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baronvonj

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I play guitar, watch USMLR and NHL, occasionally brew beer, enjoy live music and travel, and practice sarcasm.

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baronvonj OP ,
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thanks

baronvonj ,
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Doesn't look particularly Spartan, does he?

baronvonj Mod ,
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Great video. That was actually a really interesting and seemingly straight-forward way to compare the different modelers.

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The model in the image you linked still looks basically monochrome ...

baronvonj ,
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A VM would probably do fine.

baronvonj ,
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Drunk driving wouldn't be such a problem if we had better public transportation.

Building NODE: A Guitar Pedal That Runs Audio Plugins ( youtu.be )

I’m an electronics engineer and a guitarist. Like a lot of people, I grew up as a bedroom musician, recording through an interface, a DAW, and plugins — dialing tones that sounded great at home, then completely falling apart once I plugged into a real amp in a rehearsal room. ...

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When I switched from Tusky to Fedilab it was largely driven by Fedilab's superior support for multi-level nesting of long comment threads.

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He is, after all, only limited in his authority only by his own morality.

baronvonj ,
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I just tried to go down the stairs 8 steps at a time.

It's about precision.

Texas Hands Over Its Entire Voter Registration List to the Trump Administration ( truthout.org )

Texas officials have turned over the state’s voter roll to the U.S. Justice Department, according to a spokesperson for the Texas Secretary of State’s Office, complying with the Trump administration’s demands for access to data on millions of voters across the country. ...

baronvonj ,
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We don't have party affiliation on the voter registration forms here though.

baronvonj ,
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Texas does not have party affiliation on the voter registration form or ID card, and we have open primaries.

baronvonj ,
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Texas doesn't have party affiliation in voter registration.

baronvonj ,
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Yes but that affiliation is automatic when you vote in a primary and expires at the end of that calendar year, to ensure you can only vote in a primary runoff if you voted in the original primary.

baronvonj ,
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The affiliation is automatic when you tell the election official which primary you want to vote in, it's not a separate action you have to take ahead of time like voter registration is. And it expires at the end of the same calendar year. It's so you can only vote in a primary runoff if you voted in the original primary.

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It does give historical context that "they" use in the "likely <party>" polling forecasts, but the affiliation itself expires at the end of the calendar year of the primary. Not saying that the data can't be used maliciously, but it's legally different then what people mean when they talk about their voter registration having that information. States that have that on your voter registration are also likely to have closed primaries, which Texas does not.

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My point is that it's not stored as part of your voter registration data. We have open primaries and they record which you voted in so that you can only vote in primary runoffs if you voted in that same year's original primary.

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In terms of campaign analytics and polling profiling that would make you an independent voter and likely to receive attention from the campaigns you are eligible to vote for/against.

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I think it would make you a "see how they vote after the first wave" on their suppression schedule. Like if it scares you into voting "correctly" after all the reliable "wrong" voters are purged ... then you can keep voting.

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I think in '24 the Republican primary ballot had a measure for closing the primaries, so I think they're getting wise.

baronvonj OP Mod ,
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It's not even a new idea to put tubes in a preamp/overdrive pedal. There's options from Fender, Victory, Friedman, Orange, EHX, and Kingsley

baronvonj Mod ,
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Haven't had the chance to play through either.

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baronvonj Mod ,
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That's a shame. But good that you got to try it out and make that determination while it's still in production.

baronvonj ,
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Trump has been asking the DoJ about invoking the Insurrection Act over the immigrant "invasion" since, I believe, inauguration day. The escalation of ICE presence, activity, and tacticsay very well be an intentional effort to provoke a resistance that the DoJ would feel comfortable recommending invoking the Insurrection Act over.

baronvonj ,
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When my car was stolen the police and the county toll road authority both confirmed that neither would bother co-ordinating when my toll tag in that car registered on the toll road sensors.

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Won't someone think of the chess Grand Masters?

baronvonj ,
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Stage right

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What are you doing Step-mark?

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He was. He's the most impeached president in USA history.

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Ah. Well carry on then.

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I mean it's right there in the headline. She beat him to the Nobel Peace Prize.

baronvonj ,
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The whole PD there should have at least been fired and lost their pension.

baronvonj ,
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Don't forget Dubya taking out Saddam in Iraq.

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I don't say this to condone US actions in Venezuela in any way, but Maduro was internationally recognized as an illegitimate leader after their last election, with years of public dissent within Venezuela under his rule prior to that. Greenland has none of those things going on right now. So I would expect the international reaction to a similar action in Greenland to much more severe.

Edit: hm .. looks like OP edited their comment to change taking over Greenland with attacking Mexican cartels.

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Fully agree. That's why I started my comment by saying I don't condone it.

baronvonj ,
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Yes, I know. I know it's about the oil because Trump has been saying so, point blank, out loud, to the media, for weeks. I was just pointing out one key difference between Venezuela and Greenland (ie the legitimacy of their respective heads of state) that could reasonably explain why the international response to both could be different. I don't condone what the US just did in Venezuela.

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OPs original comment (before the edit changing from Greenland to Mexico) was about the "world" response, not just foreign leaders' responses.

baronvonj ,
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There's a decent sized population of Venezuelans where I live (in Texas). They were having a street party after the news broke.

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How is this different to Iraq?

Bush had approval from Congress. Trump didn't even notify the gang of 8 until after the kidnapping started.

note: I'm not condoning the invasion of Iraq.

baronvonj ,
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Hand power to the woman who won the Nobel Peace Prize that he coveted? Want famtasy-land of rational thought is this reporter living in?

baronvonj ,
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For me it would either take a reversal of all the bullshit deregulation of campaign finance laws, or for all the bigots in the Cathy family to be ousted entirely.

Trump was ‘most culpable’ for Jan 6 riot and would have been convicted in court, Jack Smith told Congress in newly released testimony ( www.independent.co.uk )

Donald Trump was “most culpable” for the January 6 riot and would have been convicted in court had the case gone to trial, according to explosive testimony from former special counsel Jack Smith, released Wednesday afternoon by the House Judiciary Committee. ...

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THEY WHY DIDNT YPU GET HIM INTO COURT YOU TWAT!YOU HAD 4 YEARS AND ONE JOB AND NOW WE'RE HERE!

Smith was appointed in Nov of 22 and filed the first indictment in June of 23. If you're addressing your comment to Garland, then you need to actually name him because this post is about Jack Smith.

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Trump was impeached, twice.

baronvonj ,
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Shaolin Soccer

baronvonj ,
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But I don't have a min. spec GPU for Steam VR or PSVR2 PC link. I have plenty of Wipeout I can play on my PS5 without the VR.