Stephen Smith 🇺🇦
I am a long-time advocate of space exploration, settlement and commerce. Migrated from @WordsmithFL on Twitter.
Joined Nov 2022
#Politics From #FloridaToday:
Republicans outnumber Democrats 2:1 in #Florida early voting as of this morning. 🙄
#Maddow last night interviewing J. Ann Seltzer, whose #Iowa poll showed #HarrisWalz2024 +3 over #Trump. Some interesting insights into how the polling was conducted; will the high senior women turnout for Harris in Iowa be replicated nationwide?
After this, the panel made the point that pollsters tend to adjust models based on the past election, whereas Seltzer attempts to predict the profile of the next electorate.
#Politics The Des Moines Register floored us last night when it released a poll showing #Harris +3 in Iowa over #Trump.
The Trump campaign released an Emerson poll today showing him +10 in Iowa over Harris.
Simon Rosenberg at Hopium Chronicles says the Emerson poll was paid for by RealClearDefense, a pro-Trump group backed by House Armed Services Republicans.
In other words ... it's junk.
I'm still a bit skeptical about the Register poll, but glad to know the Emerson poll is garbage.
#Politics From #FloridaToday:
No surprise, a #MAGA Republican fleeced #SpaceCoast taxpayers for years by having his county staffers do his private teaching job paperwork.
Elon Musk fires canvassers he hired to door-knock, after several of them spoke on the record about how badly run his PAC is and their not being paid.
https://www.wired.com/story/canvassers-elon-musk-america-pac-fired-stranded-michigan-mistreatment/
At a #Pennsylvania rally today, #Trump said he wouldn't mind if an assassin shot the reporters covering him.
(I still think the Butler attempt is messing with his wetware a lot more than we know.)
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-harris-election-11-03-24#cm31t49yp00123b6nj27iph6r
#Politics Harrison Ford has endorsed #HarrisWalz2024. Because Indiana Jones hates Nazis.
By the way, #Iowa only has six electoral college votes, but every little bit helps #HarrisWalz2024. #Trump losing Iowa would be very symbolic.
Stephen Smith 🇺🇦
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I'll believe it when I see it, but this Des Moines Register poll now has #HarrisWalz2024 ahead of #Trump by three points in #Iowa.
H/T @DevinY1
@MLClark We've been down this road before in other episodes, e.g. "Measure of a Man," but offhand I can't think of an episode where Spock or Data or similar basically got caught in a logic loop.
I'm sure the answer is to tweak his programming so he doesn't care that he let this one crew member die, but that would cheat the core of the story.
And let's overlook that we never saw Jatel at any point in this series. But as we know, they make it up as they go. (7/7)
Fin.
@MLClark Janeway orders EMH to have 24/7 company, including herself, while he sorts it out.
(EMH says the universe is 20 billion years old; actually it's 13.7 billion; but who knows what was the thinking in 1998.)
In the end, it's not resolved. Janeway leaves him a poetry book with the message, essentially, take one day at a time.
A pretty good episode, especially since it wasn't resolved ... (6/x)
@MLClark In any case, Janeway decides to tell EMH what happened. Jatel and Harry were injured by an alien attack on an away mission with the EMH. (Again, the alien and the unfamiliar are the threat ...) EMH had time to save only one during surgery; he chose Harry (because guest star Nancy Bell has a one-episode contract).
The decision caused his prorgamming to degrade. Janeway's revelation causes the degradation again; she orders he be deactivated. (5/x)
@MLClark Seven argues that EMH's individuality is being violated. Janeway orders coffee, so it must be serious. She explains that the incident 18 months ago almost led the EMH to self-destruct. Seven argues it was his choice. "You're a human being. He's a hologram," Janeway counters. Seven says she was mistaken to have viewed Janeway as a role model.
Janeway should have made the point that EMH is a valued crew member, that protecting the crew's medical officer is more important. (4/x)
@MLClark Janeway orders EMH to shut himself down to prevent further tampering. (Methinks she's in on it.)
EMH sets up the holoimager to take pictures of anyone who enters the room while he's shut down. Sure enough, he catches Janeway trying to alter his programming.
Janeway explains she had to do it to save him, but EMH feels violated. She won't tell him what happened. She says he's "malfunctioning" and orders him back to sickbay.
Seven confronts Janeway ... (3/x)
@MLClark EMH asks Seven to run a diagnostic on him. When she arrives in Sickbay, EMH has no memory of the request. Harry's scan has been deleted, and EMH's programming has been altered. So have his holoimages from 18 months before.
Seven manages to restore five images. They show a female ensign named Jetal that neither he or Seven recall. (This was before Seven's arrival.) Seven manages to restore some random memories; EMH recalls her dying on an away mission. (2/x)
Stephen Smith 🇺🇦
I am a long-time advocate of space exploration, settlement and commerce. Migrated from @WordsmithFL on Twitter.
Joined Nov 2022