Looking over the Daily Mail (ugh), it sounds more like he expects a red wave. He says we’re in for a surprise, but that’s the kind of shit they always say.

That’s not to say they won’t reuse their bullshit playbook (lies, voter intimidation, etc) but so far the most pressing issue we have in the midterms in all states are just milquetoast neolib Democrats running the party, likely to thumb the scales on primary season yet again. You raise the energy of the opposition and the opposition will practically camp overnight in line to cast a vote (and volunteer to vote count, etc).

Damage may already be done. Longitudinal data can extrapolate missing time points but extended gaps in data make it less and less viable. It can invalidate a whole years long project if you’re missing your final follow up or two.

Some research (usually with live specimen) can’t be halted without really fucking up the research. People might be continuing work with a previous stipend, but who knows what tremors this process is causing in those sensitive projects.

Having worked in research, it really pisses me off. I hope people are finding stopgap funds to limp along through these dark ages.

Yeah but I imagine the tax rate is how we got out of the gilded age to begin with. We’d need sane people to hold power for longer than just 4 years, though.

Imagine we do take the county back from the brink; we’ll have to go back to the days of 90% tax on the mega wealthy. It’s a self fulfilling prophecy.

Doubt it’s that big. These votes aren’t meant to be controversial, and Rubio has to be the most normal of the bunch so a unanimous vote is what you’d do. That said, while trying to block even reasonable nominations in the name of obstruction would be patriotic at this moment, its very much a Republican playbook dirty tactic and one I wouldn’t waste on fucking Rubio when they’re not going to even need your fucking vote anyway.

Well, looked it up and it wasn’t SPSS I was thinking of, seems they use 1582 and count to by seconds which results in pretty absurd intergers. And STATA arbitrarily uses 1 Jan 1960 because why not.

Honestly your version sounds cooler. I use R now for my data needs, and looking is up, those badasses do use 1 Jan 1970. Why anyone pays for statistical software when we have R and Python, I’ll never understand.

Ah, yes, quite a few systems use that. Iirc, when I first got into research I believe it was SPSS that have me pause (maybe STATA) when dates seemed to reference day in the 60s. It’s been a while so I don’t remember the specifics, but I always thought it was a neat way to handle dates.