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Nate Silver: Joe Biden should drop out
  • With perks like that who needs donors and TV ad time? This isn't the 80s. Elections aren't won on television ads.

    No, but they are still very much won with money. Advertising of various forms (TV, radio, Internet, billboards, yard signs, T-shirts, the list goes on), local outreach, field offices, door to door campaigners, booths at events, social media, and countless more. All of it is driven by money.

    Citizens United fucked every election since. It exclusively dealt with campaign finance.

  • Nate Silver: Joe Biden should drop out
  • While I agree with you about swing voters, there is a very large number of potential non-voters, sometimes known as the enthusiasm gap. People that believe that both options are the same, or that neither will affect their lives very much. There's also the ones that think Trump can't get re-elected, which of course is part of how he got there in the first place.

    There aren't a lot of people excited to vote Biden. But we'll do it anyway, because we really don't want to see more Trump. If I didn't see Trump as a threat to democracy itself, I could understand people not voting at all.

  • ‘I Know I’m Not a Young Man’: Biden Confronts Doubts During Forceful Rally
  • The incumbent advantage really doesn't apply if it's not who was elected in the first place. The only real advantage would be having a (short) record to run on. Even that assumes that (1) she would have one worth promoting, and (2) that people would care.

    The bigger concern is that Harris really, REALLY is not popular. It would take a long time to convince people otherwise, if it could even be done. Hillary spent decades trying to build her image, including a full election cycle in earnest, and failed so miserably that we ended up with Trump.

  • PC sometimes won't turn on until I unplug it from the wall for a 30 seconds or so. Faulty PSU?
  • Cutting the power for 30 seconds drains capacitors. The most likely culprit is in the PSU, but I've also seen it be the motherboard or GPU.

    Desktop PSUs have been pretty standardized for 25 years. The odds are pretty good that you still have an old one, or know someone that you could borrow from long enough to test.

    Failing that, just get one from a place with a decent return policy. I like Micro Center, if you're near one of those.

  • LPT requests : Money savings
  • Other people have suggested the broader ideas of saving, but I'm going to get into the details of how to spend less money.

    I follow the PERK system, and have found it to be very helpful. It takes a lot of effort initially, but becomes easy once you get to a routine. There are a bunch of explanations on this, so here is the first one from Google:

    https://lifehacker.com/give-your-budget-a-tune-up-with-the-perk-method-1748020270

    (To find others, I had to search for "Perk postpone eliminate reduce keep")

  • Fox News Edited Out trump Saying He Might Keep Epstein Files Sealed
  • If we're being honest, Trump probably wasn't a patron. Not because of his morals or anything, but because he would've been excluded.

    Epstein knew that what he was doing needed to be kept quiet. Trump has always been the loudest person in any room, making him a massive liability.

    It's unlikely that Epstein would've told him anything.

  • Some company heads hoped return-to-office mandates would make people quit, survey says
  • While true, it's a bit more nuanced than that. They can absolutely have requirements in the contract that will put you on site. For instance, they can have you being the one to set up the conference room for the morning meeting. They can also categorically say that their VPN access is only for FTEs.

    But as an independent business negotiating a contract, you just haggle these terms away. It's still a good idea to document expectations, including work hours and locations.

  • Some company heads hoped return-to-office mandates would make people quit, survey says
  • Simply having an LLC isn't enough- it's the separation of personal and business that enables protection. Until you have other employees, this is really hard to do/show.

    If you're going to go this route, you should probably talk to an attorney anyway.

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