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Wombot
Sep 11, 2001

Tyro posted:

Soylent Pudding posted:

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Also since it came up in thread. If I wanted to explore japanese whiskey and had ~$50 to drop what should I check out.
Like Anders said, Yamazaki is pretty good, but I think it's more like a $100 bottle most places.

Suntory's Toki is under $40 near me and not bad, I like using it in cocktails.

Suntory Toki is very smoky and peaty, like a scotch. Suntory Hibiki, which is just above the $50 mark ($60-$80), is my go-to and is more sweet fire, without the smoke of Toki. I'd say Hibiki is more demonstrative of Japanese whiskey.

Costco also has bottles of Kaiyo, which I haven't tried, but keep eyeing. Any trip reports?

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Wombot
Sep 11, 2001

https://twitter.com/bluestein/status/1324619506166173697?s=19

Edit: better tweet

Wombot
Sep 11, 2001

GA is going to be close enough, like within a few hundred votes, that a recount lawsuit could flip it.

PA's outstanding ballots are trending Biden as they're counted, and projected to have a final margin greater than what a recount could overturn.

Wombot
Sep 11, 2001

There's also this weirdness:

https://twitter.com/markniesse/status/1324623670007025665?s=19

Wombot
Sep 11, 2001

https://twitter.com/bluestein/status/1324643099444957185?s=19

Here goes Georgia for Biden (with several thousand military, overseas, and provisional ballots left). He's up by less than 1000 votes.

Wombot
Sep 11, 2001

My family's got history in Georgia - I'm glad Stacey Abrams brought it into the national news again for a great reason. Gimme dat Sherm.

Wombot
Sep 11, 2001

If only there was a good guy with a gun

https://bsky.app/profile/bencollins.bsky.social/post/3kxbddk6tev2c

quote:

Local police officer encountered shooter before he fired towards Trump, AP sources say
One officer climbed to the roof and encountered Crooks, who pointed his rifle at the officer. The officer retreated down the ladder and Crooks quickly took a shot toward former President Donald Trump,

Wombot
Sep 11, 2001

AOC did an IG live broadcast tonight talking about the state of things wrt Biden: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C9l41vgOAGj/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

None of the Democrats saying he should resign has even a hint of a plan of what to do afterwards, they're all just freaking each other out.

Wombot
Sep 11, 2001

Except for the fact that the story and rumors going around today is that Kamala isn't necessarily the agreed-upon pick. Watch the video, she talks about this.

Wombot
Sep 11, 2001

Ok, help me out here. I swear I'd heard about JD Vance loving a couch well before July 15, 2024. Google is poo poo and swamped with current results, but I feel like this came up when he was first elected to the Senate and Hillbilly Elegy entered the national consciousness.

Wombot
Sep 11, 2001

Platystemon posted:

You can go to the news tab and narrow timeframe for the search.

I can’t find anything about it.

Forums search only turned up this, which is funny enough.

Yeah I don't know if it was ever picked up where Google would index it with "News", I think it was just shitposting on Twitter.

Wombot
Sep 11, 2001

Juiceless. Dessicated, even.

Wombot
Sep 11, 2001

Look at this picture. Look at their poses. They're definitely loving.

https://bsky.app/profile/knilirabaj.bsky.social/post/3l3ysa3sehp26

Wombot
Sep 11, 2001

facialimpediment posted:

Donnie could still win, but just a solid sign about how cooked he is:

https://x.com/KamalaHQ/status/1834660136285053045?t=i_vdcJ6M3lTSPPJQoeAfRQ&s=19

Why the gently caress is he talking about Laura Loomer right now, even if asked about her? Zero reason for it at all, other than brain damage.

"she's a free spirit ... I don't know exactly what you're referring to" oh they fuuuuuckin'

Wombot
Sep 11, 2001

Platystemon posted:

A quote of Nuzzi's terrible prose

That is garbage writing. What the gently caress is that about the chicken pox vaccine (I'm assuming she's an anti-vaxxer)? Why does she keep changing tenses?

Wombot
Sep 11, 2001

Harris's wings keep getting spicier, Walz's keep getting blander.

Wombot
Sep 11, 2001

Why the hell did they keep him on stage? Pull him back to the green room, especially after the replacement fails, figure the technical poo poo out, then send him back out with a fresh line up his nose or whatever.

"I have the worst lawyers stage directors"

Wombot
Sep 11, 2001


This reads like someone got ahold of this analysis: https://app.vantagedatahouse.com/analysis/TheBlowoutNoOneSeesComing-1 and then started theory crafting and fantasizing on top of it.

Wombot
Sep 11, 2001

https://bsky.app/profile/rincewind.run/post/3l7yso32icj2f


quote:

some history for those of you who aren’t election sickos:

Selzer is gold standard in Iowa and refuses to herd

in both 2016 and 2020 she showed real strength for Trump in the rust belt that others missed - her final poll was Trump +7 in 2016 and 2020, in both cases very close to his final margin

Wombot
Sep 11, 2001


She's apparently had this as a policy point for a while? I see people discussing it from 19 days ago. This is the first I'm seeing anything about it, so good idea to bubble it back up.

Wombot
Sep 11, 2001

Hyrax Attack! posted:

Bluesky is fine but wondering when they’ll start running ads or if there’s any reason they won’t get bought out by a tech creep who wants their own FB/twitter. Haven’t seen anything about them planning to be a Wikipedia style donation operation.

Bluesky is still in funding stages - they just took in $15MM. However they are starting to talk about revenue streams. Currently, you can buy a custom domain for your Bluesky profile through a partnership with Namecheap that kicks some money back to Bluesky.

Other ideas have been vanity purchases like how you can buy an excessive number of check marks on Tumblr, or quality of life upgrades like playing videos in higher quality.

The developers and CEO are consistently vocal about setting up not just Bluesky but the underlying AT Protocol as being, "billionaire proof."

AreWeDrunkYet posted:

Cugel the Clever posted:

The folks behind Bluesky are pushing two main products: the social media app everyone who doesn't like the Nazi bird site knows and loves and the distributed, open-source protocol that only nerds are aware of or care about. Bluesky is just one access point to the protocol, such that the former's degradation or demise is theoretically meaningless as all the data can theoretically be hosted in a completely decentralized network that other apps can be created for.

Whether this pans out in practice remains to be seen, but it seems conceptually sound.
This sounds a lot like Mastodon. There's multiple examples where the platform and technology are less important than community and moderation for maintaining social media. Even Twitter is (mostly) functional after getting rid of 90% of the workforce, because most of the people they got rid of were the marketing people and moderators that actively drove company/celebrity engagement and created a palatable environment for them to attach their brand.

I am not enough of a social media engineering-knower to understand the minutiae, but from listening to the people that are, there are some fundamental differences between Mastodon/ActivityPub and Bluesky/ATProto (aka the ATmosphere). One of the driving ideas behind ATProto is that you own your data and can take it with you much more easily than you could with Mastodon, and I believe that's been proved out with some internal moves - Bluesky went from being 1 server to an array of servers that are all federated with each other. They're still all Bluesky owned and operated servers, but it proved out the interoperability.

Tldr, since this is the Election thread: Bluesky looks like Twitter but is set up and run by people that learned from both Twitter and Mastodon's mistakes, and also aren't in it for short-term payoff.

Wombot
Sep 11, 2001

I don't see how it can be taken as anything other than doubling down?

Wombot
Sep 11, 2001

Iowa, Florida, and Texas get called for Kamala in quick succession and he strokes out while rage posting on Truth.

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Wombot
Sep 11, 2001

facialimpediment posted:

loving MOTHERFUCKER SQUIRREL COCK

that's what I typed when I realized I let my insanity filter down and did some research and found the forbidden knowledge

https://x.com/benryanwriter/status/1853172444317511838?t=hbHkZN29fCp5gECLrfLfYw&s=19

milkshake dick

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