Interesting, thanks. Mamdani’s opposers can probably converge on one candidate though. We’ll see.

It’s still ranked choice, I think.

I guess it’s a question of how much hassle it’s worth. I did a messy data recovery of a crashed database for a work client once, but it involved a lot of trial and error and writing special purpose code, plus considerable luck that some things worked better than I had a right to expect. Cost of something like that would be in the multi kilobucks, maybe low 5 figures. We got almost all the data back, though not 100%.

Maybe just put that HDD aside and replace it with a new one, and deal slowly with recovering the data as you get the time to mess with it. Also don’t do any write operations on the old drive. Maybe copy it entirely to someplace and work on the copy. In fact better do that anyway, HD’s physically crash all the time.

I’m not doubting all that stuff is great if Mamdami can make it happen. I’m skeptical that he can make it happen, based on having seen this kind of thing before. Heck, he hasn’t even won the mayoral election yet. I’d give him 50% chance of becoming mayor, based on remembering Lieberman for Connecticut. As for the other stuff, it’s all vague enough to make it easy to claim victory, at least based on what you’ve posted here. So I’d want to see definite success criteria based on measurable results.

massive pessimist just for the sake of the world’s most depressing “win” is not a healthy way to live.

Healthy cynicism my friend ;).

Plus, nothing is really pointing to this being a bad thing except your own evident misunderstanding of the situation.

I see a bunch of idealistic goals that don’t look likely to survive contact with reality. But, like you, I wish him all the best as well.

Is the Green New Deal still around by the way? Same issue, more or less.

Well, we’ll see what actually happens. NY has a history of chewing up mayors.

AOC is a Democrat too, what is the issue? There are factions within the Democrats and she’s in one of them but afaict she is nowhere near as radical as she was depicted as being. Part of that is from getting slapped around by the leadership I’m sure.

half expecting

Sweet summer child.

Mayoral elections like most US elections are multi-party in principle, but usually there are the two major parties and the rest are marginal or fringe. Some offices are solidly enough controlled by one party that the primary essentially determines the general election winner. Example: AOC primaried out the incumbent in a solidly Democratic seat. She then ran in a general election against a Republican and others, but none of them really mattered.

I don’t know whether the NYC Mayor election is like that these days. I know NYC has had Republican mayors in living memory, like Ghouliani. Bloomberg (I just checked) did two terms as a Republican, then a 3rd as an independent on the Republican ballot line. He later ran in the 2020 presidential primaries as a Democrat.

Right now there’s a situation where Andrew Cuomo (anointee of the NY and maybe even national Dem establishent) just lost the primary but might run as an independent. If the Dem establishment keeps supporting him, maybe he has winning chances. Something like that happened with Connecticut senator Joe Lieberman, who lost a Dem primary but then got re-elected as an independent with Dem party support. His opponent (Ned Lamont, now governor of Connecticut iirc) wasn’t even left wing from what I remember.

For his independent run, Lieberman started a new party “Connecticut for Lieberman” and ran as its candidate. After being reelected, the new party had served its purpose and became useless to him, so he forgot about it and the incorporation documents expired. Someone else then got control of it (I guess that’s like domain squatting) and apparently used it for some entertaining pranks. I wasn’t around for that though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecticut_for_Lieberman

Cudahy, California appears to be a town in Los Angeles County, if anyone cares.

I see. Question then is whether the store operator gets to set the prices. Donald Trump of course lives in government housing right now, so that’s ok too.

He’s a Democrat, not 3rd party.

Ok fine. His platform is interesting and I wish him luck delivering on it.

Shitty policies are usually successful in the sense that they achieve or at least advance their (shitty) goals, fwiw. Are Mamdani’s proposals serious (e.g. does he have financial projections for them), or are they like platitudes like wishing for world peace? Tbh I don’t think the mayor has the authority to do any of that stuff.

We’ll see how it goes.

Quite a lot of red states have state owned liquor stores,[0] so city owned grocery stores doesn’t sound that radical. Apparently, Atlanta is doing it.[1] I hadn’t heard of this idea before, but web search shows it is a thing. I’d consider it socialism if he also wants to close down the privately run grocery stores. He doesn’t seem to be doing that

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholic_beverage_control_state

[1] https://thefern.org/2025/03/are-government-owned-grocery-stores-the-answer-to-americas-food-desert-problem/

If Cuomo runs 3rd party and the Dem establishment supports him, I’m going to fling that back at anyone who tells me to not vote 3rd party in a presidential election, lol.

Look for a high SEER, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasonal_energy_efficiency_ratio

Window AC can be much cheaper to operate than central even if the window unit is less efficient, since it’s cooling just one room instead of the whole house.

Where I am, we’ve had some quite hot days (100 degrees but not much above that so far) and I haven’t had to use the AC yet, because it’s still pretty cool out at night and the house stays cool enough during the day. That might change if it starts getting hot at night.

You dream every night, everyone does. You just don’t remember the dreams on waking.

IDK about windows to the subconscious but if I have an interesting or recurring dream, sometimes I try to interpret it, and have gotten some things out of doing that.

Maybe there is some gadget that can detect when you are dreaming. You wouldn’t want to have it wake you automatically on a regular basis (disrupting sleep isn’t always avoidable, but it isn’t good). But you could try it once or twice and see if you remember the dream then.

Dreaming is also called REM (rapid eye movement) sleep, because people’s eyeballs jerk around during that sleep phase. Usually the jerking is pretty random. Once during a sleep study, a guy’s REM suddenly changed to very rhythmic, repeated side to side movements. That was weird enough that the researcher woke him and asked him what he had been dreaming about. The answer: playing ping pong. The eye movements had tracked the ball going back and forth.

Thanks, interesting, but I wish him luck delivering on any of that.

No idea about Mamdani but does the election not mostly show that people hate Andrew Cuomo? He seemed awful.

Phone or small tablet with a wireless keyboard.