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Dixville Notch, NH has returned the first results in the 2024 US election. The town voted at midnight and only six ballots were cast, so tallying the results didn't take long. In the presidential race the results were evenly split, with 3 votes each for Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.
https://www.wmur.com/article/midnight-voting-new-hampshire-election-results-24/62810457
~~And now we get the first spot of color on the map, courtesy of Associated Press:~~
Edit: AP has now removed the blue squares in New Hampshire from their map.
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In the 1940s, Archie and the gang looked cartoony but still different from today. This is from Jackpot Comics #4 Winter 1941
(lemmy.world)
The publisher is listed as M. L. J. Magazines. According to Wikipedia, Archie Comics started in 1939; 85 years ago (as MLJ Magazines). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archie_Comics
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I don't know if it's because I've been watching Factorio on YouTube or not, because I have not been searching for peanut butter. But anyway, so that's how you do it.
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I have no idea what a kangaroo has to do with my employer, but they brought in a baby kangaroo for an event, so I waited in line to hold it.
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For reference, the price for fixed-cost plans is around 10c/kWh.
As someone who’s been constantly running an electric heater in the garage while painting my car, I was quite lucky with the timing.
It’s not literally free, though. Transfer prices are fixed, and there are taxes and some other minor costs associated with it, so where I live, it still adds up to around 6c/kWh even when the price drops to zero. The cheap prices are due to an excess of wind power, but once the wind dies down, prices usually spike hard.
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Which African countries have the highest average IQ and the issues of sparse data
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The Central-Mid-Levels escalators in Hong Kong have roller coaster tracks on their roof
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Tony's Chocolonely bars are shaped unevenly to represent farmer inequality and the coastline of Africa
(lemmy.world)
"It doesn’t make sense for chocolate bars to be divided into equal-sized chunks when there is so much inequality in the chocolate industry! The unequally-sized chunks of our 6.35 oz bars are a palatable way of reminding Choco Fans and Serious Friends that the profits in the chocolate industry are unequally divided.
And in case you haven’t noticed, the bottom of our bars depicts the West African coastline. The chunks just above it represent the Gulf of Guinea. From left to right, you have Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo and Benin (terribly politically incorrect, we know, but we had to combine them to create enough space for a hazelnut), Nigeria and part of Cameroon."
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