dickthegrouch
dickthegrouch's JournalHow does one find out which candidates are remaining in the election?
I don't want to waste my vote on someone who's dropped out of the election.
How can I find out which candidates are still viable on the ballot form?
My hope was that 54 egotists would have withdrawn from the Governor's race by now. But I don't want to have to wade through multiple jurisdictions (counties, districts, etc) worth of candidates and races to find answers.
TIA (Thanks in advance)
I'm kind of curious
How far the shock wave extends from that kind of disaster.
It seems to me there's a difference between that kind of explosion and, say, the downward pressure exerted by a landing airplane which seems to be very limited in its effect. (The final scene of the movie "Pushing Tin" might have a good demonstration). I'm aware that "heavy" airplanes need more air clearance because of coriolis effects, but I don't have enough physics to explain why there isn't an equal and opposite reaction to the lifting of the airplane due to flow of air over its aerofoils.
I'll agree that there's a fundamental difference: there is particulate matter being ejected by the explosion, and none by the airplane. But it's still a non-trivial subject to research.
Sadly Peter Neumann has passed away
One of the Computer Science greats. His recent focus on cybersecurity will have effects for a long time.
https://cacm.acm.org/news/in-memoriam-peter-g-neumann-1932-2026/
I'll be singing in Los Altos, CA Sunday June 14th at 4pm
Mozart Coronation Mass, Haydn Coronation Mass, and Handel Zadok the Priest
https://www.vivalamusica.org/
I don't understand. Why isn't this a good thing?
I read that as saying that the bottom half of the current taxpayers (who only contribute about 3% of the total, anyway) should NOT be paying any taxes.
That seems like a good thing to me.
I have previously written that the tax allowance should be variable per district according to housing prices, and other fixed costs in that area. The same $15000(ish) taxation threshold applies across the entire country now, but fixed living costs are highly variable. Federal taxation makes no acknowledgement of that. Perhaps higher wages in those areas make up some of the difference, but ONLY if one is lucky enough to be earning that higher wage. Federal minimum wage is $7.50 an hour. I don't believe there's anywhere in the country that someone could exist (far less live) on that.
They WERE investors
They invested their time and talents in the company. Probably for halfway decent wages/salaries.
Then they received bonuses to show how much those investments were valued by a boss who understood that the PASSIVE investors should never be as entitled as the ACTIVE ones.
Graham Walker understands that better than most, and certainly better than the idiot who wrote the article.
Yet another catastophe that's going to be exceedingly difficult to recover from
Weaponizing supposedly non-partisan agencies is a criminal act in itself IMHO.
Justice is bawling on top the DOJ. Her bandanna of blindness is utterly soaked and the only reason the scale appears balanced is that it's made of iron with a massive MAG(ne)T underneath it.
If the poor all starve, or can't afford the gas to get to work ...
There'll be no-one to serve the billionaires
No-one to reap the crops
No-one to deliver the crops
No-one to cook for them
No-one to drive for them
No-one to wait on them hand and foot in their over-priced junk emporiums
No-one to buy their over-priced mech
No-one to "fluff" their egos
Except other vacuous billionaires like themselves.
They don't understand that at some point their billions become useless, and they're in the same boat as the rest of us.
I disagree totally
If they’re training themselves self-referentially on Slop, pretty soon only slop will inform the responses we get. NO AI system can discern truth, we cannot program it to recognize enough occasions when truth or even valid content is presented.
Half the country thinks Faux Noix is truth. Half the country thinks truth social is the truth. AI can’t tell the difference either.
Program humor or sarcasm for me!
Even many DU members need the 
tag to be able to understand some posts. AI CANNOT!
If the mega-store hadn't pushed out the Mom-and-pop store
And if they’d looked at the existing population demographics They wouldn’t now be whining that the population served isn’t big enough.
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