IMO the headline is kind of bad. There’s lots of people that don’t understand majority vs plurality. He’s still winning the plurality of votes. A better headline would be “Donald Trump Has Won a Plurality, NOT a Majority of the Votes Cast for President” or something.

I wonder how much of that is a “shy tory” effect, where people feel more free to give honest opinions now or something. I also wonder how different the results would be if more specific questions were asked. The term DEI has been absorbed into the culture wars like Critical Race Theory and people tend to have an instinctive reaction. Kind of like how progressive and leftist policies are quite popular if you poll people about specifics, but if you say “Universal Basic Income” or the like, people tend to turn their thinkers off.

wow. you made a talking chimpanzee. definitely worth dropping out of college for, huh? you going to show me to your parents and hope i prove you’re not a disappointment?

Another comment explains the moon landing one. It’s a hexbear comment and probably not federated to a lot of instances, so copying it here:

The Moon landing line is a pretty important thing to study, actually, since we know what the rehearsed line was: “One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” Without that “a” it’s a very silly line.

Armstrong for years claimed he said the line right and that it must’ve been garbled in the radio transmission, and in recent years has been vindicated as better signal:noise algorithms processed the recording and found the missing word. Researchers aren’t blowing money to find out if Armstrong was a liar, they’re using it to develop more sensitive receivers, better transmission protocols, and more advanced algorithms to parse signal out of noise, all of which have massive impacts in other domains. An algorithm that’s better at parsing data out of noise in particular is going to be useful in loads of places like MRI machines where improving resolution will take billions in research but improving parsing is just updating the software.

Can’t really blame people for defederating though. It’s a slog to find the treasure in the shit. In this same thread there’s both “Death to America” and “kill all honkeys” non-sequiturs. I can see why they drove off their admins in a stupid struggle session recently. I’m just waiting for another struggle session when they discover the etymology of “bad” and have to rename !badposting@hexbear.net:

It is possibly from Old English derogatory term bæddel and its diminutive bædling “effeminate man, hermaphrodite, pederast,” which probably are related to bædan “to defile.”

That’s exactly what I was wondering. Simple objective, very difficult problem, maybe have to invent new algorithms. Kind of like this:

One of the ways I can track down sources for comics is by searching the text from the panels. Would not recommend searching for this one though. “I’M DOING THIS FOR PURE PLEASURE NOW, MY SISTER!” comes up with

Stay classy, Reddit 😬

I think it’s either “Charlie Brown discovers something basic that amazes him” because he’s 4 years old in these early strips, or “He’s been confusing cats and rats in some written context” like “Beware Of Cat” or “Danger: Rat Poison”.

Either way, not his best strip, but they can’t all be zingers.

Here’s the tweet in question: https://xcancel.com/DOGE/status/1858540521096089876#m

Anyone know what studies it’s referring to?

Does not like tall skinny icebergs

I’ll be posting that panel to a very different community over at lemmynsfw.com

Context, no spoilers:

Sure, crossposted

This is a great explanation. Thinking of the question @ad_on_is@lemm.ee asked the other day of How could we convince Reddit subs to move over to Lemmy?, this is the sort of post that is good to share and draw people in to Lemmy.

!truecomics@midwest.social

I think if you’re interested in changing the direction of the DNC, you’ll probably need to target local branches first. Ken Martin for example is the party chair of the DFL (MN org for Democrats), and got elected as DNC Vice Chair:

In 2017, Martin was elected by his peers throughout the country as the President of the Association of State Democratic Chairs (ASDC), and by that election became a Vice Chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC). On January 21, Martin was unanimously re-elected President of the ASDC. Upon his re-election, Martin pledged to continue “our important work of strengthening Democratic infrastructure across America.”

That voting process is probably what you’d want to target. He’s also probably the sort of “status quo” politician that you’d want to get replaced with a progressive.

It comes across to me as much more realpolitik than needless cynicism. I also don’t think there’s any conspiracism in there, it’s much more game theoretic, in the sense that we’ve reached an uncoordinated local optimum that’s hard to break out of. There’s not nearly as many smoke-filled back rooms where deals are made as people think, but there is a lot of shared interest in not rocking the boat among wealthy people.

That’s true, but it was still an effective hostile takeover. Can it be done without support from billionaires, or did it only work to the tea party because it was bankrolled by them?

I’d agree that it’s a bad idea to try and convince any existing leadership to move left. The post came across as more of a “How can we take over the party like the Tea Party did to Republicans” though, which seems productive.

Send interesting Lemmy links to people you know. That’s how they get interested, and check it out. You won’t convince many people by extolling the benefits of the Fediverse, you just have to show them that they’ll be entertained, and maybe they’ll be somewhat more likely to switch if they know it won’t enshittify. I’d say you should send links from instances that don’t federate with some of the weirder places like Hexbear though, that’s likely to turn people off until they realize how the Fediverse works.

One thing that we could use more of that draws people in is posts about relationship issues. Entertaining for almost everyone, and pretty much anyone can create them from their own experience.