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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Yes. You must half the difference to get the number of votes which needed to be different for a different result. Like, if the difference is 20% to 80%, you don't need 60% more to win, you only need roughly 30% more.
1% more is practically nothing.
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Cal 21 is already decided, the Republican won narrowly there. What is left are two New York district (one will most likely go democratic, the other republican) and the Senate race (which will most like go to the republicans in the run-off.
If those last races go as expected, the Democrats lost -2 in the Senate but gained +39 in the house. That would be 234 vs 201 seats, which I think means that the Democrats aren't too dependent on the "Republican in everything but the name" Democrats.
Edited by Swanpride on Nov 22nd 2018 at 1:49:43 AM
I had a good laugh about this one:
Not only is Steve Bannon learning that his approach to hijack the EU elections is simply illegal, even most of the far right parties within the EU doesn't want to be associated with him.
I do wonder if he's involved in the current Af D shitstorm.
(They got caught taking some sketchy donations)
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There is something you need to understand regarding Orban and co: For all their Anti-EU rhetoric, they don't actually want to leave the EU. The likes of Le Penn have stopped talking about it because they know that it isn't popular with the voters, but Hungary and Poland benefitting greatly from the EU membership, consequently their strong-man rhetoric is mostly about being a headache and pushing for concessions and less about actually breaking up the EU.
That's something the Anglosphere doesn't really get.
Meanwhile, Trump is having his usual Twitter salvo: Brutal and Extended Cold Blast could shatter ALL RECORDS - Whatever happened to Global Warming?
As one can see here
, there is far more red and orange than blue.
It surprises me that the death of an American missionary
isn't being exploited by Trump in someway,though I suppose Trump isn't really much of a zealot to care about one christian getting himself killed,Pence on the other would definitely use his death as some sort of rallying cry
Aye, there are good reasons why India enforces the Prime Directive around that island.
I don't think that this news is prominent enough to catch either Pence's or Trump's attention, and Pence is probably too busy plotting the takeover of the federal court system to notice anyway.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanThe Andaman (the tribe in question) have been in such complete isolation, that it is entirely plausible that they have had no contact with common illnesses such as measles and the flu. It is not out of the question that John Allen could have brought a disease that they would have no defense against.
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Edited by RandomTroper#89235 on Nov 22nd 2018 at 8:53:11 PM
They are a so-called uncontacted tribe, a group of people that is has had little or no contact to other groups of humans for a long time. For all we know they might not even know that there is a whole world outside of their island.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanMetal doesn't need to reach melting point to lose its tensile or compressive strength and in the furnace conditions provoked by the attacks it definitely lost its capacity of holding the weight of the upper structure of the towers, not to mention that the collapse of one tower probably deteriorated the foundations of the other, hastening it's inevitable fall as a result.
Me and my friends studying engineering at college at one point ended up discussing the 9/11 attacks, my friends were pretty impressed how the WTC held up for so long after being hit by the plane.
Still, one of the dumbest conspiracies there are and somehow they even blame Obama for it.
Inter arma enim silent legesChickenpox outbreak hits an NC school with high vaccination opt-out percentage: https://www.npr.org/2018/11/20/669644191/chickenpox-outbreak-hits-n-c-private-school-with-low-vaccination-rates
I don't think I can think of a group more universally hated than antivaxxers.
It would depend of the structure being hit.
The crash alone certainly compromised the structure but I can't tell how long it would take to fall if there weren't a fire.
Keep in mind the WTC was designed to take aircraft collisions into account, but the most common airliners at the time were the Boeing 727 and 737, which were smaller than the 767 that hit the towers.
Fire hazard however, is much more dangerous than the collision.
Inter arma enim silent legesOn the CA 21 House race, it was almost certainly called too early. There are apparently 15000 votes to count in Fresno; based off of previous trends, roughly 1/3 of those ballots involve CA 21, and Valadao leads Cox by less than 500 votes. (On election night, the gap was 4000 votes; the change has come from the partisan lean in early voting, which has affected many other CA House races as well.)
Shots fired!
How long until The President Of Twitter Shitstorm starts his twitter ramblings?
Inter arma enim silent legesGeorgia 6th went to the Republicans? Everything I see says it went blue... granted it's from a few weeks ago.
EDIT: Honestly, who cares who here likes or dislikes her, let's just appreciate the savagery there.
Edited by TroperOnAStickV2 on Nov 22nd 2018 at 10:49:45 AM
Hopefully I'll feel confident to change my avatar off this scumbag soon. Apologies to any scumbags I insulted.

So I think the only uncalled seat left is CA-21? (And the Mississippi Senate, but we're not just waiting for votes to counted there.)