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It certainly depends on who you are. If you leave your contact info and they look into it and your registered under the party they will take your threat more seriously. If a couple dozen Dems call after that saying the same thing, they will take your call MUCH more seriously.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    True. I probably should have added that, although there won't be good contact avenues for a lot of them until January. It's something I do semi regularly and forget it's not common practice for everybody else.

    Although I think even more effective would be calling your representatives who aren't newly elected and tell them you will primary them in the next cycle if they support Jeffries and Schumer for majority speaker positions.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

    There is a petition with half a million signatures on Change.org if people want to sign. I know it probably won't do much, but it might feel more cathartic than posting on Lemmy. https://www.change.org/p/house-democrats-choose-a-new-speaker

    Or better yet, call your representatives and tell them you will primary them in the next cycle if they vote for Schumer or Jeffries for Majority Speakers.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    I read somewhere recently that they found out Martian soil (regolith) is chalk full (0.5 to 1%) of pechlorates. So I don't know why this Martian terraform thing is even still talked about. The dust is literally toxic, any food you grow there would also be full of pechlorates as the roots will suck them up with their nitrate transport systems.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

    If people don't like the idea of Jeffries, there is a petition with half a million signatures on Change.org if people want to sign. I know it probably won't do much, but it might feel more cathartic than dooming on Lemmy. https://www.change.org/p/house-democrats-choose-a-new-speaker

    Or better yet, call your representatives and tell them you will primary them in the next cycle if they vote for Schumer or Jeffries for Majority Speakers.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 child)

    There is a petition with half a million signatures on Change.org if people want to sign. I know it probably won't do much, but it might feel more cathartic than dooming on Lemmy. https://www.change.org/p/house-democrats-choose-a-new-speaker

    Or better yet, call your representatives and tell them you will primary them in the next cycle if they vote for Schumer or Jeffries for Majority Speakers.

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    Why couldn't they do that already? These schools are already getting the public funding. The question is whether they can discriminate based off of sexual orientation.

    The equivalent would be the Satanic Temple refusing Christians or Conservatives, which I doubt they would do.

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    I have avoided AI (LLMS) because it didn't seem nearly useful enough to warrant supporting these tech assholes. Is there anyway to use it locally on a normal device (16 Gb ram, 8 year old Geforce graphics, etc?). Can I just slow it down and get it to work locally?

     

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    Many people have pointed out that if you start a timer on your phone and count out to 45 Mississippis, hippopotamus or number-one thousands it now ties out to a minute.

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    I specifically remember counting chunks of time as long as 15 minutes and not being off by a minute.

     

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