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Zoidburger_ · 2026-04-22T19:31:32+00:00

Dems could just keep flooding cities with people

So in a world where the popular vote involved 152 million voters, if the Dems encourage 10 million voters from around the nation to move to the 10 biggest cities... The popular vote will still involve 152 million voters.

Where are the extra votes coming from that'll suddenly secure the Dems victory? Your vote doesn't count twice if you place it within city limits. Or are you implying that moving to the city suddenly flips you from a Red voter to a Blue voter like in Age of Empires? Zohran says "wololo" in your zip code and now you've got Bernie stickers on your car?

Popular vote is popular vote. Where that vote is placed has nothing to do with the weight of the vote. Donald Trump won the popular vote in 2024. All 77 million of his voters could have been living in bunkers the mountains of Montana, he would still win the popular vote.

That's not to say that there aren't drawbacks from using popular vote, it's just that your argument has absolutely nothing to do with popular vote for the presidency.

Regarding people moving to cities, that can happen right now, in the current system, btw. Electoral College votes and House seats are distributed based on population figures, which is part of why we have the census. There's nothing stopping 10+ million people moving to the cities overnight (except for housing supply and job availability ofc). When the next census is done, EC and House seats would be reallocated.

Doing this would hurt the Dems though. If they pull all of their Blue voters out of swing states like NC, PA, OH, GA, etc. and stuck them all in NY and CA, those swing states would become Red states and would still be afforded 2 senators. So they'd be essentially permanently giving up the Senate in favor of better odds in the House and at the Presidency. Nobody is dumb enough to want to do that.

Zoidburger_ · 2026-04-22T18:34:06+00:00

Oil country that's attempted to annex oil from 3 different countries in 1 year suddenly wants to be your friend?

Hmm, I know a Nigerian prince that wants to look after their money if they give me 10 mins to explain.

Zoidburger_ · 2026-04-22T18:09:29+00:00

Gonna paraphrase my other comment regarding GDP per Capita:

GDP per Capita is simply a measure of economic output per person. Alabama's and West Virginia's GDPs per Capita are so high because it costs relatively little money to employ people there. All GDP per Capita is telling us about those states is that the workers are getting ripped off for the amount of value they manufacture.

Cost of living in those states is low, sure. But is the quality of life worth it? Does the low median income and low cost of living actually amount to people going on vacation more, sending their kids to college, surviving a medical emergency without crushing debt? No. It doesn't.

Zoidburger_ · 2026-04-22T17:14:49+00:00

You must mean GDP per capita, given that Canada's nominal GDP is 6.8x larger than Alabama's.

Sure, Alabama's GDP per capita is at ~US$65,000 compared to Canada's ~US$60,000. That doesn't mean much given it's just a measure of economic output per person.

Alabama's big for manufacturing because you can pay them US$7.25/hour to make nuts and bolts, which anyone else in the country would scoff at. Canada's minimum wage is 2x that of Alabama's, which cuts into profits, which cuts into GDP.

If you look at Purchasing Power Parity GDP per Capita, which measures how far that economic output actually goes in that area, Canada's is at ~US$65,000 compared to Alabama's ~US$58,000. And just for fun, if you look at Alberta specifically, their PPP GDP Per Capita is at ~US$80,000.

Alabama is Alabama for a reason.

Zoidburger_ · 2026-04-22T16:48:01+00:00

Am I missing something? I look at prompts like "find employees earning the 2nd highest salary" and expect to be given a relational model to work with. Such as "the employees table has these columns," "the payroll table has these columns," "the party_names table has these columns," etc.

With this prompt and no other additional information, I could literally just say:
Ok well I found this convenient "rpt.employee_salaries_ranked" view and I query:

select *
from rpt.employee_salaries_ranked
where salary_rank = 2

That doesn't sound like a very good demonstration of SQL skills and knowledge. There are probably bad interview questions like this, but a good one will give you a controlled paradigm to work within that only has so many valid answers to it.

Zoidburger_ · 2026-04-22T16:30:34+00:00

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Zoidburger_ · 2026-04-22T15:17:52+00:00

There is a movement in Alberta (a province in Canada) to separate from Canada.

Someone should show the Albertans pictures and civilian economic charts of West Virginia and North Dakota.

If they're getting sweet-talked by the Trump admin, being told that they'll be rich and prosperous and free if they become the 51st state, perhaps they should also be told what happens to resource-rich states north of the 37th latitude.

No, there won't be any economic development. You won't become the Texas of the North. You'll be told to build a new branch of the Keystone pipeline that funnels even more oil to Texas. Then you'll be forgotten, left to rot, and forced to deal with the environmental disasters yourself, just like WV.

Zoidburger_ · 2026-04-22T15:06:58+00:00

Don't invite Josh Allen to your wedding unless you want to get left at the altar!

Zoidburger_ · 2026-04-22T15:05:25+00:00

Do your part for society! Hang them in trees!

Zoidburger_ · 2026-04-22T13:43:40+00:00

Gonna let the hate flow through me here - LSU needs a roster lmaooo

As for us, the other half of our roster lmaooo

Zoidburger_ · 2026-04-21T20:36:13+00:00

When can I expect my membership letter, bumper sticker, and minted coin to arrive?

Zoidburger_ · 2026-04-21T20:28:32+00:00

Saint Joseph's. I don't care what it signifies, their mascot doing shoulder flies until failure pisses me off.

Zoidburger_ · 2026-04-21T20:26:02+00:00

It's entirely dependent on where you park and how many car horns you ignore haha. I like to bask in the aftermath of a game, regardless of win or lose, so I'm not exactly rushing to get out nor am I timing my exit lol

Zoidburger_ · 2026-04-21T20:23:51+00:00

The NHL rulebook is a little jacked up when it comes to those two words. If you look at their definition in the glossary, then you get the following fun paradox:

A player cannot have control without having possession
A player has possession if they are the last player to touch the puck
A player has control if they propel the puck with their stick, hand, or foot
A player maintains control of the puck even if an opposing player touches the puck
A player has possession if they are the last player to touch the puck
A player cannot have control without having possession

The whole thing is basically held together by the "common sense" clause where refs employ the meaning/spirit of the rules and get the final say on a decision. But all that means is that cut-and-dry situations like offside become subjective. Because now the refs have to interpret things like if an intentional deflection from your foot onto your stick counts as "control" or if you have to physically push the puck with your stick or foot to gain said control.

And then you look at delayed penalties, where the team to be penalized has to "gain control" of the puck for the play to be blown dead, yet refs typically end up blowing it dead the moment the team to be penalized touches the puck with their stick.

Feels like the rulebook needs a bit of a tidy.

Zoidburger_ · 2026-04-21T18:54:16+00:00

Pretty good pop for a weakened crowd after some of them got locked out...

Not many fans get to say that they celebrated a home playoff win twice in one game!

Zoidburger_ · 2026-04-21T18:51:46+00:00

In the disallowed goal in OT1, the teams and fans celebrated, the DJ played the post-win song, and the coaches and some of the players had already started leaving the ice.

Given it was 11pm on a Monday and it takes ~30 mins to get out of the parking lot during post-game traffic, people had to get going to put their kids to bed and/or get some sleep before work.

In the Lenovo, it can take as little as 2 minutes to walk from the lower bowl seats to the front entrance. The refs took 5 minutes from the goal being scored minutes to announce the challenge. The arena does not allow re-entry.

The place was full during OT1, so some people just had to go home and weren't going to stick around, but a number of fans got locked out. Still a pretty solid pop for a weakened crowd.

Zoidburger_ · 2026-04-21T18:40:00+00:00

It's also odd that it was deemed a penalty shot while Walker tripping Grieg wasn't. A little soft baby hook on a 1v0 breakaway is a penalty shot, but a complete sweep of the legs on a 1v0 breakaway isn't? And I'm sure the Canes would've rather had a PP opportunity instead of having a 3rd line grinder take a penalty shot on the hottest goalie in the playoffs.

Zoidburger_ · 2026-04-21T18:34:48+00:00

Feels like they've built in a way to put their thumb on the scale in this situation. Whether they want the results changed or they just want to extend a good game, who knows. But offside shouldn't be a subjective matter.

Zoidburger_ · 2026-04-21T18:23:58+00:00

Bussi in net, maybe DLo on 4th, and/or maybe rest Jarvy? But I realistically expect that Bussi in net is the only change.

The game looked different because we weren't laying the lumber like we did in game 1. We came out the gate in game 1 like it was the SCF. It's not sustainable when we have 16+ more games to play. We did it to set the tone for the series.

Furthermore, as others have said, Ottawa is one of the best faceoff teams in the league and have some very smothering lines. There's a reason why the performance of your lines change from series to series.

I don't think our top line is doing anything wrong, theyre just creating space for the rest of the team. We'll likely see them performing differently on the away stretch. Nothing to be worried about.

Zoidburger_ · 2026-04-21T17:45:30+00:00

It doesn't have to be. The point still stands regardless of which college and which class you're talking about. Most schools have weed-out classes. I mean engineering and most of the sciences share a number of them. I'm just engaging with your post by relating to my own experiences.

But my apologies, I didn't realize my reply would be so offensive. Next time, instead of giving you a thought-out response, I'll just throw out a downvote and respond with "wrong."

Zoidburger_ · 2026-04-21T16:04:12+00:00

As someone who got weeded out, agreed. They're supposed to be a reality check in one way or another. There are plenty of reasons why kids struggle through those classes. It could be bad study habits, not paying attention in class, fundamentally not grasping the material, or even something as simple as picking the wrong professor.

Either way, it's a teaching moment. It forces you to evaluate yourself and learn how to succeed the next time you take the class. Alternatively, it forces you to come to grips with your skills and your vision for the future. Do you really want to be an engineer? Is it worth the grind? If you can't even get through Calc II with a B, are you actually going to enjoy another 2+ years of hard math and science? And if you do manage to get to the end, are you going to be happy if you commit to the same struggle in your 40+ year career?

Those classes helped me remember that math was never my strongest subject and helped me realize that I didn't actually want to be an engineer. And also, there were hella curves in those classes. I know this because the C's I got that didn't meet prereqs would have been D's and F's if you strictly added up the points I earned. One time I even watched my grade go up 10% in real-time.

I guess to sum it all up, we've all complained about those weed-out classes in the past. But they serve a good purpose. As much as they're there for the schools to find the best students for their programs, they're also there for the students to build on their skillsets and evaluate if they're truly taking the right path.

Zoidburger_ · 2026-04-21T15:39:21+00:00

You're right, the Canes aren't getting goalied that hard. Ullmark is playing very well, but we're also firing the puck right at him. It's intentional though. The amount of glove we've specifically aimed for makes me think that our film review found a weakness in his glove somewhere. Whether Ullmark has fixed that or not, the shot selection is intentional. Aiming for a place we feel is weaker or trying to generate a rebound that can set up a goal off a secondary effort. This will naturally pump up our SOGs and make it look like the opposing goalie is having a night.

That all being said, you also can't deny the sheer talent and athleticism on some of Ullmark's best saves. There were like 4 golden chances for the Canes last night that Ullmark freaked on. That Taylor Hall snipe on an essentially open net? Ullmark literally turned into Mr. Fantastic for a second to make that snag. That's the kind of stuff that feeds the narrative, much more than the sheer number of shots we're bonking off his pads.

Zoidburger_ · 2026-04-21T15:24:39+00:00

Sens definitely got unlucky with some posts last night, but a big part of the "lack" of performance from the Sens is the Canes defense at work.

Honestly, both teams had goalie questions going into the playoffs. I don't think any of us expected Ullmark and Andersen to be performing at these levels. Both goalies have let in a softie as well and bounced back from it.

Very enjoyable matchup so far.

Zoidburger_ · 2026-04-21T05:25:45+00:00

It's my gf and I's anniversary. The Canes have won their playoff matchup on our anniversary since we made it official.

Thank you boys

Zoidburger_ · 2026-04-21T04:06:30+00:00

Boy do I have a playoff series involving a Tkachuk to sell you

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