NewCharlesInCharge
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NewCharlesInCharge
9mo ago
During more than one judicial nomination she's called the KoC extreme for opposing abortion and gay marriage and her line of questioning for the nominees implied that membership is somehow disqualifying. URL is yahoo.com but this is from the National Review: https://www.yahoo.com/news/brief-history-kamala-harris-knights-140302014.html
NewCharlesInCharge
9mo ago
My politics went from “what policy is best for society” to “friend or enemy” as a result of the 2020 riots, censorship, and covid policies.
Harris went after the fraternal charitable organization in my church and every Catholic Church in America, the Knights of Columbus. She’s my enemy. I can’t in good conscience vote for such a person.
NewCharlesInCharge
9mo ago
There’s a meme that has developed that Biden is consciously tanking Kamala and this would be consistent with it.
Why was he even on some video conference at this moment? Kamala was holding her rally just outside the White House at this exact same time. Yet Biden wasn’t there. Maybe she told Joe he wasn’t wanted. Perhaps she thought him a liability. Or simply this was Her Moment.
NewCharlesInCharge
9mo ago
I am in principle, but if we’re funding and teaching leftist civic religion then my religion ought to at least get to be a privately funded alternative.
NewCharlesInCharge
9mo ago
In Washington state at least you can print the ballot from your home computer if you claim that the one mailed to you was lost or ruined. You can even have it printed with selections you make online: https://wa.omniballot.us/sites/53033/site/app/ob/ballot/mark
I can't find any evidence that this is the case in Pennsylvania.
But also what are the security measures? I doubt there's anything like a cryptographic signature or even a hologram, or even a ballot ID that you can't easily guess or look up. Likely you'd just need the right paper stock and a decent printer and you could create passable mail in ballots. You already have all of the identifying information you need. The only hitch is maybe the people at the addresses you used would send the ballots back and the elections office would catch on, but maybe most people just aren't so concientious that they'll return to sender rather than throw it away.
NewCharlesInCharge
9mo ago
One consistent thing about Trump is that he's of the belief that America has been getting a bad deal internationally and has had poor leadership. You can see this back in the 80's when he was on late night talk shows complaining about America's standing relative to Japan.
NewCharlesInCharge
9mo ago
The market dived at the very end of 1987. Black Monday was 10/19/1987, and the market lost about 20% of its value on that day alone. Overall the S&P500 went from about 330 before Black Monday to about 230 in the weeks after. It took two years to get back to the previous peak.
I'm also guessing Trump took a hit from Black Monday, and that the Forbes estimate is both lagging and imprecise.
NewCharlesInCharge
10mo ago
Has he gaffed on the other podcast appearances? I figure if he had I would have heard it about many times from mainstream media sources.
NewCharlesInCharge
10mo ago
All the podcasts I've seen him on have been great. Bryce DeChambeau probably the best, though that's not so much a podcast, but is unscripted. Theo aughn was also great.
I think his big weakness is speaking solo. He'll start with a script and then just ad-libs and sometimes it's gold and sometimes it's foot-in-mouth, but it's mostly just red meat riffs and people aren't going to stick around to see if there's any good stuff unless they already like him.
NewCharlesInCharge
10mo ago
I didn't think I had any paper records of working at McDonald's any longer, but on a whim logged into ssa.gov to see if they did. And they do. Employer name, address, EIN, and reported earnings are all there.
Just click "Review your full earnings record now" and then on the subsequent page "Take a closer look" to get links to details for each year.
Anyone who had a job in the 80's care to see if their records are online?
NewCharlesInCharge
10mo ago
The pipeline to Congress favors types capable of setting their own hours. Most employers aren’t going to tolerate you disappearing for a couple of months because the state legislature is in session.
And state legislature pay is not great, so either you’re independently wealthy and don’t care, need to keep grinding while being in office, or you’re a scrub and the pay is an upgrade.
I once saw a lady who earnestly said she needed the money when she came before a local party endorsements committee for some small local office. And the pay was around $30,000.
NewCharlesInCharge
10mo ago
Maybe social media has kept people more in touch in my generation, but I can reach out to no less than four people that are direct connections on Facebook who I worked with at McDonald’s circa 2002 when I was in high school.
I just played a round of golf with one of them about a month ago.
And I’m not even much of an extrovert, much less a politician.
NewCharlesInCharge
10mo ago
“Donald Trump claims, without evidence” is essentially the same statement Trump has made about Kamala’s fast food job.
It’s Harris that has made the positive claim and Trump says there’s no evidence.
NewCharlesInCharge
10mo ago
The surprising bit is that the Harris campaign isn't targeting men with this but women, as indicated by ad targeting spend.
The tweet says it targets about 65% women.
65% is also roughly the portion of single women that identify as Democrats.
I would not be surprised if it is that dumb.
NewCharlesInCharge
10mo ago
The Biden administration is suing SpaceX over its hiring having disparate impact to asylum seekers.
NewCharlesInCharge
10mo ago
The first is uncontroversial. They even coined a word, lumpenproletariat, for this class of society. They emptied the prisons and enjoyed the fruits of disorder.
The second is speculation on why Soros is engaging in supporting DAs that don’t want to prosecute criminals. He’s been doing it long enough that the results are clear, and he’s not an idiot given how he generated his fortune. If he doesn’t believe that the immediate effects of these DAs are achieving a goal, he must think they are instrumental to some other goal.
NewCharlesInCharge
10mo ago
I would expect a bias against left wing accounts since the demographic they target for engagement performatively doesn't pay for premium.
NewCharlesInCharge
10mo ago
Communist revolutions have made use of common criminals to disrupt authority and undermine the legitimacy of the current government.
I’m mostly sure that’s the whole point of the Soros DAs.
NewCharlesInCharge
10mo ago
indeed, we now know that more genetic variation exists within any one racial group than between racial groups (Lewontin 1972, 397).
Have seen this cited many times, just now got around to giving it a read.
Given it’s 1972 of course the authors aren’t working with fully sequenced genomes, they’re using 17 blood group markers. They’re also using racial groupings that put South Asians in the same category as the Irish.
I expect that genes correlated with traits that people associate with race such as skin color, epicanthic eye folds, height, etc. will vary between groups as they do according to visual observation.
NewCharlesInCharge
10mo ago
I think the rise of LLMs has revealed that we have at least two distinct ways of thinking. Next token prediction is the most common, and what I’m engaged in now that I’m trying to communicate an original thought. Given the germ of an idea, we can almost unconsciously generate a stream of words to describe it. iOS is even suggesting many of the words I’m composing now.
I think anyone who has been in a conversational flow state can intuit that there’s something like an LLM in their heads.
When I see Kamala seemingly surprised at where her sentences end up, I see next token prediction.
NewCharlesInCharge
10mo ago
Have you read Eastman’s thoughts on the election? I find it compelling that the constitution mandates state legislatures decide how to run elections and the executives in many states abrogated that power unto themselves as part of a Covid emergency action.
What’s the remedy there except to get the legislatures to explicitly endorse an election outcome?
NewCharlesInCharge
10mo ago
Among other things, this interpretation doesn’t really jibe with the Great Commission.
NewCharlesInCharge
10mo ago
Christian agape for a Haitian voodoo neighbor would involve getting them to stop practicing voodoo and turn to Christ.
NewCharlesInCharge
10mo ago
That was the media lying about RLHF.
Reminds me of the summer of 2020 when the mall a few miles from my home, closed for months due to the pandemic, was overrun with looters in broad daylight, and police were ordered to stand by and do nothing. We were less than week into the George Floyd riots. As night fell there were postings on social media that there were guys with guns breaking into shops just a few blocks from me.
I stayed up all night with my guns ready and my eyes on my security cameras.
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