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Matthew Miller: We join calls by international and local observers for a full investigation into all election-related violationsComments
"Georgian people went to the polls on Saturday in the election environment created by the policies of the ruling party, including misuse of state resources, vote buying and voter intimidation. This contributed to an uneven environment and undermined the confidence of the local and international community in the possibility of fair election results.
This was the US State Department on Georgia’s (the country) parliamentary elections in October. The right-wing party got a majority. It was started by a billionaire who is pro-Russia. I had no idea they occupied so much of Georgia:
We join the calls of international and local observers for a full investigation of all election-related violations and call on the authorities to respect the rights to fundamental freedoms of expression and peaceful assembly.Many Georgians also feel a deep hostility towards Russia, which invaded Georgia in 2008 and today occupies about 20% of its internationally recognized territories.
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Elon Musk Starts Another Feud, This Time With WikipediaComments
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There is often a function I have to write that checks to see if something exists and creates it otherwise. I often struggle to name this and go with something like `addIfMissing`. Is there a common name for this? It happens all over programming. I've seen `ensure` used, which I don't really like.Comments
Today, I wrote one that I named `stockToggle`. I like "stock", which implies that it will ensure a stock of something. Of course, if you don't read it as a verb (and in my case, read Toggle as verb instead of a noun), then it could be confusing. You might think it will toggle stock buying on or something.
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Cat's meat man was a real job! They sold meat for cats, not the meat of cats. I'm surprised that people paid for cat food as early as the 19th century. I imagined that before the 20th century, people just let cats out to eat mice and birds and what not.Comments
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I gotta respect TV. I was able to 25 minutes on the treadmill with it. I then did some rubber band uchikomis, which are never tiring, but they were this time. I think the secret to these things being tiring is that they have to be done after you’ve already worked out for 15-20 minutes.Comments
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Nasty. National Grid does provide a history of their delivery charge rates, but it's a couple dozen pdf files instead of a simple html table in which everything is easily comparable. They want you to give up on looking.Comments
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I just did twenty breakfalls after my junior calisthenics, and indeed, I was out of breath. Maybe that’s the combination that makes it tiring. The other day I did them after bridges and other back-oriented things.Comments
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Back workout. Moved the bent over row up to the 30 lb. kettlebell. Added 20 oblique sit-ups and 40 breakfalls to try to simulate getting tired early during judo. I didn’t break a sweat so it must be something else.Comments
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People Living in Las Vegas’s Tunnels Urged to Get Medical TreatmentComments
Outreach workers say more people are retreating underground. Though dark and damp, the tunnels provide cover from the harsh desert sun, warmth when temperatures drop, and privacy from society’s judgment above ground.
Life there is a lot sadder than Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles made me expect it to be.
Constructed in the 1990s and measuring some 600 miles, the tunnels provide flood control for the city and outlying communities. Homeless outreach workers said 1,200 to 1,500 people live in them. Many have constructed elaborate shelters, often out of plywood and scraps of metal or brick below the casinos that define the Strip. -
I’d listen to an audiobook of the Bible, if the guy at the beginning of Number of the Beast read it.Comments
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I had a dream that I was playing hold ‘em and was dealt 3-4 of hearts. I raised, partly to disguise my hand, partly to increase the pressure.Comments
The flop was two hearts and a 3, and I was able to get heads up with one other player. The next card was another 3. I bet and was called.
The final card was a non-heart, non-3. Bet and call. The other player also had a 3 and some other low card. So, we both had trips, plus two cards from the board that were higher than our hole cards, so we chopped.
I remember at the time thinking, that’s impossible! There aren’t that many threes in the deck. This is some messed up dream logic! This must be a dream! Then, I woke up.
Thinking about it a few minutes later, I realized that of course there are enough threes for that to happen. That anticlimactic dream hand was perfectly plausible.
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South Korea has voted to impeach its acting president Han Duck-soo, two weeks after parliament voted to impeach its President Yoon Suk Yeol.Comments
The opposition first filed an impeachment motion against Han on Thursday after he blocked the appointment of three judges that parliament had chosen to oversee Yoon's case.
They’re not worried about what the ruling party’s supporters might think while pushing these guys out. I wish we’d have an opposition party like this in the US in 2025.
Korea's Constitutional Court is typically made up of a nine-member bench. At least six judges must uphold Yoon's impeachment in order for the decision to be upheld.
There are currently only six judges on the bench, meaning a single rejection would save Yoon from being removed.
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I restarted work on Flooding, my data sonifying music piece, yet again. Yet again, I don't know if my changes are just interesting right now, or actually good.Comments
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Worked on escapes, sweeps, and guard passes with the guy. But the guy did most of the work, being a third of my weight. Then I tried a couple of pull-ups, but I still have “tennis elbow”. Eight deadlifts. I should try to do those slowly, it occurs to me.Comments
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