Mills out, Platner on glide path to the Senate?

I'm happy to see where Mills has pulled out of the Maine race. Maybe I'm over-optimistic, but is sure looks like Platner has a clear path to win against the old lady. Do we have real prospects for 52 Democrats? (Fetterman might as well switch parties at this point... maybe he even will). It's hard to be optimistic about national politics at all, but a majority in the Senate willing to ditch the filibuster could really change things, and at the very least we could have two years of nonstop investigation and revelations of Trump regime corruption. 

 

  

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"The answer" to life, the universe & everything isn't 42 (Sorry, Douglas Adams), but 1/137, known as the fine structure constant, α (alpha), a pure, dimensionless number equal to the proportional strength of the electromagnetic interaction between elementary charged particles (which is essentially everything we actually see and feel):

α = ⁠e²4πε₀ħc ⁠≅ 1/137.0

Why it has this value, very close to the ratio of two integers, and not some other arbitrary value, is a cosmic mystery.