Bamboodpanda

My wife and I bought a dehydrator and tried all kinds of different fruits. Pears are our favorite.

Let’s not forget that they are subject to taxes yet lack any representation.

I’m pretty sure I remember a country that was pretty pissed off about that in the past…

Polls are not the mechanism parties use to “pick” candidates. That’s just not how the process works. Pollsters aren’t arms of the DNC or the RNC. They’re independent firms measuring name recognition and voter preference at a given moment, and the only way to do that is by giving respondents a fixed list of relevant, high visibility figures. It’s a methodological constraint, not a political command.

The real issue is subtler. Media ecosystems amplify a handful of names, donors flock to whoever looks viable, and voters often gravitate toward whoever they’ve heard of. That creates a feedback loop where the visible become even more visible. But polls are downstream from that loop, not upstream. They reflect the landscape; they don’t choose it.

If you want to critique the system, aim at the actual gatekeepers. Ballot access rules, debate thresholds, fundraising networks, and media exposure do far more to narrow the field than a Rasmussen questionnaire ever will. Blaming the poll is mistaking the thermometer for the weather.

The Godmonster of Indian Flats.

You could pause the movie after any scene, try and guess what will happen next, and always be wrong.

This argument persists because it is easier to believe that everything is rigged than to engage with the complexity of political institutions. It provides an emotionally satisfying shortcut, but it collapses under even a minimal amount of empirical scrutiny.

I’ve yet to encounter a problem with mint I haven’t been able to solve with some googling and chatgpt. I love it.

In my line of work, anything more than 24 hours feels like a vacation.

I say this ALL the time and no one has ever gotten it.