Well, when you don’t vote you’re guaranteeing your opinion doesn’t matter. The math always works in favor of everyone voting.
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That doesn’t speak to my point at all. I’m saying you can’t tell how well a system works when it barely has half the participation it’s supposed to have, and is constantly fucked with. This is the direct result of Republican interference in Texas, no conspiracy theories required.
_stranger_@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•‘No warning at all’: Texas flood survivors question safety planning and officials’ response4·12 hours agoKerrville, where the campers all died, is an hour west of San Antonio, and 2 hours west of Austin. no where near the city limits of either city.
San Antonio lost 13 people in early June when a massive wall of flash flood water pushed every car on a specific section of road into a ditch and carried them a mile down stream. I don’t think anyone died in the most recent storm.
Austin had a similar event where one specific area where two rivers converge caught a group of people.
40% of voters in Texas didn’t vote in November.
Be a lot easier to discuss how well things worked if everyone participated.
_stranger_@lemmy.worldto TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name@lemmy.world•Evasive Maneuvers16·1 day agoThey probably have an “evasive maneuvers” button that functions exactly like the close door button on an elevator.
The ship’s AI likely does the smartest possible thing in that scenario and all the other inputs are ignored.
_stranger_@lemmy.worldto Fuck AI@lemmy.world•RFK Jr. Says AI Will Approve New Drugs at FDA 'Very, Very Quickly'11·1 day agoI’m guessing either some kind of post dental procedure application (bandage?), a nicotine pouch of some kind, or left over toilet paper from rimming the old orange asshole out.
This guy definitely raw dogs his entire asshole with his entire fist every time his ass itches, doesn’t he? And there’s no way he washes his hands after.
_stranger_@lemmy.worldto PC Gaming@lemmy.ca•Crazed modder straps DIY copper waterpipes to GTX 1060, sets world overclocking records in 12600KF category — card hits 2,202 MHz, takes top six Fire Strike scoresEnglish10·1 day agoApparently, but he also cooled them with ice water from a Jerry can, so it’s not exactly a “ready to go” solution.
This is really just a DIY water cooled system with DIY water blocks.
_stranger_@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Marjorie Taylor Greene Announces Bill To Tackle 'Weather Modification'1·1 day agoIt doesn’t make sense, they should just say those people angered some God and leave it at that, they’re followers are fucking morons.
_stranger_@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Marjorie Taylor Greene Announces Bill To Tackle 'Weather Modification'2·1 day agoGod I hope she goes out riding a MAGA weather balloon into the sunset, never to be seen again
_stranger_@lemmy.worldto The Democratic People's Republic of Tankiejerk@lemmy.world•Maybe TWO things can be bad at once! Or even three or four!9·1 day agoSpoiler: It’s waaaay more than three or four.
_stranger_@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•‘The vehicle suddenly accelerated with our baby in it’: the terrifying truth about why Tesla’s cars keep crashingEnglish1·1 day agoIt’s much more likely that they don’t know. Look at the DOGE staffers hand picked by musk, they are completely incompetent but hyper confident. If they’re indicative of the software engineers working at Tesla, then they most likely assumed their code was perfect. Keep in mind it’s all running on LLM code now.
Goofy has a son.
Disney can’t explain that away
Plus there was this whole thing:
Since you’re going to have to explain yourself anyway, may as well just do whatever you want and explain it to the court afterwards.
_stranger_@lemmy.worldto Games@lemmy.world•Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts salesEnglish12·1 day agoMS may not have invented it (although I’d argue they essentially did) but they did perfect it. That was the whole idea behind windows and IE, market share dominance at any cost.
not really. The neurotoxins work really well.
Because software lockouts are bullshit.
that might actually be a war crime because I think wasp spray is a neurotoxin
Which on reflection makes me like it more.
The entire county only has a population of like 50K people, and it’s not an especially wealthy area.
All that said, this was a tragedy that probably could have been prevented if Texas had fewer Republicans, I’ll 100% give you that, but flash floods are fucking terrifying, and in hilly areas, the flood can reach you in some cases before the rain does if it’s especially bad.
This video shows how insane it got on the Guadalupe River that morning. I’m not sure about the timeline, but this would have been roughly downstream and after it hit camp mystic. The river rose over 26 feet in under 2 hours.
https://youtu.be/akzaqhRH0HQ
The owners should have closed the camp if they knew those rains were coming.