We also have Eric haffner, running as a Democrat, in prison in the East Coast somewhere. Ratfuckery.
The not-senator Dan Sullivan has a platform, a website, responded to requests for information on his priorities, and has and numerous coherent thoughts, unlike Eric. So… Which one is the plant? The guy with a common name? Right-o.
They did a really nice job making which Dan Sullivan was which, by labeling the sitting senator ‘incumbant’, and using middle initials. I, frankly, don’t feel bad for you misplacing your vote if you lack enough awareness about out political system to understand the vocabulary,or the give-a-shit to whip your phone out, or ask someone what that word means. Or to Google which one has what middle initial.
But yeah. What you described is the strategy. It’s on their ads. ‘pick your favorite Republican, rank the other two,and blank the Democrats. It’s how Alaska wins’ (while also running ranked choice voting repeal ads, because it’s ‘dumb, dumb, dumb’ and makes voting confusing. The political ads this season are so fucked. And it’s NON STOP.
No, no. You don’t understand. Ranked choice voting is Dumb! And confusing!
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So say the advertisements I have been subjected to for the last 4 months. (Some morons are trying to repeat it, again, and their advertising campaign is LITERALLY that it is “dumb, dumb, dumb”
They did a nice job labeling the different Dans. I early voted, and apparently, I am not Dumb, Dumb, Dumb, because I am 100% certain I was able to rank the Dan I wanted to, and not rank the Dan that is a giant PoS, as one was clearly marked “incumbent”.
It is amazing,the difference between want and need. I quit them cold turkey, thought it would be hard, but turns out, no. Not really, they had nothing I had to have. I save money, and prevent waste. And avoid supporting Amazon.
Oh my God. Can the man not handle not being #1 so bad, he has to exonerate Nixon so he can be 1st crooked president in history.
I joke … Sort of.
You might find a lecture bio a professor from Stanford, named Robert Sapolsky, entitled ‘Neuro-biologu of trans-sexuality’ interesting.
I had been a little while since I watched it, but the thing that stands out in my memory is:
When you look at the differences between biologically male brains, and biologically female brains, there is this part that has nodes (I don’t remember exactly, sorry, nouns are not my forte) and they are always one size in male brains, and a different size in female brains.
In trans-sexual brains, these little nodes are the size of the nodes in the brain of their believed gender, not their biological gender.
People with similar experiences as a child certainly exist, and their and your experiences are valid, but there are many documented and studied experience that are different. Something like your experience, I would hope would be identified by the parents.
I want privacy, and long form thought.
Neither of those things thrive in an environment where everyone is trying to extract value from thought and personal information.
Check out project Gemini:
“Gemini is a new internet technology supporting an electronic library of interconnected text documents. That’s not a new idea, but it’s not old fashioned either. It’s timeless, and deserves tools which treat it as a first class concept, not a vestigial corner case. Gemini isn’t about innovation or disruption, it’s about providing some respite for those who feel the internet has been disrupted enough already. We’re not out to change the world or destroy other technologies. We are out to build a lightweight online space where documents are just documents, in the interests of every reader’s privacy, attention and bandwidth.”
No auto playing media. No cookies. Nothing tracking you. And they built it, as I understand, to be deliberately difficult to add new features to, to prevent enshittification.
Did you know that varies state by state?
My state has a jungle primary, you see all candidates irrespective of their or your party affiliation, and you vote for the ONE candidate you want to see on the ballot.
We also have ranked choice voting, which they are trying reallllly hard to take away.
We haave ranked choice voting in Alaska. At least for now. I love it.