The Associated Press seems to have a decent results presentation ready to go:
https://apnews.com/projects/election-results-2024/
I wouldn't bother watching minute-by-minute. There is a decent chance that some swing state will be close enough to trigger a recount, and/or one side files lawsuits challenging the results. This circus is far from over.
That's an interesting idea. Maybe also include a current list of trending communities, similar to the daily post in [email protected]?
Since you are looking at revising the search screen, I would also be interested in some sort and filter options for searching communities:
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Sort the results by number of posts, or monthly average users, or by community with the most recent post.
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Exclude communities from dead or defederated instances. For example, when lemmyf.uk shuts down every instance they were federated with will retain local copies of their old communities. There is no reason to refer users to those ghost town communities.
Arizona stays on standard time year-round. Any state could choose to do it tomorrow, easy-peasy.
Several states have passed bills to observe daylight savings time year-round, which for reasons I don't understand requires Congressional action to implement.
I know some people get heated over this, but I'll say it: year-round daylight savings time is dumb. The number on the clock is arbitrary; it's the semiannual change that's problematic. We should leave Congress out of it, stick to standard time, and put this issue to bed already. There's no need to permanently cosplay as the timezone to your east.
In each state you only need >50% of the votes to win all the electoral points for that state. Once you have 50% of the votes in a state, additional votes within that state are essentially worthless. In Hillary's case her supporters were heavily clustered in a handful of states. She won California by a landslide, for example, but then went on to lose in a bunch of other states by narrow margins. If her supporters had been spread out among more states she would have easily won the overall election.
I'm considering getting some cheap USB-powered lights on eBay to wrap my frame for Christmas and New Year's. I'll run them off of a phone power bank. Will definitely post pictures if I do it.
Something like this:
That is my understanding. And I assume the dot patterns are made by printers worldwide. The article mentions Dutch law enforcement using them, and German researchers studying them.
It's also great excuse to drink while wallowing in dread. I have a bottle of gin set aside for the occasion.
This comic inspired a different post on that exact topic.
I imagine this post would be better received if the account weren't 2 hours old.
Not me, but an old coworker used a similar trick to see if reviewers were actually reading his documentation. Before sending a large document out for review he would add a sentence to some random paragraph stating, "If you read this, come to my office and I will give you $20." Surprisingly few people ever came for the money.
A couple of months ago I wrote a single comment
The modlog shows you were having quite a spat with some mods 5 months ago.
Nothing else
Again, the modlog shows otherwise.
https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&userId=111123
Why bring this up now, five months later?
Even cats need a hobby
In case you cannot zoom in, the sign reads: >My cat is a thief >Please take these items if they are yours
Update to sh.itjust.works announcement regarding the recent spam wave
This is an update to a previous post: https://sh.itjust.works/post/26389783
The spam wave has slowed down significantly, so we have unblocked almost all of the Misskey and Mastodon instances that were being used to relay the spam posts. Six instances are going to stay on our block list for now:
- kitsui.life
- lawsocial.org
- m.corduba.tech
- puls.social
- seda.social
- startrekshitposting.com
It is interesting to note that these six instances are also considered abandoned by IFTAS, and have been added to the IFTAS DNI list. https://mastodon.iftas.org/@sw_isac/113317470469259706
Since we're adjusting our instance blocks, we have taken this opportunity to update the sh.itjust.works Censures list in Fediseer to match our current block list. https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/sh.itjust.works
That is all. Have a good day, everyone!
Edit: transforthe.win is also now on our block list. Spam posts are still coming from that instance.
Brine pool
This is not specifically mentioned in the Wikipedia article, but one brine pool in the Gulf of Mexico is nicknamed the Jacuzzi of Despair: https://www.discovery.com/exploration/Jacuzzi-of-Despair-Deadly-Lake-Gulf-of-Mexico
sh.itjust.works announcement regarding the recent spam wave
Hello everyone. In the interest of transparency, I want to fill you in on some recent admin activity here at sh.itjust.works.
The post shown in the attached image may look familiar. A large number of Misskey and Mastodon accounts started spamming similar posts yesterday. Some have spilled over into Lemmy because the posts mention specific communities by name. The spam wave is ongoing at the time that I am making this post.
sh.itjust.works has temporarily defederated from 34 Misskey and Mastodon instances to slow the flow of posts. However, the accounts are spread across so many instances that a block list can’t stop everything. Fortunately, our automod bot is doing a good job of catching additional posts as they appear. We should be able to refederate with the Misskey and Mastodon instances once the spam wave passes.
If you see a post that slipped by our automod, please report it so we can remove it.
If you are curious about the extent that this spam wave is affecting Lemmy, look at the modlog for the lemmy.world AutoMod bot. That instance is relying more on their automod to mitigate this spam wave than we are, and you can clearly see how much work their bot has been doing. As I type this post it has banned+removed well over 200 Misskey and Mastodon spam accounts in the past day. https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&actionType=ModBan&modId=2349429
I want to end with a shout out to all the users who identified and reported these posts, and all the proactive admins on other Lemmy instances who were quick to jump on this problem. Thank you, everyone, for making Lemmy better for the whole community!
That is all for now. Have a great day!
FICO Scores In the US
The image is from a Washington Post article which took the data from an interesting research paper titled Who Pays For Your Rewards? Redistribution in the Credit Card Market.
The research paper is a good read. (A free PDF of the whole paper is available at the link.) It examines how the use of rewards credit cards results in a massive wealth transfer from low-credit-score customers to high-credit-score customers: >We estimate an aggregate annual redistribution of $15 billion from less to more educated, poorer to richer, and high to low minority areas, widening existing disparities.
The Washington Post article attempts to frame the clear north-south split as a result of healthcare issues in the south. That explanation seems too narrow to me. This map looks too similar to maps of poverty and education, and we know health correlates strongly with both of those issues.
Edit to fix a sentence fragment. Sorry; it was late and I was tired.
An 81-year-old Montana man is expected to be sentenced for using tissue and testicles from large sheep hunted in Central Asia and the U.S. to illegally create hybrid sheep for captive trophy hunts in Texas and Minnesota.
>HELENA, Mont. (AP) — An 81-year-old Montana man faces sentencing in federal court Monday in Great Falls for illegally using tissue and testicles from large sheep hunted in Central Asia and the U.S. to illegally create hybrid sheep for captive trophy hunting in Texas and Minnesota.
>However, the sentencing memorandum also congratulates Schubarth for successfully cloning the endangered sheep, which he named Montana Mountain King. The animal has been confiscated by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services. > >“Jack did something no one else could, or has ever done,” the memo said. “On a ranch, in a barn in Montana, he created Montana Mountain King. MMK is an extraordinary animal, born of science, and from a man who, if he could re-write history, would have left the challenge of cloning a Marco Polo only to the imagination of Michael Crichton,” who is the author of the science fiction novel Jurassic Park.
