OR/WA wildfires for 26 June
Wildfire season sucks.
Here's the map in case anyone is curious to zoom in and look around.
If you win a state by one vote (offer not valid in Nebraska and Maine), you get all that state's electoral votes.
I'm going to pile on to your good answer.
Since you only need 51% to win all of a state's electoral votes, any additional votes beyond 51% could be considered excess votes that are not helpful. The system rewards candidates whose supporters are spread around, and punishes candidates whose supporters are heavily concentrated in a handful of states.
For example, in 2016 Hilary Clinton got 4,269,978 more votes in California than Trump. That's 4,269,977 more than she needed to win the state. Meanwhile, she lost Michigan by 10,704 votes, lost Pennsylvania by 44,292 votes, lost Florida by 112,912, etc. Hell, she lost Texas by less than a million votes. If Hilary's supporters in California had been spread around in other states she would have won the national election easily.
Instead of one central Reddit, imagine hundreds of mini-Reddits each with their own users, communities, rules, culture, etc. Now connect them all together so the users on each mini-Reddit can read/post/comment on any of the others. That basically how this works; each Lemmy instance is a mini-Reddit in a sea of peers.
There are so many politics communities, but before you mentioned this I didn't realize how concentrated they are on .ml and .world. These look like the most-subscribed USA and World politics communities that aren't on .ml or .world:
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[Edit: Though I listed them here, the hexbear and beehaw communities are not accessible to large swaths of the Lemmy user base due to instance defederations.]
The community was removed from lemmy.ml by their admins. Here's the reason in the modlog:
Unmoderated duplicate of /c/usa . Any world-related can use /c/worldnews
No gun, no problem. If you are wearing shoes you always have options.
For those who don't get the joke here, it's a professional wrestler named Kamala:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamala_(wrestler)
Supposedly this is at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in Plymouth, Massachusettes. I would not be surprised at all if it's real; having a Dunkin' Donuts in the hospital would totally track for Massachusetts.
Give me streetcars, give me subways, give me walkable neighborhoods and bicycle paths, but you can keep your buses.
Imagine your kids get accustomed to playing with these, then someday they find mom's real 9mm that looks just like the toy.
That's Mira the Archaeologist from TaleSpin. I agree she looks a bit like a bear, but I think she's supposed to be a fox in the show.
Yeah, processing all the fruit in this picture consumed a whole evening after dinner. Hobbies like this are why I'm clueless about TV shows, movies, YouTubers, and popular culture in general.
2 to 3 weeks is no problem. I have read that they should keep for 6 to 12 months, but I have not experimented with keeping them that long at room temperature.
We store them in the freezer, then take out batches one at a time for snacking. Each batch doesn't last very long once my kids realize it's open.
Apricot harvest, phase 1
We completely neglected to thin the backyard apricot tree, so we have a huge crop of tiny apricots this year.
Early pickings go into the dehydrator. Later fruit will go into the freezer to eventually become jam. And of course we also eat them fresh until the whole family is sick of them.
You might like this fun article from The Atlantic last week: Congress Accidentally Legalized Weed Six Years Ago
Here's an archive.is link for those who prefer it.
Wildfire and smoke extent for 21 July 2024
I'm sorry to see Canada getting hit by yet another big fire and smoke season. Hang in there, friends. We're burning down here in the northwest US, too.
This image was taken from NASA's daily satellite view with hot spots highlighted in red.
And, for anyone curious, here's an interactive USA/Canada wildfire map.
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An Important Distinction
An old comic that feels oh so relevant in this tumultuous election year.
Source: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/an-important-distinction
I can see your rule from space
"Trans Rights Matter!" spotted on Google Earth.
Also painted on there: Eat the fuckin' rich!! No human being is illegal Nothing short of revolution will save us
Some days it'll be like that, take 2
I lost four spokes on my morning commute when the chain decided to jump off the big cog. Of course I don't have a spoke protector. (Who needs a dork disc? Bad things won't happen if you keep your bike maintained. /s) I was lucky to skid to a stop rather than crash when the rear wheel locked up.
PSA: keep a few zip ties in your repair kit.
Whale fall
>A whale fall occurs when the carcass of a whale has fallen onto the ocean floor, typically at a depth greater than 1,000 m (3,300 ft), putting them in the bathyal or abyssal zones. On the sea floor, these carcasses can create complex localized ecosystems that supply sustenance to deep-sea organisms for decades.