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West Nile virus is a summer reality in Canada. How to stay safe · Global | Health
  • I got the brain inflammation outcome 20 years ago. Brutal. Would not recommend.

    In the past, it's been to just prioritize not getting bitten, so use bug spray and consider how you're dressed. If you are going to sleep outdoors maybe consider how well your sleeping situation is going to protect you.

    Also, big one is to think about if you're creating good mosquito breeding conditions on your property. If so, change that.

    I know years ago, there was interest in reporting/cleaning up suspiciously dead birds too. Not sure what the current direction on that is now.

  • FPV drone pilot from the "Grifon" UAV unit enters a building through a gap and chases Russian soldiers inside.
  • Technically yes. Practically (depending on the quality of the repeater system) no.

    The internet you use for online gaming has your data routed over dozens of "repeaters" which are also multiplexing many different messages from hundreds of connections. These drone repeaters have many fewer hops and far fewer concurrent connections.

  • Biden calls his decision to step aside from 2024 race a matter of defending democracy
  • Delegates are bound to support in all good conscience the person for whom their primaries results reflect.

    This bizzare turn of phrase has been largely been untested in the courts... But if, in good conscience, the delegates believe that the results of the primary were for the candidate who was best poised to defeat Trump (as in, they're not supporting Biden specifically as much as they are against Trump, for example) then they could argue that based on events that have occured since the primaries that they are in good conscience representing those wishes.

    So, I dunno. I'm very glad Biden took the high road here, but I am unconvinced that this was truely set in stone. This is the exact justification for having delegates choose the nominee in the first place; that in certain critical conditions they can act in good faith.

  • Biden calls his decision to step aside from 2024 race a matter of defending democracy
  • I agree in principle with what you're saying.

    However, a sitting president is not entitled to the nomination. It's happened before where a sitting president is denied a nomination for a second term, and it's been given to someone else in the party instead.

    If it had gone that way with Biden though, I think the optics would have been so bad that there would be no hopes of salvaging the election though, so it's still praiseworthy that he dropped.

  • How do you feel about storing binary files with Git?
  • That's not really responding to their point. Are you saying that there are no project resources that aren't (or couldn't be) encoded as text representation in any conceivable project that is stored in a git repo?

    I agree with your general point. I'm just curious if you have some unique project pattern techniques that allow you to draw such a hard line so confidently.

  • Kamala Harris Overtakes Trump in First Major Poll Since Biden Exit From Race
  • For transparency, I'm Canadian, but our situation is pretty much the same: Far right candidate projected to win next election, "meh, status quo centrist" in power now, people letting projections deter them from voting, primitive "electoral college" lite making your votes less effective based on where you live, etc etc...

    We do trend towards "looking over the fence" politically. If Biden's step-down gamble pays off, it's possible we could get a similar thing to happen here which could be good. So, we're all watching and hoping that we don't end up neighbouring a country with a fascist leader...

  • Kamala Harris Overtakes Trump in First Major Poll Since Biden Exit From Race
  • I think the availability of polling is a major reason why people don't bother to vote. If they're reasonably sure their person will win, they're less likely to bother. Or, if it looks like it's going to be a blowout and they don't think one vote will matter, same thing.

    Voting day should be a federal holiday, there should be a tax incentive to vote like in Australia, and polling reporting should be delayed by 1 month.

  • Kamala Harris Overtakes Trump in First Major Poll Since Biden Exit From Race
  • Polls are surveys. They answer the question "what do people say they're going to do?"

    Extrapolating results strictly from polling comes with a pretty large caveat: it assumes people are going to do what they say they're going to do.

    Another large caveat is that there are issues with representation, as the group of people who will actually answer their phone is a pretty serious demographic skew.

    Oddsmakers use polling results as a COMPONENT of their determination, but they're free to aggregate against whatever else they see as relevant, things like history. Or to weigh which states polling is most effective. Or how which day of the week affects voter turnout on a per district level. Or how projected road closures could affect transit and therefore turnout rates.

    Anyways, I think the entire point of my initial comment was lost:

    If you're excited about the polling, awesome... BUT DON'T GET COMPLACENT AND STILL GO VOTE. Why? Because the people who actually get paid to project outcomes think it'll be a Hillary re-run, and if you don't want that, you can NOT get complacent. You can't let your friends get complacent. Be the reason the oddsmakers lose money in November.

  • Kamala Harris Overtakes Trump in First Major Poll Since Biden Exit From Race
  • *That's what people who's entire profession is establishing likelihood of outcomes think.

    Oddsmakers are often wrong, but over the long term, they're more often right, it's the entire basis of how they make money.

    Polls are just polls. Oddsmakers literally are putting thier money where their mouth is. If you're confident they're wrong, take the bet. They WANT you to.

    Edit: after reading the great responses, I think I'm sorely underestimating the volume of bets and how keeping both sides betting against eachother in this case is the strongest factor in the current odds.

  • If anything happen to Linux today, like what happened to Windows, most of the internet would be dead.
  • I think the shower thought is centered around IF a ubiquitous bug that required physical access to the machine to resolve occurred simultaneously across all Linux machines.

    If you couldn't remotely resolve the issues, regardless of your competence, simply the WALK to each machine and hooking up a KVM to each one would take a long time.

  • Is Trump's oversized bandage a coverup?
  • I don't think I've ever heard it said that a skeptical viewpoint must be rooted in evidence.

    I think people are skeptical of pretty much anything that Trump does or says because he's a proven serial liar. That still isn't evidence that any individual claim is false, though.

    Is this a domain specific definition, something outside of conversational usage? Or am I just totally out to lunch?

  • CTrain Success

    I know that the CTrain reminders to not forget your newspapers when leaving the train have been overwhelmingly successful because I haven't seen a newspaper on the train even one time in the last 10 years.

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    something something prime temporal directive

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    Has his time finally come?

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    it is too late for us now

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