You are still showing your lack of understanding of statistics. It requires a large sample size, yes, and the larger it is the more accurate it will be, but the proportion of the total population doesn’t have to be large at all. Margin of error and confidence are both controlled by the absolute sample size (assuming a random sampling). Here’s a link that covers the basics. Most serious polls use a sample size of about 5000. Now, 1000 isn’t terrible, but it isn’t good, but not because it’s such a tiny fraction of the population.

As for the methodology, which is also critical, I don’t know what method for phone surveys is considered adequate, and it is well known that phone surveys are becoming less relevant even if they are more accurate than polls where the respondents are self-selected.

I mean, you didn’t say the balls couldn’t have flat sides, right? Innovative solution to a dangerous request.

When life needs parentheses.

Well obviously your worldview is about 15° off true. You should fix that.

That’s about $3 USD per dozen. Maybe not as cheap as it used to be in America, but closer than it is now. And from a farmers market, no less.

Do you honestly believe good polls call everyone for a poll, or that they need to to get good results?

Tell him there will be a nuclear submarine parade.

“This is going to be great television.”

-Oh, somebody

🤔

The only tangible thing I can remember him saying and not actually doing it is shooting someone on 5th Avenue. “Drain the swamp” is a quaint platitude, but what it actually means is different from person to person. But i can guarantee he wants an awesome military dictator parade, he wants to own Canada, Greenland, and Panama, and while he doesn’t give a fuck about anyone but himself, he is far more willing to express and act on that with marginalized people.

You can in fact overdose on antidepressants. It isn’t a common cause of death, but it happens.

BOYZ!!

Okay, Elon Musk is a giant asshole, but not so big that it warps reality around it. Musk provided money and became chairman of Tesla in Jan 2004. The first production vehicle rolled out in 2005. All Teslas were produced after Musk joined Tesla. And while it could be argued that he did a hostile takeover of Tesla, usually theft doesn’t include piles of cash going to the victim.

You ruined my joke. I was going to say, “Antique guns, bought new.”

For a few seconds, some of those planes had all their parts flying under the radar.

My only hope is he can’t stay focused enough to pick just one and starts a world War with no useful allies.

Well, I prefer to learn from other people’s mistakes. I’ve avoided some of the common pitfalls, but hadn’t realized the prevalence of this trick. I’ll keep it in mind when I research my future purchases.

I have to say, wearing a cape at a Renn Faire with colder than expected weather and having my now wife and her friend snuggling under it for warmth felt pretty good.

And thermopiles.

Except that isn’t how it works. The lower your orbit, the quicker your orbit decays due to atmospheric drag. If the atmosphere was 10% less dense, this wouldn’t significantly reduce that at those altitudes. In the current scenario, if every one of those satellites stopped working right now, the vast majority of them (and their parts) would deorbit within 10 years. This would be a bit of a problem for manned space flight, but wouldn’t affect things too much otherwise.

If this was happening in geosynchronous orbit, with comparable amou to of mass, it would be a bigger deal.