The 1987 film is the one that's obviously supposed to have been a "New Gods" film, but then reskinned for the property the studio had the license for, yes?

Harris won Minnesota (even got a majority in the state). Because of the electoral college, Harris could have won Minnesota by 90% and it still would have had the same effect.

It's like how an MP who wins by 2% and one who wins by 50% still contribute the same number of votes to who gets to be PM.

Could probably also get a 6️⃣ on the last two if I tried enough, but I should go to bed. Maybe if I have time in the morning.

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Remember the old NYTimes game "Numbers"?

I made a daily puzzle game inspired by that called R-Pianer:

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It might not be your thing. Not enough people liked "Numbers" for the NYT to keep it, and part of the reason I made R-Pianer was because I found Numbers too easy.

🎶 We're gonna make it after all 🎶 . . . to the day that it happens. Because it will happen, dammit. 🧵

Forgot about this one I took a decade ago with my phone:

Got a response from my dad: "Oh, yeah. The 1100 systems and its descendants. Very different than the rest of the world. I worked with them a little and hated it. The were profitable: once you got a customer, he was pretty much locked in because switching to other systems was SO HARD."

Like, he literally worked for the company that made those machines until 2012 and in the late 70s he spent a few years maintaining the COBOL compiler on a different line of that company's mainframes.

We have money for racist masked Gestapo in part because we refuse to spend that money on healthcare.

I shouldn't actively remember who that is; he should stay buried in my head between "crack" and "hypodermics on the shore".

I think that would be much easier to do if we had some decent "and here's what the GOP is complicit in today" noises from the Dem side of the aisle.

Priming.

Scared people are less able to verify things with skepticism.

Remember the ridiculous-on-its-face story that went viral back in 2013 about how Google was doing mass surveillance leading to cops showing up when two people in one house googled "backpacks" and "pressure cookers"?

I have better Cedar Waxwing photos, but they were taken in New Jersey, not Minnesota, so check out the entry on "All About Birds", where the first reference photo was taken in Minnesota: www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Cedar_...

I am going to run out of my own photos soon, so might have to start pulling reference photos from Cornell's Ornithology site or something.

Or repost birds with increasingly worse photos.

I do kind of wish I could post my "Morning Minnesota Bird" posts to a feed of MN people who'd appreciate them, but:

- not sure the MSP feed is that audience
- those photos weren't taken in the cities
- I'm posting from NJ
- people can always look at #MorningMinnesotaBird if they really want

The first solution of the day was written without seeing anyone else's code; except for day 10, the first haskell and golang solutions were also written without seeing anyone else's. (aoc10.hs and golang/day10/ were written after reading the Reddit post mentioned in the comments of aoc10b.py)