64785 pts ยท July 8, 2014
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Counting down 'til Trump starts hawking these things to his sycophants in 3... 2... 1...
Got a bit of a Marisa Tomei in ๐๐บ ๐๐ฐ๐ถ๐ด๐ช๐ฏ ๐๐ช๐ฏ๐ฏ๐บ thing going on...
Need some ketchup...
But it was hot.
...in this economy?!?? Well look at Mr. Lah-di-dah over here!
...have you seen ๐๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐๐ถ๐ด๐ฌ '๐ต๐ช๐ญ ๐๐ข๐ธ๐ฏ?
Conway's Game of Life... and Death.
ะฅะผะผ. ะญัะพ ะฒะพั, ััะพ ัะบะฐะทะฐะปะฐ ะฑั ัะฟะธะพะฝะฐ.
This was in 2020. She won 56.25% to 47.75%. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Arkansas_House_of_Representatives_election#District_89
Huh. Didn't have "rooting for Iran" on my 2026 bingo card, but here we are...
(The US Census' removal of gender identity questions from the Household Pulse survey makes it frustrating - to say the least - to get at that data any more, and understandably, the folks behind the 2022 US Transgender Survey are leery of releasing their raw data. All of which makes it difficult to find many authoritative sources, but non-academic sources e.g.: https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/transgender-population-by-state show more-or-less similar results...)
So... those numbers don't match what I've been able to find.The Williams Institute (UCLA) figures that 0.99% of Kansans identify as transgender, which puts it in line with 0.81% of all Americans (by state: ฮผ=0.82%, ฯ=0.19% therefore Zโโ=0.89, so hardly an outlier). https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Trans-Pop-Update-Aug-2025.pdf
"I cannae step there e's dead slippery..."
#2 I mean, that's been my diet since I was a broke student back circa 2000. In fact, I just finished my one daily meal a few minutes ago. Been working out fine for me so far...
This offends the Monitor Lizard.
#2 I read that word as "genders" at first and was more than a little confused...
#8
(Followup: I just saw your other comment further down that implies you knew that last bit. Apologies for pedantically explaining something you already knew. ๐ I do understand how a thread can get away from one. It just seemed like I was reading a justification for the SLC protests being meaningful, and my brain was all like: "ehhhhh....".)
Ok, sure. But we're getting away from the original point of this thread. Utah as a whole may be red but SLC very much is not (geographer here: look up MAUP sometime). Utah is only red because much of the state outside SLC (admittedly including the suburbs) is so overwhelmingly red and SLC isn't big enough to counterbalance it.But SLC proper is actually ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ blue, and so protests like this [A] shouldn't be surprising, and [B] don't quite speak to quite the phenomenon that dynamojoe implied.
Tabarnak...
Huh. I could've ๐ด๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฏ I remembered it from the very early 2000s (like: circa 2003 or so) on pre-YouTube sites like Fark. But apparently not! June 2011, so yeah, you're right! https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/eharmony-video-bio
Adam Ragusea over on YouTube does a great investigation / explanation of this, if you don't mind a 1/2-hour watch... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0zc-j6gmmM
That thought, much like the hypothetical serve, has also passed through my my mind. But I've come to reject it.Serena can (& often does) double fault when playing vs strong opponents, where she feels the need to squeeze out every possible edge. But against a rank amateur? She's probably not going to be pushing herself the same way. And by slowing her serves down just a few MPH (& not worrying so much about the spin) she's entirely capable of landing her serve in the court every. Single. Time.
Counting down 'til Trump starts hawking these things to his sycophants in 3... 2... 1...
Got a bit of a Marisa Tomei in ๐๐บ ๐๐ฐ๐ถ๐ด๐ช๐ฏ ๐๐ช๐ฏ๐ฏ๐บ thing going on...
Need some ketchup...
But it was hot.
...in this economy?!?? Well look at Mr. Lah-di-dah over here!
...have you seen ๐๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐๐ถ๐ด๐ฌ '๐ต๐ช๐ญ ๐๐ข๐ธ๐ฏ?
Conway's Game of Life... and Death.
ะฅะผะผ. ะญัะพ ะฒะพั, ััะพ ัะบะฐะทะฐะปะฐ ะฑั ัะฟะธะพะฝะฐ.
This was in 2020. She won 56.25% to 47.75%. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Arkansas_House_of_Representatives_election#District_89
This was in 2020. She won 56.25% to 47.75%. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Arkansas_House_of_Representatives_election#District_89
Huh. Didn't have "rooting for Iran" on my 2026 bingo card, but here we are...
(The US Census' removal of gender identity questions from the Household Pulse survey makes it frustrating - to say the least - to get at that data any more, and understandably, the folks behind the 2022 US Transgender Survey are leery of releasing their raw data. All of which makes it difficult to find many authoritative sources, but non-academic sources e.g.: https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/transgender-population-by-state show more-or-less similar results...)
So... those numbers don't match what I've been able to find.
The Williams Institute (UCLA) figures that 0.99% of Kansans identify as transgender, which puts it in line with 0.81% of all Americans (by state: ฮผ=0.82%, ฯ=0.19% therefore Zโโ=0.89, so hardly an outlier).
https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Trans-Pop-Update-Aug-2025.pdf
"I cannae step there e's dead slippery..."
#2 I mean, that's been my diet since I was a broke student back circa 2000. In fact, I just finished my one daily meal a few minutes ago. Been working out fine for me so far...
This offends the Monitor Lizard.
#2 I read that word as "genders" at first and was more than a little confused...
#8
(Followup: I just saw your other comment further down that implies you knew that last bit. Apologies for pedantically explaining something you already knew. ๐ I do understand how a thread can get away from one. It just seemed like I was reading a justification for the SLC protests being meaningful, and my brain was all like: "ehhhhh....".)
Ok, sure. But we're getting away from the original point of this thread. Utah as a whole may be red but SLC very much is not (geographer here: look up MAUP sometime). Utah is only red because much of the state outside SLC (admittedly including the suburbs) is so overwhelmingly red and SLC isn't big enough to counterbalance it.
But SLC proper is actually ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ blue, and so protests like this [A] shouldn't be surprising, and [B] don't quite speak to quite the phenomenon that dynamojoe implied.
Tabarnak...
Huh. I could've ๐ด๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฏ I remembered it from the very early 2000s (like: circa 2003 or so) on pre-YouTube sites like Fark. But apparently not! June 2011, so yeah, you're right! https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/eharmony-video-bio
Adam Ragusea over on YouTube does a great investigation / explanation of this, if you don't mind a 1/2-hour watch... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0zc-j6gmmM
That thought, much like the hypothetical serve, has also passed through my my mind. But I've come to reject it.
Serena can (& often does) double fault when playing vs strong opponents, where she feels the need to squeeze out every possible edge. But against a rank amateur? She's probably not going to be pushing herself the same way. And by slowing her serves down just a few MPH (& not worrying so much about the spin) she's entirely capable of landing her serve in the court every. Single. Time.