Completely agree on people not understanding statistics. See: most of the polls showing a slight edge to Harris, but with a 3 to 4 point margin of error, being taken to mean that Harris had it in the bag.
SOMETHING HAPPENING 49 OUT OF 100 TIMES IS STILL VERY LIKELY!
But you yadda yadda'd over the best part...
Nope. Unfortunately, like so many other things related to US elections, it's a patchwork that varies by state.
To those giving you shit about cutting horrible people out of your life and saying you need to go visit...
Bullshit. Fuck that noise. I have family that I've cut out as well (although, luckily, not my parents). I'm 100% open to them rejoining my life, but their hatred for others is stronger than their love for me, and I won't allow them back until that changes. Spoiler alert: it probably never will, because there's no love like Christian "love".
"Agree to disagree" is reserved for things like "I don't like coffee." Not racism, homophobia, and sexism. Not human rights. Not basic common decency. If I unfriend you during this, it IS personal. We do not have a difference of opinion. We have a difference in morality.
I fucking hate these "personality assessments". This is from one I just took the other day. One of around 50 questions.
I do Top/6hrs, but will jump over to Hot if I've been scrolling too long and run out of content.
I heard this in my head to the beat of "The hand that feeds," and it actually works pretty well lol
Yeah, I'm neurodivergent and have a terrible memory. My life is full of alarms and notes and reminders for everything, otherwise nothing gets done.
While I'm well aware of the insidiousness of tech's ever increasing privacy violations, I also look forward to things like AI being able to function as a full blown personal assistant to help me run my life.
Banal conspiracy theories are often "gateway drugs" to much more insidious ones...
Primary and secondary schooling is just practice to be good little worker bees. That's why conservatives view college/tertiary school as iNdOctrINATIOn cEntERS