Three Steps @_Three_Steps_

@stephenjose77 if anyone on Vivek’s team had even a hint of a challenged upbringing they wouldve spiked this filth during the brainstorming session. tells me all i need to know about them (theyre losing and desperate)

@BlacklionCTA frankly surprised the admin hasnt gone this route already

every single bar at the Dublin airport is sro at 5am local time. i suppose it is the weekend

Aer Lingus boards back to front (after first/business class) and also has separate lines for near side/far side of the plane and it is undoubtedly the fastest boarding process ive ever been apart of

i stick by this 100% but clearly Rs are in a very bad way rn and are concerned of perception. which in it of itself is a hugely troubling sign for Rs; they are at their best (politically) when they dgaf

Three Steps @_Three_Steps_

a week ago

however, this is an election season where virtually nothing has gone right for Rs so I wouldn't be surprised if they feel snake-bit. and sending out an unqualified press sec to be mocked is not an obvious 'win'. still, I would do it (and tbf this is all pedantic inside baseball)

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@IrvingSwisher a March tournament (NIT the bigger deal pre CCNY scandal) deciding the national champ goes back towards CBBs earliest days. the concept of even a national champ game is very recent in the history of college football

@conorsen at 24 team ncaaf playoff is a larger % of D1 football than the current ncaab tournament is a % of D1 basketball

@Thorongil16 in a cage fight?

@Proud_Feets @tedfrank does a 23 point swing from 20 -> 24 not interest you at all? if the same swing was replicated 24 -> 28 then Asians are voting R en masse. another interesting detail here is there is no white swing at all. minority swing is literally the only reason there is a Trump 47

@OldBullTV probably morning of election day to include any straggler polls but at worst midnight election eve

@gbrew24 @hughhewitt time for another strongly worded editorial amirite

@OldBullTV Nate gave Trump a better chance than the prediction markets. in fact, Nate gave Trump a better chance than Trump gave Trump. there's a reason Trump gave his acceptance speech from a Motel 6 lobby (obvs im joking but it was just about the opposite vibe of the Javits Center)

@daveweigel i mean, this is without a doubt the position of the median voter in Nassau County

As they say, every time you go back to China, you have to relearn everything. In less than two years, my experience using Alipay (no-cash society) has flipped, and this time it was a TOTAL NIGHTMARE. Multiple problems: 1. "Just walk up and scan the QR code" is not so simple. Now places have QR codes all over the counter! Which one? It’s a trap. Over and over again, we scanned the large-sized, prominently displayed code, which was spam! The real code was small and tucked away. This happened just now at M-Stand coffee, and the foreigner next to us did the same intuitive but wrong thing. 2. Popups. The next problem is the biggest, which is the barrage of spam popups. The worst was at Luckin, where there were literally TWENTY click-through barriers to ordering an Americano. The girl was frantically clicking through on my phone, she knew each spam screen from muscle memory and anticipated them, often clicking before they arrived, but as fast as she was, the other customers were annoyed. I told the wife, and she confirmed the same thing had happened to her earlier: literally 20 clicks, and only a local would know the answers to all those trick questions. 3. Translation. Just use the Alipay translate feature, you say? No, this has got to be the WORST translation software in existence. Claude is essentially flawless; even DeepSeek would be fine, but this is actually translating as the opposite of the meaning many times, which, as you can imagine, spins up serious confusion and wrong orders. For example, it translated "matcha latte no caffeine" (wtf?) and options like "with jelly or yes jelly” (no!). 4. Optionality. This is insane and adds to the above burdens. In the example of Luckin, the girl who works there could not even find the Orange Americano! She menu-dived three times, getting frustrated and coming up for air, before she dived into the right one. Then, of course, came corn syrup, iced, size, etc. Well, combined with misleading translation and constant spam, you are now spending up to 20 minutes ordering a coffee (this was the actual time it took in Starbucks when I did it myself). 5. When is the order ready? You would think this digital system would have that advantage, but again, it is totally unclear. It is written in some small print among dozens of other numbers and is different for each restaurant you go! We never knew when it was ready to pick up. The effect of all this is that every single time you get a drink, or food, or do anything, it becomes an uninvited adventure, like solving a video game puzzle. It was vastly easier to just say "iced Americano, please" and let them do their job. This seems to be a big change, or am I just imagining it? Two years ago, it took some getting used to, but I do not remember hitting this brick wall. Is this like how Facebook became 100% spam, but the product cycle is just moving faster in China? On the positive side, ordering a taxi with Alipay (DiDi Taxi) remains great! Now, of course, we are tourists, true, and my Putonghua and comfort with simplified characters are very low, but typically when you set up systems like this, your own elder population cannot navigate them, like how elders in Korea cannot navigate the crappy banking apps and always get locked out of their own accounts. Speaking of which, of course I got locked out of my WeChat account, sigh, and none of the three recertification options are available to me in China. We went to a beer stall where the beer is paid for with Alipay but the cup is paid for with WeChat! This is just bad design!

Sol 솔 @Solzi_Sez

2 years ago

CHENGDU TRIP REPORT: First-hand observations did confirm that infrastructure and technology advancements in China are moving at an extreme rate. What we noticed in Chengdu: 1) Big clean subways comparable to Seoul or Tokyo, 2) Ruler-level super-wide roads and highways, 3) Alipay

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They need to release the entire headset communication audio and all mic’d up players from the last minute of the Commanders Giants game like we do with the cockpit voice recorder after a plane crash. We need closure

@rrpre negative signals are important!

@ReubenR80027912 gas prices are a stand in for 'prices'. if everything else happened but prices remained tame as they were at the start of the admin (obvs this means no war/tariffs) you don't think it would have a material impact on midterm results?

@InlandCaGuy @CartoonsHateHer @badgrbas it's @Serene_Necrosis

@ZhouJaron AZ Gop arguably the worst state party in the country