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Trump struggles to find line of attack against Harris: ‘They are literally grasping at straws’
  • Biden's approval rating is lower than Trump's is right now and lower than Trump's was at any time between this point during his presidency and the 2020 election, although it isn't lower than Trump's was at the lowest point during his presidency.

    It's also lower than Nixon's or GWB's were at any point during their first terms (although GWB isn't a useful reference due to 9/11).

  • “Black People Were Just Less Smart Back Then” -Grandma
  • Even the people in the USA at the time generally just read about this in the news without getting involved. The fraction of the population that was either protesting or attacking the protesters was small.

    Consider something like the controversy around gay marriage, which more people here might remember. Most people might have picked a side the way that they would support one sports team over another, but they didn't have strong feelings about the issue and they didn't actually take any action.

  • AOC's Deepfake AI Porn Bill Unanimously Passes the Senate
  • Thanks. So photorealistic paintings are still legal, although I suppose they're not a big problem in practice. It's still weird that the method of creation matters, although "any other technological means" is pretty broad. Are paintbrushes a technology? Does using a digital camera to photograph a painting count as creating a visual depiction?

    I'm vaguely worried about the first-amendment implications.

  • In his attacks on the ‘childless’ left, JD Vance once hyped a plan to give parents more votes
  • you will depend on someone else’s kids

    don’t complain about picking up some of the burden to raise them

    I don't think the latter follows from the former. There are going to be plenty of people here in the future even if childless Americans don't subsidize Americans with children. That's the great thing about America - we can just let in the best among the many millions of people who want to come here from other countries. Accepting a young adult who is already educated and ready to do productive work seems like a pretty good deal compared to investing money into a child who won't be productive for twenty years.

    (Both the "accept no immigrants" and the "accept all immigrants" sides are wasting such a valuable opportunity!)

  • House GOP leaders urge members: Stop making race comments about Harris
  • Maybe media could do their job and posit what that word might be.

    I think that's also not a winning argument. Again, many voters who are hostile to the idea of DEI still don’t want to think of themselves as explicitly racist. If the Republicans are acting racist, these voters won't support them. But if the Democrats are calling these voters racist, then these voters won't support them either.

  • Is there a guide out there to renovating pre-war apartments?

    I live in a 20-story building built in 1929 and I want to do some minor renovations on my apartment. I've worked on a basic modern house made of 2x4s and drywall, but I'm out of my league here. I don't even know how to hang a mirror up on the wall...

    If it's made of gypsum brick, can I treat it like masonry? What if it's hollow? Can lathe-and-plaster support any significant weight? Is drilling into the wall going to release some ancient evil they used as a normal construction material back then?

    I'd love to find a guide for how to do even the basic things in these buildings. Does anyone have recommendations?

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    Running a modern GPU with an old CPU/motherboard?

    I have an Intel i7-4770 CPU (from 2013) and I don't think I have ever been CPU-bound so I would rather not spend money on upgrading it. However, I want to upgrade my graphics card to a Radeon RX 7600. My motherboard supports PCIE 3.0 which the RX 7600 is fine with.

    Is there anything I should look out for? I'm worried that I'm missing something that will prevent me from running a 2023 video card on hardware ten years older than that.

    (In case anyone is curious, my current video card is a GeForce GTX 960. It has been good enough for Diablo 2 Resurrected but I don't think it will be able to handle Baldur's Gate 3.)

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    Should I risk breaking my LG V20?

    I bought a new-in-box LG V20 about 18 months ago because I was tired of phones without removable batteries and headphone jacks. However, it gets absolutely terrible reception for some reason (as in, no signal in the middle of Manhattan). Some guy had the same problem and he soldered a big antenna to his phone to fix it. I might try to do that but given how great I am at soldering, there's a good chance I'll break the phone. Should I do it? I don't want to have to buy a modern phone with a built-in battery but I can't just have a phone which doesn't work when I'm away from wi-fi...

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    Cars are awesome.

    Driving is the most comfortable, convenient, and fun mode of transportation. Walking and biking can be OK but only for traveling relatively short distances in good weather. Mass transit is inherently unpleasant. No matter how nice you try to make it (and most mass transit systems aren't nice) the fact of the matter is that passengers are still stuck in a crowded box with a bunch of strangers and limited to traveling to the mass transit system's destinations on the mass transit system's schedule. Compare this to getting into your own car and driving wherever you want, whenever you want...

    I currently live in a place too crowded for driving to be practical - I get that places like this need mass transit. But needing mass transit sucks!

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