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US Rep. Lauren Boebert wins Republican House primary after switching districts in Colorado
  • As a district 4 resident I'll add some more context (and reason why we need ranked choice voting nationally). The Republican primary was packed, with 6 total candidates. Boebert only got 43% of the vote, and the next closest was Sonnenberg at 13%. The non-MAGA conservatives spread their votes across all the other candidates. With ranked choice, it would be a much closer margin. I'm not saying she would have lost, but over 50% of voting repubs wanted someone else over Boebert.

    The "good" news is Boebert is pooling poorly vs Dems in the district, which means we have a chance to flip district 4 blue in November.

    This page has the election results https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-primary-elections/colorado-us-house-district-4-results

    And heres the 538 page for CO district 4. https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/house/2024/colorado/4/

  • OneNote alternative to make a knowledge base
  • It's not strictly privacy-focused but The Goblin's Notebook is designed exactly for your use-case. It has markdown, object connections, every object has a player visible setting, so your players can access known content while you keep secrets hidden. There's a free tier, a mid tier at $1.50 and an unlimited tier at $3 dollars a month (managed via their patreon).

  • Lauren Boebert closed her gun themed restaurant but the new district has a ‘Shooters’
  • I (unfortunately) live in this district, so heres my local insight/opinions. The incumbent for the district, Ken Buck, stepped down in March, so it's all "new" challengers, 3 of which have been involved in state/local politics. The district has been Red since 2008. As another poster shared, 538 polling shows her losing to 2 of the three Dems running in the primary. Most of east rural Colorado is more '90s conservatives than tea party/MAGA conservatives, so they are likely to stay home and not vote for Boebert.

    Lines were redrawn after 2022 election which caused Boeberts current district to become more blue, and I think Adam Frisch has a good chance of winning, which means boebert has a shot at flipping two districts from red to blue. 538 doesn't have any polling data for district 3 yet so this may just be a Lefty's dream.

  • If you don't work IT, retail, or food service what do you do for work?
  • Great question! For the US, you will need a degree in Molecular Biology/Microbiology or a Medical (Laboratory) Technologist. You'll then either need to live near the city where one of the few private companies that do wastewater testing ar e(my case), or live near a public health lab that does ww. Pretty much all state public health labs do it, but city/county level varies immensely. For the government route, look at APHL or NACCHO to find information on your local public health labs. There are a few universities that also do ww testing, for example I know University of Illinois, University of Missouri and Michigan State are all doing a bunch of wastewater work.

    Feel free to DM me if you want more information.

  • Rickroll evolution
  • Fun story time. My wife Rick rolled me during our wedding ceremony. She asked to officiant if we could each send him a secret passage to be read during the ceremony. The officiant read my passage, the Dr Seuss passage about finding someone with compatible weirdness, then he started her passage "you know the rules, and" and at the moment I knew I'd been had. It was awesome. He went all the way through the first chorus.

  • Should we have a Star Wars instance?
  • I'm not super tech savvy but it looks like Jedi.Academy will become available next month, if the current owner doesn't renew.

    Tatooine.social or MosEisley.social would be good second picks.

    Another meme one could be alderaan.no

    What I mean is, yes I'd love to see a Star wars specific instance.

  • Anyone else have a basket case?

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    You thought this was going to be a modern meme

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    You thought this was going to be a modern meme

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    Getting my new desk set up. Toothless had to help.

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