The first polls on the East Coast close at 2000, which will be 0100 Wednesday morning in the UK, 0200 CET.

It will take a while to count up all the votes, though, particularly in states where they don’t start counting the mail-in vote until the election closes. I bet when you wake up on Wednesday we still won’t really know.

Buoyant = boy ant

Don’t go too far off course, or you’ll be Russian back

It’s not at all unusual to have to replace resigning school board members. But they must be taking advantage of a loophole to have the Governor do the appointment directly.

Under state law, the governor can appoint someone to fill a vacant state or county seat if there’s less than 28 months left in the term for that office.

According to the article, the election was just held in August. This tells me that the school board term must only be 2 years, if there is less tha 28 months left to it 3 months in. So, anyone who resigns from any school board whose term is that short will have their successor picked by the Govenor? It seems like a law that is only in place as a power grab for the governor.

I can understand not wanting to run a board short one member or paying for a special election in a school district for a short period of time. But that law should be limited to a much shorter period, like 8 or 10 months left in the term.

Also, getting pregnant in your thirties is risky business so abortion is by and large a youth issue, because it impacts young women more then older women.

I’d argue differently. Free access to abortion affects all women. Obviously young women in their prime child-bearing years are affected, but older women are more likely to have complications which make access to medical abortion a life-or-death issue. And the oldest remember what life was like before the Roe decision. So it is not surprising that women of all ages are viewing this election as if their lives depended on it.

It’s quite apparent that the plan in 2020 was to organize these fake electors, who did everything the process called for except actually be certified by the states, and send their phony credentials into Congress so Pence could recognize them. When Pence didn’t go along, their plan pivoted to creating enough chaos at the Capitol to stop the certification altogether. Both plans failed because Pence wouldn’t go along.

This time, they can’t plan on anyone in the Executive Branch to go along. So their plan must be either to make the House dysfunctional so it cannot act to certify, or pressure states to ignore their laws and certify for Trump.

I am constantly amazed how far Trumpiats will go to maintain power – and how their voters reward them for it.

“I bet he has a high handicap”

“FDR was such a loser. I could definitely have beat him in golf.” ~ Trump, probably

Yes, but this election will determine whether he dies while on the White house toilet or a prison toilet.

Hmm, we learned in 2022 that the House can’t do anything until a Speaker is installed. And the new Congress is seated a few days before the EC votes are counted. What if Kamala wins the election, but the House declines to elect a Speaker? Can they even convene to count the votes? I hope so, since the VP president over the counting of votes, not the Speaker.

Still, a Kamala win will be a lot more bullet-proof it it comes with a Democratic House and Senate, too. Then there is far less that Mike can do to fuck it up.

No. It’s all about them, and their ignorance, which they believe should be given the same deference as our knowledge.

Vaccines have been in wide use for decades. They are effective. While they may have side effects, they pale in comparison to the harm that contracting the disease can cause. The findings are solid, especially for the ones that have been in use for decades like measles and polio. That son-of-a-bridge and his brain worm are not going to add anything worthwhile to the discussion.

Even the new ones with a small track record, like the COVID vaccine, shouldn’t be considered to be rushed. It was the result of pharma companies and government pouring as much money as possible into getting a safe vaccine as fast as possible, due to the profound human tragedy the virus caused. When money is no object, things can be done quickly and safely.

Further testing is good. We need to always be testing these. But Ignoring the mountains of data already taken and saying “I need further proof before I believe it all” is disingenuous. If all the data we have collected isn’t getting through to them, one more set of test results won’t, either.

Right. But that data is presented objectively. He wants to present it in a way that reinforces his preconceived notions.

Have you been there? It’s huge. A book lover could spend hours there.

This needs to be considered a temporary rule until we know who wins the election

As a Mets fan, I tried really, really hard to hate the Dodgers, but can’t do it. Ohtani is just a force of nature, he’s that good. Freddie Freeman just isn’t as hateable as, say, Bryce Harper is now or Chase Utley was back in the day. And it’s hard to hate a team that does well when our pitchers keep walking them.

Yes, the Dodgers and Yankees are both buying all the players, but Uncle Steve has all the money, too, so now I can’t legitimately gripe about their large payrolls when the Mets spend just as much on players who aren’t on the team anymore.

I didn’t watch any of it, but I guess I got what I wanted, which is a bunch of sad Yankee fans watching another team win the WS in their Stadium.

if we cross that line, Earth becomes indistinguishable from every other lifeless rock in space.

But no other lifeless rock in space has abandoned shopping malls…

Maybe, but it’s still the case that slowing down will impart less energy to the collision. Let up on the brake before impact if you want, but you should have been braking once you first saw the deer in the road.

Sometimes those fuckers just jump out at you at the last minute. They’re not smart. But if you click the link, this one was right in the middle of the road, with that “Deer in the headlights” look. There was plenty of time to slow down before impact.

Using your credentials is not hacking, but once he was canned he no longer had authorization to access those systems. Legally, there is probably no distinction between gaining access by actual hacking vs. using credentials that are no longer authorized.

So yes, their IT processes are deficient, but that doesn’t let the guy off the hook or mitigate his punishment.

Drivers in rural areas are taught to hit the brakes and maintain their lane.

Which the Tesla didn’t do. It plowed full speed into the deer, which arguably made the collision much much worse than it could have been. I doubt the thing was programmed to maintain speed into a deer. The more likely alternative is that the FSD couldn’t tell there was a deer there in the first place.