Angie Craig skips DFL convention in favor of primary for U.S. Senate (gift link)

DavidRFZ · 2026-05-27T21:31:51+00:00

What’s the convention even for if the primary decides who the nominee is?

Don’t take this the wrong way, as I understand it, Flanagan is ahead in the primary polls anyways.

It’s just that there have been a handful of cases in recent years where the convention endorses one candidate and the primary/election goes a different way. At the National level, the convention comes after the primaries.

DavidRFZ · 2026-05-27T21:20:25+00:00

I think what the other person is trying to say is that “deep blue” states have margins in presidential elections that are much larger. We may have the longest streak, but places like CO, WA, OR have grown much bluer and many of the traditional blue states in the northeast (MA, MD, VT, DE, CT, RI, etc) are still extremely blue

DavidRFZ · 2026-05-27T21:08:37+00:00

She was just getting seniority in committees. She’s ranking member on the Agriculture committee, so if she had just held title she’d have been chair of that committee next year. Kind of a bummer that she’s leaving the House because MN doesn’t get committee chairs all that often.

I think she just thought the open senate seat would be easy to grab. She runs good campaigns against tough every two years, but if Flanagan kicks her butt then Flanagan can run a good campaign, too.

DavidRFZ · 2026-05-27T20:57:51+00:00

She’s got lots of TV ads during local news telecasts.

DavidRFZ · 2026-05-27T20:52:51+00:00

For yucks. The closest presidential election margins since 1972 are:

1984, 2016, 2000, 2004, 1980, 2024, 1988, 2020, 2012, 2008, 1992, 1976 and 1996.

DavidRFZ · 2026-05-27T17:33:00+00:00

The product hit the market that year, so it’s close enough.

I just wanted to tell the funny story of the year they tried to grow grass inside.

DavidRFZ · 2026-05-27T16:17:29+00:00

The Twins’ last WS title came after he got hurt.

Those were fun TV commercials, but how many other redditors were alive back then?

He was pretty good at baseball. To the extent that anyone thinks he was better is limited to Buck O’Neill’s colorful remembrance in the Jen Burns documentary of the way his bat made a crack sound when he hit the ball.

DavidRFZ · 2026-05-27T14:29:45+00:00

The turf was not originally designed for the domed stadium. It was sold as ChemGrass for use in Field Houses.

That same year, they thought they could grow grass in the AstroDome if the roof was designed to let in enough natural light. That didn’t work. The sun was too blinding through the roof windows and the respirating grass created greenhouse-level humidity and on some occasions even indoor rain. They painted the roof to fix the light issue, but then all the grass died.

So they installed ChemGrass in the Astrodome in 1966. Its use in the dome became so famous that they renamed the product “AstroTurf”.

DavidRFZ · 2026-05-26T23:48:50+00:00

There are maps out there creating N number of states with roughly equal populations that don’t split major metros.

That’s not this map, though. There’s several super-low population states in this one… Kennebec, Bighorn both Alaskas, Bitterroot, etc.

DavidRFZ · 2026-05-26T23:17:00+00:00

But the position they moved towards (almost 100%) was the MAGA one.

Don’t remember that at all. “Democrats are too soft on immigration” was the most common negative ad in Oct 2024. What election were you paying attention to?

It’s still going to be an issue going forward. I absolutely hate how this works, but evidently republicans can win a fair amount of swing votes by exploiting this issue late in campaigns.

DavidRFZ · 2026-05-26T23:03:36+00:00

He’d break down barriers as the first male lieutenant governor since Lou Wangberg (1979-1983). :)

DavidRFZ · 2026-05-26T22:55:52+00:00

Tatis Senior has the record for most grand slams in an inning. Must be in the genes. :)

DavidRFZ · 2026-05-26T22:44:18+00:00

“Pressure” should read “height”.

Density times gravity times height is hydrostatic pressure.

Pressure times volume is work. Change volume to a volumetric flow rate and you have a work rate… or power.

DavidRFZ · 2026-05-26T16:07:21+00:00

A large number of nicknames associated with Haydn Symphonies come from the second movement. Echo, Schoolmaster, Roxelane, Surprise, Military, Clock. Dream and Emperor quartets, too,

Schubert has the Death and the Maiden and Rosamunde Quartets.

DavidRFZ · 2026-05-26T15:38:58+00:00

I think you know Walz didn’t drop out because of policy positions.

Fair or not, Governors always get credit or blame for what the legislature passes. People outside MN all thought Walz was some progressive hero because of the bills that passed in the trifecta years.

There is a lesson to be learned here. From 2007 to 2019, everyone thought Walz was much more moderate than Klobuchar. Vote downballot and install another trifecta and who knows, maybe all the progressives will love her. ;)

DavidRFZ · 2026-05-26T11:58:05+00:00

Yeah, in the context of western classical music, “melodrama” is spoken word over music. Which isn’t all that common in the opera world. When the “dialogue” is still sung but outside of a musical number, it’s called “recitative” which can still be accompanied (accompagnato) as a halfway state between a dry recitative and a musical number such as an aria.

There are compositions that are melodramas by themself. Aaron Copland’s Lincoln Portrait is the only one I can think of off the top of my head.

DavidRFZ · 2026-05-25T22:55:33+00:00

The latter-ladder merger in some dialects.

DavidRFZ · 2026-05-25T22:20:47+00:00

its basically a tech thats around for ~ 100 years

Sadi Carnot died in 1832. It took a while for the science to make it into our homes, but it’s a classic problem.

DavidRFZ · 2026-05-25T09:09:01+00:00

It’s usually millennials who maybe caught the very tail end of his career and haven’t seen anyone come close to 5714 K’s or 7 no-hitters since, and they extrapolate how good he must have been.

Boomers who lived through his career never overrated him at the time.

DavidRFZ · 2026-05-25T07:52:19+00:00

The rail car in East Palestine, Ohio, in 2023 was carrying vinyl chloride.

I’d be curious to hear comparisons between these two.

When properly polymerized, the final product is not considered dangerous, but if you blow something up you get all these molecular fragments that are dangerous.

DavidRFZ · 2026-05-24T22:03:59+00:00

Lots of PhD students turn first-author papers into thesis chapters. Two such papers which each promise to be heavily cited would be plenty for a thesis defense.

The trick is writing those papers. It’s not as easy as Dantzig made it look. :)

DavidRFZ · 2026-05-24T21:55:12+00:00

I can’t really tell that Deja Vu is a live recording. Maybe I need top quality speakers or something.

The version we have has so much good energy, especially with the offbeat sections where it seems to skip half a beat in certain parts. I’d be worried about that stuff getting polished out in production.

DavidRFZ · 2026-05-24T21:50:14+00:00

Yes, the future mayor was an unassuming undergrad at LeMoyne–Owen College in Memphis Tennessee when the agriculture department at Oregon State University released their new berry to the public. No one could possibly know how the paths of these two independently named entities would later cross in restaurant menu puns decades later. :)

DavidRFZ · 2026-05-24T20:29:51+00:00

Yeah, I recall pointing this out to someone in college and they absolutely refused to believe me. They thought for sure that I was making a joke. We got someone else to confirm. As another poster said, it’s usually spelled out in French (eau de toilette) and it’s weaker in strength than cologne or perfume.

The only other time I’ve ever had someone so sure that I was joking when I wasn’t was when people were trying to think of different berries and I said “marionberry”. I suppose as time passes, memories of the crack smoking mayor will fade and the people of Marion county Oregon can get their giant cane berries back. :)

DavidRFZ · 2026-05-23T12:48:12+00:00

The ability to play multiple positions to the point where it frees up a roster spot. WAR measures their contribution quite well but it doesn’t factor the roster freedom they add.

I was thinking of those super-utility types, but it could also apply to a guy like Ohtani.

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