With a electoral system like Ranked Choice voting, people would feel safe to vote for whomsoever they wish, as their vote would still be counted even if their preference didn’t win....
Please go away, get out of public life and stop “helping.”
Being a dick to people is not going to get them to vote your way. Same with the ‘deplorables’ comment. I agreed with her on it, but it was a stupid thing to say in an election.
I think they did know, which is why they didn’t try. You need 2/3 of both houses of congress and a ratification by 3/4 of the states. There has been no time between 2000 and 2024 when that would have had the remotest chance of happening. All they would have done would be to waste taxpayer dollars on something performative.
Like I said, I don’t like the electoral college and I wish we didn’t have it, but we’re stuck with it.
I’m guessing pretty much every pro wrestler on his level is buddy buddy with Vince McMahon. But I also have no personal feelings about John Cena one way or another. I know what he looks like and why he’s famous, but that’s about it.
The ban will be in effect for six months, and some bars will be required to close by 1 a.m. for the next month, according to a statement from the mayor’s office....
Tangentally related- British comedian and presenter Sue Perkins did a series called Perfectly Legal (it’s on Netflix in the US, I’m sure it can also be acquired via the high seas) and she spends a lot of one of the episodes hanging out with some queer Colombian sex workers- adults though. It’s a very entertaining and enlightening view of a country many people in the English-speaking world are unfamiliar with, and the rest of the series shows similar unusual parts of other Latin American countries.
I don’t believe she was in Medellin specifically, but it will still give a glimpse inside the lives of Colombian sex workers. I tried to find an image of the people she was with, but I can’t find them. There was a spectacular older trans woman with ridiculously huge fake breasts that the others thought of as a grandmother and she was awesome.
A Washington state man who used a megaphone to orchestrate a mob’s attack on police officers guarding the U.S. Capitol was sentenced on Wednesday to more than seven years in prison....
I’m just going to drop off this document about federal drug trafficking penalties that people who didn’t try to overthrow the government would get sentenced with and how much they have to have in their possession…
Please do not give me shit for using Facebook. It’s how I keep in touch with relatives, most of whom live abroad, and my brother, who is has ASD prefers to communicate with me that way....
I’ve been dreaming of a social network where you would have AI intermediate all interactions to bias the network towards positivity and less hostility.
I don’t know that is a realistic idea. I don’t know if AI at our current level could accurately discern positivity from hostility well enough. There’s too much emotion in language that I think would require a deep understanding of emotion itself to sort that out properly.
I asked you what sort of foods they should have. You said only their basic needs should be met in terms of food.
Me:
Ok, which foods should people with no money not be allowed to have?
You:
Anything that is outside of basic needs?
Again, the current food stamps program allows impoverished people to buy any food they want to buy as long as they have enough in their EBT account.
Your solution would make a two-tiered system where some people can only get very basic survival food and others can get any food they want. That is worse than now.
So in what way am I being obtuse? You are saying rich people deserve better food than poor people.
That’s fine with me and great to hear! I have no interest in regularly getting a car upgrade. Every car I have ever owned, I have driven until it was either too expensive to keep driving it or it got totaled in a crash (never something that was my fault, thankfully).
I mean I would love an EV or a PHEV, but not enough to do anything about it unless I have to. If I’m lucky, by the time I need a new car, they’ll actually be self-driving and I won’t have to worry about that either.
I do give a shit if you buy a new tablet every couple years when the old one works just fine.
Me:
Buying a new tablet every couple of years: something poor people notoriously do.
You:
Swap tablet for phone, and the answer is yes.
So it sure sounds like you’re saying that poor people shouldn’t buy a new phone when their shitty phone breaks in a couple of years to me. Because the old one never works just fine on account of it being a shitty phone. Which you should know what with your apparent intimate knowledge of global poverty.
Weird how your insult doesn’t reflect what you’ve said so far.
Also, I have not insulted you once. Are you really unable to have a conversation without insulting people? Is this how you talk to people when you’re in the same room with them?
Hillary Clinton tells voters to 'get over yourself' when it comes to Biden-Trump rematch (www.cnn.com)
With a electoral system like Ranked Choice voting, people would feel safe to vote for whomsoever they wish, as their vote would still be counted even if their preference didn’t win....
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The Pro-Trans Activists Buying Up Ad Space Across Right-Wing Media (www.rollingstone.com)
The Gambia may allow female genital mutilation again – another sign of a global trend eroding women’s rights (theconversation.com)
Wow. John Cena is a dick. (lemmy.world)
I feel so old. (lemmy.world)
Satellite images capture how Russia is shielding its warships in port from threats like Ukraine's exploding drone boats (www.businessinsider.com)
Satellite images show Russia has placed barriers at its ports to defend the Black Sea Fleet....
Medellín, Colombia, bans sex work in two areas after U.S. tourist found with minors (www.nbcnews.com)
The ban will be in effect for six months, and some bars will be required to close by 1 a.m. for the next month, according to a statement from the mayor’s office....
Man who used megaphone to lead attack on police during Capitol riot gets more than 7 years in prison (apnews.com)
A Washington state man who used a megaphone to orchestrate a mob’s attack on police officers guarding the U.S. Capitol was sentenced on Wednesday to more than seven years in prison....
Facebook now wants to write your posts for you with AI. (lemmy.world)
Please do not give me shit for using Facebook. It’s how I keep in touch with relatives, most of whom live abroad, and my brother, who is has ASD prefers to communicate with me that way....
Israel’s Brutality Is Increasing—and So Is Its Denialism (www.thenation.com)
A human rights monitor documented the sniping of at least 13 children in and around Shifa Hospital, all between the ages of 4 and 16.
We Can Do This! (lemmy.world)
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Buyers Are Avoiding Teslas Because Elon Musk Has Become So Toxic (futurism.com)
Eggs (lemmy.world)