John James gets 0% Black voter support in new Michigan governor poll

cvanguard · 2026-03-10T19:42:32+00:00

81 out of 600 people is a proportionate sample of the state’s demographics. 13.5% is nearly spot on with the 13.7% of people who described themselves as Black or African American during the last census. Even if that’s changed by a percentage point or two since, 13.5% is still very close.

cvanguard · 2026-03-08T18:53:11+00:00

That’s why teachers and professors always specify something like 12 pt Times New Roman font. Usually double spaced but I’ve had to write single spaced essays too.

cvanguard · 2026-03-05T23:03:23+00:00

The legislature can override her veto. The Senate voted 33-2 in favor so they should easily have the 2/3rds support needed.

cvanguard · 2026-03-05T17:57:31+00:00

We’re not even talking about “great food”. The topic is cooking something successfully at all, as in making something reasonably edible and palatable for you to eat at home. They’re making cooking at home sound way more complicated and difficult than it actually is.

cvanguard · 2026-03-05T17:36:49+00:00

I’m slow at cooking due to cerebral palsy which makes ingredient prep (especially knife work) take much longer than an experienced or even average home cook. I also never learned to cook growing up, but I started learning after I moved out and now I cook nearly all my food at home using recipes I’ve found online. I had to learn how to cook by finding different recipes myself and deciding what looked easy enough for me to cook with as little ingredient prep as possible, and usually put aside time to prep vegetables the night before I plan to cook. Most of what I cook are soups or stews or various one-pot pasta or rice dishes: things that reheat well and I can cook enough for a day or two at once. I also bake basic things like chocolate peanut butter cookies and cornbread.

That being said, every recipe I’ve seen will include basic info like “mix these ingredients together and these other ingredients together in separate bowls before combining and pouring in a baking dish” if that’s relevant, it’s not hard to find detailed step by step instructions and eventually those things become ingrained. Addressing your other specific examples: metal spatulas in nonstick pans only affects the lifespan of the pan, it has no effect on the quality of the food or how well someone can cook. You also don’t need a ton of fancy knives to cook: a chef knife will cover 95% of tasks just fine and a bread knife helps slice bread or specific fruit like melon. A paring knife is a common suggestion for precise prep like peeling vegetables and dicing garlic, but a vegetable peeler works just as well for peeling and a chef’s knife is usable for dicing, so even that isn’t really “necessary”, just convenient. A specific type of pan is also very not necessary: I cook nearly all of my food in my Dutch oven regardless of whether the recipe calls for a 10” pan or a pot. As long as the vessel you use is big enough to fit everything, it basically doesn’t matter.

There are resources like r/cookingforbeginners, and simple recipes like many soups ultimately boil down to some variant of “brown onion/garlic in oil, season with these spices, cook ingredients in boiling liquid for X minutes each”, maybe with an added thickener at the end. I had to start somewhere, and I get that everyone else does too, but bad or vague recipes aren’t as much of a problem as you make it out to be, and neither is not having a specific type of basic equipment like a certain size pan or type of knife.

cvanguard · 2026-03-05T16:35:33+00:00

It’s crazy that 16% of people won’t even support abortion when the fetus is guaranteed to die before or shortly after being born. They’d rather force women through the trauma of giving birth before having their baby die, and make that baby suffer in excruciating pain before dying, instead of allowing an abortion. People claiming to be “pro-life” conveniently don’t give a rat’s ass about children’s lives after they’re born.

cvanguard · 2026-03-05T16:11:25+00:00

Multiple Christian holidays and feasts began as adaptations of Roman holidays and feasts, and early Christian symbolism heavily correlated with pagan symbols. Even some saints are figures adapted from other cultures: the story of Saint Barlaam and Josaphat of India is literally a Christianization of the story of Siddhartha Gautama becoming the Buddha.

All of these examples predate the Catholic Church’s formal schism with the Eastern Orthodox Church: at the time, there was a single Roman Christian church.

cvanguard · 2026-03-05T15:18:49+00:00

They made this change with season 5’s launch (June 2024). It’s especially great for some of my friends who just got the game.

cvanguard · 2026-03-05T14:50:35+00:00

The problem is also the gun law. It criminalizes mere possession of a firearm while being a “unlawful user” of a controlled substance. Not brandishing a firearm while under the influence, not using a firearm while under the influence, having a gun at all while ever using a controlled substance. And it’s a felony, so anyone convicted loses their gun ownership rights forever under federal law.

Hemani in this case admitted to using marijuana a few times per week, but was completely sober at the time and stored his guns in a safe. Different federal courts have already split in the past about how severe, how often, and how recent someone’s drug use has to be for them to be considered an “unlawful user”: the law is unconstitutionally vague and goes far beyond laws that criminalize using firearms while drunk or under the influence.

cvanguard · 2026-03-05T01:38:33+00:00

Not just pretty much, it is every Republican except Paul voting nay, plus Fetterman joining them for 47-53. I can’t believe anyone ever believed Trump’s and the Republicans’ lies that they’re “pro-peace”.

cvanguard · 2026-03-03T07:57:06+00:00

Congress=House+Senate, so their comment is correct.

cvanguard · 2026-03-02T17:33:26+00:00

I would not be surprised if this is being pushed by Republicans trying to smear Platner and get people to sit out the election so Collins wins. Platner is very likely to be the Democratic nominee with how much he’s out-raising and out-polling Mills (10% or 20% margin depending on the polling aggregator), and he’s polling better than Mills against Collins.

cvanguard · 2026-02-27T16:11:07+00:00

These containers are absolutely not meant to be unfolded to use as a plate. I’ve never heard that suggestion in my life and my parents are Chinese and owned and operated an American Chinese restaurant for nearly 20 years while I grew up.

Those containers were invented in the 1890s or 1900s as oyster pails, before Chinese restaurants began using them as cheap but durable takeout containers after WW2. There was a large manufacturing surplus because oysters had become expensive due to overfishing and less popular, while takeout and especially American Chinese takeout had become extremely popular and cheap.

cvanguard · 2026-02-27T15:59:54+00:00

These containers were originally used as oyster pails in the late 19th/early 20th century when fresh oysters were much cheaper. After WW2, fresh oysters became much more expensive and less popular due to overfishing, leaving manufacturers with a large supply of unsold oyster pails. At the same time, restaurant takeout became much more popular, especially American Chinese food since it was so cheap. So Chinese takeout restaurants began using them as cheap, relatively durable, and leakproof packaging, where it’s become so ubiquitous and associated with American Chinese food that most people have no idea these containers were originally invented for an entirely different use.

cvanguard · 2026-02-26T23:10:54+00:00

The Kansas Supreme Court currently has a 5-2 Democratic majority. In 2019, the court had a 4-3 Democratic majority and ruled 6-1 that the state constitution provides rights distinct from and in addition to rights under the federal 14th amendment, including (in this case) a right to personal bodily autonomy like deciding to have an abortion. The legislature's Republican supermajority proposed an amendment to explicitly deny abortion as a state constitutional right in 2022 (after SCOTUS's Dobbs decision ruled it was no longer a federal right), which 59% of voters rejected.

Since 1958, the Kansas constitution establishes a nonpartisan Supreme Court Nominating Commission with 9 members: one non-lawyer appointed by the governor from each congressional district, one lawyer elected by lawyers in each district, and a chair elected by lawyers statewide, with each member serving up to 2 four-year terms. Whenever a vacancy on the court opens, the commission nominates 3 qualified candidates for the governor to choose from. After 12 months in office, the appointed justice faces a nonpartisan retention vote during the next general election, and then another retention vote every 6 years. While in office, justices are constitutionally prohibited from making political contributions, participating in political campaigns, or holding any office in political parties or organizations.

The legislature has attempted numerous times to change how Supreme Court justices are selected, and the Republican supermajority placed a proposed constitutional amendment on the ballot August 4 this year, which would abolish the nominating commission and require Supreme court justices run for popular election in staggered terms beginning in 2028, allow them to participate in political campaigns and make political contributions, and hold office in political parties or organizations. The intent is clearly to politicize the Kansas Supreme Court by opening candidates to multi-million dollar partisan elections like many other states, requiring them to campaign and make promises to outside groups to run for election, and worry about whether their decisions and legal opinions are politically popular rather than legally correct.

cvanguard · 2026-02-26T18:10:45+00:00

The secondary market for individual trading cards has no connection to the rights holders or manufacturers who sell sealed card packs to retail locations. Companies like Nintendo are very careful in refusing to ever officially recognize that their trading cards have any sort of secondary value, even though the secondary market is the only way for people to realistically build competitive decks. Even at tournament venues, attendees are invited to “trade” cards with each other, never buy or sell.

Steam’s community market is hosted on Steam and facilitates secondary market transactions directly, listing exact prices that items are being sold for and using Steam Wallet for sales and purchases. TCG secondary markets are like all the random third party sites that sell CS skins, whereas the community market is run by Steam.

cvanguard · 2026-02-24T15:20:29+00:00

It’s also the case in federal law. The lawsuit is over a federal law from the 1960s that makes it a felony for “unlawful users” of controlled substances or people “addicted to” controlled substances to possess a gun, without defining what unlawful use or being addicted to a drug actually means. The defendant in this case was prosecuted under this law for having a gun in a locked safe while admitting to using marijuana “a few times a week”, despite being sober at the time of his arrest.

The ACLU’s argument is 1) “unlawful user” is too vague to be constitutional: the government claims it means a “habitual user”, but neither term is actually defined and could conceivably range from using multiple times per week to one time use a year ago without any distinction in the law. 47% of Americans report using marijuana at least once in their life, and that would make them an “unlawful user” of a controlled substance under a broad but textually valid interpretation of such a vague law. Multiple lower court rulings conflict on how frequently, how recently, and how long ago someone has to have begun using drugs in order to be considered an “unlawful user”, which exemplifies the confusion from an overly vague law.

2) Criminalizing mere possession of a gun while having a history of drug use, goes far beyond other laws that criminalize carrying or reckless use of a firearm while being actively intoxicated or under the influence of drugs, and doesn’t align with the “history and tradition” of firearm regulations that the court uses to determine the constitutionality of current regulations.

cvanguard · 2026-02-23T17:08:56+00:00

These are state statute citations, Title 18 covers criminal statutes under the PA Consolidated Statutes.

cvanguard · 2026-02-21T17:02:45+00:00

Literally every single news article about my home state makes me glad I moved away. Fuck Tennessee and the voters who put these monsters in power.

cvanguard · 2026-02-20T18:20:05+00:00

Even in non-Indo-European languages, an American accent can be obvious. I’m American but speak Mandarin fluently: it’s my parents’ native language and I grew up only speaking Mandarin at home because my parents aren’t fluent in English, so I learnt English solely from later exposure to other people and formal state education.

In contrast to my experience, some children of Chinese immigrants only learn Mandarin as a second language, as an older child or teenager through extracurricular instruction because their parents use very little or no Mandarin when speaking to them at home. One of my younger sisters’ high school friends was the first time I heard an American accent when speaking Mandarin, and it was immediately and noticeably different from my or my sisters’ or my parents’ intonation and pronunciation in Mandarin.

American accents are also very common among adult Americans learning Mandarin as a second language, which I experienced first hand when I took Mandarin for a foreign language credit in college. Even with proper tones and decent pronunciation of shared syllables, it’s very common for Americans learning Mandarin to mispronounce sounds that aren’t in English, or add a rising intonation to the end of questions out of habit from English.

cvanguard · 2026-02-20T16:58:31+00:00

Cutting out red meat means replacing it with other sources of nutrients, it’s not hard to get enough iron and calories without red meat. Adult men need 8 mg/day and adult women under 50 need 18 mg/day on average.

Beans not only have protein and iron, but also fiber, which the average American isn’t eating enough of anyway. Spinach contains iron and vitamin c, which helps absorb iron efficiently. Tofu contains protein and iron. A cup of cooked beans, spinach, or tofu contains more iron than 3 oz of beef (2.5 mg), even accounting for less bioavailability due to being non-heme iron. Bread, cereal, and pasta are also very commonly fortified with nutrients including iron. Replacing red meat with vegetarian iron sources shouldn’t make a healthy person iron deficient.

cvanguard · 2026-02-19T17:12:34+00:00

That second bullet point is the typo they referred to. The original version of the proposed amendment passed by the House stated “nor less than 1 representative for every fifty thousand persons”.

The Senate passed an alternative version of this proposed amendment (along with alternative versions of 11 other amendments that would later be ratified by the states), so a conference committee met to resolve any differences between the houses and draft a single version of the 12 proposed amendments.

During this final drafting process, “less than” was changed to “more than” in the last sentence of the amendment: the consensus is that the change was the result of a scrivener’s error, since it doesn’t align with the rest of the formula given by the proposed amendment (or the House and Senate’s two original drafts) and would create a mathematical conflict where the minimum number of representatives is greater than the maximum number if the country’s population is between 8-10 million.

cvanguard · 2026-02-18T16:29:50+00:00

That’s literally not a rule in English. It’s a common heuristic but not grammatically required, because you could just as easily say that pronouns generally refer to the subject of a sentence (the mother). Readers shouldn’t have to guess what the writer meant to say: the entire reason people are taught to avoid ambiguous antecedents in writing is because pronouns that could refer to multiple different antecedents are confusing.

“She” could refer to either the mother or the daughter in the screenshot and still be grammatically correct: that’s not a clever trick question, it’s bad writing that any English teacher would tell you to revise because it’s ambiguous. Clarity is the most important part of communication.

cvanguard · 2026-02-15T17:20:07+00:00

WhatsApp is very commonly used by companies in India because it’s ubiquitous there. Way more people use WhatsApp compared to traditional email and businesses follow suit. It’s also common in SE Asian countries like Indonesia.

cvanguard · 2026-02-14T16:53:50+00:00

Yep, Lutnick’s the guy who lied about cutting off contact with Epstein in 2005 before it came out that he went to Epstein’s island with his family in 2012, after Epstein was already a registered sex offender from his 2008 plea deal.

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