I’d like to remind everyone that 8 years ago, the polls showed Hillary was going to trounce Trump pretty handedly. There was tons of discussion after the election about how the polls could be so wrong.

I think Fivethityeight’s explanation went something like…

If a candidate is only polling 40% to their opponents’s 60%, and you were to run the election 10 times with a different sampling of voters each time, it doesn’t mean that the candidate will lose by 60% every time. It means they’re going to win four times out of ten.

Don’t let polls lull you into either complacency or despair. The only thing polls are really good for is giving pundits something to talk about in the 24 hour news cycle. Polls don’t decide the election. Only actual votes on actual ballots that are actually submitted in time decide the election.

Yeah. I saw some of the posts across Lemmy trying to organize this.

There it was presented as blocking shipping ports. I thought that was odd. Wasn’t sure how that was going to affect Israel, but whatever.

Then the day comes and they’re doing this low effort reposting-of-a-meme-everyone-has-seen-already version of protest and I just rolled my eyes.

“Innocent people are being murdered in Palestine, so I’m going to go prevent someone that also hates what is happening from visiting their dying grandmother! That’ll show 'em!”

🙄

“We’re going to make examples of traitors to our country,” Stark wrote.

Yes, yes we are, including you.

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There is a knob in my garage which I have no idea what it goes it. I have turned it till it won’t turn both ways any nothing has happened that I could find.

Ohhh, THAT’S why my lights kept getting brighter and dimmer!

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That’s awful for those people. Sadly, many Christians in the US use stories like this to boost their own persecution complex so that they can justify (to themselves) their own persecution of other people.

Yeah, it’s a lot less common than it used to be. These stories that say, “every hotel room” are definitely exaggerating these days.

Not unless you’re “buying” it from some service that doesn’t let you download the file. Definitely don’t do that.

• Buy the mp3s.
• Download them (& backup to a separate location)
• Listen to them on whatever mp3 player you want.
• Gradually accumulate an enormous music collection that you can listen to for free forever.

Pretty sure you can’t short a private company. It has to be traded on a public exchange to short sell it.

That was my first thought. “Are those numbers adjusted for inflation?” Glad you did the math so that I didn’t have to.

Just buying the mp3s and having them forever.

The byline on the article reads…

Officials call the wine “not fit for human consumption.”

Considering all of the other shenanigans the company was up to, I certainly wouldn’t trust them enough to put anything they made in my mouth.

FYI, Lemmy is just as much “fediverse” as Mastodon is. The term “fediverse” includes Mastodon, Lemmy, Kbin, Peertube, Pixelfed, and many more. So, your first paragraph kinda sounds like someone saying, “What Internet websites do you recommend (i.e. Wikipedia, not CNN)” Just thought you’d like to know.

*synchronize

*than

How self loathing can a person be?

“I need to pick a religion, but I can’t decide which… oh, yes, Catholicism looks good.”

You 👏 don’t 👏 need 👏 religion. Just live your life. Make genuine connections with friends. Be good to everyone. Try to leave the world better than it would have been without you. No magic required.

This is normally done on the server, by whatever tool is building the final html pages. If it’s just a static website (doesn’t take user input, glorified brochure), then one might use a static site generator (eg Jeckyll), each of which have their own mechanism for sharing common snippets. If building a more dynamic website with a database backend, then one would be using other tool (eg. Ruby on Rails), which would also each have their own mechanisms for sharing common snippets.

On it’s face, this is a very odd request. I feel like, in trying to simplify the question, you’ve left out a lot of pertinent details.

My suspicion is that you have a specific problem you’re trying to solve, and, due to lack of experience with web development, you’ve settled on this solution of using JS to copy an html snippet from one document to another, when a proper solution to the actual problem is probably nothing like that. Without knowing what the original problem is and what environment the code would be running in, I’m afraid it’s going to be nearly impossible to offer any suggestions.

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