“Study after study shows that money doesn't really effect the results of high-information elections“
Your earlier statement, in which you claim that “money doesn’t effect result” followed by a useless distinction of high or low info elections. You’re really trying to dance a fine line of nonsense here.
“ We find a positive and statistically significant relationship between campaign expenditure, campaign contributions and winning probability.”
From the same article you posted and the first academic journal result if you Google “studies on how money influences elections”.
>Our finding is in line with existing results in the literature regarding the US House elections that incumbent candidates gain less from spending, compared to their contender counterparts. This is due to diminishing returns that occur at a certain point, after which incumbent candidates can increase the winning probability only marginally (Green & Krasno, 1988). However, this finding is in contrast with other studies considering electoral systems in Brazil, Japan, or India, where spending effectiveness is equally applicable for both incumbents and contenders (Johnson, 2013; Lee, 2020; Samuels, 2001).
So yea, sorry for providing two scholarly journal articles from two different political eras that support my thesis.
I didn’t realize that this was a bad faith discussion. Now I know.
These studies fail to consider the nature of US politics the last 30 years or so. We had a breakneck election tie broken by the Supreme court in 2000 for some reason. We've had 2 out of 3 times in the hist of the US where the electoral college defied the popular vote.
You don't need to win most states in the US, nor most people. Just target 5-6 swing states and throw billions into the most wishy-washy voters in the country.
It's not enough to only look at elections. The topics that the media discusses, and therefore the options that people are aware of and the issues people base their vote on are decided by mostly privately owned and increasingly consolidated media companies. Nobody will know about candidates that are not approved by some part of the elite in this media landscape. Any opinions that go against the interests of the media owning elite will not see much coverage. Sure, maybe money during elections does not matter that much, but elections are the very last step of the process of picking leaders, and the preceding steps matter as well.
Also, if money did not matter during elections, I doubt we'd see so much spending on them. Studies are being funded by companies and the wealthy as well, so a study or two saying money doesn't matter is not definitive proof.
This is why the heat pump should come along with local electric generation (mostly solar) and local storage (mostly battery banks).
In this configuration a typical suburban home can provide ALL of it's own energy needs, including 2 electric cars.
This also needs to come along with a massive reorganization of the US' electric utilities, which are primarily optimized to provide the most money possible to some rich assholes.
Instead we should be optimized for local generation, storage and distribution.
That is to say, we should be technologically optimized, not shareholder return optimized.
Obviously, this won't happen while the world's richest have the sway that they currently hold on policy.
But in the mean time, each homeowner can move ahead with local generation and storage that provides for all of their local energy consumption.
And YES, it does pay for itself over a shorter time span than a typical mortgage...
About a year ago there were a number of articles about how Alabama was greatly improving their public school math outcome with an elementary school teacher training program:
And somehow, during the effort to achieve digital sovereigncy, they still manage to host the source on the Microsoft property of github 8-/
Given that the only step necessary to host git on the internet is making port 22 publicly accessible, I fail to see why so many projects are hosted on this malware site...
After smoking weed for over 50 years, I would definitely say I am not addicted.
When I travel internationally, often for periods of over a month, I don't use any cannabis at all.
During these times I experience no withdrawal symptoms or craving.
I abstained for over a year during a number of periods during those 50 years, due to specific job requirements and other situations where using weed would be viewed detrimentally.
If anything, I would say cannabis is one of the least "addictive" substances that create a euphoric experience.
Please remember the old adage: gateways work for both getting you out of, as well as into, other situations. I would say that cannabis would be a great substance to use daily for helping people abstain from more harmful substances.
In the US we have the ass-hat social acceptance of: Alcohol, tobacco and firearms, like the little baby jesus intended.
All three of which are VASTLY more dangerous and deadly than cannabis.
A more direct link to the article, which doesn't require "Are you a bot" authentication, or javascript:
With the exception of one comment, which simply restated the link correctly, no one here has pointed out that the URL provided is not in fact served by an FTP server.
Starting a link with http, makes it a WWW link which is expected to be interpreted as HTML, and is served by an WWW server.
An FTP URL would be: ftp://128.237.157.9/pub
Where the leading ftp: designates how the link is to be interpreted. The so called "scheme" of the URL.
In reply to other comments: my browser supports the ftp: scheme without issue.
Ironically, when using the ftp: scheme in the URL, the /pub directory query returns an error: 550 Failed to change directory.
Whereas removing that subdirectory, and just using the scheme and IP address does return the files and subdirectories served by the FTP server (at least the ones with public permissions).
Whereas the http: URL to the same IP and /pub directory does return successfully. With the contents correctly served by the WWW server.
Therefore, this was probably not a great example to use for a post regarding FTP servers. Since the URL http://128.237.157.9/pub is actually served by a WWW server...
In ye olden days, TV stations broadcasted again what they already had once.
We called this phenomenon the "rerun".
I would place the poster of the comment that I am replying as a 38+, so deep into Dumbo rerun territory but, perhaps I am wrong and it was a 21yo zoomer growing up in a compound.
> The suggestion that the African elephant (Loxodonta africana) becomes intoxicated from eating the fruit of the marula tree (Sclerocarya birrea) is an attractive, established, and persistent tale
> Possibly the most iconic is the story of African elephants (Loxodonta africana) and marula fruit. According to this widespread lore, elephants across Africa preferentially feed on the fallen, fermenting fruit of the marula tree (Sclerocarya birrea), becoming intoxicated
When I was a kid, animal documentaries usually had a little bit on animals getting drunk from fermented fruit laying on the ground. Drunk elephants were often the highlight, because a stumbling, drunk, elephant is pretty entertaining to watch (although their legal drinking age seems to be MUCH lower than with human societies!).
Or maybe a statement of just how much the US population is uninformed/misinformed.
If the later is true, the US 'electorate' really is dumb as dirt...
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