Tuesday, November 5, 2024

Election Day Edition


Election Day Edition

Has the country ever faced such important decisions between such flawed candidates? Usually, election day is a relief from the craziness. This time it might be just the beginning.

Nate Silver's 537 final Siver Bullet election prediction:
At exactly midnight on Tuesday, we ran our simulation model for the final time in this election cycle. Out of 80,000 simulations, Kamala Harris won in 40,012 (50.015%) cases. She did not win in 39,988 simulations (49.985%). Of those, 39,718 were outright wins for Donald Trump and the remainder (270 simulations) were exact 269-269 Electoral College ties: these ties are likely to eventually result in Trump wins in the U.S. House of Representatives
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Incendiary devices that ignited in Germany and the United Kingdom in July were part of a covert Russian operation that aimed to start fires aboard cargo and passenger flights heading to the US and Canada, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported.

A crew of four NASA astronauts was recently hospitalized without explanation after returning to Earth on SpaceX's Dragon capsule.

A warrant was taken out to capture and euthanize a family's pet squirrel in New York after a complaint from a Texas woman on the internet. The squirrel, Peanut, was kept as a pet by the Longo family for seven years and was a social media star with more than 692,000 Instagram followers. 12 armed men broke into the Longo home without warning and captured the squirrel, which was later killed.

“World War III has already begun. You already have battles on the ground being coordinated in multiple countries.”--Jamie Dimon

A Columbia, Tennessee man allegedly attempted to fly a drone packed with explosives into an energy facility before the FBI stopped him from destroying the critical infrastructure, according to the Department of Justice.

The problem with endlessly repeating that we live in a “democracy” is that ppl start to believe all political and legal legitimacy comes from 50 percent +1.--Harsanyi

Under Mr. Trump, expect me-me-me, mockery and misogyny. Under Ms. Harris, climate craziness, wokey woo-woo and pronoun patrols.--WSJ

An Idaho Republican, in a public forum, told a Native American to “go back where you came from.”

Plans by Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta to build an AI data centre in the US that runs on nuclear power were thwarted in part because a rare species of bee was discovered on land earmarked for the project, according to people familiar with the matter.


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