Cuberoot

Phil Ochs says it better than I can:

In every American community there are varying shades of political opinion. One of the shadiest of these is the liberals. An outspoken group on many subjects, ten degrees to the left of center in good times, ten degrees to the right of center if it affects them personally.

The issues have changed slightly from the 1960s, but his song's accusations of hypocrisy and NIMBYism among those who publicly espouse progressive causes still hit close enough to home.

It's hard to predict this in advance, since it's sensitive to things like voter turnout in non-competitive states. For instance, a blizzard in New England could affect the popular vote without impacting the electoral college vote. So I'll just tell you how to calculate it.

First, identify the tipping point state. Some guys think it might be Michigan this year. Meaning either candidate can win by winning Michigan and every state more favorable to them than Michigan. Other good guesses are Pennsylvania and maybe Arizona. Then take the difference between a candidate's margin in Michigan verses their national average.

2020: The tipping point state was Wisconsin. Biden won WI by 0.6% and nationally by 4.5% representing a 3.9% electoral college advantage to the Republican.

2012: The tipping point state was Colorado. Obama won CO by 5.4% and nationally by 3.9% representing a 1.5% electoral college advantage to the Democrat.

So the electoral college doesn't intrinsically benefit the Republicans, but it probably will this year.

Becoming a victim of one also works.

Seems like these sort of hacks always involve the company's data about its users, and never their own confidential contracts, trade secrets, or other leaks that could directly damage their own operations.

It makes a guy suspect they actually have a very good understanding of information security, but just don't think yours is worth the bother.

They're trying to capture the consumer surplus. Normally, a seller can have either high margins and low volume, or low margins and high volume. The retailers wet dream is to get the benefits of both. If the reward program profiles you as someone who buys coffee at $4.00, but not at $6.00, you'll get coupons for coffee that the people who buy coffee every week regardless of price won't get.

FWIW, I've found stores that don't even have rewards cards frequently have lower prices than their competitors' reward card sale prices.

There's doctrix and doctress, but wiktionary lists one as archaic and the other as obsolete.

I assumed the only reason we don't already is because of the ethical issues with subjecting human women to the practices that make bovine milk economical.

This is just about patient copays, right? And AZN still gets to charge patients' insurance as much as they can get away with?

So that's where they all went. I haven't seen those in circulation since I bought stamps from a vending machine.

Your #1 is the etymological meaning of the word. For precise usage, there should be at least some element of #2, lest you inadvertently misclassify a misanthrope who hates everybody. That's assuming you're using a gender-inclusive sense of the word 'guy'; anyone can be a misogynist.

Really? What about Nicaraguan-born Roger Calero who was the SWP nominee in 2004 (his VP candidate was a citizen by birth, but was only 28). Several states had the SWP run an eligible candidate instead, but at least 5 of them listed Calero/Hawkins.

The candidate is running as a trans Democrat for District 84. The other case you're referring to is for District 50 which the dems didn't even contest in 2022.

If they played by the rules, they'd have both lost in a landslide and nobody would have noticed or cared. This news story is the best win they could have hoped for.