The solution is both. Having some kind of proportional voting system is mandatory in order to make 3rd parties viable (plus it provides for better representation), but once you have that there’s not really any good reason to maintain the electoral college.
Exactly. If Democrats had taken more than 2/3rds of the house and senate opening up the possibility to ignore vetos and actually get a conviction on impeachment, then it would have been a sweep. This was definitely a Democrat victory as they got a majority of both chambers of congress, but it was not an overwhelming victory. It’s a sign that there’s some hope left, but there is still a lot that can go wrong and there’s a ton that’s going to be need to be done over the next couple years and it will still be an uphill battle the whole way.
While it would be hilarious to watch the conservatives tie themselves into knots trying to figure out a way to make it illegal for Obama to do that while also making it fine for Trump that would ultimately be a very bad thing.
First it would add legitimacy to Trumps run, not that a lack of that would stop him, but why hand him free ammunition.
Second it would massively energize the Republican base, because while some may be tired of Trump, they absolutely loath Obama and would vote in large numbers for Trump just to deny Obama any possible chance of winning.
Third, Obama burned a lot of bridges during his two terms and is very much a figure head of the old guard Democrats that are just now losing their grip on the DNC to the actual progressives in the party. Bringing Obama back would be a blow to the progressive wing of the party that we most desperately need in power. Further a lot of Democrat voters soured somewhat on Obama, particularly in his second term, I’m not convinced having him on a ballot would bring more Democrats to the polls than the Republicans it almost certainly would.
Even if he died he should still be tried posthumously, if only to give his victims closure, claw back some of the money he’s stolen for those victims, and to insure his legacy as the most criminal president of the US is properly recorded. It will also be important for the cases against his collaborators.
This seems like a good thing if he can siphon the worst of the crazies from the Republican party. The real test will be if his kook party will have any staying power or if he’ll just pop up for one election cycle and then disappear.
Nvidia will be fine, they’re the shovel seller in this gold rush scenario. The ones that are going to be up a creek are the corporations that are borrowing significant chunks of their revenue to buy up hardware and attempt to recoup that loss without any actual plan for how that’s going to work. The small to medium companies that are rushing to get anything AI on the market are going to be toast. The big corporations will feel the pinch, probably do some layoffs, but they’ll survive.
Probably about the same amount as is used around the Gulf of Mexico.
Not how it works. Claiming you’re a church is a get out of jail, or in this case taxes, free card. Just like with the “church” of Scientology, if those scam artists haven’t lost tax free status there’s no way in hell the Catholic church is in any danger.
Besides, the Cathoilic church (and most other churches in the US) have been neck deep in politics here for many decades if not a century at this point.
Edit: also to clarify churches in the US are not non-profit, they’re just tax exempt.
Since Mastodon was mentioned I’ll also add that a thoroughly hate that Mastodon doesn’t even attempt to show you anything unless you enable Javascript. I’m a user of NoScript so websites don’t run JS by default unless I explicitly opt in. For most sites that’s not a huge deal since it’s just a one time thing but because Mastodon is federated I need to opt in every instance individually which means 90% of the time on the rare occasion I visit a Mastodon link nothing loads initially.
I wish Mastodon did the thing most non-sketchy websitss do and renders at least a basic view of its content without JS so I could at least decide if it’s worth enabling JS in the first place.
To play devils advocate mishearing something or accidentally mispeaking isn’t the same thing as false representation. If she was to be charged over this they’d need to show that she did this intentionally which is a higher bar that I’m not sure they could actually pass.
He benefits because it shores up control of Congress. He’s worried about the midterms because of how disastrous the gas price climb has been for Republican support. I know they’re desperate to shore up their flagging numbers because I got a cold call the other day from a bot trying to convince me that Iran was a massive danger to the US and that if we hadn’t invaded now it would have lead to a massive attack in the future and strongly implied that would have involved Iran nuking the US. It was blatant propaganda couched as a public opinion survey but their bias wasn’t even subtle.
They’re in full blown panic because not even Republican voters are supporting this war at this point. Trump needs gas prices to come down ASAP before they bleed even more votes.
That’s a slightly different issue from what this study was about. Specifically this was looking at grammatical structure that’s unique to legal documents rather than specific vocabulary choices (I.E. jargon). Legal documents tend to have both, a unique hard to understand structure, as well as using words that are both uncommon as well as have unique definitions in the legal context that are different from their common ones.
I suspect jargon is a problem no matter what, every specialized field suffers from that to a certain extent, but the unique grammatical structure is a problem that’s really only seen in legal documents. The explanation for why that’s the case seems to be potentially a historical accident and basically boils down to “because that makes it sound legal”, despite literally everybody saying they prefer legal documents written in a normal style.
That’s not what the study found, it in fact disproves that theory. It’s an interesting study with results that are quite surprising.
Yeah I was disappointed when I learned the whole thing was vibe coded. It looked really good, but then that’s what AI slop tends to be good at, it makes amazing looking demos and then silently goes to pieces in day to day use.
A Trump affiliated company was committing a crime? Surely something like this has never happened before.
At this point if Trump endorses a company the DOJ might as well just automatically launch an investigation into them because it’s practically guaranteed their guilty of something even if it’s just false advertising.
It’s the same one ever week and it’s the national emergency named Donald Trump.
Not just profit but lack of a central authority to enforce it. Standards are great when everyone follows them, but establishing standards is an absolute nightmare. Even the humble UPC is surprisingly sketchy when you dig into it and it’s amazing every manufacturer managed to mostly follows the standard. Now for extra fun, UPCs are deprecated and everyone is supposed to be swapping to QR codes instead. I can’t wait to see what a complete and utter clusterfuck that’s going to turn into.
If you put everything in the center, so there’s airflow around the entire freezer [emphasis added]
This entire thing started by saying a freezer needs airflow, which you then countered by saying as long as it was frozen you don’t need airflow, and now you’re back peddling by saying you do need airflow. Good to see you actually agreed with every thing I said this whole time but inexplicably couldn’t communicate that.
You don’t understand how a freezer works, you need to look up the difference between convection and conduction. A freezer relies primarily on convection and without airflow you’re not getting that hence the coils at the back freeze while the food at the front thaws.
That should have happened after the civil war, but they chickened out leading to jim crow and all the fuckery of the civil rights era. The US ceased to be a republic as envisioned by the founders after the civil war and it’s now a half bastardized mishmash of a strong centralized democratic government cosplaying as a republic. It’s basically the worst aspects of all of them, and none of it is really working correctly anymore.
The modern information age brings challenges and capabilities the founding fathers never even dreamed of and it’s probably about time we stopped worshipping the set of compromises they reached centuries ago and actually thought for ourselves.