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They really wanted people to register with that domain...


"Geaux" is regional slang for "Go". See the second paragraph under "Modern Usage": https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Suffix_-eaux

It's just a redirect anyways.


Apparently "Geaux" is the local slang for their sports teams, plus the pun with "Go vote". So it's pretty reasonable in my opinion.


It's a Cajun thing, and popular in sports from the area. Geaux means go.


The mobile app goes by the same name.


Are there even any Scientific American subscribers who would vote for Trump? Looks like they're just trying to capitalize on his crazy by getting new subscribers.


Anecdotally, a lot of the sorts of people I've met who would subscribe to SciAm are not particularly politically conscious and subscribe to the "enlightened centrism" / "both sides" kind of philosophy.


So people who believe in nuance?


Why did you reframe what the parent said? This tone is usually used to make an implicit point beyond or in contrast to the original statement, but I can't identify it in this case.


Or their motivations are as they say they are ...


> Looks like they're just trying to capitalize on his crazy by getting new subscribers.

Who would pay money for a magazine subscription because of a political endorsement?

Maybe the editors just thought this was the right thing to do right now.


Trump has a 50% approval rating, so I would guess there is some level of overlap between the two groups.

Probably a fairly small overlap, but it almost certainly exists.


43%, i believe. https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/

he's been <50% approval, >50% disapproval since January 21, 2017.



the values i gave are the weighted means of many pollsters.


Either way its pedantry to the broader point I was trying to make of "There are certainly Trump supporters who subscribe to Scientific American"


ah. that claim does seem entirely plausible, yes.



Despite what you see in social media, most people are not a stereotype.


Care to elaborate? I'm not entirely sure what you're getting at.


Trump's average is at 40%, and is currently hovering around 42%.


Well, there goes the neighborhood...


If you only work 1 day a week without them knowing it, you're basically walking into the office and stealing 80% of your salary off of the CEO's desk.


Yes, I use Brave which has always blocked the ads, but they've been coming through since ~1-2 weeks ago.


Was the same for me. I updated Brave yesterday which fixed it.


YouTube recently made changes to how they display their ads that affected a fair amount of filter lists.

https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/7519


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