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I really hate this narrative because they offered a lot. Despite pushback, Biden did manage to forgive a lot of student debt and created a lot of jobs. Harris had a fantastic plan to help rural communities, families with young children, and those with lower incomes while going after big companies to pay their fair share and rein in price gouging. What's frustrating is that it all got lost. The same thing happened to HRC as well.

This drove me freaking insane. Screw this bullshit about her being a weak candidate. If it were a man with her resume and oratory skills no one would be saying it. I'm tired of being nice about it. I entered the workforce in the 80s and I can't believe we're still dealing with this bs. It's sexism, pure and simple.

It's a Margaret Atwood quote.

I loved the suit/no tie look Seth was sporting this week. It may not have been for us, but I wouldn't be sad if that was the Corrections look from now on. Dude was hawt.

My understanding is that is what is meant by defunding the police. Turn over tasks that are better suited to other personnel and leave the police to investigate serious/violent crimes. You won't need so many of them if you go to this model.

Certainly agree that the polls are probably being skewed, which I suspect is why you're not seeing any Democratic one. I can guarantee they are doing them but it's not in their best interests for it to be known they are favourable, Like you mentioned, abortion is on the ballot in many states as well as other initiatives and they would really love to turn the house and keep the senate, as well as flip some stuff down ballot too. The best way to do this is to use urgency to get people out to the polls, so this horserace narrative serves that goal.

Canada is even younger and we don't have these issues. Part of it is that all elections are run by Elections Canada, an arms-length agency of the federal government. We do actually use paper ballots and do manual counts at the end of the night but we have a lot of polling stations so each poll only has 400-600 names. The ballots are numbered and the amount of ballots is cross-referenced with the names crossed off the voting list at the end of the night. The returning officer and the poll clerk count the ballots together, the numbers are reported to the chief returning officer in the area, the ballots are then sealed in an envelope. Unused ballots are sealed in another, and the voting list in a third. All of it is then placed in the ballot box and it is sealed in case it needs to be reviewed later. Counting is usually done within an hour unless the number of votes and ballots don't reconcile with the voting list. It's a bit of a nightmare when that happens but it's not often, and usually has to do with a name not being crossed off. If you're not on the list, you need to bring two pieces of identification off a list to register. You fill in a declaration, and then you get a ballot. I haven't worked the last few elections, in which I know we now use a scanner in Ontario to run the ballots through. Pretty sure the end of the night is just verifying the numbers the scanner spits out, but maybe someone who has worked a more recent election can go into that process.

They did do a send off.

John's obvious glee during the Adams story was fun. That Turkish film was crazy! Ending it with that crazy foot discussion was a good way to transition out of the enraging story about the US judicial system. I knew all of this but happy that this show is passing that knowledge along. There's a lot at stake for your elections. Sending best wishes from Canada. (We'll need them back next year.)

He also has his environmentalist cred, and I know a shocking amount of otherwise progressive people who are anti-vaxxers.

Yes, I've been playing the game for a few months now. The stories in the episodes (what they call chapters) are true to the show. The show's writing staff reviews the scrips and according to a member of the game's customer service team the show's writing team has said they are like episodes. It's an idle game and didn't have a lot of instructions of how to play off the bat but I quite enjoy it now that I've accepted that gathering resources means the chapters take a couple of days to play but it's now created it's own story within the story which doesn't contradict the show but is funny as hell. People keep getting trapped in the holodeck and the events mean you can win cards from characters across ST. During Disco's final season you could get their characters, then I got characters from SNW and classic Trek, as well as things like games and tricorders. It's a lot of fun once you get patient.

He looks very weird in this. The forehead was always high but they elongated it so it really does look ridiculous.

Utterly brilliant use of Wesley Crusher!

I was a J/Cer back in the day and this episode gave me life. Didn't think they'd give us this much of them and I'm utterly thrilled.

Oh my J/C loving heart! This episode was EVERYTHING. Thanks team - you got everything right, down to Janeway putting her hand on Chakotay's chest. I'm ded.