#Poll 267

[polling-sonic-fans]

What is blazes relationship with water? Can she swim?

-Likes it, can swim

-Neutral to it, can swim

-Doesn't like it, can swim

-Neutral to it, can't swim

-Doesn't like it, can't swim

-Hates it

Thanks for the poll anon!

Polls for the Sonic fandom on just about anything. Share polls you like to get more data. Asks and submissions always open.

[higuruma-s]

[lesbiankordian]

ID: manga panel of Gojo saying 'nah, i'd win'

[yazzydream]

Jujutsu Kaisen 4th Popularity Poll Results

Updated my popularity poll table. This is sorted according to the fourth poll results.

It's interesting to see how the anime probably affected the results. For example, Mahito shot up by 10 places with 1,396 more votes. His seiyuu (Nobunaga Shimazaki), really was amazing in season 2.

Sukuna finally broke through Top 10 since the first poll.

Some rises makes me wonder if something happened in the JP fandom that gave them a burst of popularity. Like, Sasaki, the senpai from chapter 1 got 29 whole votes, putting her in 53rd. (Keep in mind that even Tengen only got 3 votes.)

Full sortable table here.

[purpleplaid17]

Jess Watches // Fri 21 June // Day 267 Synopses & Favourite Scenes & Poll

Call the Midwife (with mum) 8x01

As two new nuns join Nonnatus House, a shocking case exposes the seedier side of Poplar, while a complicated birth tests Trixie and Phyllis.

"There are too many things of which we do not speak. Too many secrets. Too much shame. But perhaps we are cleaner, brighter, more polished versions of ourselves more often than we think.

When we gaze outward and not inward, when we are open, not closed. Not everything is possible, but there is hope. When the light shines in hope is another chapter. Hope is what comes next."

Under the Bridge Ep 2 The John Gotti of Seven Oaks

Cam is thrown by a shocking discovery and the police rush to unravel what really happened under the bridge. Josephine makes a deal with Rebecca while a look into the past reveals Reena's first rebellion.

"It's Jo Gotti, bitch! Fսck the police!"

Star Trek: Prodigy 1x19 & 1x20 Supernova (s1 Finale)

Surrounded by the Federation armada, the crew attempts to stop their ship from destroying all of Starfleet. As the Federation hangs in the balance, the crew must make the ultimate sacrifice to save Starfleet's future.

"And concerning the augment, whose name you've conveniently forgotten, his name Dal R'El. Is he genetically engineered? Yes. Was he enhanced in every way? Look at him. Of course not. But his heart is bigger than any in this room, I should know.

The Federation is made up of over 150 member species. Dal's DNA includes 26 of those, so I ask you, is there a better living embodiment of what our alliance represents?"

[original-character-championship]

Bracket E Round 1

Poll 6

Asazara (@asazara) vs. Blake & Kara & Berry & Deryk (@ashtonisvibing)

267. Asazara (@asazara)

she/her

Why should she not win? No reason. She will slay every oponent, with kindness and compassion but also with her swors (magical and non magical). She is a fury on the battlefield the streets and in the bedroom. I love her so much and she got me though the hardest days and my loneliest times. Everyone deserves to know about her bc I don´t know if I will ever be able to tell her story. She also deserves to be known because apart from being your regular OC that you make when you are 14 to cope with finding out how truly awful the world seems to be her powers also morph her into a beast that is a mixture of a jaguar and a wolf and also gigantic and she ends up being adopted into the relationship of the main character and her boyfriend (those two are kind of enemies to lovers but totally in a stable relationship when they add asazara into their lives permanently). I am 22 now and she has never really left my mind nor my heart.

She has a medium skin tone and long black curly hair. She has dark eyes and a trained body. I usually imagine her either in a ball gown i varous shades of blue (from her day as a princess in the realm behind the horizon, hiding the cursed swords and protecting a world that does not even know she exists) or full on battle gear. In both instances she smiles but has a deep sadness in her eyes because I projected all of my emotional distress onto her when I created her.

268. Blake & Kara & Berry & Deryk (@ashtonisvibing)

blake - he/him, she/her kara - they/them berry - shey/shem, clown/clownself, pup/pupself deryk - hx/hxm, hey/hem

i- c'mon, they're a polycule! they met in university and they all love each other, they're just a bunch of goofs who got lots of love to give to their partners!

[doyoulikethissong-poll]

Gotye featuring Kimbra - Somebody That I Used to Know 2011

"Somebody That I Used to Know" is a song written, produced and performed by Australian musician and singer Gotye, featuring vocals from New Zealand singer Kimbra. The song samples Luiz Bonfá's 1967 instrumental song "Seville", with additional instrumentations of beats and a xylophone playing a melody based on "Baa, Baa, Black Sheep". The song was released in Australia and New Zealand on 5 July 2011 as the second single from Gotye's third studio album, Making Mirrors (2011). It was released in December 2011 in the UK, and 20 January 2012 in Ireland and the US.

In Australia, the song won the Triple J Hottest 100 poll at the end of 2011, as well as ARIA Music Awards for Song of the Year and Best Video, while Kimbra was voted Best Female Artist, and Gotye was named Best Male Artist and Producer of the Year. The song came ninth in the Triple J Hottest 100 of the Past 20 Years, 2013. At the 55th Annual Grammy Awards, "Somebody That I Used to Know" won two Grammys for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance and Record of the Year.

Commercially, "Somebody That I Used to Know" was a global success and became both artists' signature song. It reached the top of the charts in Australia, New Zealand, the UK and the US, as well as 25 other official charts, and reached the Top 10 in more than 30 countries. Globally, "Somebody That I Used to Know" has sold more than 20 million copies, becoming one of the best-selling digital singles of all time. Gotye paid tribute to the overwhelming number of cover versions of the song by personally creating a video remix, released in August 2012, using segments from hundreds of online covers to create a new, unique version of the track, titled "Somebodies: A YouTube Orchestra".

"Somebody That I Used to Know" received a total of 87,6% yes votes!

[hauntedppgpaints]

Hottest Goalie on Each Team Poll Results!!

GOOOOOOOOOD MORNING HOCKEYBLR!

I've got the piping hot results of the poll I posted this week, served fresh and ready to be read! The final count was 588 votes!

TOP 10 ACROSS THE LEAGUE:

Alex Lyon, 562 votes

Juuse Saros, 540

Joel Hofer, 535

Marc-Andre Fleury, 516

Joseph Woll, 509

Jeremy Swayman, 485

Stuart Skinner, 478

Elvis Merzlikins & Kaapo Kahkonen, 451

Mackenzie Blackwood, 439

Alexandar Georgiev, 425

BOTTOM 10 ACROSS THE LEAGUE:

Matt Murray (Dallas), 7

Ville Husso, 12

James Reimer, 14

Antti Raanta, 15

Justus Annunen, 17

Casey DeSmith, 22

Eric Comrie, 25

Kevin Lankinen, 48

Jack Campbell & Jordan Binnington, 53

Calvin Pickard, 57

Detailed tallies, pie charts, and fun facts are below the cut! Sorry about how the teams are paired together, there's a 30 image limit on posts :(

Blue Jackets:

Elvis, 451

Daniil, 137

Hurricanes:

Frederik, 373

Pyotr, 137

Spencer, 63

Antti, 15

Islanders:

Ilya, 378

Semyon, 210

Devils:

Kaapo, 451

Jake, 137

Flyers:

Sam, 327

Ivan, 261

Rangers:

Igor, 355

Jonathan, 124

Louis, 109

Capitals:

Darcy, 390

Charlie, 198

Penguins:

Tristan, 335

Alex, 253

Sabres:

Devon, 414

Ukko-Pekka, 149

Eric, 25

Bruins:

Jeremy, 485

Linus, 103

Panthers:

Anthony, 303

Sergei, 285

Red Wings:

Alex, 562

James, 14

Ville, 12

Senators:

Joonas, 319

Anton, 269

Canadiens:

Cayden, 381

Sam, 207

Maple Leafs:

Joseph, 509

Ilya, 79

Lightning:

Jonas, 406

Andrei, 182

Blackhawks:

Petr, 351

Arvid, 237

Utah:

Karel, 379

Connor, 209

Stars:

Scott, 293

Jake, 288

Matt, 7

Avalanche:

Alexandar, 425

Ivan, 146

Justus, 17

Predators:

Juuse, 540

Kevin, 48

Wild:

Marc-Andre, 516

Filip, 72

Jets:

Laurent, 332

Connor, 256

Blues:

Joel, 535

Jordan, 53

Flames:

Jacob, 423

Dan, 165

Ducks:

Lukas, 321

John, 267

Kings:

Cam, 379

Pheonix, 148

David, 61

Oilers:

Stuart, 478

Calvin, 57

Jack, 53

Kraken:

Joey, 325

Philipp, 263

Sharks:

Mackenzie, 439

Devin, 149

Golden Knights:

Jiri, 321

Logan, 199

Adin, 68

Canucks:

Thatcher, 317

Arturs, 249

Casey, 22

FUN STATS!

2 teams had more than one goalie in the bottom 10: the Red Wings, and the Oilers

Two ties: 8th place in the top 10, and 9th place in the bottom 10

The two teams with the closest to even results: the Stars, and the Panthers

The tallest goalie in the top 10 was Joel Hofer, at 6'5''

The shortest goalie in the top 10 was Juuse Saros, at 5'11''

the tallest goalie in the bottom 10 was Justus Annunen, at 6'4''

the shortest goalie in the bottom 10 was tied between Antti Raanta and Casey DeSmith, both at 6'0''

In the top and bottom 10, there were 9 Canadians, 6 Finns, 5 Americans, 1 Latvian, and 1 Bulgarian

The oldest goalie in the top 10 was Marc-Andre Flerury, at 39

The oldest goalie in the bottom 10 was James Reimer, at 36

The youngest goalie in the top 10 was Joel Hofer, at 23

The youngest goalie in the bottom 10 was Justus Annunen, at 24

All of the goalies in the top and bottom 10 catch with their left hand

The three biggest sweeps were the Red Wings (536 points between first and combined second and third place), the Predators (492 points), and the Blues (482)

The three closest calls were the Panthers (18 points between first and second), the Senators (50), and the Ducks (54)

[tokidokigal7]

As of right now on AP polls Trump has 267 electoral votes while Harris has 214. This country is going to shit. MAGA can't even come up with semi-logical explanations for why the want Trump in office other than his concepts of plans and his occasional helping. Of course Harris has a lot of issues but at the same time at least she isn't a fucking 34 count felon, adding onto that MAGA barely criticized anything about her policies and instead have used fear mongering this entire election.

[semi-imaginary-place]

jjk 267

All this time i was waiting for sukuna or even yuji to go freakmode and cannibalize someone when yuta was right in front of me the whole time. Yuta ATE inumaki and hana's arms, yuuji's finger, charles rib, and then swapped his brain for gojo's to pilot his body. Insane. It puts in perspective Sukuna's cannibalism was also probably a jujutsu power thing.

Akutami keeps trolling. Akutami shows Nobara with the dead characters only to being her back with 5 chapters to go  Yuji thinks Nobara is out since everyone deliberately didn't tell him her condition. There was the whiplash from Gojo's silhouette revealed, but then the stitches are shown, and then it's revealed that Yuta is copying Kenjaku's technique. Really all the way back to like episode 4 when he kills Yuji off and then jk he's not really dead. Akutami has always played with character death and audience expectations.

Gojo sweep in the character polls is hilarious. Gojo has as many votes as the next 5 combined (Yuji, Megumi, Geto, Naoya, Choso)

[basic-retro-programming]

Amazing Retro Computers

The 12 vintage computers of the opinion poll ...

Amstrad CPC6128, 1985 ...

Schneider Euro PC, 1988 ...

Apple II, 1977 ...

Atari ST, 1985 ...

Commodore 64 / C64, 1982 ...

Commodore Amiga 500, 1987 ...

IBM PS/1, 1990 ...

NEC PC-9801, 1982 ...

Sharp MZ 80K, 1979 ...

Radio Shack Tandy TRS-80 Model 2000, 1981

Toshiba HX-10, 1984 ...

Sony Hit Bit 75P (MSX-1), 1984 ...

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Post #267: Amazing Retro Computers: The 12 computers of the opinion poll: Which home computer was or would have been your favourite between the 1970s and 1980s?, 2023.

[workersolidarity]

[ 📹 Palestinian residents and journalists run, bike and drive away as fast as they can as the Israeli occupation forces fire directly at the civilian population in the city of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday, June 29th. 📈 The current death toll figures: 37'834 Palestinians killed, while another 86'858 others have been wounded since October 7th, 2023. ]

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ISRAELI OCCUPATION CONTINUES GENOCIDAL WAR ON DAY 267: 66% OF ISRAELIS WANT NETANYAHU OUT OF POLITICS, MAJORITY OF ISRAELIS WANT ULTRA-ORTHODOX TO BE CONSCRIPTED, UN HEALTH REPPORTEUR CALLS ISRAELI WAR "GENOCIDE" AS SLAUGHTER CONTINUES UNABATED

On 267th day of the Israeli occupation's ongoing special genocide operation in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) committed a total of 3 new massacres of Palestinian families, resulting in the deaths of no less than 40 Palestinian civilians, mostly women and children, while another 224 others were wounded over the previous 24-hours.

It should be noted that as a result of the constant Israeli bombardment of Gaza's healthcare system, infrastructure, residential and commercial buildings, local paramedic and civil defense crews are unable to recover countless hundreds, even thousands, of victims who remain trapped under the rubble, or who's bodies remain strewn across the streets of Gaza.

This leaves the official death toll vastly undercounted as Gaza's healthcare officials are unable to accurately tally those killed and maimed in this genocide, which must be kept in mind when considering the scale of the mass murder.

A new television poll conducted inside the occupied Palestinian territories and published on Friday has found that 66% of Israelis believe occupation Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should leave politics and should not seek re-election, while just 27% said he should stay in office, and 7% answered they weren't sure.

Among right-wing Israelis, a different picture emerges, 37% of right wing Israelis opposed Netanyahu seeking re-election, while 53% said Netanyahu should stay in office.

At the same time, a full 85% of Israelis overall support a probe to look into the October 7th Palestinian resistance attacks on Israeli settlements.

Meanwhile, the Israeli occupation's leadership continues pushing for a war in Lebanon, worrying the Zionist entity's US ally who has maneuvered warships closer to the border between "Israel" and Lebanon, supposedly with the purpose of preparing to evacuate American citizens and soldiers as fighting between Hezbollah and the Israeli occupation army continues to escalate.

According to reporting on the moves by the United States, the American amphibious assault ship, the USS Wasp, which carries a force of US Marines, moved last Wednesday to the Mediterranean Sea in the vicinity of the region, joining the USS Oak Hill and another ship and forming a readiness group in the case of escalation.

The US warship group is trained in evacuating civilians from dangerous war situations, but also has offensive capabilities, as well as espionage and surveillance capabilities, and can also be paired with the F-35 attack aircraft.

According to one source, the warship group is also intended to project American military power in the region, in the hope that this will act as a deterrent against the axis of resistance led by the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Sources speaking with US news outlet NBC have said the United States is increasingly concerned with possible Israeli attacks on southern Lebanon in the coming weeks, this despite pressure exerted by the Biden administration for both sides to show restraint.

The Israeli occupation, however, is sticking with its position to keep Hezbollah away from its northern border, while the Zionist security establishment demands the creation of a buffer zone 10 miles deep along the border with Lebanon.

American officials are intent on settling the nerves of the two sides, publicly playing down the chances of war between the two sides, and claiming they see no evidence that a major escalation on the border is imminent, but then warned that a single miscalculation could spark a major regional war.

However, public pressure continues on the Israeli leadership to act against Hezbollah, and to ensure Israeli citizens can return to their homes in the north. US officials said this pressure is "very real", adding that the Israeli leadership feel the need to "do something" about the threat in the north.

Since the beginning of the Israeli genocide in the Gaza Strip, the Hezbollah Lebanese resistance movement has launched daily waves of rocket, drone and mortar strikes against Zionist military targets, and colonial settlements, in the occupation's northern territories, threatening to escalate the situation if the Zionist entity does not end its slaughter of Palestinian civilians in Gaza.

In other news, it is being reported that since the start of the Zionist entity's ongoing genocidal war in the Gaza Strip, the United States Biden administration has sent the Israeli occupation thousands of highly destructive bombs and enormous amounts of ammunition.

It was explained the Americans have sent the Israeli occupation "at least 14,000 MK-84 bombs weighing 2,000 pounds, 6,500 500-pound bombs, 3,000 precision-guided Hellfire (surface-to-air) missiles, 1,000 bunker-buster bombs, and 2,600 small-diameter air-dropped bombs were transported," along with other ammunition.

Additionally, the Biden administration intends on sending further shipments of US bombs and ammunition, including the shipment that was previously suspended out of concern that the Israeli occupation forces would continue to use the giant bombs to target civilians.

According to American officials, the US intends on sending the Israeli occupation army another 1'700 bombs weighing 220kg, which are expected to arrive shortly.

Reporting in the United States is also stating that the Biden administration has come under enormous pressure from some members of Congress following their decision to suspend the single shipment of bombs, including a bizarre series of comments and videos published by Netanyahu, leading the administration to reverse its decision.

In more news, on Friday, the United Nations Repporteur on the right to Health, Tlaleng Mofokeng, has made public comments stating that groups of people were being literally exterminated in the Gaza Strip, and that no other word but "genocide" can be used to describe what it happening.

Speaking with Turkish news outlet, Anadolu News Agency, Mofokeng pointed to the humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in the Gaza Strip, noting that residents of Gaza were being deprived of essential services and basic needs.

"We know that people are trying to survive, but that’s really all they can do," she said, adding there is no food, safe drinking water, or safe housing in Gaza.

Pointing to the increasing death toll in the Israeli occupation's ongoing war, and the horrific conditions for those trapped under rubble or living with disabilities due to the war, the special repporteur said that "When you look literally how small Gaza strip is and the kind of destruction that’s happening, it’s really impossible to understand how this is still going on."

Speaking about the reports coming from international aid organizations that depict a dire healthcare situation in the enclave, Mofokeng went on to say that "when they (hospitals) cannot get supplies and essential medicines, and when healthcare workers themselves are being killed and harassed, it makes the attacks on the right to health even more prominent."

Mofokeng went on to condemn the support the Israeli occupation receives from the United States and Europe, which she says supports a "genocide."

"How many more children must die?" she asked, adding that people in Gaza are living a "daily nightmare."

The special repporteur asserted that the situation in the Gaza Strip reflects an "apartheid regime", and that the Israeli entity's attacks on civilians meets the definition of "genocide".

She went on call for a global conversation to recognize the events in Gaza as a genocide, and to hold the perpetrators accountable in International courts.

"I’m not in charge of prosecuting anybody," she said. “But when you have a group of people who have literally been exterminated, what else is there to declare it a genocide?"

She ended the interview by declaring that Israeli violence against healthcare personnel in Gaza, along with its denial of human rights for Palestinians are entirely unacceptable, and further urged the international community to take action to address the crises.

Meanwhile, the genocide continued in Gaza over Friday night, and renewed again on Saturday morning, with several deadly airstrikes responsible for killing a number of Palestinians and wounding even more.

North of Gaza, Israeli occupation warplanes bombed a residential house in the Yarmouk area, adjacent to the Al-Jazeera Club Stadium in Gaza City, resulting in the deaths of two children and wounding at least 5 others.

Several citizens were also wounded after an Israeli airstrike targeted the Al-Maghazi Refugee Camp, in the central Gaza Strip, while Zionist soldiers opened fire on the tents of displaced Palestinian families near the Al-Shakoush area and the Tal al-Sultan neighborhood, west of the city of Rafah, in the south of Gaza.

At the same time, Zionist warplanes bombed a residential home belonging to the Abu Khadra family on Al-Wahda Street, in central Gaza City, killing four Palestinians, including two children, and wounding 10 others who were taken to the Baptist Hospital in the city.

Meanwhile, at dawn on Saturday, Israeli artillery detatchments renewed its shelling of civilian homes in the Al-Shujaiya neighborhood, east of Gaza City.

Similarly, occupation artillery forces shelled more tents of displaced families, along with agricultural greenhouses in the Al-Mawasi area, northwest of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.

Local civil defense crews reported recovering the decomposing bodies of 5 Palestinians after the Israeli occupation forces withdrew from the Shakoush neighborhood, west of Rafah City, while Zionist forces continued firing on civilian homes east of Khan Yunis.

Israeli fighter jets also bombarded a house in the Al-Maghazi Camp, in the central Gaza Strip, killing at least one civilian and injuring dozens of others, which coincided with the bombing and shelling of the Nuseirat Camp.

At the same time, the Israeli occupation's warplanes launched two raids on the Tal al-Hawa and Sheikh Ajlin neighborhoods, southwest of Gaza City, while occupation drones and armored vehicles targeted residential homes near the Candle Mosque in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City, along with the Al-Shujaiya neighborhood, resulting in a number of casualties.

The slaughter continued when Zionist warplanes bombed two homes belonging to the Abu Kamil family in the Al-Daraj neighborhood, along with the Qwaider family in the Al-Sabra neighborhood, in the south and center of Gaza City.

Also in the Al-Sabra neighborhood, an Israeli drone fired a missile at a civilian vehicle, killing several Palestinians and wounding others, while occupation fighter jets bombed the Municipal Park in central Gaza City, killing and wounding a number of others.

The Israeli occupation army also launched a bombardment of the Al-Saada Towers area in the Tal al-Hawa neighborhood, southwest of Gaza City.

In yet another atrocity, the Israeli occupation forces bombed a residential house in the Bureij Camp, in the central Gaza Strip, resulting in the deaths of at least four civilians, and wounding a number of others who were transported to Al-Aqsa and Al-Awda Hospitals.

As a result of the Israeli occupation's ongoing war of extermination against the Palestinian population of the Gaza Strip, the endlessly rising death toll now exceeds 37'834 Palestinians killed, including over 15'000 children and in excess of 10'000 women, while another 86'858 others have been wounded since the start of the current round of Zionist aggression, beginning with the events of October 7th, 2023.

June 29th, 2024.

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[kemetic-dreams]

Political motivations

Two years after the Civil War ended, Congress overrode a veto from President Andrew Johnson to pass the Reconstruction Act of 1867. The law required former Confederate states to provide universal voting rights for all men. African men in the South voted for the first time, and African politicians soon held large shares of legislative seats in South Carolina, Louisiana and Florida.

The Ku Klux Klan responded with systematic, violent intimidation of African Americans, including lynchings specifically meant to deter voting, Williams finds. The klan killed more than 2,000 African people in 1868 in Louisiana alone, according to the paper.

“It’s hard to get rid of that trauma, and it does span generation to generation,” Williams says.

Few, if any, of the thousands of lynchings carried out from 1882 to 1930 were criminally prosecuted, and past research has demonstrated lynchings suppressed African voter turnout in the months leading to an election.

“We think of racial domination as social practices, like segregation and racial violence, being about intimidation in the social sphere,” says Ohio State University economics professor Trevon Logan, who was not involved in Williams’ analysis but provided feedback as she developed her research. “But there always has been a very pertinent political end to the story of racialized violence.”

Some states are restricting voting, others are expanding it

Williams’ paper reveals how violence from decades past affects current voting patterns at the same time states have passed or are considering laws to restrict voting.

In March, the Georgia legislature attracted news coverage when it passed a law making it harder to vote absentee. Georgia counties can now limit early voting on Sundays ahead of an election — a move critics contend targets “souls to the polls” get-out-the-vote efforts at African churches. The law does require that counties hold two Saturday advance voting sessions for general elections.

Republican lawmakers in Ohio have proposed legislation that would restrict mail ballots for most voters there and ban drop box voting. At least 18 states have passed laws restricting voting this year, while 25 states have expanded voting access through mail ballots and other measures, according to a tally by the nonprofit Brennan Center for Justice at New York University.

At the federal level, the House of Representatives last week passed voting rights legislation that would restore provisions the Supreme Court stripped in recent years from the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Most notably, the court in 2013 ruled that states could change their voting laws without federal approval. At the time of the ruling, Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia and select counties in other states were subject to federal oversight because of historical evidence of racial discrimination in voting access.

The lingering effects of violence from decades ago are “a huge factor, and why African people in particular are not voting,” Williams says. “So now, when we add legislation to make it more difficult to vote, to me that is why it’s really important. Do we want to have a healthy electorate or not? When we have a healthy electorate, we have policies that represent everyone.”

Historical events ripple through time: A growing body of research

To conduct her analysis, Williams used data from the Historical American Lynching Data Collection Project from the University of North Carolina Wilmington, which covers 1882 to 1930. She also used voter registration rolls from 2000 to 2012, and other academic and government data.

Williams focused on the historical lynching rate per 10,000 African Americans during that roughly half century across 267 counties in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina and South Carolina. She analyzed those states because they ask voters to identify their race when registering.

“In a place like Lafayette County, Florida, there were eight lynchings during those years,” Williams explains in a 2020 video for the Economic Policy Institute, where she was an economist before joining RAND. “This means for every 1,000 African people, one of them was lynched. Today, the African voter registration rate is about 15% in that county. If those people hadn’t been killed, you would expect to see a African voter registration rate of 55%.”

The relationship between historical lynchings and voter registration today that holds for African voters doesn’t show for white voters.

“Further analyses suggest that this result is unlikely to be driven by education, earnings, incarceration rates of Africans, institutions that remained after slavery, geographic sorting, or contemporary barriers to voting,” Williams writes. Her forthcoming paper adds to a growing body of research investigating how violence and legislation from decades ago reverberates today.

Michigan State University economics and international relations professor Lisa Cook has found that violence in the decades after Reconstruction suppressed the patent output of African inventors, writing that a “lynching signaled that personal security — and with it the freedom to work and innovate — was not guaranteed.”

Princeton University economics professor Ellora Derenoncourt, along with University of California, Berkeley economics professor Claire Montialoux, have shown how a minimum wage expansion in 1966 narrowed the earnings gap between African and European workers throughout the 1970s.

Logan, the Ohio State professor, has linked higher taxes during Reconstruction — when the American South was decimated and needed funding to rebuild — with more violence against African officeholders. Referring to Williams’ current work, Logan says: “This is not something I think a traditional economic historian would address. It speaks to the need to have diverse voices in the profession.”

[exitvelocities]

mlc ot3 poll takeaways

the ot3 poll ended, and with quite different results from the first poll. this could be for any number of reasons, ranging from simply reaching a different distribution of people (we didn't quite hit the 47% or so percent of votes from the first poll) or people who didn't vote difanghua double dipping, or something else i haven't thought of. regardless, it's outside of my purview so i won't be spending any more time on it.

images of both poll results under the cut, general disclaimer that this is again just for fun and i have no credentials to speak of.

overall favorite stats

markedly different from the general poll, much closer in terms of favorite characters, and we actually ended with a tie! fdb and dfs have a joint win, with llh less than a percent behind.

di feisheng: 24.8%

fang duobing: 24.8%

li lianhua: 23.9%

overall ship stats

obviously ot3 is the overall winner here since this was a poll exclusively for ot3 shippers, but here's how the leans totaled up. all three characters split in approximately the same way in terms of ship lean, which was interestiing.

dihua: 31.7%

fanghua: 25.6%

difang: 16.2%

ship all equally/no preference/can't pick

someone in the tags asked why these options were lumped together and there was no way to pick general ot3 as favorite; the answer is that you missed that poll. for the purposes of breaking ship preferences down by favorite character, these answers are all functionally the same.

poll 1 vs poll 2

the numbers worked out quite differently, especially in regards to favorite characters. fanghua is almost twice as popular as in the general poll and dihua is once again mysteriously steady.

267 vs 117 votes

li lianhua: 41.2% (24% ot3) vs 23.9%

di feisheng: 26.6% (9% ot3) vs 24.8%

fang duobing: 22.8% (14.2% ot3) vs 24.8%

dihua: 30% vs 31.7% lean

fanghua: 13.4% vs 25.6% lean

difang unfortunately has no stats from the first poll since i couldn't fit them in but there were a few who voted difang in the notes.

conclusions

really just some observations about the stats:

the original purpose of these polls was to see the relationship between favorite character vs favorite ship; between the two it does bear out the thesis that people's favorite character will feature in their favorite ship, and that they are least likely to ship something their favorite is not in

ot3 favorite character polls are markedly closer than the general poll, which makes sense with the nature of ot3; however, the ot3 favorite percentages from the general poll actually contradict these results

the discrepancy in fanghua stats from ao3 to tumblr is somewhat alleviated when fangha-leaning ot3ers are accounted for, but the gap remains.

dihua numbers remain rather steady, with a range of 26.7% to 31.7% from ao3 stats to both poll results

again, feel free to draw your own from the information provided,

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Semifinals, Poll 5

White-tailed Ptarmigan vs Sickle-winged Nightjar

sources under the cut

White-tailed Ptarmigan (Lagopus leucura)

Lagopus is derived from Ancient Greek, meaning "hare foot". This is due to the heavily feathered legs and feet of ptarmigan.

eBird sightings: 5,809; IUCN Redlist Rating: Least Concern

Also known as the Snow Quail, this is the smallest bird in the grouse family. It serves as an indicator species for alpine tundra, and thankfully continues to fill a large range of western North America. The English name "ptarmigan" is Scottish Gaelic in origin, with 'tarmachan' meaning "croaker", referring to the bird's frog-like call. The p- was added due to a mistaken belief the word was Greek in origin, with the thinking being that the word related to 'pteron', "wing".

Sickle-winged Nightjar (Eleothreptus anomalus)

Eleothreptus, from Ancient Greek, means "marsh bred"

eBird sightings: 267; IUCN Redlist Rating: Vulnerable

There is not a lot of information on this bird, as nightjar are already cryptic and the common distribution of this bird hasn't been fully studied. They're currently found in northeastern Argentina, southern Paraguay, and southern Brazil. The Sickle-winged Nightjar shares its genus with a single other nightjar, which is also sparsely distributed across South America.

Images: Ptarmigan (summer - Garrett Hughes, winter - Josiah Verbrugge); Nightjar (wing - Kristof Zyskowski, body - Martjan Lammertink)

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Days after the election, with the electoral count at 267 for Trump and 260 for Biden, it was clear that (as in the House) the outcome would also be determined by Arizona and its 11 electoral votes. The tally in the Grand Canyon State showed that Trump was temporarily ahead by 65,554 votes with more than 340,000 ballots outstanding (mostly mail-in with some provisional). As those were counted, media outlets speculated that Trump’s lead would evaporate. Lawsuits were filed to determine the Arizona result.42 Significant leftist street-violence unfolded in the major cities across the country—with additional pressure in Arizona assisted by the MORENA party in Mexico. One wildcard that clouded the final outcome of the presidential election was that the FBI, in response to unvalidated claims of racial intimidation at the polls, launched civil rights crimes investigations in Arizona, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, and Wisconsin. Pending the resolution of the investigations, intelligence officials requested that state officials tasked with election oversight stop publicly reporting updated vote tallies. In states where elected officials were primarily Democrats, personnel promptly complied with these requests, which posed a unique threat to Trump’s apparent victory in Democrat-led Wisconsin. Ultimately, the Supreme Court of the United States found that the federal government did not have standing to intervene in state -run elections. The FBI later found that most reports of intimidation were false.

Heritage foundation seemingly predicting that Biden would scheme to stop vote-counting early which seems weird both in reality and in their weird paranoid fantastical view of how the world works as I understood it.