On a scale of 1 to balls.

😅 glad you’re ok!

Did anyone check this comment for CMD before deleting?

right?

Yeah, have been in the room with a comatose person. Some people are good at just dumping out a one-sided conversation, but not me. The inclusion of the percentage of people who were clearly responsive but whose brain scans didn’t indicate the expected activity is really important to take note of though. Really does need more study to refine our understanding.

Yeah, brains are weird. I’m glad they included this flip side of the study.

Eggar?

Generally no. It’s just a straw man the right wing trans phones have cooked up to rage-bait voters. Just like post-birth abortion.

Here’s the whole section you’re selectively quoting

How does party affiliation work in Texas? In Texas, there are several main ways for a voter to affiliate with a party: by being accepted to vote in a party’s primary election, by taking the required oath at a party precinct convention, or by taking a party oath of affiliation generally (§§162.003, 162.006, 162.007). A voter’s affiliation with a party automatically expires at the end of each calendar year, which is December 31. (§162.010). A voter who has affiliated themselves with a party is ineligible to participate in the party affairs of another party during the same calendar year. (§§162.012, 162.013)

Emphasis added to show that there is no persistent, year-over-year affiliation (I emphasize this word because there is no party registration in Texas)

And the only way you can vote in a primary is to register with them

I have never registered with a party. There is no field for party affiliation in the online voter registration form

https://vrapp.sos.state.tx.us/index.asp

And the registration certificate doesn’t include a party affiliation

https://www.votetexas.gov/register-to-vote/voter-registration-certificate.html

And a Non-potato quality picture

https://disabilityrightstx.org/en/handout/understanding-your-texas-voter-registration-certificate/

you can do it on the spot if you want, but once you do it, that’s it

Every primary election I’ve participated in the official who checks you in just asked which primary you want to vote in. And since voter registration in Texas does not track party affiliation you’re going to have a rough time convincing me this counts as registering with the party.

The spam you’re getting is simply because it’s public record whether you voted in any election, including which primary you voted in. But it’s not the same as other states recording your party affiliation as part of your voter registration, which Texas flat out does not do.

Texas doesn’t have party affiliation on your voter registration and we have open primaries.

https://www.sos.state.tx.us/elections/laws/advisory2020-05.shtml

Fuck yeah.

Based on other comments the operative comparison is the previous worst case took 55 years to build up the level of CO2 that now only takes 5 years.

I love what Google did for recursion

https://www.google.com/search?q=recursion&oq=recursion

Baron is from Brian Blessed as Voltan in Flash Gordon yelling “BARINNNNNNNN” at Timothy Dalton, and not knowing it was spelled with an “i” instead.

When the Whitehouse Twitter account was out there reply-guying all the Maga whinging about student loan forgiveness with factual “So-and-so had $X of PPE loans forgiven” comments was just the best.

They tried to get secession on the GOP primary ballot this year, actually. A petition with like 100k signatures. The party officials rejected it, so the secessionists asked the state supreme court to intervene. The court declined.

the American GOP is seemingly Zionist and antisemitic at the same time

They’re Evangelic pro-Rapture Zionists, not pro-Jewish security Zionists.

particularly a state that has made it abundantly clear they desire to secede and have prepared for secession

The state GOP rejected the petition to even add secession on their primary ballot, and the state Supreme Court declined to take up the pro-secession group’s request to intervene.

So it’s not really accurate to broadly paint the entire state as frothing at the mouth to secede. We have a sizeable number of idiots who do, but it’s objective not part of the Republican state party platform, much less the general population supporting it.

Housing costs arent even companies being greedy, but homeowners.

Investment firms buying and holding homes are, by definition, homeowners, making them part of the problem. People who are trying to buy a home are having to get into bidding wars with investors, who are buying 1/4 homes sold in the last ~9 months.

I honestly think people don’t even know what they’re mad at they’re just mad

Renters looking to buy a home are mad at investors who can buy up inventory with cash (which in this context I’m including individuals buying up single-family houses to rent out, not just companies), and afford to leave the property vacant rather than accepting less profit by lowering the rent on it.

People trying to buy groceries are mad that wages increased 4-5% in 2022 while Tyson chicken prices went up 20% in 2021, and then in 2022 agreed to pay over $220M for price fixing while reporting $6.5B in profit that year.

This is why the real problems struggle to get fixed.

When you have unlimited corporate dark money going into politics, you get a government that seeks to obfuscate the issues to keep the population blaming the wrong things, to keep the money flowing into their “campaign funds.”

Fixing housing requires changing local zoning laws and depowering current homeowners from the ability to pull the ladder up after them to protect their investment. They will never back that en masse on their own, because they benefit.

I don’t disagree with that. And I’m in the minority of homeowners who do try and vote for making things more accessible knowing it will increase my own tax burden to pay for it, because I will benefit from having a more stable society around me even if my house doesn’t appreciate another $100k.

Yes I have acknowledged that technical definition in another comment.