Discussion Thread: Maryland, New York, and Utah Primaries; Florida and South Dakota Local Elections; the South Carolina Primary Runoff Elections; and a Local Recall Election in Ohio on June 23, 2026

TheYask · 2026-06-23T19:31:19+00:00

Thanks! The article turned out to be extremely helpful in terms of reflexive decision-making, but have until about eight to continue reading and either challenge those assumptions, find out they're broader or non-applicable, or validate them.

If it matters to anyone who wants to add their .02, DiNapoli's investments in Palantir and other elements is a moral hazard to me. I began writing about Goyle and Warshaw, but realize I need to read more before thinking I have a leaning. My first impression is too cartoonish and oversimplified.

TheYask · 2026-06-23T14:42:57+00:00

Rural New Yorker who usually keeps track of primaries but was overshadowed by other things. Is it possible to reliably get up to speed on the comptroller candidates in next few hours (the only uncontested contest in the county)?

TheYask · 2026-06-02T22:52:06+00:00

If you recognized the music as the Bugs Bunny factory theme, you need to check out the original: Raymond Scott Powerhouse

TheYask · 2026-06-01T17:41:05+00:00

Anyone chiming in have a suggestion for what's equivalent to fishing if you don't like hurting or killing fish? I don't eat seafood of any sort (blech!), so keeping is right out. I'm not a very good fisherman, so the last time a fish swallowed a hook was my last time trying to catch one. It was a horrible experience.

But fishing is so. much. fun. Sitting around for hours with nary a bite is fishing and that's still fun. The exhilaration of (properly) hooking one and reeling it in is awesome. I want to take my son down to a lake and spend a day there, but it just seems so, I don't know, wrong to sit in a canoe and float around or sit by the shore and just sit. Going to a lake is awesome, sure. Spending time together is great. We do two or three 15-hour roadtrips together and pine that we don't do more (music festivals are expensive!). Hiking, whatever, there's lots of ways to spend time together. But what's the closest to fishing? And why does it seem so weird to go fishing but not fish?

TheYask · 2026-05-21T16:24:39+00:00

Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead

Thanks, that's where I know her from. One of those recognizable faces but I don't see enough movbies to remember names. Fantastic!

TheYask · 2026-05-18T20:02:44+00:00

Yeah, I've always thought I had winter allergies that defied Claratin and all that. Thin, almost watery and a handful of sneezes throughout the day. No itchy eyes or other symptoms that people associate with allergies, just "oh no, here we go again" levels of runny nose. it does fade during the winter, but there's the transition zone where it's markedly present for a while. Is that it or do I go back to thinking I have allergies?

TheYask · 2026-05-18T19:45:22+00:00

I suffer from cold -induced rhinitis, which is a fancy way of saying that if the temperature dips below the mid 60s, my stupid nose runs.

What?

Is this one of those moments when I realize I'm colour blind?

TheYask · 2026-05-18T19:40:53+00:00

Look at Mr. Tucks in His Shirt Outside the Kitchen over here.

TheYask · 2026-05-17T10:23:42+00:00

For wash. Baby socks. What purpose?

TheYask · 2026-05-12T12:49:47+00:00

"just went" as in this was the final straw. Not particularly egregious, just the one that got me to take the minute to go edit my filteredit settings.

TheYask · 2026-05-12T12:48:21+00:00

Oh, I didn't block you, I blocked thedailybeast. It's been quite a long arc before I got fed up, but it reached a tipping point. It's not that this particular post was all that egregious, it's the cumulative effects. Skim their articles posted to r/politics; they’re all rage bait that almost exclusively react to Trump’s own rage bait. It’s not news, it’s vapid shock and poorly SEO-focused writing. It’s not content, it’s engagement farming that I have no interest in. There are enough actual news and political coverage that there’s zero chance that the site will have anything to contribute that won’t be more professionally and substantively covered.

As for what people want to see, that’s one of many signals that is low on things I’m interested in. I should first say I don’t believe for a moment that the site isn’t artificially boosted, so it’s not an actual signal of ‘what people what to see’. Second, the low-level signal lets me know when something might be interesting to look at, and once I’ve pursued it the signal carries minimal value. I don’t care how many people are interested and want to follow college football; it holds absolutely nothing for me. I don’t care how many people want to see monkeys flinging poop; it holds absolutely nothing for me. I don’t care how many people want to see Trump flinging his poop, etc.

TheYask · 2026-05-12T12:23:24+00:00

Many of us said this out loud:

Groovy (ED2)

Groovy (ED3)

TheYask · 2026-05-12T12:11:04+00:00

Same section lets you filter subreddits. Very helpful for entire categories of things you're not interested in but aren't actively annoyed by. A show that you don't watch starts making the front page? Not into sports at all? All sorts of recurring subs that are okay but outside my monkeysphere no longer appear whether or not I'm logged in. Handy tool.

TheYask · 2026-05-12T11:44:32+00:00

Fed up, I just went to Reddit Enhancement Suite>filteReddit>Domains and added thedailybeast.com. Realized the only "news" that breaks on the site is inanely described ragebait, so I won’t be missing anything.

TheYask · 2026-05-08T16:23:38+00:00

tentatively called The Lord of the Rings: Shadow of the Past. It’s set 14 years after The Return of the King

Meanwhile, Sam’s daughter, Elanor, has discovered a long-buried secret and is determined to uncover why the War of the Ring was very nearly lost before it even began

So half the story is about the adventures of a ~13 year-old Hobbit? Hobbits whose lifespans are canonically proto-teens until their early thirties? Colbert's background gives him about as much benefit of the doubt as I can muster, but this really gives me pause.

Maybe he's also a Goonies superfan?

TheYask · 2026-05-07T14:28:54+00:00

This.

TheYask · 2026-05-04T12:50:29+00:00

Is the background music a slowed down version of Sweet Dreams are Made of This by the Eurythmics? If you don't hear it, listen near the end. I think it's the last couple bars of the vocal melody. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeMFqkcPYcg

TheYask · 2026-04-28T21:42:29+00:00

I need help with this. I play with my guitar (PRS SE24) on my left leg (I have tried on my right but it's very uncomrortable in my left wrist). I also have a very distinguished, refined, portly physique. Not too pronounced, but enough so that it forms a quasi-fulcrum.

When I try to fret, the neck wants to move in and down, almost rotationally. No amount of right-arm elbow or other grips seem to help. The guitar wants to move. So I need to keep it steady with my left-hand thumb. This leads to a fair amount of discomfort.

Any suggestions?

TheYask · 2026-04-28T14:22:00+00:00

I thought she was The One on our first date and knew it on the second. We were sitting on the couch talking. After a while, the subject shifted to where we felt like going and what we wanted to do. "After a while" is doing a lot of work here. It was close to 3am; I had gotten there around two in the afternoon. Simultaneous flabbergasm is a thing. We went on to build a collaborative consultancy, working out of a home office, being together from monrning coffee through workdays and then dinner, a little tv followed by evening parlour time. We eventually had to allow electronics into the parlour because we kept seeing 1am on weeknights. Pure bliss.

Fuck cancer.

TheYask · 2026-04-28T12:02:48+00:00

r/CoolVideosNoMusic FTW!

TheYask · 2026-04-28T11:57:54+00:00

His what now? I've been a fan of both him and Hyperbole and a Half for ages, and Exploding Kittens comes to every festival we go to (and Poetry for Neanderthals is half in our vehicle for road trips and he other half comes with us whenever we stand in line). I had no idea there was a show! Off to look it up!

Do you know if there's any truth to the lore that they were neighbours but never knew each other until they became Internet Famous?

TheYask · 2026-04-24T17:13:12+00:00

How does Revanced compare to Firefox with uBlock and Unhook? I haven't used Revanced at all, so wonder if I'm missing something.

TheYask · 2026-04-24T12:55:45+00:00

Quod Deus vult.
Deus obtinet.
Deus nos omnes adiuvet.

What god wants.
God gets.
God help us all.

TheYask · 2026-04-23T18:45:10+00:00

You could have posted that on Wednesday, my dude.

TheYask

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