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They aren’t much, but they’re something.

This information has been shared with Pima County Dems and they’ll be helping us organize a bit.

Grrr, tucsonsentinel mucking with their “archive re-releases” again. I wish I could exclude them on the RSS feed.

Thanks for mentioning it!

You know, I thought so too, until I did some googling and found that it’s not quite that straight forward:

https://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2024/03/28/no-the-saudis-havent-stopped-pumping-arizona-groundwater/

TIL!

Likely because it’s a bot and that’s what the bot is set to do. You did notice it is a bot right?

Fair point. But I also know a few of examples to the contrary. My sister and my father both had medical cards. They’ve stopped renewing them, because for them the recreational side is sufficient. It’s just less stress. Although I’m very much not sure about the prices. It seems like they are making short-term decision on the expensive paperwork and in so doing paying a lot more long-term in excise taxes.

I don’t even have a medical card. But I am just incredibly tired of ever increasing THC percentages in the products. I need a substantial amount of CBD in the product to not be stuck in a mind-racing, anxious hell. So a majority of the recreational market just does NOT appeal to me.

I lived in Portland, Oregon for about 7 years after they legalized. Their market was so different. I could find almost any combination of cannabinoids that I would want. Even on the recreational side. I wonder if it has anything to do with the markets maturity in a given state? Perhaps people trend away from high THC strains after a few years?

It’s because the “Medical” side of the market doesn’t actually exist. Want CBD heavy bud? Nope, not, “enough demand”. Just higher and higher concentration of THC for the medical patients.

It’s fake as hell. Not every medical patient has the same needs, so why the hell is it all the same weed?

Nowadays the hemp/CBD flower shops are more “medical” than any of the “medical” shops.

For here in Tucson, I recommend Healthful Flowers over on Speedway and Craycroft. The only legit “medically valuable” hemp/cannabis dispensary in town.

So yeah, to the “medical” dispensaries out there, it’s adapt or die, and most are choosing to just make “medical cannabis” into “discount recreation cannabis” and wondering why their medical patients stop showing up.

Well, seeing that Insurgency: Sandstorm was on a sale, I just picked it up for him (and myself). Seems to have a lot in the map making scene, and that’s a really important factor for him.

It also helps that the prior Insurgency game has the most hours on his profile, by far. Gave me a good hint that he should enjoy this one.

Thanks so much!

EDIT: My dad just got back to me, and loves the gift. Apparently that’s where most of his online buddies went and still are. Nailed it!

I grew up in Pinal county and I’m very much not holding my breath.

There’s a lot of favoritism and nepotism in Pinal county politics, morso than Pima and Maricopa counties. Likely due to being the most populous, republican dominated county we have.

I think they will actively be MUCH worse this year and it’ll be up to massive voter turnout to counter the disenfranchisement.

Excellent summary!

I will say that I’m kinda surprised to learn that Nanos Identifies as a Democrat. All the deaths in the Pima County jail system had me thinking that Nanos was an out and proud Republican.

Personally, I side towards Rosenthal here, there’s too many deaths in our jails, and Nanos hasn’t done enough (or really, anything) to stop it.

I understand the sentiment… But… This is a terribly reasoned and researched article. We only need to look at the NASA to see how this is flawed.

Blown Capacitors/Resistors, Solder failing over time and through various conditions, failing RAM/ROM/NAND chips. Just because the technology has less “moving parts” doesn’t mean its any less susceptible to environmental and age based degradation. And we only get around those challenges by necessity and really smart engineers.

The article uses an example of a 2014 Model S - but I don’t think it’s fair to conflate 2 Million Kilometers in the span of 10 years, vs the same distance in the span of the quoted 74 years. It’s just not the same. Time brings seasonal changes which happen regardless if you drive the vehicle or not. Further, in many cases, the car computers never completely turn off, meaning that these computers are running 24/7/365. Not to mention how Tesla’s in general have poor reliability as tracked by multiple third parties.

Perhaps if there was an easy-access panel that allowed replacement of 90% of the car’s electronics through standardized cards, that would go a long way to realizing a “Buy it for Life” vehicle. Assuming that we can just build 80 year, “all-condition” capacitors, resistors, and other components isn’t realistic or scalable.

Whats weird is that they seem to concede the repairability aspect at the end, without any thought whatsoever as to how that impacts reliability.

In Conclusion: A poor article, with a surface level view of reliability, using bad examples (One person’s Tesla) to prop up a narrative that EVs - as they exist - could last forever if companies wanted.

This is a brief reminder that this is posted on a community dedicated to Arizonans and Tucson - broad statements casting us all as bigots is uncalled for and will earn a ban for breaking rules on civility.

Interesting, you keep using non-AZ statistics to bolster an argument about the AZ electorate.

Let me know when you come up with some arguments based on relevant data.

Until then, you are wrong.

“Amid a backdrop of persistent political partisanship among our representatives at state and national levels, a clear supermajority of Arizona voters is calling for bipartisan solutions,” stated Paul Bentz, Senior Vice President of Research & Strategy at HighGround, who conducted the survey on behalf of CFA. “The national and local impasse among candidates and elected leaders is not reflective of the views of Arizonans who want to reach a consensus on this crucial issue."

The middle/centrist vote is alive and well here. You keep asserting, without proof, that the “middle” doesn’t exist. But it does here in Arizona, and we have the data to back it up.

If you want to respond to this in a way that I’ll recognize as valid, I’ll need to see some actual numbers - and recent numbers at that. Anything from prior to the pandemic is likely to be less reliable after all the migration into the state.

No idea, but it’s not a left or right thing - IMO. I’ve noticed a trend where it’s “restorative justice for those in my tribe, but retributive justice for those in that tribe”. It’s really challenging for people to feel that everyone deserves restorative justice - often due to their own traumas. It makes me wonder how in the heck the Nordic countries managed to even get to their current prison system. Like, how do you get society to trust your reforming institutions that much?

I mean, no, not if we want to repeal the Ban.

But yeah, apparently we did in the 90’s!

Here’s the changes:

The order makes three changes to asylum law under Title 8 of the Immigration and Nationality Act when that threshold of 2,500 migrants is reached, a senior administration official said. The first is that a noncitizen who crosses the border without authorization will be ineligible for asylum.

The second is any noncitizen who crosses the border while the order is in effect and is processed for removal will only be referred to a credible fear interview with an asylum officer “if they manifest or express a fear of return to their country or country of removal, a fear of persecution or torture, or an intention to apply for asylum,” a senior administration official said.

And the third is raising the standard for credible fear interviews to a “reasonable probability of persecution or torture standard,” which is “a new, substantially higher standard than is currently being applied at the border,” a senior administration official said.

My thoughts: Largely performative and only slightly moves the needle right all things considered. You’d think with all the shrieking that this was back to family separations and putting people in cages or something.

Not the person you were responding to, but - uh - hello? This is tucson.social and last I checked Arizona is one of the aforementioned swing states.

I can tell you that his campaign is more effective here for this move. It might not be completely convincing for those center and center-right, but it will be a point in a “for” column - hopefully for enough people to matter.

Arizona is primarily made up of registered Republicans, then Independents, then Democrats source. It’s the Republicans who only need to “turn out the base”.

There is something to note, however. Looking only at recent registration data, it’s Independents leading and by a staggeringly wide margin.

• 350,768 new registrations in just April. For no party in particular.
• Democrats got 219,182, a distant but respectable second.
• Republicans were right behind that fetching 214,957 registrations.

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Appealing to the left isn’t the winning strategy. Appealing to the independent vote in Arizona is - and hopefully picking up just a couple %'s of the moderate Republican votes in the process. Sure, some of those independents might be disaffected democrats who want to distance themselves from Biden, but I’d bet that’s a pretty small portion of independents. Generally speaking, those that would pass on the Biden vote would likely register as green party, or “no labels”, or something equally communicative of part of their identity. True independents would be the ambivalent, the “both siders”, the “enlightened centrists”, and many others - usually far more persuadable than the ideological hard-liners. Compared to Trump, who would likely still get most of his voters from the Republican base who, in their pride, would be emboldened to register as Republican over “no party”/Independent. Sure, he might bring over some libertarians, “no-labels” folks, but I think he’s largely burned the bridge with the electorate in a much more visceral way - and wouldn’t garner much of the Independent vote outside of that.

Further, I’ll add that we’re different here at tucson.social - we strive to be a reflection of our local community, and I make a point of going out and talking to real people, in real places about all sorts of things as well as tucson.social itself. And wouldn’t ya know it? There’s a lot of people who have weird combinations of beliefs that don’t fit what the internet would have you believe. Even here in bright blue Tucson/Pima County.

Well that’s pretty compelling!

Ever since the failure of Windows mixed reality, there hasn’t been many non-Meta HMD’s worth buying. At least with inside out tracking.

Maybe this will finally pressure Valve to lower the price on the venerable Index? Probably not. But one can hope!

Arizona is #3 for job creation since 2019-2024 - I suspect the CHIPS act investments might turn us dark blue on this map in future years.

It’s a good time to be an Arizonan, IMO.