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Unfortunately all my TP stains look like Trump, so that won't be as useful as the tea leaves. Should I reduce my fiber intake? Given the binary choice, any correct prediction is statistically not impressive. But I'll give ya a plus one because Kamala is all about spreading the love. Which you'll need, what with the cracked ribs and such. Cheers, and happy Fawkes Night!

Clearly Chase Oliver was the candidate for suspicious looking facial moles, an underserved community. For a Libertarian, letting moles prosper and grow without interference is an important plank of the party platform.

That's a new trick. Nasty business. I will stop using the gift link button then, and just get screen shots. I think a wildcard in this election lies in evolving attitudes toward women heads of state. There is in America a fair number of people with a bias against a female commander in chief - they'll vote for a woman for mayor or governor or congress, but still draw a line at POTUS. There are also sexist attitudes towards women leaders in some US ethnic minorities which are otherwise strongly Democratic. Obama pointed this out recently and got some flak for it.

You might find this look at the Stop the Steal groups, as they've spread over the web and entrenched for the 2024 election, useful in determining what sort of Harris victory would suffice to get them to pack up and go home. (paywall free version, courtesy of my WaPo subscription) https://wapo.st/48z6QUZ As long as our social media are lax about misinformation rules, there will be mass circulation of "election fraud" videos like the one detailed in this article. Musk, in particular, seems to be fully committed to running X as a propaganda arm of the MAGAists and the Far Right generally. One ray of light, as @toucana mentioned, is that former Trump stalwart Nick Fuentes has turned against the grand cheetoh and denounced MAGA as a cult.

You've dialed back my nervousness a bit, thank you. Or maybe it was the herbal tea you recommended. (with a shot of Seltzer, ha!)

It's an outlier poll, unfortunately. Other Iowa polls are showing them about even or Trump up a point.

Really had to dig down for that one, eh? Even McCain didn't want her as running mate, preferring Joe Lieberman but talked out of it by his advisors - he later expressed regret at following their advice. Palin was recognized as not the sharpest tool in the shed, for good reason. It wasn't just rhetoric. https://thehill.com/homenews/news/386392-mccain-i-regret-picking-palin-as-my-vice-presidential-nominee/

As one who buys coarse loose leaf tea, puts a pinch in a cup and pours boiling water over it, I am one of the few who can read tea leaves. And my leaves said, the totals for WINVAZ PAGAMINC are not only unknowable at this point but we may have to wait two damn weeks for ##&+)(@!! ing Maricopa County to get their votes counted, so drop a sugar lump in me, big boy, and chill!

You did it the hard way. 🙂

Indeed. They had a perfectly presentable, sane, smart and experienced candidate in the primaries: Nikki Haley. Who was a woman of south Asian (Punjabi) descent.

For fawkes sake, don't do it!

Don't think abortion prior to birth has been legal anywhere - both Roe v Wade and Casey v PP (the US landmark cases) set abortion rights at pre-viability and not after. But post-viability abortion has been the straw man used by the right-wing to demonize pro-choice policy.

Could you come down from your pulpit and address the points being made here about experimental evidence? These pompous and condescending sermonettes are worse than outright trolling.

Interesting the latest page of Harris v Trump is mostly Canadians chatting about Canadian politics. I think Canada has reason for anxiety about the exporting of MAGA craziness. The politics of fear has seductive appeal when there is social turbulence in the world. Society's problems aren't complex and systemic, they are just groups of bad people. Or, as I recently learned, masturbation. Apparently, Project 2025 includes a plan to ban all porn. https://www.npr.org/2024/11/01/nx-s1-5168877/2024-election-pac-trump-porn-sites

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Following only tiny (Planck scale) bits and pieces of the chat here. So these hermitian operators are describing observable quantities for a quantum system, right? So matching actual experimental observations is key? In dumbed-down-for-biology-majors terms, what kind of observations would confirm or disprove the OP hypothesis? Why would a quark flavor symmetry in chromodynamics apply so broadly? This strikes me as having a Popperian "black swan" issue, in terms of a definitive observation establishing that protons don't decay.

Are you referring to Lars Svendsen's philosophical reflections? https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/P/bo26297655.html Looks interesting. Can you articulate some of what you found in the book, maybe give us a sense of what you think might be valuable to other readers? I am guessing you did not read it in the original Norwegian, and so read a translated edition?

Coeliac is the poster child of elusive diseases that may not manifest until well into adulthood (though there is a pediatric form that can be diagnosed quite early nowadays). Because it involves a complex interaction between the immune system and a protein found in wheat or rye or barley and the lining of the small intestine, it can range from no symptoms (until you get bowel cancer later in life, or finally show malabsorption of nutrients later in life due to very gradual degradation of intestinal villi) to complete havoc - severe IBS-like misery, wasting, anemia, and such. In children, there can be serious developmental consequences including short stature, neurological effects like cerebellar ataxia, delayed puberty, etc. There is also some indication that exposures to certain agricultural chemicals in wheat growing may trigger some autoimmune responses like coeliac. So, to respond to OP, this illustrates that gene interactions with our environment are pretty complex. It may take decades before certain genes, like the HLA-DQA1 and HLA-DQB1 gene variants implicated in coeliac, are activated in a way to cause trouble. (btw, you can get a test for the two principal gene variants by mail for around 100-150 USD, which may be well worth doing)

This fellow has more free time than a lot of the RW camp do. What seems to me more threat than the Gish gallopers are the info-poor who will say they have little time to follow politics, so they assign one talking head at Faux News or one scribbler at The Daily Caller as their Information Gatekeeper. They read Trump will evict freeloading illegal aliens and solve our housing shortage and that's it, they're ready to vote. Who cares if some sawdust-coated lunatic named Joe Inow stops them on the street and talks some smack about Trump? They've got their Trusted Source!

It might be easier to explain to a child that negation in math is like an inversion or flipping the number line. Multiplication is simply making an inversion one or several times. So, one inversion of minus three is -1x-3. Invert the number line and you flip minus three to three. So -3x-3 is inversion of minus three three times, and each time adds a flipped segment 3 units long, getting you to 9. This shows that positive and negative are really somewhat different in character - one just extends, the other flips.

If males with misogynistic and racist tendencies don't vote, how did we get Trump in 2016?

If they are unknown, how do you know of them and form opinions on their likelihood?

Mental illness, even more likely. Check out his previous threads on the hollow Earth and bending laser beams with your thoughts.

So a Bose Einstein Condensate can exist in the hot wet noisy environment of the brain? Any evidence for Hamerof's microtubule theory? Haven't seen anything on this but conjecture and I tend towards Tegmark's objection - he determined the decoherence timescale of microtubule entanglement at brain temperatures to be on the order of femtoseconds, far too brief for neural processing.