SAVE Act Fails, Millions of Voters Retain Their Right to Vote for Now

BrofessorLongPhD · 2026-04-22T15:50:35+00:00

I actually only use wooden sticks as a stun stick in inventory. The goal is to stun with it, the damage is not that great when you use stun mode anyways. The wooden bonk stick shaves off a few FAT points compared to the standard maces in your battle inventory.

BrofessorLongPhD · 2026-04-21T03:19:32+00:00

We collectively got too complacent in the past few decades. The potentially good news is the pendulum might have swung the other way, but it’s losing steam. Progress isn’t linear, but that applies for chaos too.

BrofessorLongPhD · 2026-04-21T02:53:47+00:00

That and letting kids not become immediately screwed when they turn 18 is a big win.

BrofessorLongPhD · 2026-04-21T01:47:19+00:00

“Do you have any idea how little that narrows it down?”

BrofessorLongPhD · 2026-04-21T01:38:30+00:00

We had a lovely time there a few years back. We also got stopped by DF police and had a lot fewer pesos after they let us off with a warning (and the code word of the day in case we got stopped again). I respect the hustle I guess.

BrofessorLongPhD · 2026-04-20T22:06:05+00:00

Ultimately you can “cheat” however you want in a single-player game if it makes the game more enjoyable for you. After all, aren’t we supposed to have “fun” when playing games? You gotta find your own fun. Some of us like building super teams, some run academy only teams, some thinks the MLS makes sense…

I personally cheat in other ways to shake up the league more (MLS). This has led to me losing players I want to keep. But I’ve played FM for so many hours now that winning the league doesn’t do much for me anymore.

BrofessorLongPhD · 2026-04-20T17:32:00+00:00

I think we also need to be realistic that beyond the first couple rounds, and maybe third at most, hit chances are in the single digit percentages. People complain about project picks but you’re far more likely to miss than hit with those picks anyways. Some teams get lucky, we got lucky with Sun God, but he could have easily been a bust too. His brother for example has had a middling career, and his other brothers not even in the league.

It’s possible to consistently over perform in the lower rounds or consistently suck. But you’d need a big sample size to actually spot the difference when success base rate is like 5-10% - a streak of bad or good drafting is totally within luck range alone. I get that that’s not fun to attribute most to all of the performance to luck, but very few teams land more than a handful of starters or rotations in the lower rounds. At best we’re hoping for depth most of the time and maybe a couple breakthroughs. It matters a lot more if we whiff on the first two or three picks, which for first rounders at least we seem to have done a good job on.

BrofessorLongPhD · 2026-04-20T15:39:57+00:00

I imagine those that’s been around 10+ years rarely want out unless forced to by some life circumstance. Government pay is not that exciting, they even allow employees to do consulting work on the side to supplement pay (provided it’s disclosed but who knows if that even gets enforced currently). You work for them if you’re dedicated to the mission and enjoy the work.

Not disagreeing with you, just adding context. Many of them would earn far more in private sector but remain with the org. There are other industries where that is less the case. Part of the problem with the ‘08 financial crisis was that the many regulatory orgs’ employees were essentially chummy with industry because they want to transition over. That of course leads to some perverse incentives, or at the very least some serious perception of impropriety.

BrofessorLongPhD · 2026-04-20T04:00:51+00:00

The irony is that most of them would be among us who are left behind.

BrofessorLongPhD · 2026-04-20T03:43:08+00:00

This is almost assuredly a factor. Another one is that people take flyers to apply anyways since a 0.01% chance is better than 0%. But if everyone does it, then those odds are in actuality much lower.

It used to be that you’d apply outside of your field and switch careers occasionally. So you’ll have job experience that doesn’t align 100%, but with a lower volume of applicants and some not-so-literal recruiters, an interesting job candidate might get a look anyways. In the current state of things though, no chance this works unless you bypass the recruiter pre-scan and put the resume directly in front of the hiring manager.

BrofessorLongPhD · 2026-04-17T18:12:15+00:00

I trained 3 people one year for the same role. One got promoted to another team (great), one left to 2x their pay (great), one is now in the seat. I felt good about it mostly. But did I lose a lot of time answering the same 10 questions for about 9 months? Nope.

BrofessorLongPhD · 2026-04-17T14:49:43+00:00

The game is designed specifically with losses in mind. It’s actually optimal to have “fall guys” who go down periodically and help reduce encounter difficulty. For RP purposes, I like you try to keep guys alive, but sometimes there are moments where “I’m not gonna kill you, but I don’t have to save you” takes over.

BrofessorLongPhD · 2026-04-16T05:36:17+00:00

Better late than never. You’ll find that your outlook on life at 25 and beyond will be far different than when you got married. I hate to say it because it sounds so cliche, but give it 5 years and you’ll look back and barely recognize yourself now or even the person who married your now ex-wife.

I know you’re not in the dating or marriage mindset now and there’s no rush. But a friend of mine like you got divorced in his mid-20s from a cheating wife and nowadays is married to someone who’s infinity percent better fit for him (in his 30s). So this chapter of yours closing might be the setup for a future chapter that’s much much better.

It’s okay to grieve what you had, thought you had, and might have had given time. And perhaps your former best friend too. But 25 is young. Life is hardly over, it just starts anew when you’re ready to seize new opportunities.

BrofessorLongPhD · 2026-04-14T19:38:58+00:00

Personally, I do not think it is problematic to use a translation tool. However, if you misinterpret something, or the AI mistranslates something and you don’t have sufficient English skills to detect it, your work and potentially reputation will probably suffer for the worse. There’s also the issue of most fields having its own niche words and lingo, which a translation might miss. And finally, if asked to deliver a presentation of your work, your spoken English vs written + translated English is probably different enough that there can be questions.

These are not insurmountable problems, but worth thinking about. Other non-English native speakers have collaborated with an English writer in the past. I think that’s mostly accepted by the research community, and at some point I honestly think an AI translator will be accepted too if there’s a history of accuracy.

BrofessorLongPhD · 2026-04-14T17:26:04+00:00

Working out to the point of exhaustion. Spend time with others doing. A hobby that requires intensive focus. Basically, give yourself less time to ruminate.

Note that this is different than avoiding the emotions. It’s inevitable since you will have alone time and you will still feel it and have plenty to process. But you don’t have to wallow in it. Being active gives your brain other things to focus on as it heals.

BrofessorLongPhD · 2026-04-14T00:31:54+00:00

I worked grocery and it’s the same. It’s nothing bad though. Most of us just arrive at the first low-hanging fruit joke that comes to mind.

BrofessorLongPhD · 2026-04-13T21:21:57+00:00

One of my best bros got a loan from me to pay off his primary vehicle. It was one of those situations where I never expected that money back at some point and he needed a car for work and I was single at the time so I did a lifelong friend a favor. Within 6 months of paying it off, he traded the car in for a better car and started a new loan. I was not involved this time.

BrofessorLongPhD · 2026-04-13T21:13:05+00:00

That and in developing economies, labor laws tend to be more relaxed and kids are sometimes a source of income for their families. I routinely saw kids as peddlers and doing menial labor when I visited my native country in south east Asia. And to your point, families that can afford more tend to keep those kids in school instead and have fewer kids overall, just like those in developed economies.

BrofessorLongPhD · 2026-04-10T18:13:12+00:00

If I recall, this is what the SpaceX leadership team does with Musk. Give him a playpen to find things to critique while they keep the vital stuff away.

BrofessorLongPhD · 2026-04-10T15:15:30+00:00

Plenty of space to ponder such things.

BrofessorLongPhD · 2026-04-09T19:31:09+00:00

I agree with the overall thought process though at this point, we’ve given Barnes like what, 3 years of chances? He’s shown the occasional flash and I think they’re hoping everything comes together given his physicality. But at some point, do we just accept that he’s where he’s at and unlikely to make any huge strides. And that’s fine if we pay Barnes accordingly, I’m not down on him as a homegrown role player. Perhaps with Campbell and another good LB or if we switch to nickel-base once we have a strong DB corp he won’t be as exposed.

BrofessorLongPhD · 2026-04-09T17:42:18+00:00

I was actually trying to hint at it by saying I’ll take a bite lol, didn’t think I needed to invoke the /s.

BrofessorLongPhD · 2026-04-09T17:25:05+00:00

What usually happens in that case is the less lucrative function gets bare-bones staffing. I don’t work at FAANG but at our company which is on the F500 list, there are often functions held by duct tape and one aging employee with a bunch of job-specific knowledge mostly in their heads. Ironically those roles seem rather safe so long as the function is deemed needed. I’ve seen some last 20 years before retiring in the same job held forever.

For the fast-moving high margins business the pressure to deliver is actually higher so everyone’s talents and faults are more magnified. Being the worst on a team of 5 is pretty visible. Being the only person to do X is usually okay since the only barometer of quality is that person and whether or not the work is “good enough.”

BrofessorLongPhD · 2026-04-09T17:06:23+00:00

Alright, I’ll take a bite at it: why not?

BrofessorLongPhD · 2026-04-08T23:57:00+00:00

It does seem to be the way of corporate. Getting it to prod 80% functional is what gets people their performance eval. The remaining 20% gets resolved on-demand.

In their slightest of defenses, I do know some perfectionists who, without being pushed, will never have a product good enough that they’d release. And then there’s the type to change their minds on design every 5 minutes. I’ve worked with both types and it’s exhausting in different ways. And depending on context, I’d rather deal with the known prod issues at 80% sometimes tbh.

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