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  • Wyoming has the lowest population.

    Makes sense why candidates spend all their time trying to get these powerful voters on their side. Those 3 electoral votes really makes it the most powerful swing state.

    Someone in Wyoming has more electoral votes to their votes, yes. And I believe that is the point you’re making.

    If everyone in Wyoming voted for Candidate A. Candidate A has basically the same chance of winning or losing.

    If everyone in California voted for Candidate A. Candidate A has a lot better chance of winning.

    It’s more powerful to be able to vote in something that actually matters than to vote in something that doesn’t.

    You could just not count any votes in Wyoming and still call the overall winner 99.999% of the time. It would have to come down to 3 electoral votes tie breaker for their votes to even matter. Whereas every vote in California always matters.

    Like in this last election. If Harris won every “swing state”. But Trump could have won California and he’d win the election.

    Electoral college has It’s pros and cons but “The smaller the state’s population the more their vote counts.” Isn’t true.

    It’s the middle size, “swing states”, that the voters have the most powerful.

    You aren’t a drop in the bucket like California, but your state has enough electoral votes to actually swing things.


  • The whole Noah story arc proves that God would totally cause storms to cleanse the evil.

    Doing it Thalnos’ style and only killing/moving? the bad people isn’t God’s style. He could do it, but “God snapped his fingers and all bad people were sent to Hell, the world instantly became a better place.” Doesn’t get you a New York bestseller.




  • You can take 1% of anything, then multiply as well.

    Like 7% of 15.50

    1% is .155 (10% is moving decimal to left once, 1% is twice)

    .155 × 7 = 1.083

    That’s a hard one to do in your head, but .155 × 7 is easier to do on paper than 15.50 × .07.

    Say something is 49.99 and 7% off. 1% is .5. .5 ×7 = 3.5. You could probably do that in your head. Otherwise, good luck trying to do 7% of 50 in your head.

    Edit: Hmm. So you could also do 3.5% of 100 instead of 7% of 50. That would have been the easiest way to do that one.

    Bonus: I thought I’d mention 11s. They are my favorite thing in math because they are so easy and you seem like a math wizard to anyone.

    Say you have 42 × 11. That’s 462.

    You just split apart the 4 and 2, add 4 and 2, then stick it in the middle.

    Something like 67 × 11. Where the digits add >10.

    6…7, 6+7=13, 6+1…3…7. So 737.



  • Jake being bad at acting could have been a shtick

    Like “Jake you’re famous now! We need you to do commercials!” Jake “But I can’t act!”

    libertery mutual, a company that is referenced in the meme, even does this with a real actor that acts like he can’t act.

    Jake from state farm was supposed to be a normal dude. Him not being an actor probably makes his delivery that much better

    Replacing Jake with a professional actor seems wrong. It’s no longer “Jake”





  • Sludgeyy@lemmy.worldtohmmm@lemmy.worldhmmm
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    14 days ago

    Drywall anchors? That’s got to be a solid stone wall. I don’t think you can use drywall anchors.

    Well you could drill out large holes and fill with spackle, then insert the drywall anchors into those areas.

    Yeah should work just fine



  • Don’t think of anything real

    My favorite trick is to think of myself in a movie and play it out. I commonly put myself in Harry Potter. I walk up to the hogwarts castle door…then I just have fun making stuff up and playing it out like a movie in my head. Next thing I know, I’m asleep.

    If I get too far, I just pick a different movie and start over

    The worst thing you can do while falling asleep is thinking about the real world. The present, past, or future. Nope, don’t think about it.

    Clear your mind and jump start a dream






  • Sludgeyy@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneRule
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    I saw it as

    1. Stick figure in bed
    2. Blowjob
    3. Piledriver
    4. Rest
    5. Blowjob
    6. Resume piledriver

    I thought it was funny when i first saw it. I see the whole car thing now after reading the comment. So maybe the stick figure never leaves his house and just gets blowjobs. They could be a sex worker that takes money for letting other stick figures suck their stick. And they are waiting for their next client in-between. Or the stick figure in the first frame is the one giving blowjobs and waiting.


  • “The 3PO-series protocol droid, also known as the 3PO-series protocol unit, was a model of protocol droid produced by Cybot Galactica sometime prior to the Invasion of Naboo. They were equipped with a TranLang III communication module, and as a result were fluent in over 6 million forms of communication. C-3PO was an example of this model, though he was rebuilt out of spare parts. TC-series protocol droids appeared similar to 3PO units.”

    Wookieepedia

    There are a ton of 3PO-series droids in the Star Wars universe.

    Vader would not look at a 3P0 droid and think “maybe that’s the droid I built as a child and left on a plant in the outer rim”

    Same with R2-D2

    It’s just for the movie sake that there aren’t 30 CP0s and 50 R2-D2 units running around in the background. “Wait did Biggs just get R2 in his x-wing?” No, it’s some completely different droid I’ve never seen. Some things have to be adapted for the movie.

    As for difficulty, no harder than building like a PC. If there are a ton of CP0 units, he simply takes working parts from a dozen broken ones and pieces them together. He’s a child, they fib and stretch the truth. He could have just attached new legs to the unit that needed only legs and then went through the setup process of “programing” him.

    He didn’t Tony Stark C3P0. He pieced together a robot from pre-made CP0 scrap parts.