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  1. 1 hour ago, WhatTheBuck said:

     

    What does the asterisk mean?

    If you’re playing on hard mode it shows an asterisk.  It’s an option if you select the gear.  It requires you to use the letters you get right in following words.  You can’t do the two word pairs to start that way. 

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  2. 35 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    This.  The point is not just cost, it is accessibility for 1) the homebound 2) the rural (not near any DL office), and 3) the millions of people who do not have the same file folder of documents that college-educated denizens of this board may have (certified copy of birth certificate, passport, etc.).

    My offer stands: make obtaining a photo ID as easy and accessible as getting a COVID vaccine, and I'm fine with it.

    Nevermind that it is a solution to a non-problem (no matter how loudly y'all scream about "NON-CITIZEN VOTERS!", there's not a single credible source that indicates it's any sort of systemic problem....but again, I'm willing to indulge your desire to make all of our ballot boxes tiger-proof, for the sake of this discussion).  Let's agree to 1) solve it (require photo ID) while 2) not damaging the vote/elections in the opposite way (creating impediments to eligible voters exercising their right to vote).  Make sure we don't do 2), and I'm good with 1).

    Some of you on here say "fine, I'm good with that!"  Excellent.  Glad to have you halfway there.  Are you ALSO willing to say that you won't go along with a voter ID requirement unless/until the state proposing it also simultaneously guarantees accessibility like I described?  That is, you will only go along with it if it's a package deal?

    Just a warning -- if you take that position, you will find yourself at odds with every GOP official and legislature that has proposed voter ID legislation.  Don't you wonder why that is?

    even this attributes good faith where it probably shouldn't be assumed.  without the VRA, in my opinion any plan that restricts voting to a single point of failure is ripe for shittiness because that point will become the focus to those with bad intent.  here, the IDs will be administered by your average sheriff shithead in bumfuck alabama and they'd only be available from 10-3 on tuesdays on the east side of town, or some such. everyone will be really surprised that some people don't want to go chat with the fuzz in their off time.

    the vra really is the lynchpin for so much and i don't see how you can do anything that isn't federally administered, and something federally administered in every little town in america would never be palatable.

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  3. 6 hours ago, WBT said:

    Playing around on wordle unlimited I've realized there are some words that are unsolvable on hard mode.  Specifically, words that with 4 green letters, there are 4, 5, 6, or more possibilities for the final letter.

    _ears

    bears, dears, fears, gears, hears, nears, pears, rears, sears, tears, years

    On hard mode, your first guess could be bears and you're still not guaranteed to get one of the other words it in 6 tries.

    Even on regular mode it would be tough (impossible?) to guess words to eliminate all the possibilities.

    I wonder if wordle original flavor is intentionally avoiding these kind of words.

    on easy with a first guess bears you could get

    BEARS

    STING

    FORTH

    DOPEY

    to get all those.  I don’t have a point just wanted to see if I could get it.  I bet you’re right they avoid super common letter arrangements  

     

  4. Just now, wildcat09 said:

    It had nothing to do with partisan blinders and everything to do with lawyers knowing how other lawyers communicate. 

    I am a lawyer.  Half this board are lawyers.  And what you knew was wrong. If it wasn’t partisan blinders I’d like to know what it was. 

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  5. 4 minutes ago, DDD Dad said:

    You really should stop using that word.

    Also, you're out of your element here.  Best to let the adults talk.

    When the adults are this obviously wrong, the children have to step in.  

  6. 19 minutes ago, Willfully Horn said:

    You seem t have trouble understanding  THEIR statement. And yet you are willing to use hateful words describing the intelligence of others. Fuck of.

    Y'all jumped on something as true when the two parties involved were telling you it wasn't true, out of a (kinda cringe) hope that you bolster your dislike of a SCOTUS justice by also thinking he is personally petty. 

    I am always impressed by the intelligence of this board, and that is why I read it.  This was a bad example in the other direction.  We need people to tell us when we are acting retarded because partisan blinders are very strong.

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  7. 2 minutes ago, DDD Dad said:

    Jesus.  Stop gaslighting.

    Let's check the tape.

    Gorsuch and Sotomayor jointly said that it is false to report that Justice Sotomayor asked Justice Gorsuch to wear a mask.  Nina Totenberg didn't report that.  Perhaps someone else did, and that is what surprised them.

    Your last comment is just stupid.

    ah. it's not the nina totenberg reporting she is talking about.  someone posted it on some forum somewhere and two scotus justices felt they needed to address it.  didn't realize that.

  8. seems very much like sotomayor to call a reporter's "reporting" "false" when in fact it is true, and indeed use the word "false" to describe the report, under the guise of misrepresenting what the report stated instead of a belief that the reporting did not reflect the underlying facts.  i think its because she hates the liberal media.  

  9. 1 hour ago, MC Fresh Breath said:

    The wave of deaths heading for the United States will crest in late January or early February, Shea said. In early February, weekly deaths could equal or exceed the delta peak, and possibly even surpass the previous U.S. peak in deaths last year.

    That doesn't seem likely, but what do I know.  We were losing 60,000+ a week at the worst of it in January of last year.  https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm  . Doesn't take too many weeks like that before you blow past the 300k number.

     

    edit: never mind.  we were losing 25k from it a week at the worst, not 60k.

  10. i think onboard is making a better point than y'all do, but i will say that the primary difference is that the mueller report came out, indicated coordinated russian interference, and people were indicted for it, versus the present case where it is just manufactured talking points with no factual underpinning.

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