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I was sure the flat earth folks would work their way into this

Quote: DoubleGold

I try to keep an open mind.


If true, it can show up on a compass [relative to GPS] when selecting two specific places on earth, then navigating.

It would depend on the places selected.



Planet versus Spheret, aka plane_t and sphere_t.

It's a sphere but let's call it a planet because no one will catch on.

Quote: odiousgambit

Quote: DoubleGold

I try to keep an open mind.


If true, it can show up on a compass [relative to GPS] when selecting two specific places on earth, then navigating.

It would depend on the places selected.



Planet versus Spheret, aka plane_t and sphere_t.

It's a sphere but let's call it a planet because no one will catch on.

We are primarily beings that are comfortable in 2 dimensions, the third making us uncomfortable to comprehend. Thus, people come up with some weird stuff, it can be fascinating how far they can get

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During a floor debate on gerrymandering, Virginia State Senator Lamont Bagby (D) says he knows a little bit about rural America because he watched Dukes of Hazzard.

Quote: fleaswatter

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Can you imagine if a Republican said they knew all about urban living because watch Good Times? Or The Jeffersons?

P.S. He also watched the Waltons.

Quote: Gandler

Quote: fleaswatter

Video HERE

Can you imagine if a Republican said they knew all about urban living because watch Good Times? Or The Jeffersons?

P.S. He also watched the Waltons.

The audio doesn't work in your X post, but I'm sure this was said in a sarcastic way.

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Elie Honig warned that Democrats’ effort to push a partisan gerrymander of Virginia through the state legislature is in big trouble during a Thursday afternoon segment on CNN News Central.

After noting that a judge had blocked the implementation of the Democrats’ preferred map one day after Virginians voted to allow the legislature to do so and that Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones (D) plans to appeal, anchors Boris Sanchez and Brianna Keilar asked Honig, “Do you think this challenge in Virginia has a chance of succeeding?”

“I do think it has a chance of success — this battle is not over,” replied Honig. “So, if you look at there are various challenges here brought by the RNC and other Republican entities, they’re basically making two types of challenges here. One is substantive, so they’re arguing that the way the question was phrased on the ballot was unfair, was misleading. And there is some legitimacy to that. I mean, the question asks, do you want to, quote, ‘restore fairness to the process?’ Who’s going to realistically vote no on that? I mean, a lot of people did, but it’s slanted, I don’t know if it’s slanted enough to win the legal challenge. But the second category is the procedural challenges. And that’s where I think the challengers have some real heft behind their arguments”

“For example,” he continued, “One of the laws says, if you’re going to do this, the Virginia general assembly has to pass a law, and then voting, the referendum, can’t start for 90 days after the law is passed. Here, we’re not even 90 days out now, and the voting’s done. So I don’t know how Virginia’s going to defend that. There’s another procedural quirk, I guess, that says, the way you have to do this is the Virginia general assembly has to pass a law, then you need to have an intervening election. Then a second general assembly needs to pass the law again. And the argument here that you’re hearing from the defenders is, ‘Well, the 2025 governor election, that’s the intervening election.’ The problem is that overlapped with the first vote so there’s some procedural nuance here that I think is going to be a real problem for people defending this outcome, and I think it’s going to give the Republicans a chance to actually get it knocked down on the legal challenges.”

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