With the usual caveat about polls shmolls:
Margin of error: 1%
“#Harris is leading #Trump nationally by 6 points, according to a polling released a week after the first debate between the major party nominees.
The Morning Consult survey, published Tuesday, found Harris garnered 51% support among likely voters — her highest margin to date — compared to Trump’s 45%.”
thehill.com/homenews/campaign/…
Happy Mid-Autumn Festival! 中秋節快樂!🥮
#FountainPenInk: The Wet Pen Elliott Bay
#FountainPen: Pelikan M205 Star Ruby 1.5
We smelted copper and tin today in #Valheim. One eye on the smelter, the other on my mead.
We had a couple of visitors join the server to see Rivalund first hand and they were suitably impressed.
We went hunting for sea serpents a few times and managed to drag one into our new serpent trap pond with the harpoon. I tiled the portal hub floor, and planted some turnips and carrots.
We finished off by visiting our original starter base “Hearthstone” to check up on the boars and we were raided by trolls. That base was never built to withstand trolls and suffered some damage. The trolls paid with their hides. And some coin.
Toujours raide comme la justice, Courson fustige "un précédent" face au refus de Matignon de transmettre les lettres-plafonds aux rapporteurs spéciaux: "On ne peut pas caler sur des droits constitutionnels du Parlement", affirme le député sur LCP. Il a raison. Les instruments parlementaires ne sont pas adaptés face à un exécutif en pleine dérive démocratique.
#Politique #DirectAN #Finances #Budgets #Matignon #AssembleeNationale #Courson
Somehow I forgot to post this yesterday: I read Anita Davison's _Murder at Midwinter Manor_
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The Danger of Cheap Gadgets: The Rise Of Self-Cleaning, Cat-Killing Litter Boxes
Machines that automate the various tedious tasks that come with being a servant in a cat’s household — like feeding and cleaning Mr. Fluffles’ litter box — are generally a godsend, as they ensure a happy cat and a happy human. That is, unless said litter box-cleaning robot kills said cat. That’s the gruesome topic that [Philip Bloom], also known as the bloke of the One Man Five Cats channel on YouTube, decided to investigate after coming across a report about a certain Amazon-bought unit.
For some uses, one has to be really careful of trying to just save money. This is a good example of one such case.
See hackaday.com/2024/09/17/the-ri…
#Blog, #gadgets, #safety, #technology
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At the age of 16, I was told that I would never be allowed to fly a plane.
Here I am, age 29, holding a class 1 medical certificate and exploring the planet together with my airplanes, supported by the best crew one could wish for. 🩵🦄
Believe in yourself, embrace the unknown and stick to your dreams. 🛫
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📣 New article on my website live!
Today I learned about interactive PDB debugging of Pytest tests
Check it out here:
dramsch.net/today-i-learned/py…
🔊 New What's in the SOSS? podcast episode out now!
CRob chats with @Omkhar about his open source journey, his time at OpenSSF, & advice for engaging with the community. Catch insights on navigating the complex world of #OpenSource security. 🎧
Hm first impression of the #Passwords app on #macOS #Sequoia is that auto fill does not work really good. Especially websites requiring TOTP on the page after password login.
Also Passwords can contain domain names of websites but no protocol. If you open up a website from the app it automatically adds https and is not using what I was storing... I know https is better and for most cases this might work, for my #HomeLab this is not working.
And you can not enter all info at once...
In der #Linux-Erste-Hilfe-Praxis versuchen wir, alle Wehwehchen rund um Linux zu beseitigen. Dazu bringt bitte den Patienten 🐧 💻 (Notebook) und ggf. die problematische Peripherie 🖨️ am 20./21.9. direkt mit!
@kbsez@mstdn.social Has Moved
in reply to Laffy • • •I seem to recall that a lot of people say that national polls aren't as significant as local or state polls but still, I'll take it!
Like you I think polls are BS but Simon Rosenberg makes a good point that it's okay to have good news and it makes people that don't follow politics like we do excited and they see that their time and money would be well spent supporting and voting for Harris/Walz
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I'm a pragmatist when it comes to polls --- we got screwed by pollsters in 2016 by these assh0les.
By the way (and speaking of people who screwed us in 2016), in case you haven't heard Nate Silver is now in bed with Peter Thiel and is no longer associated with 538.
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in reply to Laffy • • •2/ So I put my opener in the above toot there for a reason. I preface every poll I post with a caveat.
No need to keep telling me that the only poll that counts is at the ballot box. You don’t think we all know that by now? We pretty much say this every election cycle.
Sigh. Love you, but please, let’s just appreciate an upbeat snapshot for one day AS WE KEEP FIGHTING/ VOTING.
That’s the ONLY reason I post these: Encouragement, joy, hope, momentum.
Kthxbye.
Wiley Miller
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in reply to Laffy • • •With tears in their eyes.
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in reply to Grandpa Don • • •TC Won't Give In To Lies
in reply to Laffy • • •Yes!
To build momentum, we need a continuous supply of good news. Sharing polling good news is very encouraging. Your context is perfect!
#Harris2024 for a #NewWayForwaes
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Exactly right!
According to Simon Rosenberg, who really understands these things (Hopium Chronicles hopiumchronicles.com/p/kamala-… 8:37)
"A virtuous cycle is where we're doing well, more people come our way, Joy generates joy and more people and we sort of kick in this virtuous cycle where more money comes in, we reach more voters, our campaign gets stronger and bigger and we just keep getting bigger and bigger and stronger and stronger as we get closer to election day."
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It's to early to know for sure, but the Harris Campaign may be entering a virtuous cycle. This would be a very good thing.
On the other hand...(more Rosenberg)
"They [Trump] may last night [debate] have begun to enter a vicious cycle where there is doubt about the candidate, where people hold back their money, where they don't volunteer and their thing starts to erode, right? I don't know that yet, but it's very possible..."
So, thanks Laffy for all the good news!
Laffy
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@pineywoozle ‘s #3WordNote
in reply to Laffy • • •🤣 🤣 🤣 #HarrisWalz2024 #VOTE #HARRIS F #tRump
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in reply to Laffy • • •sheesh! Why do you still have to tell people this?
Politics is football for many (most?) Americans. They are more engaged if their “team” is winning- and the only way to show that is by polls. So you have to share them whether they are showing the accurate voting stats or not rn to keep people engaged. At least that’s my humble opinion… keep doing what you’re doing!
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in reply to Laffy • • •Yay ! Hope !
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Congrats @lienrag @mastodon.tedomum.net! You're my first #Toodles of the day!
And thank you for playing #WhackATroll
cc: @Snowshadow @TonyStark
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