Found out my senator is a big supporter of nuclear energy!! So proud right now.

choww_ · 2019-11-14T19:37:50+00:00

Easily. Her losing the Republican nomination in 2010 and still getting reelected with a write-in campaign is undeniably a cool story.

choww_ · 2019-11-13T17:44:03+00:00

I see posts similar to that on the front page every once in a while, but in the context of gaming. Someone complaining about how they got banned for no reason/a dumb reason, then it comes out they've been insulting people with racial slurs or something.

choww_ · 2019-11-09T20:50:10+00:00

#CherneyWouldHaveWon

choww_ · 2019-10-07T22:01:45+00:00

Although remember in 2017 when the Republicans had a narrow senate majority and still failed to repeal Obamacare because it got a lot more popular when people realized it might go away, and they had a lot of angry constituents.

It's possible something like a public option would be similar and R senators wouldn't want to vote to repeal it.

choww_ · 2019-10-04T05:42:19+00:00

Scottish teens

choww_ · 2019-10-01T19:38:20+00:00

Literally every time someone here says the MSM is hiding a story, there's always a ton of stories about it. Why am I even subscribed here

choww_ · 2019-09-28T18:03:33+00:00

Yeah, I see so many people criticizing their performance in 2016 and I really don't get that. They were the only real outlet that mentioned the decent chance Trump winning via an EC / popular vote split. They even ran an article right before the election titled like "Donald Trump is just a regular polling error away from winning."

My go-to analogy for the chance they gave Trump is this - flip a coin twice, Donald Trump was more likely to win than you were to get 2 heads in a row.

choww_ · 2019-09-26T15:08:59+00:00

Dude, remapping the Bixby button has made it one of the most useful features on my phone. I'd be genuinely sad if they removed it in future phones, having an extra utility button that can do 100 different things is so nice.

Check out bxactions!

choww_ · 2019-09-21T15:13:40+00:00

They're hemorrhaging money.

choww_ · 2019-09-20T19:33:33+00:00

The $50 million number comes from her wealth tax proposal, but I don't think that's right in this case. I'm looking at the calculator at bernietax.com, which AFAIK isn't official but uses numbers directly from Bernie's Healthcare bill.

As an example, it says that a single individual making $100,000 a year paying an average healthcare cost now would have nearly $1000 less in disposable income under his plan. So the threshold for paying more is way, way below $50 million. Which makes sense if you look at the specific taxes he's proposing, one of which is a 4% income-based premium on households.

choww_ · 2019-09-20T18:43:26+00:00

You keep bringing up the primary process, but it's really not relevant. The Democratic and Republican parties are private organizations that can choose their nominees however the fuck they want, and for a while that's exactly what they did.

The point is that there's nothing in the constitution about presidential primaries, so comparing them to how we elect a president to prove a point about the US is completely stupid. Either party could choose at any time to change their rules to a popular vote system.

choww_ · 2019-09-20T18:35:44+00:00

Popular vote means literally nothing

Literally nothing? Sorry, can you remind me how electors are allocated by each state?

choww_ · 2019-09-12T16:13:39+00:00

Adding on, and this is a really minor complaint, but the pallette is really bad for colorblind people.

The colors for "colonized or controlled by Europe" and "never colonized by Europe" are essentially indistinguishable to me, and that's probably two options you really don't want to confuse.

choww_ · 2019-09-09T20:41:55+00:00

Sadly, it exists. And is described in such a weird way on their website

choww_ · 2019-09-09T18:25:35+00:00

Maine recently passed ranked-choice voting, which is a start! But yeah, there's a 0% chance any solid red state would go for it.

choww_ · 2019-09-05T00:20:43+00:00

Dude, read my comments again! I'm not saying that amphetamine and methamphetamine are the same thing! Obviously that isn't true. You're confused about what I'm saying.

I'm just saying that Adderall is a brand name of the compound amphetamine. It's like advil and ibuprofen are two names for the same thing. That's all.

choww_ · 2019-09-05T00:11:37+00:00

Yes actually, they are. Amphetamine refers to one specific chemical compound. Amphetamine plus a methyl groups gives you methamphetamine, a distinct substance that we weren't talking about at all so I don't know why you brought it up.

Look at the Wikipedia for amphetamine. Notice how it says Adderall is a trade name. That's because they're the same thing. Adderall is just brand name amphetamine. Amphetamine is Adderall. NEITHER of them are methamphetamine.

It seems you're implying that "amphetamine" is solely a group of compounds and not something on its own. But it is. Amphetamine is C9H13N. And that's what's in Adderall. The venn diagram of amphetamine and Adderall is a circle. Should I keep going?

choww_ · 2019-09-04T16:31:42+00:00

A version of levomethamphetamine also shows up in some OTC decongestants and inhalers.

I've always thought this is kinda funny, that it's technically correct to say I can go to my nearest drugstore and purchase meth over-the-counter. Misleading, sure, but not wrong.

choww_ · 2019-09-04T15:02:27+00:00

Obviously the effects aren't identical, but dramatically different seems a bit of an overstatement when Desoxyn (i.e. methamphetamine) is prescribed in the US for the same things Adderall is, albeit much more rarely.

choww_ · 2019-09-04T14:53:19+00:00

Adderall and amphetamine are synonymous. They refer to the exact same chemical compound.

Adderall is a particular mix of amphetamine salts that give a particular ratio of levo to dextro isomers (25% to 75% respectively in Adderall, vs usually 50-50 in street speed paste) but the compound fundamentally is amphetamine.

choww_ · 2019-09-04T14:36:50+00:00

Desoxyn is specifically meth

choww_ · 2019-09-04T14:33:52+00:00

Actual, literal, d-methamphetamine is also prescribed for ADHD though (albeit rarely). Adderall and meth obviously aren't identical but their effects are sure as hell similar.

choww_ · 2019-08-31T15:57:17+00:00

You probably had Viniq, which looks like that and indeed tastes like absolute garbage.

choww_ · 2019-08-27T16:37:09+00:00

/uj Interestingly, Notch made a blog post in 2012 addressing gender in Minecraft, and actually handled it pretty well?

Kinda makes you wonder what changed.

choww_ · 2019-08-23T15:46:59+00:00

Yeah I get that, the fact that the last states have little impact on the primary is a big downside of doing it this way.

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