Cuberoot

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come it seems for the past decades the Catholic Church has been plagued with sex crimes especially among young boys? How long has this been going on? Or did I just miss something up.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Historically, it’s been alleged that some ‘celibate’ Catholic bishops fucked women. When the resulting bastard children grew up, they were rewarded with coveted Church appointments. If anyone noticed the apparent favoritism, they blamed the adultery on their brother, saying the appointee was a nephew (it: nipote) rather than the priest’s own illegitimate son. Thus the origin of the term nepotism.

  Probably some of them had different tastes and realized that fucking boys leaves less evidence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK most US states assign their electoral college votes by the state's popular vote⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not nationally, but because Maine uses both Instant runoff voting for presidential elections, and the Congressional district method of assigning electors, it’s mathematically possibly for Maine to split its electors 2-2. eg, the Republican wins both districts individually, while the Democrat wins statewide. Not this year though – needs a competitive 3-way race so the runoffs matter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can someone define "liberal" (in its use as an insult) for me?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Electoral College and The Numbers | USA question⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Black woman has never lost the general election for POTUS in US history but 46 white men have lost⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t correct that. He’s wrong. It’s way more than 46, most multi-term presidents defeated several different contenders.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨madlad⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There isn’t much math to do really. Take as axioms that the obvious way to balance 2 or 3 tubes is in fact balanced, and that if you add a balanced arrangement of tubes to an already balanced arrangement, the result is still balanced.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do companies get out of rewards programs⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The existence of Sloths implies the existence Wraths, Lusts, Gluttonies, Prides, Envies, and Greeds.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Gluttons exist; their modern name is wolverine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You're Not Imagining It: Google Search Results Are Getting Worse, Study Finds⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My problem seems to stem from the fact that my searches are often obscure and commercial interests probably wish I was searching for something else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK about the condensation pipe on your gas furnace⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because I didn’t notice that. Edited.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK about the condensation pipe on your gas furnace⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I’m just proud of myself because I fixed my house like a big boy tonight. Don’t worry, there’s still plenty of problems with my shitty house, but tonight I have a warm shitty house.

• YSK about the condensation pipe on your gas furnace
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