@simsa03 Admittedly, I tried to block out most election-related information, but I still had the impression the election would be very close ... and that Democrats would control at least one house of Congress regardless of who won the White House.
It looks like the information I did encounter was mostly wrong.
And remember, these are projections by outside organizations (a television network and the company they hired, probably a polling organization), not official numbers from each state's secretary of state.
At this point, I'm guessing Trump will likely end up with between 285 and 309 electoral votes, assuming that the real numbers turn out to be substantially the same as the TV projections.. 270 is enough to win.
It also looks like the Republicans get control of the Senate (current projection: D 41; I 1; R 51 ... 8 more to go, but 51 is already more than half). The House of Representatives isn't decided yet (current projection: D 189; R 203 ... 41 to go and 218 needed to control the House).
These are projections, not official results. And the western states are still voting, so there's a big batch of almost guaranteed Harris votes that will show up either late tonight or tomorrow morning.
One reason this is irresponsible is that Westerners, weary of hearing about the war, may pin their hopes on a sudden coup ending the war instead of pressing their leaders to give Ukraine the full support it needs to successfully drive the Russian invaders out. Thus, they undermine the cause they intend to support by spreading things created out of their imaginations as though they were truth.
@sun I had to look that up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kei_truck but then I realized that Subaru used to export something similar to the truck in the photo back in the early 1970s. Cross the street neighbor had two of them.
This is just irresponsible. There is a near zero chance that Russians--whether "oligarchs" or otherwise--are going to rise up against Putin. Everyone saw what happened to PMC Wagner's leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, and they're also aware of the oligarchs who fell through 2nd (and higher) story windows and the activists who somehow swallowed radioactive elements that are rarely seen outside a nuclear reactor.
I only said near zero chance because of the Prigozhin example. Otherwise, I'd say a zero chance.
We should stop pretending that we're "saving daylight".
There's got to be some wealthy corporation behind the resistance to ending this practice. Maybe a large medical provider (a chain of hospitals?) or a company that makes "boots" for kids whose legs get broken as drivers unfamiliar with the sudden change run into them.
We need to find out who it is and expose them, so even the most corrupt politicians will move away from this barbaric practice.
Conservancy's Bradley Kuhn explains that OSI's new Open Source AI Definition is too early, ignores the input of relevant people, and caters to wealthy corporations.
I remember when he was active on Identi.ca ... he and fontana had some really interesting discussions about equalizing the benefits that come from licenses like the GPL, so that sponsor organizations can't grant themselves extra rights to the project's code that aren't available to others.
@inscius I can't see the context, but I believe there was a USA federal law after the 2000 election (extremely close, with many voters in Florida saying they were confused by "butterfly ballots" and lots of controversy about the resulting recounts) that helped bring voting machines to most of the nation.
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