Notices by Phi Φ (sci_phi@mastodon.social)

@evan a 23% defect rate amongst the 44% disapprovers - an 11% hit sounds high but I did MR & political polling for my first pro job so I’m a little sus about the hypothetical scenarios being relevant (vs horse race question)

@evan I don’t think “committed supporters”are the same as “committed progressives” on this issue.

He didn’t create the conflict in the Middle East, definitely unfair to pin solving it as some unique problem he faces.

The issues around _continued_ weapon sales OR pushing for cease-fire are smaller sub-sets of ME policy that motivate|depress the enthusiasm of different polities.

None of it has holistic affect despite opinion of vocal members of those voting subsets

@evan I see civic as the best opportunity (esp. given the fresh object lesson in X/Twitter) to invest in an open replacement for communicating with citizens.

@thomasfuchs closed captions

@thomasfuchs the best rationale I have conceived of is that Providers prefer gambling on catching virus versus near-certainty some fringe lunatic will assault them for wearing a mask

@thomasfuchs gotta order FttP : Fiber to the Planet!

@thomasfuchs the what?