@DiracDeltaFunk I mean, I think you are taking this too literally; itโs normal to copy definitions to make sure you donโt mess them up. But, if there's literally no change you want to make, you should just cite the other paper.
@miclugo@NoahJSnyder It's suddenly become strategically important because if Harris wins PA, MI and WI, but loses AZ, NV, GA, and NE-2, then it's an electoral college tie.
I'm not that invested in the specific argument here, but it got me thinking about how weird the 2008 primary was. We've never actually had another primary that competitive in the post-'68 system. What other election would give you a map like this?
@firasd@mattyglesias Whereas with her Iraq positioning, absolutely not. And itโs why I didnโt vote for her in the 2016 primary, even though there I didnโt particularly like the other candidate.
@NoahJSnyder@firasd@mattyglesias Itโs easy to forget now how deeply liberals despised Bush by 2007. Clintonโs vote for the war tied her inextricably to the most salient reason for that.
@NoahJSnyder@firasd@mattyglesias It also gave Obama a specific issue where he could differentiate himself from Clinton. It was key to his ability to attract attention, and all the things that flow from that (money, volunteers), even if that specific issue didnโt move *that* many people.
@LibWanderer@mnolangray@StatisticUrban Um, except for Canada, which is the most culturally similar to the US (Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver are all similar to London).
@TimHenke9@heuristics@focusfronting The capitals give it feeling of Seriousness, and it has some familiar English features (using โckโ, writing โieโ instead of final โiโ, no diacritics or weird things like โijโ). The number of jโs is probably a key reason Dutch looks strange.
@TimHenke9@heuristics@focusfronting Right, I mean the point I was making was about spelling anyways. Something about the conventions in those languages that make them look kind of funny to English eyes in a way that, say, German doesnโt.
@TimHenke9@focusfronting This is hard to explain, but something about the spelling of Dutch (and Skandanavian languages) just looks silly or childish to English speakers. The fact that words in those languages often look like badly spelled English words is definitely partly why.
@PowerStiering@StatisticUrban It also doesn't account for what the "uncomfortable" days are like. At least for some of us, uncomfortably cold is much more bearable than uncomfortably hot (essentially because of the second law of thermodynamics).
@PowerStiering@StatisticUrban The dewpoint setting is way too strict here; the Midwest has a lot of summer days which are perfectly pleasant, but maybe a little muggy by CA standards and this marks them as "uncomfortable."
@TimHenke9@eigenknight Another way to say the same thing is that [1:z] and [z;1] are copes of C=R^2, and they are glued together by the map z-> 1/z, so itโs gluing two disks to make an S^2.