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... honestly, sometimes I prefer even a mediocre sub to a great dub. Occasionally I just don't want to hear goddamn english for a while, and I read quickly and comfortably enough there's little to no difference in comprehension and whatnot.

Incidentally, a similar phenomena is why I'm a lot more lenient with vocals in a language I can't understand, music wise. Somewhat harder to tell if or how badly they're screwing up, and often enough the actual content of the lyrics is an active detriment to enjoying the bit of music. There's times you're better off not knowing what the translation is or if what you're reading is actually accurate.

That, more or less, yes. Movement patterns, changes in purchasing habits, all those sorts of things, can be used to track and predict or prevent all sorts of shit that would be really nice to the track and prevent. Like, that's the kind of data and analysis a seriously on the ball economists runs with for a decade or three and then starts near inerringly identifying market bubbles while they're forming instead of when they're about to pop, how a city planner/administrator notices part of the area they're working with is gentrifying, or starting to show signs of particular sorts of infrastructure wear or seeing spikes in certain sorts of malfeasance, how a disease or pandemic related critter can identify warning signs for something sketchy encroaching or herd immunity weakening or whatever, and so on, and so forth.

The data itself and the ability to track and analyse it as it changes is really damn good stuff for dealing with wide scale/macro concerns. Just need to start using it for that more instead of thumb sitting as corporate jackasses use it to shill robocalls.

Not much to it, really. Banned critter from way back that had people claiming to be him for giggles, eventually the "We're all Pathos" thing decided to get stuck. The rest is pointless details and history. Just a joke, say I to me to pathos to me to I.

Pretty sure it was just registered voter stuff, i.e. no immigrants allowed, get out of our released to the wild personal information club. Also mentioned it before the rest of you *shakes fist*

I'm just going to content myself knowing the question of which party has the more shit IT has, for the time being, been settled.

... though as to ease of access for registered voter info. As with basically everything election related, iirc it varies by state, anywhere from easy to ]get out[. Also relatively sure most of the time getting them also gets record of you put on the books as doing so, which mitigates abuse a little. Somethin' like that, chunk of the problem about it is now not a single anybody knows who or who doesn't have it. Regardless of how easy access was before, it was still a failure and a half and a rather not!good thing.

Eh, yeah, that'd make it worse. I'd just really prefer we didn't test GOP spine and trump mettle when it comes to military action, ha.

I do think you have a more valid concern, sluissa, but the reason I'm not 100% concerned myself is that sending in troops to Syria would be very unpopular, something Trump has to realize as he's criticized Obama for many of the same things he's doing now, and because trump has actually shown knowledge in a couple of his tweets (can't remember which; we went over it in my IR class last quarter) of the effect war would have on his popularity.

I'd be more comforted by that note if the GOP senatecritters weren't doing what they are with the AHCA, honestly. The claim they, trump included, really care about popularity is ringing a little hollow at the mo'.

E: ... also, the claim the trump realizing he's doing something he's criticized others for stopping him from doing it is a rather incredibly bad joke. That's applicable to just about everything he does, and it doesn't seem to be slowing him down much.

I think mostly because for most of that, trump was not POTUS. Also I don't remember much of us actually sinking/shooting down stuff over that mess.

In any case, so far as domestic news goes, it looks like we finally get to put to rest which of the political parties has the worse IT cockups. Behold! Apparently someone the RNC was working with managed to stick 1.1 terabytes of voter information in an unsecured file on a publicly accessible cloud server. Approximately every registered voter in the country has been potentially compromised :V

Thanks Trumpama! Or RNC. Same difference.

And in today's round of radio trivia question, "What was the average weight of medieval armor?"

See if you can spot the WTF.