Systematic Puns

Its a counter-narrative fact because conservatives tend to dismiss the idea that they have an unfair advantage and the fact that Republicans gerrymander far more.

This is according to an analysis by FiveThirtyEight. The GOP has an advantage in every branch, from the EC, the Senate, the house, and even the courts:

>By now, Democrats’ disadvantage in the Electoral College is well-documented. President Joe Biden won the national popular vote by 4.5 percentage points, yet he won Wisconsin — the state that gave him his decisive 270th electoral vote1 — by only 0.6 points. In other words, Biden needed to beat former President Donald Trump nationally by more than 3.8 points2 in order to win the White House outright. (However, Trump wouldn’t have won outright unless Biden had won the popular vote by fewer than 3.2 points, thus losing Pennsylvania as well.3 The Electoral College’s Republican bias in 2020 thus averaged out to 3.5 points — but either way, it’s the most out of sync the Electoral College has been with the popular vote since 1948.) That said, of course, it is Republicans who have now won the presidency twice in the last six presidential elections while losing the popular vote. Political scientists say this occurrence risks “significantly decreas[ing] the perceived legitimacy of the winning candidates.”
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>Last year, despite Biden winning the national popular vote by 4.5 points, Trump won the median Senate seat4 by 0.5 points. That 5.0-point Republican lean makes the Senate the most biased institution in the federal government. In fact, Republican senators have not represented a majority of the population since 1999 — yet, from 2003 to 2007 and again from 2015 to 2021,5 Republicans had a majority of members of the Senate itself. That means that, for 10 years, Republican senators were [passing bills](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/19/us/politics/tax-bill-vote-cong

It is simply NOT ENOUGH if one race kills one over the other just because of their race. That’s not true racism. No no, true racism has to be systemic and systematic even in your own fantasy world where the concept of race may not even exist. You MUST do it this way and it must be intricate and take away from the main plot so you can remind your audience how progressive you are and let minorities know that you see them.

See even if you have it as warring states like England vs France you still have to make class and social constructs where someone must always be put down even if they’re the same thing. You have to include the minor details even if they are irrelevant to the plot and make sure the reader can not infer a single thing from the book. Tell them EVERYTHING.

So to summarize, killing someone just off their race isn’t really racist enough and it has to be systemic and systematic and needs to be seen all throughout the book. Otherwise, you’re racist.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/05/200507094621.htm

If you know me then you know I love my Boston Celtics. This season has been nothing short of a complete roller coaster–rarely having a full roster, losing games we shouldn’t, making great comebacks in the second half only to lose by single digits, and trading away stalwart Daniel Theis. In short, this season has been tough.

Currently, as of writing this, the Celtics are the 6th seed between an up-and-down Hawks team and an overrated Heat team (Nesmith > Herro). Oh, and we are below the Knicks. Never thought I would write that sentence. Through all that pain, there have been glimpses of hope! The Jays have asserted themselves as elite, dominant forces in today’s NBA, Payton Pritchard has emerged as a legit role player on this team, Nesmith can actually play basketball, Timelord is a starting-caliber center, Kemba can still cross you up, and Marcus Smart will never stop being Marcus Smart.

Above all of that, the most important takeaway from this season is that Jaylen Brown IS the Boston Celtics, both on and off the court. Jaylen is proving the $115M contract hate wrong by besting a career-high in FG%, 3PM, 3P%, FT%, AST, STL, BLK, and PPG. On April 15th Jaylen put on a show against the Lakers, shooting 17/20 from the field and scoring his 3rd 40-point game this season.

That stat-line alone is incredible, but what is even better is that only 9 of those 40 points came from three. If you have watched the Celtics this season, then you know we have struggled to get to the line. We currently rank 21st in FTA, which honestly is pathetic. So, to see Jaylen be as aggressive as he was that game and look to drive towards the hoop most possessions was incredible.

Dominance like this was expected from Brown by many Boston fans. We knew he was capable of putting up big numbers and inspiring his team to play gritty basketball. We knew back in 2019 when he signed that contract extension, keeping him in Boston for the next four seasons, that he would become an all-star in this league. I think what a lot of us did not expect from him was his presence off the court.

This past summer, we all witnessed the reality of being a Black man in America when the Minneapolis police murdered George Floyd. A couple of months prior, Louisville police shot and killed Breonna Taylor, and we all witnessed the reality of being a Black woman in America. A month before that we all witnessed the reality of being a Black man out on a jog in his neighborhood when Ahmaud Arbery

Ok so hear me out. The Uyghurs are litterally being put through a current holocaust and no one gives a rats ass about it, we're talking stripping of religion, personal identity and culture, work and death camps and even the tearing down of Mosques in China.

Which makes me think that even in world war 2 the allies would have never stepped in to the genocide that happened to the Jewish people if Germany had just taken Poland and nothing else. People claim that if the world knew of the atrocity being carried out that the world would jump to action, but now it's happening in our time and people are passing it by like it's business as usual. What's to say our Grandparents and they're societies would not have done the same.

Because the facts point the only reason anyone did anything in world war 2 is because their country was attacked in some way shape or form. Heck even America was in trade with Germany until pearl harbor and it wasn't until Germany kicked the hornets best that most countries got their asses in gear. So why do we think that when presented the facts of actual genocide they wouldn't treat it as we do!? Heck if they let Poland get taken like that I can guarantee you that until they marched into their boarders no one would care.

I wish someone could prove me wrong with this. I wish that instead of just denouncing it and moving on we faced a hard fact and did what needed to be done against the tyranny of genocide. But no one will and I don't blame em, it would be the end of mass produced goods as we know it, our economy would be in trouble and we'd have one of the world's biggest super powers against us.

So we have to ask our selves we our Grandparents and their people any better than us?

I have an old VHS from Pastorius but no way that's gonna cut it I'm a total beginner and just received my first bass guitar 20 minutes ago from the mail

i looked at the requirements in the reddit and fulfilled them but the systematic extermination decision still does not appear?

Edit: i found it in the goverent decsiions i needed to be reqctionary absolut monarkia

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I'm tired of people stating extra-virgin olive oil (EVOO) is unhealthy.

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A review: Structure-Biological Activity Relationships of Extra-Virgin Olive Oil Phenolic Compounds: Health Properties and Bioavailability (2020)

>Extra-virgin olive oil is regarded as functional food since epidemiological studies and multidisciplinary research have reported convincing evidence that its intake affects beneficially one or more target functions in the body, improves health, and reduces the risk of disease.

Hey, I have a fairly systematic approach to mixing/mastering that's been working for me. I'd like to both share it, and get feedback. Hope it either helps someone, or someone helps me!

1. First, make the song with absolute disregard for everything but enjoyment.

2. Stabilize any audio recordings: There's a thousand different approaches to this, but the easy ones are de-essing and compressing. This is a study onto itself... I tend not to have many recordings.

3. Remove transient overlaps: If the onset of any two sounds is overlapping to the point of one getting masked, either remove one of the sounds (if you can get away with it), or slightly delay the less rhythmic one. This is usually an issue with bass and kick.

4. Cut out invisible overlaps: Mostly, this will be between the kick drum and almost any held note. Try adding a very quick side-chain compression. Aim to not be able to tell anything was cut out except by focusing on it. If the reverb is part of the instrument (think trance leads), put the compressor after it. If the reverb is part of the room, put the compressor before.

5. High pass on everything: For each track, find the part of the song where the low end of that track is most hearable. Move the high pass up until barely noticeable, then tiny a bit back. If you want to get really stingy, automate this for every section. Go in order of least adored, to most adored track so you pull out more from the tracks you like less.

6. Group tracks together into "emphasis groups": Stuff like vocals, chords, pads, melody, bass, drums low, drums high. Give each group a frequency band to be emphasized in. Then merge them in a bus with a band pass that emphasizes their band. You'll be able to turn this bus up or down to emphasize a group more or less. Remember the frequency band for each group.

7. Add a "cut EQ" to each track: Figure out which groups the track is interfering with, and put a dip where the other groups emphasis should be. If so inclined, automate these dips away when the offending track is no longer playing.

8. Smear the overly perfect: If any of your tracks sound too "video gamey" or synthetic, smear them a bit. Add distortion, reverb, saturation, widening, or anything else imperfect.

9. Make a sausage: Put as much compression as you can stand on the master track. Then add an "straight upward slant" EQ to evenly take from the low and give to the high. The amount of mix the slant EQ sho

Long ago I (may have) worked at a grocery store chain as a cashier. My 1st Union Job, I was a bit pissed that you got a mandatory, but small raise no matter how well you did your job. I got tons of accolades from customers, but this would have no affect on my paycheck or promotions.

...So I decided to 'Give myself a raise.' This scam work in various cashier positions in my mind.

• Our Neighborhood had a 'Welcome to the Neighborhood' $5 off $25 coupon. When people used these, They would mysteriously fall into my cashier-apron.
• Our store also printed '$2.00 off your next order' coupons. These also became mine. Same for $1 off ones.
• Cashiers also get 'PAID' stickers to put on other employee's purchases. These are ironically, kept in our own aprons. Every break for a year, I would pick out some sushi and a drink, and slap some paid stickers on them and head to the break room.
• Any Cashier can also 'Manually Override' a manufacturer's coupon, IE you had to buy 2 Cheerios but only bought one... 'Its fine, Over-ride / Enter' - You save $1.00 on a $2 box of cereal.
• Our Keyboards also allowed for a manual discount, just enter basically 'Coupon Button * $-4.00 *

With all of this information and saved coupons, I would have a friend go to the store, buy his own stuff, and $20 worth of random stuff for me. Their fancy veggies would scan as cheaper bananas, so it would look non-suspicious to any baggers etc.

They would buy a case of beer, I'd enter in their age as being 15, and then it would quietly deny them the beer purchase... Which I put into their cart anyways. Sometimes I'd scan a steak or 2 AFTER entering the wrong age, which prevented future items from being scanned until 'Clear' was hit.

Then at the end of their order, I would apply their $20+ worth of coupons (including $7 off of Baby Formula that they didnnt buy) and they would pay for their order and be on their way. This resulted in them getting on average, half price groceries.

Additionally, our store had a 'Reward Program' that required a card... If you didn't have a card, you missed out on 'savings,' literal money. At night when the young folks were in a hurry and didn't have a card, I would keep their receipts - which showed "You COULD have saved $4.20 off of your bill today with a Shoppers Card!" - I would take this receipt to the Store a mile away, and get $4.20 in cash from Customer Service per their 'lost my card' policy.

I did this for nea

I am quite heavily involved in activism for children, teens, other youth, and young adults; however, as such I have often noticed that I have often operated with this a mindset of not really doing much to thwart the problems that people who are elderly or older suffer from because of their not being as young as they once was.

Let's take employment discrimination, for example; there seems to be a correlation between older and elderly people who want to find employment because they are fit, abled, and otherwise able to be productive in their society. Anecdotally I can attest to this, as I have talked to my older friends, some of whom are very old, who say that they are confident that the reason they don't get employment at all (or rarely) is because of their age, even though their A-OK in terms of health, they are mentally and physically abled, and are just as willing to do the job as their young(er) would-be workmates.

This problem seems to be systematic.

Though a lot of older people and elderly people relish the thought and actualisation of retirement from paid work in their old(er) age - and for those of them who have the privilege, a state cared-for plan which makes sure that these retired people can survive and live the rest of their lives decently - there are some among these who do not look forward to retirement but are nevertheless forced into it, essentially against their will.

It really bothers me that in SJ circles this is not something that is talked about more. Old age is something which we're all going to reach, so talking about it is very important, in my opinion.

A bit of background first to afford some credibility to what I go on to explain: I haven’t been a Redditer for long. I majored in mathematics (think the likes of stochastic calculus and the Brownian motion), have been working in ‘high finance’ for all of my professional career, and have been trading the markets for over six years. I only joined Reddit a couple of days back to better understand what drove the GME story after being late to that rally, and with the sole purpose of finding out if there is still an opportunity for me (and the thousands of others out there who missed out on the GME glory run) that can be turn into cash in the bank.

After understanding the mechanics of what drove GME, armed with the hitherto-unprecedented knowledge that a retail investor base can in fact bring hedge funds down to their knees in the very specific context of a short squeeze trade under the right circumstances, I decided to start from scratch and scour the US market for the best short squeeze opportunity out there NOW (01 Feb 21) without any bias towards any particular stock as I held nothing at this point and was on an unadulterated quest for the true best short squeeze trade - it could be GME, it could be AMC, or it could be something unheard of

Using data from short side analytics subscription services, I started off by compiling a list of the top 50 names in the entire US market with the largest short interest. All the information I used is publicly available and I am not breaching any obligation or regulation if I present the data in a summarised format as I have below. To keep it this way, I will refrain from sharing longer spreadsheets of raw data or revealing the specifics around the specific data sources used. Rest assured, the data hasn’t been tampered with to serve an ulterior motive as

• I have none
• I’m pretty sure that’d amount to market manipulation which is a criminal and possibly jail-able offence

Some important points to note here:

1. Collecting and processing short-side statistics is not a hard science. Commonly used metrics like SI, DTC, utilisation, fees etc can vary depending on the sources of the underlying data. It would be worth noting that primarily, there are two types of short-side data viz. exchange-driven data which is based on the number of shorts traded in the market and lender-driven data which is based around quantifiable characteristics about the securities that are borrowed to facilitate said short. Since naked shorting

This is according to an analysis by FiveThirtyEight. The GOP has an advantage in every branch, from the EC, the Senate, the house, and even the courts:

>By now, Democrats’ disadvantage in the Electoral College is well-documented. President Joe Biden won the national popular vote by 4.5 percentage points, yet he won Wisconsin — the state that gave him his decisive 270th electoral vote1 — by only 0.6 points. In other words, Biden needed to beat former President Donald Trump nationally by more than 3.8 points2 in order to win the White House outright. (However, Trump wouldn’t have won outright unless Biden had won the popular vote by fewer than 3.2 points, thus losing Pennsylvania as well.3 The Electoral College’s Republican bias in 2020 thus averaged out to 3.5 points — but either way, it’s the most out of sync the Electoral College has been with the popular vote since 1948.) That said, of course, it is Republicans who have now won the presidency twice in the last six presidential elections while losing the popular vote. Political scientists say this occurrence risks “significantly decreas[ing] the perceived legitimacy of the winning candidates.”
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>Last year, despite Biden winning the national popular vote by 4.5 points, Trump won the median Senate seat4 by 0.5 points. That 5.0-point Republican lean makes the Senate the most biased institution in the federal government. In fact, Republican senators have not represented a majority of the population since 1999 — yet, from 2003 to 2007 and again from 2015 to 2021,5 Republicans had a majority of members of the Senate itself. That means that, for 10 years, Republican senators were passing bills — and not passing others — on behalf of a minority of Americans.

Even