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ryan is right. people HATE hearing this. but it is just a matter of simple incentives. if you want a more representative legislature — and if you want a legislature more resistant to corruption — then you need to jack up the salaries. serving as mayor of NYC should net you a cool 500K *at least*

An unnecessary sign in ornate gold script that's actually cheap paper might be the most Trump thing ever.

Mary Tyler Moore throwing her hat

Earth 2 Curtis Sliwa tonight

Now they're all wearing berets

Why are we allowing any rando to make a phone call and close polling locations that they don't like?

Of course the people making the threats are to blame, but there will always be threats. It's the government response that's really doing the damage.

Could be worse. Try setting the time back on a sundial.

All right, fine. I've turned it on.

Meme showing six logical operators illustrated with jack-o'-lantern images. trick OR treat trick AND treat trick XOR treat trick NOR treat trick NAND treat trick XNOR treat

But Trump, as usual, is reading the stage directions out loud.

I wish this were a real option. I had to throw out my family's beautiful Britannica set a few years ago.

Is it because of COVID? I know that the system was still functioning in my hometown as of 2019, but I haven't checked since then.

The REAL Bible

FWIW, I assumed that the "quote" was the poster's sarcastic paraphrase of a sincere letter. I only realized that it was a direct quote when I clicked on the link and read the letter itself.

"The Department of School Safety and Security quickly reviewed and canceled the initial alert after confirming there was no weapon. I contacted our school resource officer (SRO) and reported the matter to him, and he contacted the local precinct for additional support. Police officers responded to the school, searched the individual and quickly confirmed that they were not in possession of any weapons."

If I'm reading this correctly, it looks like they had a human review the AI report, decided that there was no gun... and then sent armed police to arrest the kid anyway? I don't think you can blame AI for such aggressive stupidity in this particular case.

Stephen Miller looking especially pale and tired even for an evil person

BREAKING: Stephen Miller Out Of Blood, Demands Yours.

No, that is not what it's going to look like. That's not even the correct side. It's supposed to be on the east side, and it's separated by a long colonnade. They seem to be deliberately refusing to release clear plans, but this is the best angle I could find.

We have a bridge like that, or we did for a while. The little one was privately owned and operated under a contract with the state. When it came time to renew the contract, the owner tried to play hardball, so the state called his bluff and built their own bridge. It looked exactly like this.

I suppose there was Melissa McCarthy as Sean Spicer, if we're counting political satire. I'd prefer that we don't.

I never understood buying peeled garlic, until I realized that you can freeze it. Now I always keep a tub in the freezer. When I need garlic, I just take out a few cloves and put them straight into a heavy-duty garlic press.

The budget of the final season of Stranger Things is about half a billion dollars. Once it's over the world will need another "Small town losers vs cosmic horror" series and I know of one that could be made for no more than twice that amount, I think we could keep it under a bill per season

There's no such thing as an emergency podcast.

Maybe he didn't want to risk giving a number lower than the numbers that Trump has been claiming (which are never less than 100%, and usually well over 500%.)

I've never bought any of these before. If I buy a handful now, are there any that you'd particularly recommend, as a sort of core set?

A shot from the film "The Two Popes" in which actors playing Pope Francis and Pope Benedict are watching football on TV. Francis is very excited about the game. Benedict is politely trying to care.

Whenever anybody complains about bad design or bad ad copy, there's always some idiot who says, "It must not be bad if it got your attention."

Today, I am that idiot.

Everyone kept talking about how great the last series was, which made me worry that this one would be disappointing. As of today, I've decided that it's even better.

Darth Vader fought Dooku?

I still have trouble connecting Anakin and Darth Vader in my head, even though the prequels were decades ago. They're just so different, and I knew them in such a different context.

This is an amazing episode. Jon is exactly the right kind of dumb to make him the perfect interviewer for Hinton. (I swear that's a compliment.)

Please do more like this.

YouTube video by The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart AI: What Could Go Wrong? with Geoffrey Hinton | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

In this week’s new #TheWeeklyShow episode, Jon & Geoffrey Hinton discuss ⬇️:

>> AI 101
>> AI Threats & Regulation
>> Ping, Ping, Ping
>> Always Angry Trump & Pardons

NEW YouTube video out now.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrK3...

You're right. I got confused because I took the 31% from that other reply. The full breakdown is:

28% for Trump
19% for Kamala
23% eligible but did not vote
29% ineligible (almost all children)