Shut-in, keeper of weird hours.
Ok, yeah, just trying to cling to what little hope there is here—DON’T DEPRIVE ME OF MY HAPPY PLACE. 😉
I do think Lichtman’s right about debates not changing outcomes, tho…but of course there’s a first time for everything…
Also, looking at the list, I’m pretty sure more than 6 are false.
You mean for Biden now, or for previous elections?
Yeah, he did kind of fudge that, it’s true (IIRC he said that Trump would win the popular vote rather than the electoral vote, whereas it was of course the other way round). Although I think I remember before the election he said that Trump would “win,” but he didn’t say exactly what he meant by that.
I mean, Lichtman himself will tell you he’s not infallible, and his system is not without controversy, but he seems to have had a pretty good track record up to this point.
Presidential debate performances have historically had zero discernible impact on the election. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Keys_to_the_White_House
Need some hope? Watch this.
Most Americans don’t care a fig about debates, or even watch them, but Joe’s performance was certainly less than stellar, it’s true. Um, early days, still? My fondest wish is that Joe would step aside for J.B. Pritzker.
I have fond memories of playing these, but dear god was Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy frustrating! There was another Infocom game, Trinity I think it was, where you needed to get some water or something like that, but you couldn’t put it in an empty boot, you had to have the bucket for it to work. Kind of like playing “guess the mind of the programmer.” Fun times, even so. And then there was Leather Goddesses of Phobos . . . 😊.
I feel like I’m the one always asking questions, so it’s nice to have the opportunity to provide an answer for someone once in a rare while, so thank you! 🙂
That’s what I thought, but thanks for your response. Is the Fediverse/ActivityPub going to address this at some point? Maybe there should be a flowchart of some kind that shows which Fediverse platforms can interact with others (and how).
For anyone who is understandably concerned about nuclear energy, I would suggest that they watch this first before making up their minds (it’s from Nova on PBS which I consider to be a generally reliable source).
Hi ulkesh, looks like you might be responding to a comment I deleted because I felt like I was bragging and being too preachy. Anyway, do you use any other flavors of Linux besides Garuda (I had to look it up, I hadn’t heard of it!)? How do you like it? And your DE environment of choice is, I guess, KDE?
Have a look at https://us.7digital.com/ and https://www.qobuz.com/us-en/shop. Let the buyer beware, though, that it’s not always easy to download your purchases from 7digital, especially if you use Firefox, and Qobuz makes you download one song at a time unless you install some crappy app of theirs. Bandcamp is always my first port of call when looking to buy music.
As far as InDesign alternatives go, do people know about VivaDesigner or even LaTeX for that matter?
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Time to switch to Linux 😁👍 (there are plenty of Adobe alternatives for it, although they don’t necessarily offer 100% replacements). I’m convinced that Adobe is one of the major reasons that people stick with windows. If worse comes to worse you can run windows on Linux using a virtual machine (and believe you me, if I can do it then you can too).
Ah, I see, thank you. May I ask where you found that?
It’s possible that the Dems would have held the House, barely, if the New York Democratic party hadn’t completely screwed up redistricting, so that’s maybe a “soft false.” I think what he means by “charismatic” is someone like Reagan who appeals to the other side of the aisle (Reagan Democrats in this case); Trump is only charismatic to his own followers. I consider the Afghanistan withdrawal to be, overall, a highly positive thing; yes, it was handled badly, but it’s the easiest thing in the world to keep a forever war going, and at least there Biden put a stop to it, so I give him high marks for that at least. Anyway, I wonder if that is considered a foreign policy failure; I don’t, but others might. Not trying to blindly defend Lichtman or anything, just trying to cling to whatever shred of hope remains. I think it ends up sort of being how Lichtman himself interprets the keys a month or two before election day.