I heard Facebook is spent tons of money to combat election misinformation in 2016 and 2020 and I heard the same story again in 2024. The problem is solved right?

AI is just a plagiarism machine with thousands of copyrighted materials that “trained” it, which they paid nothing for.

Yes, like a mail in vote that arrived on election day. It wouldn’t be included in today’s “early voting” numbers, but it would have been included in the total number of mail in votes in 2020 that I’m comparing it too. But don’t expect a big change.

The 2020 numbers might be deceiving and impossible to compare to. Mail in voting was heavily expanded, which skewed Democrat, so early voting results in 2020 skewed Democrat. Then election day skewed more Republican than normal too. It’s not going to follow that exact pattern again.

Looks like the 2020 ticks are including mail in voting in 2020, which was heavily expanded during the pandemic. Places like North Carolina and Texas have immediately gone back to restricting absentee ballots. So yes there are less early votes, because they’ve gone back to restricting mail ballots.

Here I see there were just over 1 million votes by mail in North Carolina in 2020. Here I see that there were about 240,000 votes by mail in North Carolina through the 2nd. You could probably find a more up to date number, but you get the idea.

For me it’s part of yawning. Ears pop when I yawn.

A lot of people have trouble with ears popping especially with airplanes. Hopefully you can take comfort in the stereotype of someone chewing gum to fix that problem.

That seems impossible to measure, and being too spontaneous can be bad financially like quitting job after job.

There’s also a scene in Saving Private Ryan where a dying soldier talks about smelling the bread from back home.

The Drew Carrey Show just finally got a streaming release a couple months ago. On Plex. All 9 seasons now.

I’m sure you and everyone else understand, attendance isn’t proof of anything beyond box office numbers. Many theaters are empty that’s how they know to show something new.

Depends on how much Star Trek we’ve been watching lately.

Every theater has about 2 seats blocked off because they squeak too much and have been complained about. I’m blown away at the amount of religious content at theaters. There is tons. Some of it is basically like going to evangelical church. They’re not movies they’re sermons in theaters.

This one is made by a D’Souza, the same name behind that movie about ballot boxes being stuffed in 2020. It’s nonsense.

None, and I can offer proof:

• The Taking of Pelham 123 (1974) the crime was committed without cell phones, but in the 2009 remake with Denzel Washington they had cell phones and still chose to commit the crime.

• The Manchurian Candidate (1962) we have a political assassination without cell phones. But in the 2004 remake with Denzel Washington the cell phones do not stop the criminals from being criminals.

• Man on Fire (1987) the crime is a kidnapping. Then in the 2004 remake (with Denzel) again we see the same kidnapping is still committed with cell phones.

You add cell phones and Denzel Washington to the situation, and seems like nothing much changes.

I think she’s the banner target for frustration with the Disney sequels. Almost like Jar Jar for people who didn’t like the prequels, although now that it’s been 20 years people don’t seem to hate Jar Jar as much.

The metric system is a tool of the devil! My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead and that’s the way I likes it.

That’s illegal to sell in a lot of places. Report the listing they should take it down.

Falling Down (1993), Freeway (1996) are two that I saw fairly recently and the 90’s were jumping off the screen.

Pauly Shore had 90’s career. Encino Man (1992), Jury Duty (1995), Bio-Dome (1996). His only movie of the 2000’s was Pauly Shore is Dead (2003) which was about no one caring about him anymore.

Who’s making you use it?

It’s useful for lots of things, but it requires a proof reader.

DS9 S04E20 “The Muse”

Jake Sisko does like… alien drugs. While that girl keeps rubbing his head and is feeding on his brain power/creativity. Been awhile.

Trades once per hour? But that would be fair for everyone, can’t have that. People pay thousands or millions to get stock prices 30 seconds faster, because there are fortunes to be made with 30 seconds of advantage.