This feels like it would make people buy it more because it’s such a rad sticker to have on a box. It’s like the Parental Advisory notice on CDs. It just made them way cooler and were like a badge of honor.

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AI coding assistants have made my life a lot easier. I’ve created multiple personal projects in a day that would’ve taken me multiple days of figuring out frontend stuff.

It’s also helped me in my work, especially in refactoring. I don’t know how y’all are using them, but I get a lot of efficient use out of them.

Yeah, this is what I’m going to do if I think about getting another cat again. These two are probably already gone. I was just entranced yesterday and my imagination was running a little too wild haha.

I don’t think they’re bonded. They were just delivered to the PetCo from a rescue at the same time.

Honestly, moving would be devastating at this point. I’d probably have to pay $200 more for a place 1/2 the size (and I currently have a personal garage and a balcony). I’m not gonna risk it because I saw something cute lol

🤣 awesome

I think this is the right answer. I’ve been a little more flippant with rules in my life lately and I think I needed someone else to tell me this. I don’t really want to give my landlord any reason to raise the rent more or kick me out.

Over 80,000 is what the organizers said at the protest.

Depression for me.

No. I wish I could stay awake forever sometimes.

That we’re able to dodge the incoming wave of fascism and peacefully skim board into progressive politics.

There are others that don’t get the coverage, but yeah, pretty fuckin lame anyway. If only for the fact that they don’t get the coverage.

Focus groups aren’t meant to be used for gaining an understanding of a broad swath of the population. Focus groups are used for exploratory research, concept testing, and understanding the “why” behind opinions and behaviors.

If you want to generalize trends towards large populations, you’re going to need a large sample size. It’s statistics that suggests that many respondents will leave you with extremely low confidence in the outcome.

For example, if you are trying to judge the voting preferences of a population of 100,000 people, you’ll need 383 randomly sampled people in a survey to reach a 95% confidence interval. 13 is nowhere near the amount of people required to cover those that considered themselves “independents” before the debate.

That’s not to say this tells us nothing, but it’s by no means a predictive study.

*edit: I actually would say it’s harmful because I think that it portrays the narrative as if it is predictive, when it’s not.

I’m not surprised. Alito is straight up huffing Newsmax like it’s paint but trying to hide it, Clarence Thomas is outwardly corrupt and unabashedly fascist, and the other conservatives are, weirdly, not as extreme and still attempt to maintain this air of professionalism and integrity in their profession. Don’t get me wrong, they don’t actually and in them we have a religious nut, an idiot frat boy, an egoist, and at the head, a conniving political operator. All of which are driving us closer to fascism in their own style.

But I get the feeling like John Roberts is embarrassed by Clarence Thomas and his clinically insane QAnon conspiracy wife or Alito and his “election was stolen” flag antics. So they’re going to see things differently.

Yeah, that’s a good point. I was trying to be too agreeable with the last guy but I think understanding the psychology of everyone that votes for trump, is enthusiastic about Biden, is on the fence for either of them is important. So we can potentially counteract that

Nope, doesn’t matter why, I’m just flabbergasted that people would still be like “hmmm I dunno, maybe this Trump guy is alright” after everything else. And I’m trying to imagine the psychology of a person that’s on the fence about him for this long.

It’s easier for me to understand the rabid fans and fascists than it is for me to understand those that are up in the air until now, so I was just throwing that out there.

I just do not understand how anyone is on the fence about DJT… Like, they see this conviction and that’s what changes their mind? After everything else?

!remindme

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