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The NYT has changed the headline and subhead on this one

 

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FEMA is stretched not just by the brutal aftermath of Hurricane Helene, which killed more than 200 people and destroyed sections of western North Carolina. Its staff is also responding to flooding and landslides in Vermont, tornadoes in Kansas, the aftermath of Tropical Storm Debby in New York and Georgia and the Watch Fire in Arizona.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

The state is required to pay the owners when they do that. If you just let them collapse, then they don't have to pay.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago (32 children)

The normal action with machine counts is to randomly select a subsample and hand count those to validate. It's just slow, expensive, and error-prone to hand-count really huge numbers of ballots with lots of offices on them. And that's the whole point of this decision — to make it so that people don't have a reliable count of votes the next day, allowing the opportunity to toss out the voters decisions entirely.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago (36 children)

Early would have been a year ago. Not now.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 weeks ago (38 children)

Even if you want that, it's a really bad idea to set new rules for how to count ballots a few weeks before the election, when you don't have time to hire people or train them to do it right. This guarantees chaos.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

Exactly. Low-population areas are Republican-leaning and will get counted fast. Cities which are Democratic-leaning won't have the staff to count it in one night.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

We restrict tobacco ads

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

Make the utility responsible for the bonds and have them go bankrupt.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

It's for an exhibit for the public in the US, where doing it in Fahrenheit will make it more accessible to the people seeing it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

If you're a vampire who was undead in the US at the time the constitution was signed, it doesn't matter where you were born.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

He said the quiet part of Republicanism out loud.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Yep.

If he had something like a normal healthy interest in sex, even with a bit of a kink, nobody would care.

Announcing that you're a Nazi and pro-slavery is the problem here.

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