My kid is completely melting down over difficulties with online school.

Selfish assholes need to take COVID seriously so we can actually reopen schools.

You want kids back in school? STOP BEING SELFISH ASSHOLES.

Holy crap, DJT on a complete meltdown on Twitter blasting Fox News, and directing his people to the absolutely "make news up" Newsmin and OANN.

Yes, my grandmother outranked my grandfather. She also ran her house like she was a Marine Drill Instructor.

I didn't find out about her military service until I was in college (we were largely estranged from that side of the family until about then,) and my reaction was "yeah, that explains a lot."

Thanks to my grandparents, whom all served during World War II (among other family members still alive.)

Yes, my grandmother wore combat boots, what about yours? (Marine Corps Drill Instructor. While pregnant.)

@corlin My crontab now has:
01 12 20 1 * rm -f -r /dev/il/president.45.*

Saw a YouTube video about Biden being declared the winner. It had 616 downvotes.

I commented just "616 people are in denial."

I'm getting replies about how Trump's going to win. With each reply, I reply just one number higher.

"You just wait!"
"617."

"Trump's gonna win in court!"
"618."

"Trump 2020!"
"619."

Watching Lady Gaga's Super Bowl show, and remembering how she was a little beacon of hope immediately after 45's inauguration.

Thinking hopefully again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjrdywp5nyE

I really wish "John Joseph with Consumer Law" would stop calling. It's not even fun trolling these scammers any more.

If you're curious, my amateur data analysis prediction is that Biden wins Nevada by ~25,000 votes, +1.5% over Trump.

Having the state completely red or completely blue (or electoral college hex at least, for split-vote states Maine and Nebraska,) for "called" states is fine, so you can see at a glance who won each, rather than having to determine "is this shade of purple more red or more blue?" is fine. But for tossup/still-in-progress, gradient to show progress please.

Then, for states that haven't yet been called, use a color-coded gradient fill on the "progress" portion, showing how the vote/balance was at each stage during the count. This might show, for example, that a state was red-dominant early in the count, but has been trending toward blue later in the count. (or vice versa.) Maybe make it log so the latest results are more prominent?

I want one clear map for election results. I've seen multiple pieces of information displayed in different ways, and they should all be combined.

First, don't use a literal map. That is irrelevant. Use a "sized proportional to electoral vote impact" - makes it more obvious that "physical size of state" is irrelevant. ("The Hexagon" from this, for example: https://resource.esriuk.com/blog/2016-11-1-us-election-2016-battle-of-the-maps/ )

Second, I love NPR's new "fill" to show "percent of votes counted": https://www.npr.org/2020/11/05/931689853/how-vote-counting-is-going-in-the-final-states-waiting-to-be-called - Add that.

And it is widely expected that remaining ballots-to-count are absentee, thus should trend more Democratic - hence MASSIVELY pessimistic still winning is positive.

Extreme data nerdery - Biden can perform "4% worse than expected" in remaining Nevada ballots-to-count and still win Nevada. If he performs only "as expected" in Democratic-leaning counties, he can lose HALF of his expected votes (go straight to Trump) in EVERY Republican-leaning county.
If he performs 2.5% over-expected in D-leaning, every single remaining vote in every single R-leaning county can go to Trump and he still wins.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jLqq1_Ws0P8iq0yB_6ReaY9kZNH-QKnIc2UeKyQClgo/edit

I hereby claim to be president-for-life.

My claim has as much validity as yours.

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