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Biden support slips in deep blue New York: ‘We’re a battleground state now’ - Politico
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Wouldn't surprise me if the Electoral College actually defects in that scenario. There institutions were all created with the explicit purpose of tipping the scale should the need arise.
Did Nasrallah say anything notable in his speech earlier?
None of these losers
Burgum? Never even heard of this dork. Incumbent Governor of North Dakota. He started his career as a McKinsey consultant. Republican Pete Buttedgeedge. Low energy.
J.D. Vance? Ivy League Eminem? Really? Come the fuck on.
Little Marco? It would technically be funny, but no comedy bit is remembered for being technically funny.
In reality, Trump will pick someone boring as a prophylactic against being couped. That was the whole idea behine Mike Pence. Dude had about as much verve as a cool glass of prune juice.
The funniest (in a shambolic and horrifying sense) choice would be Vince McMahon. They do have a long personal connection.
Gottheimer would never.
(US) Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines released a statement (fed site) today insinuating (without evidence) that Iran is behind the anti-genocide protests by manipulating social media, convincing people to take action, and even providing financial assistance in an effort to "stoke discord and undermine confidence in our democratic institutions." This is being boosted (twitter) by Biden campaign staffers.
Literally just Russiagate 2.0. I wonder if they are going to run with this, or if it is simply a moribund trial balloon.
My experience using NixOS was generally positive, but there were some things I need (like configuring GDM / equivalent alternatives to put the login prompt on the correct display) which were absent. Issues like this are warts in other distributions, but there's a way to make it work. In NixOS, you need to be familiar with these hacks, and then re-implement them in your Nix scripts, which usually means cross-referencing the (potentially nonexistent) upstream documentation with the Nix package documentation (or the source code if it doesn't exist).
I went hammock camping this weekend and alternated from sweltering in 90+ degree full humidity conditions to shivering in unexpected surprise thunderstorms at five thirty in the morning. Bullshit weather. Nearby thunder makes one hell of an alarm clock though. Can't remember ever being woken up by lightning before.
Tesseract has gotten a lot better over the past few years. It used to be worse. From personal experience, it works well on memes and electronically rendered text (like screenshots of text you commonly encounter on Twitter). Scans and photographs are a lot more hit-or-miss (I haven't even bothered trying hand-writing or calligraphy). If you are dealing with scans, you need to do preprocessing before feeding them to Tesseract. If the scans are too noisy it will choke. Photographs presumably need to be transformed to make the perspective orthographic, in addition to noise reduction. You should also try to crop the images to remove anything other than the script you're trying to OCR, because Tesseract will transform all that noise in the margins into random characters and punctuation. I assume Google's tooling does a lot of these preprocessing steps automatically. Although Google has made significant contributions to Tesseract over the past few years (breathing life into it, as a project which was otherwise completely abandoned by Hewlett-Packard) , they are certainly keeping their more advanced techniques proprietary.
Humble beginnings: this is where we first struck Earth. Now, it is only an incredibly inconvenient trade depot located 38 Z-levels above the main workshop. After a management mishap and waves of migrants, food and drink supplies were exhausted so a hundred dwarves were mobilized to pick the surface clean of fruits. Many got nauseous from cave adaption. It was a sight to behold though. They picked the field like a horde of locusts and left a trail of vomit in their wake. A few seams of bituminous coal have been extracted.
With no drinking water available on the surface and no available aquifers, modest living accommodations had to be arranged while the primary focus was placed on locating the caverns. This outpost is now abandoned, with most of the furniture stripped away. A large seam of lignite was discovered along the wall of a former stockroom.
A cavern was discovered nearly 40 Z-levels below the surface. It had water which could be tapped for a well, and fertile soil to establish a farm. It wasn't all good news though. Very quickly, it became the sight of conflict with the indigenous population of Bat People. Sometimes wielding steel weapons and shields, these flying creatures have appeared in numbers up to 90 at a time. The farm has been completely enclosed by stone walls, and a fragile armistice has held for a couple years as both sides foolishly prepare to completely annihilate each other... one day.
Once water was discovered, we finally chose a place to establish more permanent industry and living spaces.
One floor of the high density dorms. This one also features a few hallways of tombs. Casualties of the war with the Bat Men lay here, including a Gorlak monster slayer.
At the bottom of the second cavern, some 41 Z-levels below the main workshop, a large family of Rutherers mills about, living a care-free life. These creatures are enormous and incredibly dangerous, but they have a benign temperament and won't seek conflict unless they are pissed off. The stray cats have been testing their patience, however.
As I near the end of the fifth year, the population of the fort has soared to 180. Hopefully this will be the one which manages to dig all the way to hell.
After taking a turn in the secession game I decided to start up my own fort. Two and a half years in, I have seen a weremoose attack (two dead, infected militia commander is trapped in a walled-off section of the fort), and just now an Etten (a giant two-headed humanoid creature). The Etten died without too much disaster, but it has dropped a tablet which turns anyone who reads it into a necromancer.
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Fools should have registered with a more reputable TLD, like .dog