Posts posted by Buzzrock
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That's not true. The court required that a sufficient number of machines be sequestered to provide a representative sample. The court did not set forth a number, and the hundreds of machines sequestered seems to be a bit of an overkill.
I would like to hear from a statistics expert to know how many machines would provide a representative sample. I suspect it's 100-200.
I would like to hear from that expert too. Let me know what you find.
I didn’t see any details on it, but one report I read seemed to indicate that all machines of a certain flavor (maybe make, model, age) were sequestered due to their potential risk. However that was an assumption by me and could be incorrect. -
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kemp and the GOP
Kemp is the Secretary of State. I would expect him to be given that info. There’s no surprise here, everyone knew that he was SOS and would be staying in office during the election. He’s not the first.
Now, I’m on record saying that I don’t like this and think that in these cases the SOS should be required to recuse himself. But that’s not the law. -
For those who didn’t/don’t believe Kemp and the GOP have a mission when it comes to suppressing voters
Again: those machines were sequestered by a judge as part of a federal lawsuit and could not be deployed. This has been reported in multiple places.
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Right. Population has increased and society has changed. If other countries can avoid continuous mass shootings, why can’t we? The answer is easy access to guns. Time to adapt.
So you recognize that society has changed while access to guns hasn’t, yet you’re so convinced that the access to guns (the constant in the equation) is the problem.
I don’t know what the root of the problem is. I have no idea what the answer is. You don’t either. It’s ok to admit that.
The *solution* to the problems in our society might be tighter gun laws. But there’s no logic that points to guns being the problem. -
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I’ve never seen Blanton’s gold or SFTB being poured stateside in a bar....is this his home bar?
It is now. He started the place as a side gig (he’s a sales VP for an IT services company) and because he needed somewhere to store his ridiculous collection. He didn’t charge us for anything you see there. I don’t think he can sell the Gold legally because it didn’t come through distribution. -
Facebook and social media exacerbate those issues. Most people only post things that make their lives appear happy and great, and it skews perception. A mother may post a picture while taking her kids to the zoo. It appears happy, but the mother is stressed and may fight the urge to chase a bottle of sleeping pills with a bottle of vodka that night. Other mothers see her photos and think she is just grand so why aren't they. Meanwhile, the first mother thinks the same thing about them when she sees them in pictures at junior's bday party and even smiling at their husbands who, in reality, spent the last week on the couch due to constant arguing. Throw a few actual loners into the mix who only know all these "friends" in passing, and the loners truly believe their life sucks while not realizing facebook has caused 90 percent of people to think everyone else has it better.
It also makes it easy for her to surround herself online with people who think exactly like she does on most any issue. -
Easy access to guns = mass shootings in America on almost a daily basis
Restricted access to guns = almost zero mass shootings in other countries
Stop talking about fucking father figures, video games, mental illness, etc. That is not an uniquely American issue. Guns are.
We’ve always had easy access to guns in this country. We haven’t always had frequent mass shootings. -
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In the day of instant gratification and constant information, we've disabled our ability as a society to actually engage in social discourse. Wide open alone-ness. Communicative introvertedness. Constant barrages of communication from all directions, none of it with any substance. We are crippled in our on minds and paralyzed by our own thoughts, living in a big world where we've built insulated caves in our own minds.
There’s something to this. My sister is 41 and has had terrible anxiety since high school. She absolutely LIVES on Facebook. -
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Drink it how ya like it dammit.
Never underestimate the value of having a friend who owns a whiskey bar:


That Hirsch is incredible. This year’s WLW is excellent as always. The CYPB was just ok. Didn’t open the Four Roses.
This guy has everything ever made it seems, and he puts Blanton’s Gold in his top 5. -
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Yeah, she's actually pretty good looking for 69. Easily top 10% for that age group. However, I don't think the Dems should nominate another old person for President, male or female. I mean, she is 2 years past full retirement. She'd be getting "encouraged" to retire in the private sector already. Why we keep putting people that age in the most stressful job in the world is beyond me. I also don't even know why they'd want the job other than to get their name in the history books. Enjoy time with your family instead.
Dems need to stick with what works: someone a little younger and mega-charismatic. It could definitely be a woman. -
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Wait, you haven’t followed it closely, but you’re able to make the assertions that their voter suppression isn’t really happening?
It’s an opinion based on what I’ve read and heard. I know this is a subject that you are passionate about and I totally respect that. It’s good to be skeptical of the government in all things, IMO. My opinion is based on this:
There have never been more registered voters in Georgia (7 million) and it has never been easier to register (you can do it online and I think there might even be an app). Everyone who shows up can get a provisional ballot and cast a vote. Last I read, 22,000 provisional ballots were cast.
Early voting was available for two weeks, and a record number of people took advantage of that.
Old and/or uncalibrated voting machines are scheduled to be replaced by the Georgia legislature next year. I used to sell commercial touchscreens and they mostly suck. I don’t think a select number of them were reprogrammed to register republican votes.
Record turnout, a long ballot, plus almost 2,000 voting machines that have been sequestered as part of a federal lawsuit lead to long lines.
So no, I do not think there was a coordinated voter suppression effort by the GOP in Georgia. -
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2018 midterm gameday thread
in Cloak Room
“Kemp suppressed the minority vote!”
“So many minorities voted that there should have been more voting machines!”
That was a joke btw. Don’t blow a gasket.
I will keep watching and I will be interested in the results of any lawsuits. I’m primarily concerned with the facts. It may surprise you to learn that I did not vote for Kemp.
I also don’t believe you have to hate the person you’re voting against.
So far what I have seen is notions of voter suppression pushed by anti-Kemp and anti-GOP outlets, coupled with a handful of anecdotes. Most of them are just referring to the same handful of articles in somewhat circular fashion.
I think Abrams ran a helluva campaign and got out the vote in spectacular fashion, but lost. Someone had to lose. I think that what she’s doing now is just perpetuating the outrage machine. From what I’ve read there are not enough votes left to count to create a runoff.