I’ve always been of a mind that the real reason is the one they’ll never admit: it makes a liar out of their self-aggrandizement. It has to really hurt the ego to see all the work still getting done, or even [gasp] more work getting done the less they are involving themselves in other people’s tasks.

help me get started

You mean help her get started, right? Science fair is for kids, after all.

As a has-been science fair dad the best advice I can give: pick a different project. If you want to build a voice activated drawing robot with her at home, go for it. Sounds like a wonderful time and a great project for a girl interested in robotics.

It’s a bad science fair project for a primary student. Science fair projects, first and foremost, need to be the entrants own work. They should be able explain the ‘what’ and ‘how’ of all the steps and actually be able to do them. “[Dad/Mom]…” can be an explanation sometimes, but not this time. Second, unless it is an ‘engineering’ fair, it need to contain a testable hypothesis that is, you know, tested. If your project does not primarily involve measuring something, it’s almost certainly not right for a science fair. Third, rein it in a bit. You have chosen a huge project. It’s the kind of thing that could genuinely take months of your time even as an experienced roboticist. At least for a young kid, pick something where the write-up is most of the work. You should be able to do 90% of the experimental work in an afternoon. It can take longer to finish, but in a ‘checking in’ kind of way; waiting for mold to grow or an egg shell to dissolve.

Not trying to be a dick, but I really believe sticking with this project is setting you both up for failure.

I didn’t ask who had the monitor or where it was, we need to know the model/specs to determine the appropriateness of the computer/card that will driving it. If you’re doing all this to pair with a 15 year old 60hz 1080p monitor you’re wasting everyone’s time and your friend’s money.

If your friend doesn’t care about looks that case is a collosal waste, just get a black box with decent intake filters and nice fans for half the price.

At this point anyone still writing articles with the unstated premise that Americans are paying enough attention and in possession of enough information to have their voting choices influenced by actual policy proposals and their real-world effects should be stuffed into sacks and hit with sticks.

and there’s always weird ass bugs and issues and a ton of involuntary learning involved

The issue is not that Linux is more or less buggy/difficult than Windows. It’s that you’re conditioned to already understand Windows’ bugginess/difficulty. I dual-booted for some of xp, all of 7 and much of 10. I found once I got comfortable enough with both, there were perhaps slighly fewer deep problems on Windows, but they were always much more difficult to rectify.

But I understand if you don’t want to take the time to get to that point, learning isn’t for everyone.

In no particular order:

What monitor?

I would never spend that much on a gaming PC and settle for 12gb of vram. Maybe just me.

In the era of 300gb AAA titles, 2TB ain’t what it used to be.

That’s a nice, pricey white fish tank, and a lot of boring black components you’re stuffing in it. You sure that’s the vibe you want?

The only thing Ann Selzer did wrong was trust her methodology. If you take a lot of samples, some of them will be outliers, wecome to statistics. Reminds me of the classic stats homework assignment to toss a coin 100 times. The fakers are easy to find because none of the streaks are long enough, aka, no outliers.

Other pollsters would have tossed the result simply because it was different. Those pollster suck. You’re supposed to do what Ann did because that is the only way to converge on the actual value.

I guess I can add ‘hilarious’ the the growing list of words that no longer mean anything in particular.

It’s only a matter of time until we read Gorsuch giving a history and tradition argument that references the Salem witch trials as proof that the first amendment was only meant to be read as applying to Christianity. Thomas will file a concurrence nobody asked for explaining the legal basis for ‘internment’ camps for non believers with a footnote claiming that trial by drowning is totally legal actually.

What on earth could ever make anyone think this is ok?

Salinas

Villanueva

oh…

You’re telling me the same guy who was proclaimed some kind of modern ninja-spy-assassin-genius on the back of his work in NYC was just stupidly waltzing around Altoona carrying an illegal ghost gun?

Doubt.

Doesn’t look like anything to me.

I think you’re overestimating the relevant attention spans.

I do genuinely detest expressions of joy at the misfortune of others, even when I think the others have earned that misfortune, but I just cannot help the schadenfreude with this one. Feeling bad about feeling good is a weird headspace.

Hey look, another person getting the turnout question completely fucking wrong.

1. Relative to 2020, turnout was UP in swing states.

2. Trump led irregular/independant/politically disinterested voters by double digits.

A 100% turnout would not only not have changed the result, but probably would have produced an even larger Trump victory.

It’s your stairs and… garden, I guess? I have no idea why unintentional poisoning is so high, does food poisoning count? It must.

Drug overdoses.

Dunno where this map came from but it’s missing MDT and probably others like it.

I hope she dresses in the most provacative over-the-top hyper-femme style imaginable and spends twenty minutes of every lunch rush looming over the urinals heckling and mocking any man who dares try to use them.

Everything Microsoft has been doing for years now is aligned in the direction of jamming as many subscription services down our throat as they can manage, whether we want them or not. They are not alone in this by any stretch. Cloud based hardware definitely fits neatly into the current tech zeitgeist.

I’m going to keep shouting this from the rootops until people get it throigh their skulls: TURNOUT WAS NOT THE ISSUE. Ignoring that people haven’t updated the totals in their head since the Friday after the election, turnout was only down in uncompetitive states. Across the 8-10 swing states turnout was up. More people voted where it mattered most compared to 2020. Find a better explanation because this isn’t it.