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Puzzle #588
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Zagorath
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Ha yeah, I’ve seen Only Connect. YouTuber Tom Scott was on it in his youth. It’s a really interesting format for a show, but fiendishly difficult at times, especially for a non-Brit.
31·9 hours agoInteresting in theory, so thanks for sharing. But in practice, not going to matter. It would require a third party to win in at least one state before the EC can fail to reach a majority.
Edit: actually on second thought, I suppose a tie is also possible without a third party winning. But still, a tiny edge case, really.
Reposting some links from a thread two days ago about his response on Reddit.
I thought this comment (and the thread below it…and the lack of any reply to it despite the CEO being all over the thread elsewhere) was pretty telling.
It’s much less of a strong tell, but is slightly concerning that he’s picked up language like “triggered”. As comments there say, his excuse of not being in-tune with American politics could be real, but are also possibly just plausible deniability, because he may have picked up on that language by hanging out online with fascists.
Gerrymandering isn’t possible with presidential races. And he won by 86 electoral college votes, including all of the states people were looking at as possible swing states. That’s why everyone is saying he won a landslide.
The fact that he won despite being a literal convicted criminal and despite having previously shown himself to be one of, if not the worst president in history, says a huge amount about Americans’ willingness to accept fascism. People are right to be troubled by this.
Interesting. Sounds similar to
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The bindii in Australia. Also called “pricklies”. A name for a variety of unrelated species of grass or grass-like plants that hook on to you.
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Puzzle #587
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Uniqueness 1 in 1,189A very easy one. Ironically, for me, green was the leftovers.
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I had a vague sense that it was “things you pull off/out”. I don’t know how a sticker is a barb. Guess that might be an American term?
91·2 days agoSounds like dude’s just incredibly salty about this video.
Haha ouch man. That’s why I try to solve the whole puzzle before entering any results!
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Puzzle #586
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Uniqueness 1 in 1,033An easy one today, but only because I was able to get purple as the leftovers. It would be 3/5 if there was even the slightest hint of a reasonableness problem in the other three colours, but thankfully there wasn’t, so 4/5.
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I have never heard of a beer brand called “Harp” or “Oharp” or whatever it is. Nor of “Bass”/“Abass”/“Rabass”. Bud is a purely domestic American brand, albeit one that’s very famous through popular culture. Peroni is the only one I would really say I actually know.
Both of the two that they actually used are reasonably commonly used. Enough to have entries in dictionaries for them and movies named for them. The examples you gave are not ones I’ve ever heard, and I doubt they’re used.
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Nah but seriously, I think the “rat” in mall rat means the same thing as in gym rat. A person who goes there a lot. Keeping in mind that Americans use the word mall for what many others would call a shopping centre. Google says
a young person who frequents shopping malls, usually for social purposes.
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Puzzle #585
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Uniqueness 1 in 315I initially only got purple as the leftovers, but realised what the connection was just before hitting submit. 5/5 reasonableness.
Purple would have been easy not to know ahead of time, but it should at least “make sense” after you see the answer.
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Mr Robot is the titular character of the show Mr Robot. Mr Big, Peanut, and Toad are likewise characters in fictional various media. Namely, Sex and the City, a snack food mascot, and The Wind and the Willows.
Blue, again, might be one you didn’t know, but is fairly straightforward once seen.
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Dry and Dirty were the easiest to get, IMO. I’ve heard both of them used to describe drinks before. I think James Bond’s order is a Dry Martini. After I figured those out, I had a suspicion a out the other two and just googled “wet drink term” and “perfect drink term” to verify that they were in fact, drink terms.
Yellow was the first one I figured out, but I actually think is the hardest to figure out from the answer if you didn’t know it already.
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I was thinking about it specifically in the phrase “for change”. So a “mechanism for change”, a “tool for change” etc. It’s a thing that helps cause something to happen.
Hope that helps.
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Puzzle #584
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🟩🟩🟩🟩Holy shit today’s was tough. But mostly fair, I thought.
I’m struggling today. Glanced at it a few times over the day so far and haven’t really made any progress.
3·4 days agoOh right, mb.
No I get that, but for the software to pick it up properly you would need to use the “edit” button to amend the url in the post itself.
Could you edit the link so it doesn’t have the tracking information on it?
Not because of the tracking itself…it’s vague enough in this case not to be an issue. Just because keeping the canonical URL allows Lemmy to automatically detect when the post has been cross-posted to multiple instances, so we can see if/where it’s also being discussed.
What is their excuse? I haven’t heard it.