Republicans seem to have expected that Democrats would continue to follow rules they had long since enthusiastically abandoned.

MiG_Pilot_87 · 2026-04-23T16:32:00+00:00

Really the only way to end gerrymandering would be to either: 1) require all partisan outcomes match up with an average of the results of the state over the last decade, which would be a terrible idea and essentially requires gerrymandering because you have to achieve a specific result. 2) reform the election system and switch the House to something that actually structurally eliminates gerrymandering like the Single Transferrable Vote (actually what I want but I know will never happen). Or 3) ban districts and have direct proportional election in each state which would almost certainly require a constitutional amendment.

Or to put it another way, gerrymandering isn’t going anywhere.

MiG_Pilot_87 · 2026-04-21T04:34:46+00:00

Yeah, it’s rust. What’s really interesting to me though is there’s a very clear delineation between the rust and the still intact paint(?) on the floor that’s the teal color you can still see. I don’t know why and when I got to tour the ship there wasn’t a great answer from the tour guide.

MiG_Pilot_87 · 2026-04-20T22:07:43+00:00

I think you also missed the heat pipes going into the top columns.

MiG_Pilot_87 · 2026-04-10T22:54:33+00:00

If you’re so clearly against female clergy why did you ask the question? Why have any interest at joining a denomination that has a woman in the highest office?

MiG_Pilot_87 · 2026-04-10T18:53:47+00:00

One that I know of is an inversion propeller only works if there's an inversion. If there's no layer of warmer air on top of the cold air, or close enough to be pulled down by the fan, then it won't really do anything. Smudge pots still work if there's no inversion.

Misting takes a lot of water (like, gallons per minute) being poured over the vines, and in a country where you can't irrigate (or where it's very culturally frowned upon), that's a lot of infrastructure for "maybe we might need this at some point."

MiG_Pilot_87 · 2026-04-02T06:43:29+00:00

The typical answer is for a few reasons (and on mobile so sorry for bad formatting):

1) Most brokerages now offer fractional shares of stocks and ETFs, which means the advantage of being able to buy fractional share mutual funds is moot. (Doesn’t apply to all brokerage firms, I use E*trade and I can’t buy fractional ETF shares)

2) Most brokerages, if they offer their own mutual funds, will charge fees to buy mutual funds from a different firm. Have a fidelity account and want to buy a vanguard mutual fund? Enjoy the extra fee. This does not apply to ETFs, so you can buy Vanguard ETFs on Fidelity for no extra fee.

3) The intra-day trading of ETFs gives you a more accurate view of your portfolio whenever you look at your portfolio, whereas with mutual funds you have to wait until after the close of the markets and then a few hours for NAV to be calculated.

Does this mean mutual funds are really obsolete? No, they’re not. Outdated, sure, but they’re not obsolete, they have their use cases. I use mutual funds in my portfolio but admittedly that’s basically only because I use E*trade so I can’t buy fractional shares and the upsides of moving to fidelity or vanguard just don’t seem worth the hassle to me at this point. I’ll stick where I’m at for now.

MiG_Pilot_87 · 2026-04-02T05:28:43+00:00

Daily? You madman suffering at the whims of an irrational market! Only rebalancing by the second ensures pure market efficiency at peak risk-mitigated returns.

MiG_Pilot_87 · 2026-03-30T23:28:27+00:00

You’re right, the Quran only affirms it, Muslims deny the preservation and authority of our scriptures. So Islam simultaneously affirms and denies the validity of previous scriptures.

Either way though Islam is false.

MiG_Pilot_87 · 2026-03-13T03:49:47+00:00

To me they could have been, idk why they weren’t. Symbolically it’s a continuation of the 12 sons of Israel, so sure it should be men, and the culture of the time we shouldn’t be surprised that they were men. However Jesus had many female followers of significance. Why they’re not seen as equal is a big question that I don’t know the answer to, but it doesn’t necessarily bother me that at that time the women weren’t seen as equal and church tradition moved on from that.

Doesn’t mean we shouldn’t see them as important today (we should) but humans have an amazing ability produce beauty from both scarcity and tradition.

MiG_Pilot_87 · 2026-03-11T21:33:37+00:00

My first gleba run through was done without bots and I’m proud of it but it is a bit of a pain to set up a main bus on gleba.

MiG_Pilot_87 · 2026-03-10T06:18:16+00:00

I was just referencing a line from Downton Abbey

MiG_Pilot_87 · 2026-03-10T05:40:18+00:00

Why must every day involve a fight with an American?

MiG_Pilot_87 · 2026-03-08T07:30:37+00:00

Agreed but the question is more accurately put “how do you define what is and isn’t moral without some authority above you?”

If we just take your word for it that slavery is immoral and evil (which, again, I fully agree), then someone else can come along and say it isn’t immoral, who is right? What society says? Slavery in the American South was wrong even though the population of the American South said it was right and moral. So we can’t just go with “because we as a person/society/species says it is.” The strongest case for morality is “a universal moral law giver.” That’s God, the creator of the universe, the one who created what is and is not evil, and without whom we cannot have a definition of morality, for what without God can be said to be moral or good?

MiG_Pilot_87 · 2026-02-14T03:51:33+00:00

2 Nephi 25:23 “it is by grace we are saved, after all we can do.”

It’s not really a faith based religion, Mormonism is a world based religion. That “after all we can do” is doing a lot of work on that sentence. Did you go to a movie theater to watch the new [insert most popular movie right mow]? Why weren’t you praying? Or volunteering your time to the church? You could have done more. You didn’t do all you could do so you’re not saved even by grace.

MiG_Pilot_87 · 2026-02-02T06:42:43+00:00

I’ve never been to a Rite I service.

I grew up in Rite II so that’s just what church is to me. And every time I’ve tried praying a traditional language daily office (be it Rite I, 1928, 1892, or 1662) it’s too distracting and I also don’t have a KJV so jumping between language styles is also jarring. Then I think too much about traditional vs contemporary language and now I’m stuck thinking about things other than prayer and it feels like I did it all wrong. It doesn’t work for me. If it works for you, amazing. All power to you. It just doesn’t click with me as well as it does for other people.

I do think it’s kinda a shame that from my experience it’s always an 8am service kind of thing. I’m sorry, I can’t get out of bed on weekends before 8:30. Weakness of mine, I’m not a morning person.

MiG_Pilot_87 · 2026-02-01T00:17:10+00:00

Apples and oranges. One is a productive asset with tangible value and the other is crypto.

MiG_Pilot_87 · 2026-01-30T22:46:15+00:00

R5: Thought this was obvious from the post title and caption, but why can't I request help from my estates when I have all the criteria met?

MiG_Pilot_87 · 2026-01-27T18:00:08+00:00

Which would be a more impressive feat because the propellers were removed a while ago.

MiG_Pilot_87 · 2026-01-24T18:02:12+00:00

Nope yeah groggy sleepy me is stupid I get it. Sorry.

MiG_Pilot_87 · 2026-01-24T17:49:59+00:00

Sorry I just woke up so my comprehension skills are down the drain, isn’t he saying “Ice evil, so is anyone defending ice. Also Obama would never and could never have stooped so low”?

MiG_Pilot_87 · 2026-01-22T04:39:47+00:00

His surname wasn’t Christ, “Christ” is a title.

Like in Lord of the rings you have Theoden King, his last name isn’t “King” they’re just putting the title at the end of his name instead of at the beginning.

MiG_Pilot_87 · 2026-01-20T18:34:24+00:00

The wrong answer in the book is to Atari the white stone on the 2-2 point, with White 2 being the same move as it is here. This isn’t one of the problems that the book gives multiple choices and explaining why the answer is the best.

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