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This is part of it. Constitutionally, the governor can only appoint for state offices, but there was historical precedent for the governor to appoint federal offices. And you are right that the state had passed some laws requiring a special election, but it also had some crazy length like 56-days required between the call and the election taking place to let all counties be notified. (As best I can remember reading. It's all a bit of a mess.)

https://www.lex18.com/news/state-of-the-commonwealth/kentucky-law-requires-special-election-to-fill-vacant-u-s-senate-seat-not-appointment

The more annoying thing is the two rulebooks. McConnell has tended to make up his own rules (and justify them with legalese) and ignore the ones he doesn't like. Beshear is trying to play by the rules, and not recognizing the actual power shifts that have happened. And so, here we sit in sending-angry-letter mode for the time being.

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Everything about modern console gaming has been frustrating. I'm trying to help my kids, but having physical media hard to find, never-ending account creation, and then features locked behind online stuff, that you then have to subscribe to the console company to play anything online? What have we done?

I bought a linksys wrt simply because they had the open firmware. That router was amazing!

A while ago jacobin had some stats showing how often she would mention Medicare for all, and it decreases by a lot as time went on

I quit doing all surveys. Why work for free? It just felt pointless, and I used to fill out a lot of these since I thought it made my voice heard. They also started to feel more sterile and robotic and less about actually getting actionable feedback. Aggregate data tends to suck, and it’s all they want now.

Yeah, I enjoyed them. I can’t remember where I stopped. But definitely enjoyed the first 3

Jack McDevitt writes has a series which is basically space archaeology. You may like those. I think Engines of the Gods is thr first one.

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Got the email from Amazon and jailbreaked my kindle that same day. Koreader is pretty awesome!

I was about to mention that too. The first part of mutual aid is talking through all the ways that animals work together and support each other.

Mokas are a finicky beast. I’ve had it make some of the worst and some of the tastiest cups I’ve had. Is it acidic or bitter? It’s easy to burn it, but that doesn’t sound like the problem. I’m guessing it’s too fine. Every bag I got had to be individually dialed on, but in general I found a grind much more similar to drip/ pour over worked best. I’d try that. Fill your filter up to where there’s a good mound and lightly tap down with a spoon.

Also, have your changed your filter and gasket that go into the top portion? Those can get old grinds stuck in it easy that can taste off.

Thanks for the tip! I took a break after the Seville episodes. Those were rough. Robert bashing on AI sounds nice