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Yes, there are certainly people who could help. I'd suggest finding them and asking them for assistance.

Here's the list of states and electoral college votes:

https://www.archives.gov/electoral-college/allocation

Just don't think about the popular vote. It has no bearing on who wins the Presidency in the US.

You can argue that it should but just accept that under the current rules it does not.

As far as your question "If Kamala wins the popular vote, how much does she have to win by to flip the electoral college to her side?" the only answer is "it depends"

It depends because as amazingly stupid as this sounds, one vote for a candidate counts either more or less depending on which state it came from.

Example of California (most people) and Wyoming (least people)

    California:
        Electoral Votes: 55
        Population: 39,500,000
        Weight:  0.00000139

    Wyoming:
        Electoral Votes: 3
        Population: 580,000
        Weight:  0.00000517

A vote in Wyoming (0.00000517) affects the outcome of the electoral college much more than a vote in California (0.00000139).

Another way of looking at it is that one electoral college vote in California represents the will of a little over 718,000 residents, while in Wyoming it represents the will of a little over 193,000 people.

Things get even trickier when you factor in the fact that some states split the EC votes based on popular vote or district, and other states are a winner-take-all (whichever candidate takes the state takes all the EC votes.)

It's a giant complex mess and it cannot be easily related to the popular vote.

that's a bold strategy coming from SatansMaggotyCumFart, Cotton, let's see if this works for them.

This is EXACTLY what was in my head as I wrote the post.

just under 50% of people voted in Ohio in the 2020 election.

Trump won by 8%.

If just 9% of the people who felt like you (what's the point of voting) had showed up to vote for Biden, that would have flipped the state.

No single raindrop believes it can make any difference. But together, all those insignificant raindrops can change the course of a river in a single day.

To expand, pecans are about 6kcal/g sugar is 4kcal/g - since the serving size is 28g, not by volume, they have reduced the pecans per serving and added sugar per serving which is less calorie dense per gram.

I understand the concerns of privacy, but working in academia means that you give up some of the privacy.

Yes people will have your real name and they will know what college you work at and if some crazy person decides that they want to stalk you on campus because you're woke or part of the deep state turning the frogs gay with chemicals they'll be able to easily do that.

You're gonna have 100s of strangers in your classes during the year. You're going to tell them exactly when you're going to be in your office for office hours.

If you are unable to handle that I doubt academia is for you.

Academia is about furthering human knowledge especially a PhD. There are sacrifices involved; your privacy is probably one of them.

Part of being an academic is being available to discuss your publications. Your full name will not only be flying around the internet but recorded permanently in libraries and journals.

Science is about collaboration, and standing behind the work you do, publicly. You will find it extremely difficult or impossible to get your PhD without being known to the academic community.

I think you won't find many anonymous scientific papers held in high regard.

If the AI can run everything, then we become a post scarcity society. I'm hoping for Iain M Banks Culture series myself, but who knows. Or maybe the AI becomes so intelligent it just checks out like in the movie Her and we have to go back to doing it with non-AI tech.

Then came 1987 and 1988: 1987 II Electric Boogaloo

In the US, discussing salary with coworkers is protected speech. It helps people find out if they are being underpaid or unfairly discriminated against. I always share my salary information when asked and I think it's important to do so.

My salary is not indicative of my net worth. I could have a 7 figure salary and be drowning in debt, or make 75K and be doing fairly well because of responsible choices.

I dislike the stigma of discussing salaries, and believe that it's propagated by companies to dissuade workers from getting fair salaries.

You need to get your ISP to help troubleshoot the issue with your router. If the Steam Deck works fine on other networks that's a very strong sign that it's not the Deck that's the issue.

Most public libraries have WiFi or computers that you can use in a pinch, leverage those as much as possible. You are paying for those services via taxes, they are yours.