Maths Cat

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[Unrig LA @UnrigLA]

Raman continues to chip away, now roughly 6 pts between her and Pratt. Today's update:

Bass: +11,748 (36.9%)
Pratt: +6,433 (20.2%)
Raman: +10,664 (33.49%)

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If you park like an asshole so no one can park next to you, and I can fit, I am taking that spot.

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@hearinladotcom @thejdelrio GOD FORBID ACCESSIBLE VOTING OPTIONS. OH NO. WHAT WILL WE DO WITH ALL THE PEOPLE WE LET VOTE AND HAVE THEIR VOICES HEARD

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@chemdawgrei REI.

[NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day @apod]

Over 1000 years ago, Persian astronomer Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi published humanity’s oldest known record of the Andromeda Galaxy in "The Book of Fixed Stars" (Bodleian Library MS. Marsh 144 p. 167).

800 years later, Andromeda became the 31st entry in Charles Messier’s "Catalogue of Nebulae and Star Clusters".

From “a small cloud” to “nebula” and now known to be our nearest major galaxy, Andromeda has remained a fundamental astronomical object.

Today’s image, taken over 202 hours, shows how far we have come in our ability to observe our neighbor. The diffuse red and blue clouds are mostly foreground ionized hydrogen and oxygen well within our Milky Way.

Pink-red clouds of hydrogen ionized by the energetic light of young stars trace the galaxy’s dusty spiral arms. M32 and M110 are satellite galaxies pictured orbiting the larger Andromeda.

Despite its long history of observation through ancient unaided eyes to modern telescopes, Andromeda still holds countless secrets that astronomers will continue to search for, including how galaxies merge and evolve, as well as the nature of the dark matter that galaxies reside in.

Image Credit & Copyright: Nick Fritz
Text: Keighley Rockcliffe (NASA GSFC, UMBC CSST, CRESST II)

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@BCLegalScholar @ZacharyDonnini You don't need a postmark to mail the ballot. It comes with an envelope with a pre-paid postmark.

And there are drop boxes. Most people just put it in the drop box.

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@chemdawgrei https://t.co/YnMq0S3HGy

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@chemdawgrei Okay so einsteins theory of general relativity and theory of special relativity are theories.

Black holes are not and we do have proof and evidence of that.

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@gofiliberto @reporterliz This doesn't help us *today* but it would help us in the future

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713,180 ballots remaining (per their reply) would put the primary participation at 2,109,167

For context:
'22 Primary: 1.62M
'22 General: 2.46M
'24 Primary: 1.64M (Presidential)
'24 General: 3.79M (Presidential)
'26 Primary: 2.11M (estimated)

We're seeing general-level turnout

[Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk @LACountyRRCC]

The first post-Election Night ballot count update includes 77,521 ballots processed since Election Night.

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@gofiliberto @reporterliz Something that people have been pushing for at city hall is lowering the voting age to 16, at the bare minimum for LAUSD elections.

One of the major benefits of doing so is proven, active and life long civic engagement

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@gofiliberto @reporterliz 36% is ridiculously high for a primary. We haven't had numbers like this since the 2020 presidential primary.

It is a shame that it's not higher than 36%, but this is a huge win.

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@UnrigLA Welp

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@chemdawgrei I think we got actual pictures too just a few years ago

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@chemdawgrei But we do?

We have various ways of measuring the gravitational pull as described by Einstein's theory of general relativity, and have observed the event horizon of several super massive black holes and their gravitational wakes

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@FilmThePoliceLA I didn't think I would, but I might

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@chemdawgrei Well, kinda. It's the anchor for our galaxy as we move towards Andromeda.

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@chemdawgrei Are we talking about the same thing? The center of our galaxy is a super massive black hole, it's what the milky way orbits around

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@Hotshot_Movie @UnrigLA In the scope of the universe, there are very few things we can say are "mathematical certainties."

And when it comes to predicting human behavior and future events, mathematical certainty only exists when looking at the past.

This is literally pundits talk about likelihoods

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@chemdawgrei Is this bait, am I getting baited

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@chemdawgrei .... but... they.... do??