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  • lemonmelon@lemmy.worldtopolitics @lemmy.world•AOC doesn't want to be New York City mayor. Most likely, she has bigger plans
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    15 hours ago

    Likely not. She’d have been of age by the time she took office. It’s very slightly nebulous, but it’s more in line with precedent that she is already eligible. For further details, see Joe Biden’s initial term in Congress. He was 29 when he campaigned and was elected in the November 7th, 1972 election. He turned 30 on November 20th, making him of age when he took office in January of 1973.

    AOC will turn 35 before the election even takes place, which suggests that she has even more of a claim to eligibility than Biden would have in '72. It’s all moot now, as the DNC (probably wisely, from the look of things now) chose to make the easier transition to the sitting VP as their candidate. There were several advantages to this strategy, but that’s a different discussion.

  • lemonmelon@lemmy.worldtopics@lemmy.world•Erwin TN after Helene Storm
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    2 days ago

    Tennessee is somewhat of an outlier, as its other major cities skew red, though at least in part artificially so. Nashville, for example, is part of three different districts now, the 5th, 6th, and 7th. It’s been lost to gerrymandering. Knoxville, in the 2nd, and Chattanooga in the 3rd are heavily Republican cities.

    The 4th contains conservative-leaning private universities and suburbs of Nashville and Chattanooga.

    The 9th District, colloquially “Memphis” in my previous statement, is the only district in the state that currently has a significantly strong Democratic voter base. If anything, it became even more blue after the 2023 re-districting moved part of East Memphis to the already conservative 8th district.

    Of the districts other than Memphis, the 5th, which can be thought of as the ghost of Nashville, is the closest to even resembling purple; even so, it has a CVPI of R+9.

  • lemonmelon@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Whats an unethical or dangerous experiment that you would like to see performed or perform (if it werent for the ethics/danger)
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    9 days ago

    “Landmine has taken my sight, taken my speech, taken my hearing…”

    I guess someone forgot to tell Metallica when they were writing the song that it wasn’t about a landmine.

    And I guess someone previously forgot to tell Dalton Trumbo when he wrote Johnny Got His Gun that it wasn’t an anti-war novel.

    And then they forgot to tell him again thirty-two years later when he directed the movie adaptation, Johnny Got His Gun.

    And then, worst of all, they forgot to tell the directors of the music video that “One” was anti-war and Johnny Got His Gun was about a landmine and that using scenes from the film in the music video wouldn’t be thematically appropriate.

    Damn, there were a lot of missteps! Good thing you set it all straight!

  • lemonmelon@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•*Permanently Deleted*English
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    12 days ago

    To add to your point regarding additional functions inherent in smartphones: pagers do one thing. They’re relatively simple devices. Simplicity means that there are fewer things that can cause the device to function incorrectly or fail to function altogether. In hospital communications use-cases, this is a huge benefit.

    Additionally, pagers are relatively inexpensive. Therefore, it’s much more effective to have multiple spares available for distribution compared to smartphones. If a pager is inoperable, it can quickly be swapped out with a backup while the original is repaired or replaced. Smartphones do not carry that benefit.