I have ALWAYS been guaranteed time off to vote. And I have never had an issue finding a polling place. I have a working brain.
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It always makes me laugh hysterically when I see a tired old shitfuck like Chuck Schumer cry âvoter obstructionâ, and âJim Crowe 2.0â! He is implying that people of color are too stupid to obtain proper ID. This is a racist, harsh insult to all people of color. But apparently that is the only old, bent arrow left in his quiver. Supplying proper ID to vote is a 90/10 issue in this country and he knows it.
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Thereâs an apparently a vid of him on Twitter (thatâs legit) saying the opposite at a Dinner club event in New York probably pandering to the centrist in his party..
That guy you are replying to was very articulate and fairly balanced. Lets respect all views and discuss.
Note how many folks donât even wanna get into it on a public forum.
Itâs like they have no brains (similar to the public servents we are discussing)
I knw that the new Prime Minister held snap elentions to build her party up and she did. I bought MIC centric stocks âŚmade 30% profit in 2 days. On a lot of principal invest.
Know your Politics,
Geo political implications
Invest for your familyâs sake
Knowledge is power and profit.
Or keep taking pics and graphs of tiny ear gears from China everyday and âŚprofit?
Obtain some inner zen unrelated to money?
Whatever..
Make your bedâŚsleep in it I guess
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Which kind of surprises me. This is the one thread where one can discuss these things without running the risk of it devolving into a verbal fist fight (and where that behaviour will be shut down immediately if it happens). Then again, there very well might be fatigue among people given what a rollercoaster world we live in.
So true. PS That monkey is me realising I need to go to the office today at this ungodly hour⌠Well, not that early (iâm used to getting up at 0430) but itâs still dark outside which is always a bummerâŚ
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Sorry i think I meant the opposite of what i said here,
the drivers are meant to be dampened or in other words tightened/tied to an amp, sort of a horse on leash for a sharp response, so when a drop hits, itâs sharp asf and decays as quickly
In this case I would assume the canpur set was very undamped (very loose, lacked sharpness and bite in the transient response)
So technically it wasnât dampened at all? Very loose, lackluster and dead response?
Edit: I made an AI to spit it out better
âDampingâ is the superior goal
If you only âtightenedâ the driver (acoustically), you would lose sub-bass extension because the diaphragm canât move as far.
By Electrically Damping it instead:
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You keep the Full Excursion (the âViolenceâ stays intact).
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You only kill the Unwanted Movement (the âSurgicalâ stop).
The Analogy: Tightening is like putting a shorter, stiffer spring in a car; itâs bumpy and has less travel. Damping is like putting in an elite shock absorber; the car can still handle big jumps, but it doesnât bounce afterward.
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I never looked into it. I used to open all the summit fi stuff then I didnât wanna know.
When the original Monarch dropped and was hyped by nearly everyone it struck me as odd since that tucked bass has an audible impact on vocals, drums, bass guitars very very much
Lotta folks said the bass guitar was perfect
Nowadays most people with good ears will address the bass tuck and itâs impact on OG monarch and sets with like tuning
I expect the 752 will over time be described in reviews âconâ section as boring/lifeless or something like that. Not sure why as the graph doesnât have anything that stands out
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I checked some reviews on Youtube, it doesnât seem to be that way, makes me think your unit had a problem, but that would be reflected on one side at least.
So is it an earlier prototype batch, or canpur shills just hyping it up, canât sayâŚ
Edit:
before selling it, did you try a replacement? or have communicated that issue?
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Easy answer is shilling which happens anyway but my graph is same as others so itâs my ears over the course of a month where I found several sets to be impressive and others that were not as usual and went through lots of happy days and some not which absolutely impacts interpretations. There is no variable to focus on. The Asteria was more frustrating and Fugaku is a ridiculous cost but despite the emotional aspect I love those sets
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Asteria was more frustrating⌠What happened there?
i donât remember any cons from your review about the Asteria. As for the Fugaku, i think I only saw your unboxing, One guy said Fugaku bass was⌠neutral, not very energized? maybe iâm remembering that wrongâŚ
From what Iâve seen Asteria was well received especially by the buyers, but it was maybe too much energy for some other potential buyers.
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Metal 
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To clarify, I wasnât saying it was just an issue of people not being able to find their polling place (although there have been times where thatâs been an intentional strategy as well to change locations shortly before an election, etc. And especially since the Supreme Court struck down federal oversight of elections in some states in 20-3, thereâs been a lot more freedom to mess around) More a large scale policy to reduce polling locations even as voter registration surges. Especially not having enough polling locations in larger urban areas with a higher percentage of young and POC voters.
These are often well below planned strategies to make voting harder, I personally wouldnât say the implication is that somehow voters affected arenât intelligent enough to figure it out. Especially when the strategy is to simply close some polling places, relocate or consolidate them without proper resources or time, or create scenarios where voters have to wait hours in line to vote. None of those things have to do with the intelligence of the voter.
And itâs great that youâve always been able to get time off for voting but itâs certainly not something guaranteed to many people.
My main point though is that at every level and every jurisdiction we should be making voting as easy and accessible as possible to everyone. I think itâs a general stain on our reputation as a democracy that the voting experience varies so much for different people. And to be clear, I think this applies to everyone - I want everyone who wants to go easily be able to vote, regardless of how theyâre going to vote.
But just as an example, this was from 2020 but is a pretty good rundown of what we see in tens of specific attempts to dampen voting:
âSince the U.S. Supreme Courtâs Shelby v. Holder decision in 2013 eliminated key federal oversight of election decisions in states with histories of discrimination, Georgiaâs voter rolls have grown by nearly 2 million people, yet polling locations have been cut statewide by nearly 10%, according to an analysis of state and local records by Georgia Public Broadcasting and ProPublica. Much of the growth has been fueled by younger, nonwhite voters, especially in nine metro Atlanta counties, where four out of five new voters were nonwhite, according to the Georgia secretary of stateâs office.
The metro Atlanta area has been hit particularly hard. The nine counties â Fulton, Gwinnett, Forsyth, DeKalb, Cobb, Hall, Cherokee, Henry and Clayton â have nearly half of the stateâs active voters but only 38% of the polling places, according to the analysis.
As a result, the average number of voters packed into each polling location in those counties grew by nearly 40%, from about 2,600 in 2012 to more than 3,600 per polling place as of Oct. 9, the analysis shows. In addition, a last-minute push that opened more than 90 polling places just weeks before the November election has left many voters uncertain about where to vote or how long they might wait to cast a ballot.â
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NPR is notorious for reporting stories that push narratives on par with Fox Newsâs.
The issue you linked to is surely true and is indicative of subtle manipulations to impact voters.
Iâm personally more interested in something that you mentioned previously regarding the cost of IDâs
I live in Japan and wouldnât be able to live here without being able to support myself
People of voting age without IDâs?
Thatâs a problem
People of voting age with income that prevents them from getting an ID? Thatâs a whole other problem wouldnât you agree?
How exactly does one of voting age find themselves without an ID or the means to buy one?
Honest question 
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For what itâs worth, the reporting and analysis was from a joint project by Georgia Public Radio and ProPublica. I probably should have just linked to the original article:
This was all basically analysis of state election data, etc and no one disputed the accuracy of the data or analysis.
Regarding voter id, itâs usually a minority of people who have had issues getting an acceptable form of voter id. Usually the biggest blockers are lack of personal or public transportation for people that live farther away from government offices they need to go to to get that ID. Especially in cases where the only offices available have very limited hours and days open.
This is a pretty good rundown of the common issues:
Generally speaking, voter id itself is just one issue and it doesnât affect everyone and isnât often the main driver of efforts to dampen the vote. But itâs still a touchy subject because it genuinely does affect some voters, and it also just ties back to more blatant tools used to disenfranchise voters. I think a decent amount of focus on protecting it now comes down to knowing that itâs part of a broader strategy to put further restrictions in place overall. And there are decent numbers of black, Latino, Native and elderly and rural voters that donât have the right id or other paperwork needed.
But as I was saying earlier too, thereâs really not much evidence (in spite of the noise made about it in general) that the problem more restrictive voter id laws exists in any significant measure. The number of cases of actual in person voter fraud is minuscule (like a couple hundred cases?) and thatâs the main thing that voter id requirements address.
I just donât think itâs worth disenfranchising so many people for an issue that isnât having a more significant effect. In 2013 Texas immediately jumped on the new ability to enact more stringent voter id laws and removed hundreds of thousands of previously eligible voters.
So yeah - Iâd like to see us going in the opposite direction, more voting access, if we are going to go ahead and adopt more stringent voter id requirements, then provide the funding to make getting that id more accessible (provide transportation, fund more availability and locations for offices to get that id, etc etc)
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Iâm extremely appreciative for having an intelligent and articulate person who can have a conversation without deflecting and devolving into insults. I hope you find time to share insights on other topics in the future. Thanks for contributing to knowledge 
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Thank you for letting me share 
Mostly I just lurk here trying to learn more about IEMs. I appreciate your particular threads here because it seems like
a) youâre pretty transparent and knowledgeable about how the industry works
b) you seem to really encourage debate and discussion
c) you all talk about more then just audio stuff
d) fundamentally i get the impression that people in the thread are the âwe pick the audio equipment that best lets us experience the music we likeâ types rather than the âwe pick music that will best showcase our audio equipmentâ types
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Never knew this was happening with voters IDs and everything in the US since here where I live and I guess in biggest part of Europe you gotta have ID by all means because you will be fined without one. Our IDs are fully biometric so they have pictures, fingerprints and everything inside. I know it was hassle couple of years ago when we were changing to biometric ones (because of EU rules and needs for traveling) and like year after we needed to change again because we have a change in the name of the country. We pay for the IDs, not much money but it is like 20⏠to 40⏠for regular time and if you needed it fast in a week itâs fixed price around 80-90⏠for priority, because usually after applying you wait a month to get the ID. Itâs not small amount having in mind that average paycheck here it is around 620âŹ. But you get them after certain age (over 27 I think) once on 10 years.
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How was I disrespectful? I did not attack him or call him any names. I was merely reacting to his comments with facts. Voting is an important aspect of our lives, it is the one time we as individuals can put our money where our mouths are and make a difference. People need to get more involved and do the work. Take the time to read and understand the issues to the best of your knowledge so you can make more informed choices. find your voting places. Itâs not that hard.
Itâs easy to get lazy or frustrated and just throw up your hands and say âoh well, my vote doesnât matter anyway, Iâll just stay homeâ. That is simply wrong.
Generally speaking, I donât believe what the media shits out anymore. You just cannot hate these people enough. 99% of it is manipulated or contrived garbage. Itâs amazing to me how democrats can call the current administration fascists and Nazis when THEY are the ones who are running the communist playbook to the letter, which includes completely taking over the media. Academia has been completely infected as well. The GOP has their own issues, which is why I donât register to either party. I just do my best to get through the bullshit and lies in order to get to the facts. Itâs getting increasingly harder to do these days.
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wasnât saying you were being disrespectful. Was highlighting the dialogue and advising others to do as you and I and that dude were doing.
I agree with all of your points.
The media is pathetic.
We donât have state owned media like the BBC or NHK but in reality, itâs all idealogicaly owned.
Kamalaâs long delayed concesion speech and the words she chose were telling.
It was conjuring ANTIFA 2.0 right thereâŚafter bashing Trump for violating the peaceful transfer of power
She really did the same thing in a more subtle but ham fisted way.
Trump is nuts
Kamala is a brain dead alcoholic
Biden literally had Dementia symptoms developing over 2 years and the media covered for him then shit aaaaall over him when Kamala lost as they didnât have the balls to report on his health.
Whose next?
Newsome?
The country is fucking doomed
Itâs not funny Itâs an indictment on everyone in the media just watching it happen
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That would make for a new genre: realcore 
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Speaking as a European (who has no experience with the US system), for me the question remains as to how one knows if someone has the right to cast a vote if that person has no proof of identity. Put differently: what determines voter eligibility in the US?
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