the Biden didn't tell the Department of Justice what to do. There are constant accusations that Democrats were hounding Republicans, witch hunt nonsense, weaponizing the DOJ, etc. Every accusation is a confession with them.

The Epstein records were sealed by a judge until after Ghislaine's trial. They were not unsealed until January 2024. Trump...ran on a platform promising to release the files. THEN blocked them.

I do Loratadine in the morning. No sleepies.

Z made me sleepy but also gave me nightmares.

You are amazing! I threw this Kleenex into the air in celebration of you.

Hm. I think it was one brother's birthday yesterday. (Hey, Patrick.) Another brother's birthday tomorrow. (Hey Mark.) Sister's birthday the 17th. Starting to think our family only has sex a couple months a year.

Hm...

I was just thinking about the Panama Papers. Remember how Daphne Galizia exposed how the majority of wealthy people on the planet were hiding their wealth offshore in accounts in the Caymans and other tax-friendly places. Remember how she died in a car bomb?

Reasons.

I feel like you're trying to call me a liar here, and as you haven't met me you have no idea that I only lie when it's funny.

This is not a funny topic.

Farewell.

I have Jewish friends are calling it Alligator Auschwitz.

You see, they don't want it happening to anyone. And we all know it's a short step past eugenics into extermination.

Airline Price-Gouging Could Become the New Normal Led by Delta, many airlines are now working with AI firms to expand the industry’s use of big data for price setting. Using new surveillance techniques, these firms exploit consumer privacy to set “pe...

Suddenly a new revenue stream has developed for the personal shopper. Do you make under $30,000 a year? Would you like to buy airline tickets for people living in the silicon valley?

Grab a burner phone and start making money today!
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I mean, TECHNICALLY they would buy you dinner. I mean, they did have all those protein bars for the last year and a half...

Slayers of Old by Jim C Hines Hines (the Janitors of the Postapocalypse trilogy) again treats genre tropes with irreverence in this entertaining fantasy thril...

Publishers Weekly is out with the first big review of SLAYERS OF OLD 😸

They call it entertaining, saying, "Ben Aaronovitch fans will appreciate Hines’s humorous approach to supernatural peril. "

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The queries have started about “What if I only used a little bit of AI for my story submission.”
The answer is, fuck AI. Uncanny Magazine doesn't want your story. There is no grey area here. Send us a story using AI for any aspect, it will be auto-rejected and you will be banned. Period.

You know, if they really wanted to make it interesting, they would tax corporate salaries for outsourced Indian engineers, developers, support desks. You want to bring jobs home to America? Hit them where they outsource.

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Sparrow talking to Crow. Do you believe in God? You mean like a giant crow in the sky who watches over us? Sure I guess. You think God is a crow? Of course. What else would he be? I don't know, a sparrow? A sparrow? That's dumb. Heh yeah. (Crow flies off.) You will burn in Sparrow hell.

From the title I had to leave this here.

I don't monetize anywhere, but for those of you who do this could be useful to know.

Plus Sports gambling is doing just fine as a distributed system you can load on your phone.

Dude, punk rock emerged an explicit rejection of the corporate music industry. AI is five megacorporations in a trench coat. It’s about as categorically not punk rock as you can get.

This.

Reading Rainbow, Wishbone, etc. helped kindle the spark that grew into the conflagration of my life's centering on the written word. Would a poor kid in rural PA have found the same path absent PBS? I don't know for sure, but I know I wouldn't want to chance it.