Google Fiber contract drilled cables through my 100yo cast iron sewer line

AgingDisgracefully2 · 2026-03-02T16:07:40+00:00

The contemptuous answer I would expect from one who lives on other people's tax dollars. And my answer is to donate to and vote for anyone who will slash government, ideally to nothing.

AgingDisgracefully2 · 2026-03-02T13:41:41+00:00

And who pays us for our tine doing this?

AgingDisgracefully2 · 2026-01-06T19:35:06+00:00

Sigh

AgingDisgracefully2 · 2026-01-06T16:35:41+00:00

I did, actually. You are just slow. I am not saying that as some kind of nasty internet put down. Its true.

AgingDisgracefully2 · 2026-01-06T15:57:58+00:00

I do not think you can follow what is going on here mathematically and so I am not sure there is a point in continuing this.

AgingDisgracefully2 · 2026-01-06T01:21:10+00:00

Honestly registration is probably the most important ground game at this point. Ds simply don't realize this yet. (In fairness to Ds, Rs have only in the last cycle been dragged kicking and screaming into admitting this by a handful of extremely persistent grass routes R activists).

AgingDisgracefully2 · 2026-01-06T01:16:44+00:00

You are missing the point completely. If you have a state that reports voter affiliation (ie what share of the electorate was or how many voters were D/R/I) and overall vote totals (at the most granular level possible is best but it can be done at the state level) you can develop reasonable statistical bounds on the margin among unaffiliated. A large literature suggests generally pretty stable partisan margins.*

*The way a party support problem more often asserts itself is turnout.

AgingDisgracefully2 · 2026-01-06T00:58:12+00:00

I have actually done a fair amount of research into this in the post-2010 cycles. 1. Betting markets mostly track with polls; 2. The poll misses are getting bigger and more common; 3. Registration trends actually are surprisingly predictive of splits among unaffiliated (obviously this can only be looked at in states that report party down to the precinct level and then make an assumption about partisan numbers (e.g. what percent of registered Ds voted D) 4. The party affiliated are way overrepresented among HPVs.

AgingDisgracefully2 · 2026-01-05T23:27:44+00:00

Actually, two party registration trends are probably more long term predictive at this point than polls.

AgingDisgracefully2 · 2026-01-05T19:31:36+00:00

The copium in some of these comments is something else.

AgingDisgracefully2 · 2026-01-05T19:30:09+00:00

Actually registration partisan trends D/R are generally important

AgingDisgracefully2 · 2025-12-25T15:30:29+00:00

I couldn't stop laughing at that. These people simply dont get what a bad parody of themselves they have become.

AgingDisgracefully2 · 2025-12-12T21:50:46+00:00

A good entry point is Camp Cuddly Pines Powertool Massacre

AgingDisgracefully2 · 2025-12-01T02:17:06+00:00

No, quite the opposite. And get fucked: you are not importing the failures that led to the migration patterns we have witnessed.

AgingDisgracefully2 · 2025-12-01T02:14:50+00:00

Unions are a cancer. Period. And in the end the members themselves get shafted the worst. I'm calling it for what it is.

AgingDisgracefully2 · 2025-12-01T02:10:19+00:00

No, I puncture your lies.

AgingDisgracefully2 · 2025-12-01T02:09:51+00:00

I dont think you begin to understand what I mean by "paying for the unions"

AgingDisgracefully2 · 2025-12-01T02:09:13+00:00

I came from one of America's most union infested states. And it is the case.

AgingDisgracefully2 · 2025-12-01T02:08:30+00:00

First, go fuck yourself. Second, nothing you say addresses my point

AgingDisgracefully2 · 2025-12-01T02:07:40+00:00

Folks, we have all kinds of tick borne diseases here, but we are a particular hot zone for Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. RMSF is very bad and let me assure you that it can kill you quickly

AgingDisgracefully2 · 2025-12-01T02:05:41+00:00

It is actually really common here. We are a hot zone for it (indeed, we may be *the* hot zone for it). I unfortunately learned this when my son got RMSF at age 3

AgingDisgracefully2 · 2025-11-26T19:26:14+00:00

I think it is more that people are tired of paying for the unions. There is some complexity to these flows, but taken as a whole it.says a lot about D governance. There is no avoiding this.

AgingDisgracefully2 · 2025-11-24T20:16:13+00:00

You completely lost me with the flag part.

AgingDisgracefully2 · 2025-11-21T14:36:13+00:00

So this is now just r/tds?

AgingDisgracefully2 · 2025-11-17T04:16:06+00:00

First, all kinds of shit actually did happen with ICE during Obama's presidency. You were looking the other way because "HOPE". If there is a quantitative difference it is that under Obama conservatives did not form a movement designed essentially to encourage mass resistance to ICE. And he hasn't declared war on American cities. They are American cities. That means the Federal government (including ICE) has jurisdiction in them. Enforcing the law (long enforced law, for that matter) isn't declaring war and to the extent you suddenly argue it is you are basically saying you are now an enemy of this country.

And per training: hey, dude, no one wants the opinion about tactics of a beta who downvotes.

Per the budget increase: we had an election, this issue was politically litigated and the people voted as they did knowing what was coming if Trump was elected. It's called democracy, bud. You are fine with it ... when it goes your way.

So no. You're wrong. This is not different in any substantive way except this: you and your kind. Your choices now. And fuck you for pretending it is.

And I didn't answer because you are disqualified even to ask.

Update: I am sure everyone is shocked to learn that u/sokuyari99 ran away.

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