Strands #211
“Words with weight”
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True, much like memes are pretty famously fabricated.

Wordle 1,198 5/6*

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Puzzle #476
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Strands #210
“Weed 'em and reap”
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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.

Take away Memphis and see how much the hue of Tennessee shifts towards 0°.

Wouldn’t it work better in that case? The implication being that if you weren’t the only tall person, then staff wouldn’t be so short without you.

In the headline, “pledging to ‘murder’ shoplifters” is a restrictive participial phrase modifying “texts.” Restrictive elements are not offset by commas.

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Puzzle #473
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But did you know
That when it snows
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If premeditation was a requirement, 2nd degree murder would not exist.

Premeditation isn’t required for murder charges.
Malice aforethought is.

Strands #202
“I've got the music in me!”
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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.

I got Hexcodle #391 in 3! Score: 84%

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I got Hexcodle #390 in 4! Score: 70%

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Strands #184
“Striking sounds”
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