We have used RCV in Australia for about a century counting paper ballots by hand and there has been one election within my lifetime where the result wasn’t known on election night. There are always a few seats that go right down to the wire and take longer to get the final result, but I see that as a feature, not a bug. We do also use computers in the count, but the initial count and preference distribution is done by hand.

We are too impatient already.

I don’t understand why people are so obsessed with getting a final, definitive result on election night. You have a ridiculous 2 month gap between the election and the new congress and president being seated, and the outgoing congress and president still get to legislate and exercise executive power in that time. It’s ludicrous to me that the losing party gets two months to sabotage the incoming government.

Well we are on Lemmy, so yes

Don’t worry, I was agreeing with you for emphasis

Pass it anyway and make him veto it. Make the republicans vote against overriding the veto. Put it all on record exactly how they voted.

I can see the republicans going for the 25th if they dress it up in very flowery language about how “the president has done a fantastic job but he’s become very unwell and for his own health he needs to step down and it’s a shame that he isn’t able to make that decision for himself any more” or some crap like that, then they might get enough defectors on board for it to pass. They get to keep praising him, claim it’s for his own good and that they’re doing it because they care about him, rather than the betrayal of voting to impeach and convict.

My Pixel 10 Pro XL is allegedly capable of fast charging at up to 45W. Great, I have a 65W charger, let’s give it a go - it tops out at 22.5W no matter what. Alright, I’ll try my 30W charger - only 15W now. How about the 20W one, will that work? Nope, still only 15W.

I do some searching and found out that the Pixel needs a charger that supports PPS rather than just PD to achieve higher charging speeds. So I find a 45W charger that supports PPS. Finally, let’s give it a go! … 24-25W maximum. Turns out that yes, it does support PPS, but not up to 21V which the Pixel needs to charge at 37-38W (and it won’t go up to 45W despite Google’s claim that it’s capable of that).

All that said, that has nothing to do with the connector cable. It’s just that USB charging standards are a mess.

Not knowing who any of those homunculi are (and I don’t want to know), I’d guess pink pants is Natalie Harp holding his nappy bag (diaper bag for the Americans).

Wow, it’s the 29th anniversary today. What a coincidence.

The kind of person who would buy these would also circulate them to somehow “own the libs”

Friendly milk will countermand my trousers.

This is exactly what happened after the Bondi shooting that targeted a Hannukah festival last year. Conservative media and politicians (and even fucking Netanyahu himself) went absolutely feral blaming the government despite the fact that ASIO stopped monitoring the shooters in 2019 under the previous government, and that one of the shooters was born in Australia, with the other (his father) having migrated here about 30 years under the conservative Howard government.

Earlier in 2025 our government recognised the state of Palestine. Ever since the shooting the Epstein class has been astroturfing the far right here and doing their damnedest to destroy the government. I don’t believe that’s a coincidence.