Some useful simulations for understanding many proposed voting styles, and the potential drawbacks of each.

https://ncase.me/ballot/

Not sure if it’s my specific app or lemmy as a whole, but that spoiler tag isn’t working. Sometimes they’ll break if you put a space between the tag and your text.

… >! Testing with spaces on both ends !<

… >! Testing with a space at the front!<

… >!Testing with a space at the end !<

… >!Testing with no spaces!<

Looks like reddit spoiler tags just don’t work in general

Not sure if it’s my specific app or lemmy as a whole, but that spoiler tag isn’t working. Sometimes they’ll break if you put a space between the tag and your text.

! Testing with spaces on both ends !<

! Testing with a space at the front!<

!Testing with a space at the end !<

!Testing with no spaces!<

“China is the worst polluter on the planet and they need to do better”

[China invests heavily into green technologies]

“NO NOT LIKE THAT!”

It’s the “all your eggs in one basket” problem.

While I agree with the sentiment here, this is pretty 1-dimensional. For one, US support of Ukraine actually has little to do with democracy and everything to do with national sovereignty. One nation with imperial ambitions invaded another nation without pretense, US provides aid to stave off that invasion.

Hypocritical given US history of imperialism? Sure. But it’s NOT imperialism under the mask of democracy.

Similar arguments apply to various points on this list. Supporting NATO is about maintaining a military alliance against common enemies, not spreading democracy.

The big neon Check Engine light is a nice cherry on top

I mean…

[Gestures wildly at the state of the USA]

Yeah.

“In a gold rush, you want to be the guy selling the shovels”

Nvidia is the shovel-seller right now. A couple of AI companies will probably get huge, 99% will fail. But Nvidia is getting paid by them all.

I thought it was a photoshop. That shit is actually real, lol.

But US paper sizes don’t tile nearly as well as metric paper sizes do, is the point

Commercial printers will print most everything on A0 paper, but since all metric paper is doubling or halving sizes with respect to each other, they can tile a bunch of print jobs into the same A0 paper and then cut them apart, saving machine time by turning a bunch of small jobs into one big job.

“I did that” sticker people in shambles

Get enough of a majority in congress that she can be impeached (and convicted). Not possible with a 51/50 split in the senate. It’d take damn near 67 dem senators. Maaaaaaybe they can get 1 or 2 Rs to flip but it’s a long shot.

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Man, I knew fingerprint encryption was bad but that is nuts.

I mean, this is a useful law for those concerned with the excessive force against pro-palestine protestors, because the definition it references specifically calls out criticism of Israel as a state not being antisemitism.

If you read the text of the act, it really doesn’t do much of anything. Doesn’t expand the powers of the department of education or any law enforcement agency, just clarifies the definition of antisemitism used in existing laws about discrimination. The exact definition proposed is from the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance:

Antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities.

Nothing involving criticism of the government of Israel. That said, they do offer a little bit of clarification on their website:

Manifestations might include the targeting of the state of Israel, conceived as a Jewish collectivity. However, criticism of Israel similar to that leveled against any other country cannot be regarded as antisemitic.

I really don’t see anything worth getting worked up about. This is about as standard, boring government as it gets.

Antibiotics. Turned so many lethal wounds into minor cuts.

“Turn up the volume and listen to that engine purr”