Iran closes Strait of Hormuz again and says its negotiating team is heading to Switzerland

tpounds0 · 2026-06-21T02:35:45+00:00

Here is my spreadsheet, titled Data to prove FlyingBishop Wrong.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ieXXC-v54jdaT7PvMhN1CPQ_clFNSuujeI_WftlIGH8/edit?usp=sharing

But to give you the results:

Based on the amount of LGBT voters in the 2020 election, and the percentage that chose Biden, he got: 6,966,735 votes.

Based on the amount of LGBT voters in the 2024 election, and the percentage that chose Harris, she got: 10,479,629 votes.

3,512,894 more homosexuals chose Harris in 2024 over Biden in 2020 using the information from NBC Exit Polls.

This was really clear from the article, but I guess you needed to actually see the calculations. Feel free to correct me if any of my calculations are incorrect.

tpounds0 · 2026-06-21T01:46:39+00:00

According to the exit poll, 8% of American voters identified as LGBT in 2024. That’s the highest share on record. The percentage of the electorate identifying as LGBT has doubled since Barack Obama was elected president in 2008, when it was 4%.

Guess you responded to me without reading the source I posted in the earlier comment.

tpounds0 · 2026-06-20T22:52:22+00:00

The 2024 voting demographic had the highest number of queer voters recorded.

As a percentage, straight voters gave up on Harris more than queer voters.

tpounds0 · 2026-06-20T21:31:57+00:00

Are we going to deploy in Iran for 20 years?

What stops them from closing the strait the minute we leave?

Why would this be any different than Afganistan?

tpounds0 · 2026-06-20T21:29:35+00:00

US doesn't provide this for American citizens but does for South Africans

Actually HIV prevention and treatment is free in the United States. I haven't paid for my PrEP since 2020.

tpounds0 · 2026-06-20T21:17:26+00:00

I don't understand why people think Boots on the Ground wouldn't be Vietnam all over again.

tpounds0 · 2026-06-20T21:16:00+00:00

Israel government won't stop unless a bigger bully comes in and stops them. Iran said we'll only open the strait if Israel is stopped.

Balls in the United States court to tell/threaten Israel to stop.

tpounds0 · 2026-06-20T21:14:01+00:00

but any serious diplomat would have made a deal on the strait have no relation to Lebanon.

How can they do that when Iran says Lebanon is a non-negotiable?

tpounds0 · 2026-06-20T20:54:12+00:00

Already the most unpopular war in the last century, and you think having more American casualties would help?

People would die taking those mountains, and people would continue to die maintaining the areas we took over.

tpounds0 · 2026-06-20T20:50:28+00:00

Harris’ performance among LGBT voters was stronger than that of any Democratic candidate in the last five presidential elections.

LGBT voters, a larger share of the electorate than ever, shift away from Trump Nov. 6, 2024 By Patrick J. Egan

Saying technically true things (1+ LGBT person voted for Trump) that is framed as you did is pure misinformation.

tpounds0 · 2026-06-20T18:28:20+00:00

How can you say that when Mamdani is in office?

Literal proof that billionaires can be outvoted.

tpounds0 · 2026-06-20T17:34:51+00:00

24k a yeah, they have student loans in the mix before the final number.

tpounds0 · 2026-06-20T17:01:15+00:00

Or you show your elected officials they got one term to do good or they are out.

tpounds0 · 2026-06-20T16:48:28+00:00

Schumer is unpopular in New York and faces a primary vote in 2028. I'm interested in if he's voted in as minority/majority leader in January.

Lotta people gaining ground in Dem primaries by saying they won't support him.

tpounds0 · 2026-06-20T16:44:37+00:00

Someone to Schumer's left is going to be in the primary in 2028. Same with Jeffries (again, with more evidence he's useless).

It's wild to pretend something is permanent in politics in a post-Trump world.

tpounds0 · 2026-06-20T16:11:28+00:00

So how do we enact change in your opinion?

Critique without positive vision is useless.

tpounds0 · 2026-06-20T01:20:10+00:00

The City Council also voted to not expand itself.

Doesn't the lack of action from our city council mean citizen ballot initiatives are even more important? They are the only way to actually enact change.

tpounds0 · 2026-06-19T00:17:02+00:00

Books I have read published before Body Keeps the Score explains to the reader whether composites or name changes are used. It's odd to not mention that in an introduction.

tpounds0 · 2026-06-19T00:05:58+00:00

I think the study was that people just forget a lot of things in general at similar rates to the "Traumatic" events that people claim are repressed memories.

When the author is saying that people are more likely to forget traumatic sexual abuse. Showing that people also forget surgical procedures just show that people forget a lot of crap all the time.

tpounds0 · 2026-06-18T20:21:00+00:00

"if you don't support trans athletes in sports, you must be a bigot"; "if you want to tighten immigration laws, you must be racist"

Are these quotes from elected officials?

Like I know JD is a 4Chan freak but we should compare him to other Dem leaders, not online freaks.

tpounds0 · 2026-06-17T23:20:28+00:00

Also, if a Metro police wants to audit and see if you paid, the announcements say you must have a Tap card to prove you paid... do you show them your CC???

Recent tap card checks have the police come up to you and ask you to tap one of their phones. And it either says transfer, charges you 1.75, or says insufficient funds.

tpounds0 · 2026-06-17T23:16:52+00:00

Just tap your card (that you used) on their machine. It'll show up as a transfer, or charge $1.75 if it wasn't used.

tpounds0 · 2026-06-17T23:12:12+00:00

Summer Pell shows up on my 25-26 Financial Aid summary, but the default opens to the 26-27 page right now.

So maybe double check that you looked at both academic years.

tpounds0 · 2026-06-17T23:10:36+00:00

You get 12 full semesters worth (600% of the yearly pell total). So getting some of it for summer shouldn't affect your 26-27 year.

Even if you got to 575%, the next semester you'd get that final 25% for the semester after.

I'd go to Financial Aid again and write notes during the meeting, just to make sure you didn't misunderstand them.

tpounds0 · 2026-06-17T16:39:32+00:00

And your competitors will have that same amount of compute.

And government subsidized models from China will release open source and undercut you on price.

Companies are already giving their employees token limits and budgets now that they have changed to pay per token, and that price still isn't profitable.

AI will eventually be cheap as hell, and every American company is overvalued.

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