Non-IT News Thread
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@rojoloco said in Non-IT News Thread:
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
I saw this on the BBC and thought you should see it:
California voters to weigh splitting into three states - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-44471277
All kinds of dumb from the looks of it. (but I don't know much about it as I've been kind of ignoring the whole thing)
And you know that if a billionaire venture capitalist came up with the idea, it will be a great move... for him. I guess he knows that he'll make so much money that any potential political fallout won't matter to him (or will make him more money).
Yeah no doubt.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
I saw this on the BBC and thought you should see it:
California voters to weigh splitting into three states - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-44471277
My 2 cents and looking at this pragmatically the only way it happens is if the Democrats take full control of Congress with a supermajority in both the Senate and the House in the next election cycle. As Congress would have to approve of the measure. Looking at how the map is proposed it would create two very heavily Democrat states, so they would gain two additional Senators in the Senate, at least. It would then create a purple state which could, in theory, give another two Senators to the Democrats. Republicans won't go for it, no advantages for them. The House wouldn't change because that is based on population.
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@dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
I saw this on the BBC and thought you should see it:
California voters to weigh splitting into three states - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-44471277
Seems like I've heard this before.
Never been to a vote, though, ever.
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@nerdydad said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
I saw this on the BBC and thought you should see it:
California voters to weigh splitting into three states - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-44471277
But, why are they being different with the whole "Northern California" and "Southern California"? Why couldn't they just confirm with the Dakotas and the Carolinas and just do North California and South California?
South California already exists. It's in Mexico.
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Technically it is North California being split. It really should be Southern North California, Northern North California, Central North California, etc.
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South California area has a Northern South California (aka Baja) and Southern South California (Baja Cali Sur.) So as this is part of the larger old Mexican region of California that was already split into north and south, and the south already split into northern south and southern south long ago (1950s) it makes sense to keep it uniform for the region.
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Major Study of Drinking Will Be Shut Down
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@obsolesce said in Non-IT News Thread:
Major Study of Drinking Will Be Shut Down
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/06/15/health/alcohol-nih-drinking.htmlIs anyone actually surprised?
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@scottalanmiller The only link ive clicked on that has been banned by my watchguard in a long time.
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@momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller The only link ive clicked on that has been banned by my watchguard in a long time.
Your WatchGuard bans TheChive? That is one huge website. They are so big that they have a television channel here.
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@scottalanmiller Yea never bothered to look what category it is under. But it gets blocked everytime i click a link someone posts a link.
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The Dangers of Distracted Parenting
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/07/the-dangers-of-distracted-parenting/561752/ -
Trump Retreats on Separating Families, Signing Order to Detain Them Together
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/20/us/politics/trump-immigration-children-executive-order.html -
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@nerdydad said in Non-IT News Thread:
Burger King trying to get Russian World Cup players laid with free whoppers for life
They already apologized for that one.
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