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Also valid

Because Democrats are content to let Republicans curtail rights for good people in red states, as long as they don't have to worry in blue states.

Yes, I'm aware of the narrative. I'm saying it doesn't match reality (in this case -- as a general statement about the Democrats of the Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton brand, I fully agree with it + how it's responsible for a lot of the lack of support for Democrats from the people who've been getting screwed).

I don't really know how to lay out my evidence for my statement other than what I've already done... if you're just planning on repeating the narrative back at me, IDK what to tell you.

Also, for your version, on a number line or Cartesian plane, the distance from -1 to 1 is 2, not 0

Yeah. I cheated. You have to either deliberately misunderstand how to measure vectors or else drop a minus sign for it to work my way.

(Or, from my previous example, you could just frame it as you're getting the hypotenuse by measuring between |AB| and -|AC|𝑖 instead of the way I framed it -- but that makes it more obvious that you're fishing for a particular answer.)

Yeah. We were making a joke about the complex plane -- you could say that measuring the hypotenuse of a triangle is equivalent to measuring the distance between points |AB| and |AC|𝑖 on the complex plane. That definition actually makes quite a bit of sense, and I think by sheer coincidence it's possible to misunderstand how to do it and wind up with a way of looking at it where the hypotenuse of a right triangle with sides 1 and 𝑖 would work out to exactly 0. Which brings it back into concordance with OP's (also wrong) Pythagorean presentation of it.

It obviously doesn't really work that way, but it's hard to see necessarily anything wrong with it, which makes it a fun math thing.

This is honestly one of the genuinely really unique good use cases for AI art generation, I think

? I am confuse

States' rights in this particular case led to marijuana legalization a bunch of places which was pretty far from what the Republicans wanted

And a bunch of Democrats have been fighting for full federal legalization for a few years now. I'm aware there's a mythology that it's every Democrat's fault that 99% of Republicans voted in lock-step against it, which meant that little slivers of Democratic opposition were able to defeat it, but I'm not convinced by that logic

I'm aware that some Republicans use "states' rights" as a fig leaf for their awful policies but how on Earth are you trying to apply it in that way to this particular issue

In classic Biden/dem fashion, while it’s true he has done something that could lead towards delivering on his campaign promise, it’s comically little and falls far short of his full power.

This would be completely accurate if you took the "Biden/" part out of it. I know it's a popular myth that Biden is part of this pattern, but in actuality he did:

• Pass a climate bill that targets 40% reduction in emissions by 2030
• Forgave around $144 billion in student loan debt
• Boosted income for the poorest wage earners by a huge amount (outpacing even the pretty historic inflation of the last couple of years as follow-on effects from Covid took hold)
• Raised corporate tax significantly to pay for all of the above

He tried to do more on all fronts, but it's far from comical and the fact that he got that much done over stiff Republican resistance is to me pretty fuckin impressive. Example -- he tried to forgive half a trillion dollars of student loan debt through some direct executive action, and it went to the Supreme Court and they told him no.

Like I said though, I think marijuana is actually one isolated instance where that criticism that he wasn't actually trying to support full legalization / wasn't doing as much as he could to get it done might be halfway warranted. But to me that's more of an exception to his usual pattern.

It should have just pulled you over after a certain length of time

Some young people think Trump was the one that wrote the Covid stimulus checks himself out of his own account

I miss the days when news let people know what's going on, instead of picking a narrative and finding some idiots who already believe it and reporting that idiots believe it without weighing in on whether it's true

I can send it to you, but I can’t understand it for you

You gotta skip to 13 seconds in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nToh2QCexL8