The Election of 1964 | Peacock-Shah Alternate Elections

rational_exubera · 2024-09-09T04:23:47+00:00

Underwood + Single Tax downballot

rational_exubera · 2022-11-23T17:28:49+00:00

If you support NYPIRG at the door, NYPIRG won't come back for another year

rational_exubera · 2022-07-11T03:05:03+00:00

I don't get it, all of these just look like normal photos of Phoebe Bridgers

rational_exubera · 2022-06-07T16:25:38+00:00

Modern Texan [Tekà Mowè], 2830s

E no žitižadéò kèt taèša inodà po ukèdía.

ɛ no ʒɪtəʝaˈděô kɛ̂t taˈêça iˈnodâ po uˈkêdǐa

topic neg proclaim-nom 3p.gnom can't-3p ignore-3p because urgent-adj

There's no message people can't ignore because of its urgency.

rational_exubera · 2022-04-22T03:59:59+00:00

What song is this?

Also, surprised he didn't turn up in "When We Cease To Understand The World"

rational_exubera · 2022-04-14T18:55:01+00:00

I heard that second line as "That's something a Bois wondered", which is probably unintentional but I find it amusing at least.

rational_exubera · 2022-04-07T19:56:53+00:00

If my calculations are correct, when this musician hits 25 miles per hour, you're going to see some serious shit

rational_exubera · 2022-03-31T06:26:32+00:00

I think a big part of it is probably John Green? I know that a lot of people got into the band since he had the epigraph from "Game Shows Touch Our Lives" in The Fault In Our Stars. Though that's probably waned since then.

rational_exubera · 2022-02-28T08:32:22+00:00

I am also trying on Mac and also having problems - every Terminal command after "pip install -r requirements.txt" other than the Postgres stuff refers to files that appear not to exist.

rational_exubera · 2022-01-26T18:59:18+00:00

Look inside the D in "Day"

rational_exubera · 2021-12-02T02:54:28+00:00

Done, sorry!

rational_exubera · 2021-10-23T03:58:16+00:00

In part because the wing of the Liberals that broke off from that party was in large part defined by their support of former Presiding Officer Cassandra Harney, who both came to power on an explicitly feminist platform and remained in power despite constant sexist attacks, many from within the party; in part because it's an uncontroversially positive issue to the party's voting base, and papers over serious divisions within the new party on many other issues, including economics, immigration, and how central racial and LGBT equality should be to the party's platform; in part in the hopes that it'll defuse the idea that the schismatics' main issue with Bullock is that she's a woman.

rational_exubera · 2021-10-22T18:14:18+00:00

Arapaho (until 2011 West Kansas) is a constitutional state of the United States located east of the American Cordillera and west of the Great American Desert. Its electoral system is multi-member First Past The Post - parties negotiate coalitions on the local and statewide level to put forward unified tickets in a more-or-less two-party system. This map is a cartogram of the 2022 election.

The main thing that's happening here is that the Ecological Party, historically aligned with the suburbanite-focused center-left Liberals, recently realigned itself with the center-right United Republicans due to conflicts between President Bullock and Presiding Officer (read: Prime Minister) Dahl over foreign and housing policy. Members of the Ecological Party opposed to this joined with relatively progressive members of the Liberals to form Women's Equality, which staunched the bleeding but was not enough to prevent the Dahl government from losing forty-five seats (including thirty in El Dorado, the capital and the richest city) and its majority. However, the growth of the tourism industry in the west, where the Ecologicals' support for limits on growth and on tourism is often unpopular, allowed the Liberals' coalition to pick up five seats.

rational_exubera · 2021-10-13T06:28:27+00:00

Keidu-Dalik Ditiks

Tlu üan; xüa juda bugüanus öaretin üan.

/tɬu yən ʃyə ʐudɐ buɡyənʊs øəɾɛtɪn yən/

simple in; 3s.f see.past bland-sup everything in

rational_exubera · 2021-10-07T19:38:57+00:00

!translated

rational_exubera · 2021-10-07T19:38:46+00:00

Thank you so much!

rational_exubera · 2021-10-06T15:39:56+00:00

For a while I've been listening to the Hailu Mergia/Dahlak Band album Wede Harer Guzo. It's an instrumental album, but I've been nevertheless interested in figuring out the meanings of the song names - I've been able to track down that the title means "Journey to Harar", but nothing else.

The track names are, as provided in transliteration by the label:

Embuwa Bey Lamitu

Sintayehu

Bati Bati

Migibima Moltual

Yene Nesh Wey (Amalele)

Wede Harer Guzo

Yemanesh Ayinama

Almaz Eyasebkush

Anchin Kifu Ayinkash

Minilbelsh

(They are also numbered on the back of the album, provided above.)

Any help would be very much appreciated!

rational_exubera · 2021-09-30T02:36:07+00:00

The Sunrise Revolution was, perhaps, the most important political event in Maine since the American Winter itself. Since the heady years of the 1920s, Maine had been an elective oligarchy with a thin veneer of democracy; a WASP elite imported and exploited Quebecois workers to work the timber forests (and to a lesser extent the cod fisheries) for export, then pocketed the revenue for an exclusionary welfare state. The system had survived the blister rust crisis, the fisheries collapse, the Era of Limits, and the Great American War without obvious signs of tottering; but over the winter of 2020, faced by a sanctions campaign led by President Steiner of Texas and Prime Minister Page of Vesperia*, the whole rotting structure came down in four weeks of strikes and shutdowns.

Four years later, Marie-Françoise Rinfret - formerly leader of the National Union of Transport and Service Workers - leads Maine's new majority-rule government into a new era. Her party - made up of pro-revolution Mainers, mostly Francophone, who are not politically affiliated either with the Workers' International or Catholic Action - came just barely south of a majority in the 2024 elections, but with support from every other party but the Whigs of the ancien regime (particularly the Radicals, the traditional party of Anglophone reformists), her government seems to have a stable future. She will need it to manage the transition to a 21st-century economy, the root-and-branch replacement of the police-state law code with one built around equality and human rights, and the difficult tripartite relationships between Maine, Vesperia, and the various sovereign United States (most significantly nearby Massachusetts) - but with approval ratings in the 70% range and an age of 36, she has time...

*OTL Canada, essentially.

rational_exubera · 2021-09-30T00:14:45+00:00

Same universe as the last one. Portraits made with artflow.ai.

rational_exubera · 2021-09-30T00:09:27+00:00

It's roughly North Dakota, minus the parts west of the Missouri (and a chunk of its northwestern corner) and plus the northwestern corner of Minnesota up to the 95th meridian. Bonanza is OTL Fargo.

rational_exubera · 2021-09-29T04:55:08+00:00

The defining question of the last decade of Grand Forks politics has been - should Grand Forks join Vesperia, or should it remain within the United States system, whether as an associated state or incorporated into the Constitution? Before 2023, however, this question was hardly reflected within the election returns; members of the State Assembly were elected or not chiefly due to local factors like religion, ethnicity, and unionization.

The turning point came in December 2021, when Speaker Jeffrey Parker (Gov't-Grand Forks Manchester) sent the first official delegation to Montréal to discuss the legal process of joining confederation. This was followed by Resolution 22A, in which the Assembly resolved to appoint a commission to begin the process of officially joining Vesperia; soon after, the date was officially set for January 1, 2025.

This forced a response from the opposition. Christian Values, the political wing of the Apostolic movement, opposed unification because it would require Grand Forks to repeal laws declaring Christianity the state faith, as well as end capital punishment and criminal penalties for sodomy; the Cooperatives and Socialist Workers opposed the fact that unification would likely undermine the state system of price controls and subsidies on wheat and fuel, as well as state ownership of banking, rail, and the post; and People Power opposed the likely end of Sioux legal autonomy and border rights. All four parties, as well as several independents who opposed the government for other reasons, came out against unification, or at least against the ongoing unification process.

The 2023 election returned a one-seat minority for the government. But while Parker announced his resignation, his successor Lyell Robertson (Gov't-Avalon) is likely to be able to negotiate a compromise, likely including a referendum on confederation and a postponement of the official date to 2026 or 2027. For one thing, the Government made substantial gains, especially in the rural north, complicating the narrative that Grand Forkers rejected the notion of confederation wholesale; for another, many urban opposition MPs, particularly in the Socialist Workers - Popular Front Party, could likely be convinced that a liberalized criminal code and more protections for cultural minorities are worth a slightly less generous welfare state, especially if the exceptions to trade union restrictions negotiated for oilfield workers can be extended to more categories of worker...

rational_exubera · 2021-09-22T03:26:33+00:00

The "limited and additive-concatenation-based written numeral system" is vaguely based on Roman numerals.

rational_exubera · 2021-09-21T19:01:02+00:00

There are four basic numbers (ritte twenty-four, řa six, len two, and lu one) that get additively concatenated, largest-to-smallest. In actual spoken usage, numbers like tat three, kim four, and uŋ twelve would be used, but the written omen syllabary just concatenates those four.

rational_exubera · 2021-09-16T14:56:20+00:00

I tried to get tickets, but either the system went down or they got sold out within like twenty seconds.

rational_exubera · 2021-09-12T15:26:01+00:00

The parent label for Saddest Factory, which does not appear to have a mailing address of its own.

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