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Jack Aidley @jackaidley.bsky.social · 8h

Here's their take on why they get different results, no doubt the other pollsters would defend their own approaches. There's no real way of being sure which pollster is using the right approach.

How pollsters may be understating the Reform vote

Engagement, turnout and false recall

findoutnow.co.uk

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doctor eek [free link arc] (alt decorative gourd season) @absolutely-not.bsky.social · 23h

hi! geneva conventions expert here! this likely meets the international humanitarian law standard for torture! hope this helps!

bsky.app/profile/patf...

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Jack Aidley @jackaidley.bsky.social · 1d

Unreal is a decent option only proviso I'd pick up on is that Unreal is the option that puts the highest demand on the hardware so some students may find it struggles on their own kit which would run Unity fine.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

I think two things are true:

1. young republicans were always terrible and racist

2. young republicans become openly hitler-loving groypers is in fact a new and alarming development that is worth paying attention to

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Jack Aidley @jackaidley.bsky.social · 1d

Although, for some reason, the highest rate (45% at ~€278k) cuts in abruptly.

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Jack Aidley @jackaidley.bsky.social · 1d

Germany already does this, using continuously varying rates across several bands.

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Jack Aidley @jackaidley.bsky.social · 2d

There's a typo on the very first line the game shows you...

Screenshot from game shows "Welcome to the Eurkas Demo" with an E missing from Eurekas

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Jack Aidley @jackaidley.bsky.social · 2d

I do wonder how people with such clearly inflexible and heartfelt views as Corbyn and Sultana could ever believe that outsourcing all the policy positions they're going to advocate for to other people is ever going to work.

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DocAtCDI @docatcdi.com · 2d

I recently decided to sell my vacuum cleaner. All it was doing was gathering dust.

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Jack Aidley @jackaidley.bsky.social · 2d

Do you have a printing service near you? I'd go and talk to them.

You might also want to consider glass instead of plastic. AFAIA, the best plastics can manage is about 90% optical clarity, which looks "perfectly clear" through a single sheet but is visible as soon as you start stacking layers.

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Jack Aidley @jackaidley.bsky.social · 3d

It's a truly baffling position.

Jack Aidley @jackaidley.bsky.social · 3d

It's not problematic.

The problem is using citation and paper counts as if it were a decent proxy for quality in the first place.

Also, papers should stop having "authors" and start having credits, but not much chance of that either.

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Jack Aidley @jackaidley.bsky.social · 3d

I don't think it's puritan to think sport should be about sport rather than about a tangentially related money swapping activity. I'm not against gambling in general, nor even advertising of gambling, but the current situation is an ugly, predatory mess.

Jack Aidley @jackaidley.bsky.social · 4d

Interesting, nice find.

Read the code a bit more and, yeah, it can't break on Remove. Neat.

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Jack Aidley @jackaidley.bsky.social · 4d

"One bad apple spoils the whole barrel".

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Jack Aidley @jackaidley.bsky.social · 4d

The docs state that modifying a HashSet invalidates all enumerators on it. I think it unwise to rely on this behaviour doing what you expect.

And looking at the source it doesn't seem robust either.

HashSet<T>.IEnumerable.GetEnumerator Method (System.Collections.Generic)

Returns an enumerator that iterates through a collection.

learn.microsoft.com

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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 6d

OK, so here's why this probably isn't "legal bullshit."* And also a quick reminder that not all law is American law, and the law where you live and do business matters.

*I'm not going to opine on whether GW *should* take action; this is about their legal claims.

#warhammer #minigames

Hate Wanks: Attorney at Law @guyver3x.bsky.social · 7d

So GW are pulling their legal bullshit with a creator on some immensely spurious grounds.

They are arguing that even not similar models are unfair competition because they're compatible with their games...

Please donate to help the legal fund #nerdlings

www.gofundme.com/f/defend-cre...

Donate to Defend creative freedom against Games Workshop threats, organized by Francesco Pizzo

Hi, my name is Francesco Pizzo, founder of Ghamak. Since 20… Francesco Pizzo needs your support for Defend creative freedom against Games Workshop threats

www.gofundme.com

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Jack Aidley @jackaidley.bsky.social · 6d

True, but it's rare, and these days they're unlikely to full circumcision for that AFAIK. This is looking at voluntary (for the parents, obvs) circumcision which is still pretty common in the US on non-religious grounds.

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Jack Aidley @jackaidley.bsky.social · 6d

I can't see a good reason to think that their methodology is obviously worse than other pollsters, just different. In real elections a lot of people don't vote, and I think a lot of people are probably in flux over who to vote for right now.

Enthusiasm can carry elections, can't it?

Jack Aidley @jackaidley.bsky.social · 6d

I dunno. Given the substantial demographic differences between the two groups, the likely social differences between families that do and don't circumcise, and the non-random method recruitment I don't see how we can rule out other causes in any meaningful way.

They/Them (T. T. Perry) @ttpphd.bsky.social · 6d

Circumcision alters attachment styles. Maybe life is more complex than you think!

www.cell.com/heliyon/full...

#circumcision 🧪

Neonatal male circumcision is associated with altered adult socio-affective processing

Psychology; Clinical research; Neonatal pain; Attachment style; Empathy; Personality; Stress; Sociosexuality.

www.cell.com

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