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A lot of Tumblr polls are basically this now

Reviews

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Regular-ish Convex Polyhedra Bracket — Round 1

Propaganda

Tetrakis Hexahedron:

Also called the Tetrahexahedron, Hextetrahedron, Tetrakis Cube, Kiscube

Catalan Solid

Dual of the Truncated Octahedron

It has 24 isosceles triangular faces, 36 edges, and 14 vertices of two types.

Image Credit: Cyp

Pentagonal Icositetrahedron:

Also called the Pentagonal Icosikaitetrahedron

Catalan Solid

Dual of the Snub Cube

It has 24 irregular pentagonal faces, 60 edges, and 38 vertices of three types.

Chiral so it has two forms that are mirror images of each other.

Image Credit: Cyp

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Regular-ish Convex Polyhedra Bracket — Round 1

Propaganda

Regular Dodecahedron:

Also called the Pentagonal Dodecahedron

Platonic Solid

Regular

Dual of the Regular Icosahedron

It has 12 regular pentagonal faces, 30 edges, and 20 vertices.

Image Credit: Cyp

Truncated Cuboctahedron:

Also called the Great Rhombicuboctahedron

Archimedean Solid

Semiregular

Dual of the Disdyakis Dodecahedron

It has 6 regular octagonal faces, 8 regular hexagonal faces, 12 square faces, 72 edges, and 48 vertices.

Not actually the truncation of the cuboctahedron, although topologically equivalent.

Image Credit: Cyp

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Round 2 - Kidneys VS Cochlea

The KIDNEYS are a pair of organs located within the lower abdomen. They are part of the excretory system, responsible for filtering waste products from the blood and regulating bodily hydration.

Kidney Propaganda:

"They look like beans and i wanna eat them"

The COCHLEA is a snail-shaped organ present in the inner ear. Filled with fluid and lined with cilia (tiny hairs), vibrations are passed to it via the ossicles. These are sent to the brain, which interprets them as sound.

Cochlea Propaganda:

"Hehe snail"

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imagine a 21-round poll tournament for every unicode codepoint. not just the ones that are assigned, the whole thing. all 2^21 of them.

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Winners A-H

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Supreme Court Bracket Finale!

Remember that this is a silly Tumblr poll, and these two things are not actually in conflict. So don't get too heated in the notes.

School Desegregation. State laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. It stated that ''separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.''

Gay Sex. Lawrence v. Texas ruled that sodomy laws were unconstitutional, making same-sex sexual activity legal in all US states and territories. It explicitly overturned another Supreme Court decision, Bowers v. Hardwick, a case which had previously ruled such laws to be constitutional.

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Supreme Court Bracket: Results of the Semifinals

Near v. Brown was a landslide victory for School Desegregation (96.97%)

Loving v. Lawrence, on the other hand, was a tie! As with other ties in tournaments I run, my vote doesn't count, and so Gay Sex narrowly beats Interracial Marriage.

Finale tomorrow!

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I am taking everyone who made a poll to gauge the True Percentage of Queers on Tumblr and putting them through a statistics course

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Supreme Court Bracket

Remember that this is a silly Tumblr poll, and these two things are not actually in conflict. So don't get too heated in the notes.

Pre-Publication Censorship is Unconstitutional. The case Near v. Minnesota is a landmark United States Supreme Court decision that found that prior restraints on publication violate freedom of the press as protected under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, a principle that was applied to free speech generally in subsequent jurisprudence. The Court ruled that a Minnesota law that targeted publishers of ''malicious'' or ''scandalous'' newspapers violated the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.

School Desegregation. State laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. It stated that ''separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.''

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Supreme Court Bracket

Remember that this is a silly Tumblr poll, and these two things are not actually in conflict. So don't get too heated in the notes.

Interracial Marriage. State laws prohibiting interracial marriage were unconstitutional, and were struck down. This case was cited as precedent in Obergefell v. Hodges.

Gay Sex. Lawrence v. Texas ruled that sodomy laws were unconstitutional, making same-sex sexual activity legal in all US states and territories. It explicitly overturned another Supreme Court decision, Bowers v. Hardwick, a case which had previously ruled such laws to be constitutional.

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Supreme Court Bracket: Results of Round 3

The biggest landslide was Gay Sex beating Gay Marriage with a margin of 87.76%

The closest match was Interracial Marriage vs Abortion, with Interracial Marriage having a winning margin of just 51.61%

Semifinals Tomorrow!