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Town I live in has referendums like many others. Usually, these are held on election day, although some are held with the primaries or even scheduled separately. All of these are held in the usual election locations with poll workers, voting machines, etc. The elections last all day, 6am to...

https://thebulletin.org/premium/2022-07/how-bitcoin-makes-burning-fossil-fuels-more-profitable-than-ever/ This seems like a terrible idea.  Specifically, states are offering companies subsidies to purchase abandoned coal power plants and fire them up again for the purpose of Bitcoin mining. ...

https://defector.com/meet-richard-fritz-americas-most-unelectable-elected-official/ How is this guy an elected official and not in jail?

https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/28/politics/dnc-nomination-process/index.html Long overdue, in my opinion.

CNN's current web headline lists Meat Loaf as the singer of "Bat Out Of Hell".  The Fox News web headline lists him as the singer of "I Would Do Anything For Love". Sorry, Fox fans, but this one isn't close.  CNN wins this one going away. Edit to add: Rest in peace, good sir.

https://www.al.com/news/2022/01/police-in-this-tiny-alabama-town-suck-drivers-into-legal-black-hole.html The mayor and police chief should both be thrown in jail.

https://www.npr.org/2021/08/20/1029898611/high-school-accused-censorship-rip-out-yearbook-pages-floyd-covid-riot This seems to cross the line into "bad" censorship. It's not 100% clear from the article, but it sounds like the school didn't just have the books without those pages, but rather...

Having trouble finding reasonably priced KN95 masks for kids and school starts in a couple weeks.  Seeing lots of KF94 and and M95c, although I haven't much paid attention to the pricing on those, as I'm assuming those are not sufficient. Anyone have a decent source?

https://www.vice.com/en/article/qj8xbq/police-are-telling-shotspotter-to-alter-evidence-from-gunshot-detecting-ai?utm_source=digg Article describes how police change data to support their narrative regarding a case.  Apparently, until now, no one had questioned the ShotSpotter data.  Just more...

No thread on this serial liar yet?  Anyone calling for him to step down yet? Lied about plans to attend the Naval Academy?  Check Lied about the circumstances of the accident that left him partially paralyzed?  Check Lied about his Paralympic training?  Check Serial sexual harasser?  Check

My most frequent course, and some others in the area, don't have nearly enough yardage markers.  Finding one can frequently slow down play more than I like.  So... GPS unit?  Like this, maybe?  https://www.amazon.com/IZZO-Golf-Izzo-Swami-6000/dp/B07YH18GNC Rangefinder?  Like this...

Nah, just kidding...

Interesting article on philanthropy and the super-rich.  It's a long article and covers a lot of ground.  At one point, it makes a somewhat compelling argument for removing tax breaks from charitable gifts...

Any chance the GOP replaces Pence as VP nominee this year?  Heard from someone semi-connected in DC that the summer surprise may be that the GOP makes Pence the "fall guy for COVID-19" and replaces him with Nikki Haley. My own DuckDuckGo research on this reveals lots of rumors and articles from...

TLDR version:  I'm old.  My political views have changed over time.  I'll try to explain why and how. This is in some ways a follow up to a previous topic I started, https://forums.footballguys.com/forum/topic/784983-what-party-am-i-today/ I've posted on these forums for, literally, decades. ...

This is intended to be a hypothetical post as an interesting thought exercise.  To be clear, I don't expect any of this to happen.  I do want to set a few ground rules for the hypothetical discussion... * For sake of hypothetical argument, let's assume Joe Biden steps down in the near future...

I've been voting since the 80s.  I've likely posted here longer than some of you have been alive.  My politics have changed over time, partly due to changes in my thinking over time, partly due to changes in the parties, and partly due to changes in the world.  I've given myself a number of...

https://www.huffpost.com/highline/article/white-collar-crime/ @ren hoek will love this article, assuming he hasn't read it already.  I really couldn't agree with the article's point more.  Our reluctance to even investigate, much less prosecute, the powerful elite is a stain on our country.

At what point do we have to postpone the 2020 Census?  Normally, we would start sending workers door-to-door in the spring.  That's obviously not going to happen anytime soon, and very possibly not until next year.  What long-term problems does it create if we postpone until next year?

I read a lot of comments that we should learn from this crisis and start moving much of our manufacturing capacity back to the US, especially for critical things like medical equipment, drugs, toilet paper (apparently), computer equipment, etc.  Many of these comments come from small-government...