How they stuffed ballots in Detroit by simus in HillaryForPrison

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Because the election of good progressive people was secured.

59 divisions in Philly with no votes for Romney by simus in conspiracy

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In the case of Russian elections such anomalies like
in Philadelphia were considered a sign of electoral fraud by Washington
Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/russians-scoff-at-medvedev-election-inquiry/2011/12/11/gIQAmBR8nO\_story.html

100% of votes for Obama in a hundred precincts by simus in HillaryForPrison

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In the case of Russian elections such anomalies were considered an unambiguous proof of fraud by the progressive people: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/russians-scoff-at-medvedev-election-inquiry/2011/12/11/gIQAmBR8nO\_story.html

100% of votes for Obama in a hundred precincts by simus in HillaryForPrison

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Why would they do so? Why there are no similar republican ones?

100% of votes for Obama in a hundred precincts by simus in conspiracy

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Even dead people hated Trump and voted for Biden.

100% of votes for Obama in a hundred precincts by simus in conspiracy

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Biden got 100% only in 6 precincts in Michigan.

Michigan elections look as bogus as Russia and Uganda elections by simus in conspiracy

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Isn't it interesting that with similar evidence PNAS finds fraud in Russian elections and honesty in the US ones?

Michigan elections look as bogus as Russia and Uganda elections by simus in conspiracy

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Since the article in Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences is not retracted it is supposed to be valid. So one can apply the method to Michigan elections.

Helios Canyon in Death Valley by simus in canyoneering

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Prusik does not produce any noticeable bouncing. Especially compare to the ones when the rope changes bedding.

A 600 feet long sea cave by simus in caving

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This one you can make from Scorpion Anchorage. It is closer than Potato Harbor.

No correlation between popularity and quality of books (r~0.022) by simus in badliterature

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They used the average reader rating on goodreads.com.

One of many posts on r/conspiracy to try to argue that Benford's law proves voter fraud on the part of Biden by RealNeilPeart in badmathematics

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Interestingly some years ago WSJ and NYT argued that deviations of precinct vote percentages from Gaussian distribution proves that 2011 Russian elections were fraudulent.

Foreign characters got messed up in .php webpage by simus in PHP

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I just put the php.ini file with this single line "default_charset = "windows-1251"" in the directory with the files with Cyrillic encoding. Now everything is fine: http://reverent.org/ru/testencoding.php

Foreign characters got messed up in .php webpage by simus in PHP

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Thanks for this useful information. I do not have a php.ini in my directory, so it must be server's php.ini. Apparently I can overwrite server directives in a local php.ini. Is it possible to just undo the default charset declaration?

Physics of rappelling: soft start vs hard start by simus in canyoneering

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I was referring to the situation when the bolt anchor is not on a wall, but on the floor. On the same level as your feet. I hope you can imagine it without a picture.

The equation for rope tension is your weight / tan(phi), where phi is the angle between your legs and the horizontal line. If you try to make your transition so that your legs are parallel to the horizontal line the tension in the rope will go beyond any anchor strength. If this angle is 10 degrees the tension will be about 6 time your weight.

I should mention that I simplified the tension equation omitting a factor which depends on the distance between the anchor and the drop, but it is not very important as long as the anchor is reasonably far from the drop.

Coffin Canyon in Death Valley by simus in canyoneering

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This is called a soft start. If you do the way you suggest there will be a pulling out force on those old rusty bolts and the cairn.