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I mean, Laura Loomer has literally called for 65 million people to be fed to alligators, so this would practically qualify as a moderate position by current GOP standards.

I got the number from this page: https://ballotpedia.org/Election_results,_2024:_Analysis_of_voter_turnout_in_the_2024_general_election

which lists it as "eligible voters," which is in turn based on data from here: https://election.lab.ufl.edu/2024-general-election-turnout/

which discusses the methodology:

The denominator for these VEP turnout rates is constructed by estimating the voting-age population or VAP (everyone age 18 and older residing in the United States). Ineligible populations are subtracted from the VAP consisting of non-citizens and felons (depending on state disenfranchisement laws). Eligible overseas voters are added to the national VEP estimates only as no reliable method exists to apportion these eligible voters to states.

So no, it's not just registered voters. It's their best estimate of how many people are old enough and not disqualified.

Had to look this up, because I briefly thought you were referring to "Pinball, 1973" by Haruki Murakami.

"Computers Don't Argue" by Gordon Dickson. Guy gets shipped the wrong book by a book club, tries to return it, gets sent to a collections agency, and things spiral completely out of control from there. It's lived rent-free in my head since I read it years ago. (apologies for the mobile-unfriendly format, this is the only source I know for this story) https://www.atariarchives.org/bcc2/showpage.php?page=133

"Unauthorized Bread" by Cory Doctorow is a more up-to-date discussion of the same kind of power dynamics though. https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/01/unauthorized-bread-a-near-future-tale-of-refugees-and-sinister-iot-appliances/

There's also "Book" by Robert Grudin. At one point

Remember most eligible voters don’t vote.

Voter turnout in the 2024 election was 63.7%. That's still a lot of folks who didn't vote, but it's not "most."

That was the joke. The link I was replying to was talking about how Trump always says everything will be happening "in two weeks."

He keeps hearing that fortnights are all the rage with the kids these days.

"We know some of you have concerns about whether these headsets will be supported long enough to justify the price. Allow us to set those concerns to rest: they won't be."

They weren't pushing for credit card processors to block payments for specific games. They were pushing for the payment processors to block money to Steam entirely, which is why Steam caved and instead removed a small list of games. It was a compromise to allow credit card companies to keep doing business with them. Overall it's pretty small potatoes--a small but vocal group, a small and worthless collection of games. People are understandably worried about the precedent of giving in to censorship at the demand of a group like this, but there are enough things to worry about right now that I'm not going to give it much thought until I hear the slope has slipped further than this.

It was the Long Island Ice Tea Corp., which changed its name to Long Blockchain Corp.

https://www.ft.com/content/2ef64f85-18b4-3538-b67e-7fe8ccc4e5e5

Edit: Or the SkyPeople Fruit Juice company. https://www.inquisitr.com/two-months-later-whats-happening-in-companies-with-blockchain-name-changes