Get 'em while they’re hot!

Republican state governments. Trump and Musk hold up the chainsaw, and Republicans walk into it with a smile on their face.

What do you think about the game overall so far? My girlfriend loves AC, especially Origins and Odyssey, but was pretty disappointed in Valhalla and kind of meh about Mirage.

Zotero has plugins for LibreOffice and other word processors: https://www.zotero.org/support/word_processor_integration

Gonna make a cool 800€ in only 5 minutes.

It was really the whiskey’s fault when you think about it.

“I used to be a wizardry student like you. But then I took an arrow in the knee”

Very important point, just one technical remark, because I see this a lot: You don’t necessarily want or need random samples in surveys. What you want is a probability sample, which means that you know the probability with which a person enters the sample. A random sample is a special type of probability sample, where each person has the same probability to enter the sample.

The large sample used for this “survey” in the OP is a convenience sample, which is a non-probability sample, where the persons’ probabilities to enter the sample are simply unknown. And this is often not a useful basis for a survey, because it’s affected by all sorts of response biases that are difficult to adjust for in non-probability samples.

You could try baobab instead.

Because many people in the US (and elsewhere, sadly) are not media-literate enough to understand the difference between the veracity of an article and their opinion about it.

Ah yes, the White, Blue & Red.

Slightly OT, but how did you like the game?

National IQ in the US is about to drop a couple of points.

I think Lemmy needs a higher-level sign-up procedure that hides the complexity of the fediverse. This could be a webpage with a simple, clutter-free interface that handles picking and registering on an instance from a curated list semi-automatically, for example, by asking you 3-4 questions before giving you a suggested server that fits your responses (which you can change) and a button to register there. The procedure could also handle the occasional additional sign-up requirements that some instances have.

IMHO, 90% of users will never interact with the “federation” aspects of Lemmy after that, and they also don’t need to. I personally don’t feel like Lemmy being federated has much of an impact on my user experience day to day.

She only became his wife because she’s a woman.

Civ games at launch are often a bit of a mixed bag, and the games improve over time with patches and expansions. That being said, the game isn’t even fully out yet, and early Steam reviews are notoriously unreliable and undifferentiated. For your first civ game, maybe look at earlier titles like Civ 5 or 6. They have aged very well, I still play 6 all the time.

Yeah, you tell 'em… uh… *checks notes*… Ayatollah Ali Khamenei?

The word for this is “misanthropy.” In my opinion, it’s not a useful viewpoint to take even if you find yourself disenchanted with humanity’s current performance.

I just listened to an interview with her, and I think she might perhaps be starting to show some early signs of sort of being slightly more critical of her political work. But yeah, hindsight is 20/20, and she of course knows you can always do more if the stars all align.