Hey folks, welcome to the Dark Horse Podcast, live stream. Apparently it is number

247, which I know in advance, which is not my usual, but I know this time because I asked you about four seconds before we went on.

You do. So I'm getting better. How prime is it? I'm going to say not very. Not very, but closer than most. Closer than closer than most it is the product of two

primes right yeah product of two primes 13 and 19 13 13 and 19 13 yeah closer than most strikes me is not very consequential. It's a real category though.

Yeah. You know are you in fact are you prime only factors yourself and one or do you have two

other factors and they themselves are prime this is a this is a real category in the universe

whether or not you care about it degrees of

primitude yeah yeah primacy even better yes that's an actual actual word but it

may not mean anything here all right well we're gonna use it that way it's

sounds sophisticated I like it.

All right. We're going to talk about a number of topical things today, including what is going on as we

here in the US we ramp up to the presidential election which is less than three weeks away and of course what with all the relatively recent changes to how we vote, some people have already voted.

And many of us will not even have the opportunity to go to the polls.

But still, it is nominally less than three weeks away and things are afoot.

Yeah, I actually for just simple psychological reasons, never mind the ability to cheat and all that.

I detest the idea that we don't vote all at once.

I do too.

Find out at the same time in short. And there and just the the civic experience of going to you know as often it was a school I feel like but you know there are a number of places where polling places were and seeing your neighbors, seeing neighbors who you otherwise would never meet.

Seeing the same people who you might see at the grocery store or the pharmacy or the gas station is is important and

valuable and it's a little it's a little bit like and you know this is by far not the

most important thing about it but one of the reasons that digital search

totally replacing physical browsing in libraries is a loss it It obviously expands our opportunities tremendously, but it also causes a loss of the

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