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Schadrach

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  • Trump reveals 'big, big surprise' for ailing Democrats as he warns Blue states will 'totally disappear off the map'

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  • If your state isn’t green, call your state representative (bonus: the one more likely to give a shit)

    It's not likely to happen, in no small part because Florida and Texas are a majority of the "pending" votes and it's unlikely to pass in either. Most of the states where it isn't pending are smaller states who benefit or at least aren't meaningfully hurt by the EC.

    House apportionment hurts states with 1 Rep who are just shy of getting a second the most, and after them hurts California essentially because it blows the curve on population. At the same time, it's the best you can manage with a fixed size House - any other apportionment with the same number of House members will on average have a worse disparity in representation. You'd have to uncap the House or at least significantly increase the size of the House to get a better result.

    Of course there's nothing these days that prevents Congressional business from being conducted by teleconference, which would reduce one of the core issues with an uncapped House - the physical and practical difficulties in actually running it. For example, if you were to decide that Wyoming as the smallest state got one rep and every other state got a rep per population of Wyoming then we'd have something like 5780 Representatives.

  • Trump reveals 'big, big surprise' for ailing Democrats as he warns Blue states will 'totally disappear off the map'

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  • But the popular vote hasn’t mattered for many, many years.

    It never has.

    They align more often than not so it might seem like it does, with the exceptions typically being cases where the Republican does really well everywhere but the Dem strongholds, while turnout for the Dems is much higher than usual in the highest population Dem strongholds. For example, Hillary Clinton won the state of California by more votes than she won the national popular vote - literally had California seceded or something Trump would have won the popular vote as well in 2016.

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  • starlink

    I remain confused why 1) voting machines would have anything to do with Starlink and 2) why voting machines would be networked at all. Like, at all. It just seems like such an obvious and massive security issue. I could design a dramatically more secure way of doing electronic voting machines off the cuff that would keep most of the main advantages while eliminating most/all of the main issues.

  • Author of Upcoming Elon Musk Biography Says ‘There Is No Evidence’ Billionaire Has Any ‘Intellectual Achievements’

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  • Kind of like the answers to "What is DOGE?" and "What is Lon Musk's role in the government?" - the answer is whatever is convenient at the moment.

  • Trump reveals 'big, big surprise' for ailing Democrats as he warns Blue states will 'totally disappear off the map'

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  • since Republicans stole the 2000 election.

    Simple question: Do you believe that election deadlines are meaningless and should simply be ignored, or do you believe that each county in a state can have different rules for how votes are counted without it violating the Equal Protection clause for the 14th Amendment? Because that's the heart of what Bush v Gore was decided on.

    Based on what we know regarding the election, even if the last recount Gore had asked for had been completed and been official, he still wouldn't have won. Some media agencies have estimated that had the entire state been recounted under the new standard Gore wanted to use that might have led to him narrowly winning, but that's not a recount he ever actually asked for (and if he had and had done so earlier, Bush v Gore would have either gone the other way, or had to be justified on entirely different grounds since Equal Protection wouldn't be an issue and it was specifically the deciding issue expressed in the SCOTUS opinion).

  • Trump reveals 'big, big surprise' for ailing Democrats as he warns Blue states will 'totally disappear off the map'

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  • ...or the individual states where this allegedly happened.

    Congrats to TWeaK for helping prove me right about one of my election predictions though - that no matter who won a noticeable share of the population was going to believe the election was rigged. I was guessing upwards of 1 in 6 if Trump lost (aka about half of MAGA), fewer if Trump won (not because Trump was more likely to be believed to win in a fair election, but because Trump had poisoned the well of election fraud claims in 2020).

  • France runs fusion reactor for record 22 minutes

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  • How ks the drill baby drill crowd going to compete against mini stars in a can?

    Nu-Cu-Lar Bad? That's...about as far as they'll make it. To be fair, that might be as far as they need to. It's all the oil companies will approve of them learning, at least.

    Of course, it sounds like the big problem of how to remove more power from it than you spend keeping it reacting remains an issue, presuming they can continue to extend reaction lifetimes to be functionally unlimited.

  • Nope

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  • ...which is amusing because my first thought was At the Mountains of Madness, which apparently was an inspiration for The Thing.

  • Facepalm on multiple levels

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  • Sorry, got my racist propaganda films that still show up in film school because they used revolutionary techniques in film making and are thus important pieces of cinematic history mixed up. The Birth of a Nation is the US one, Triumph of the Will is the Nazi one I was thinking of.

  • Facepalm on multiple levels

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  • (and no I am not glorifying those monsters)

    You don't have to glorify their beliefs to admit they were fantastic at propaganda and aesthetics. Birth of a Nation was used in film schools for decades afterward for a reason and that reason wasn't that film schools were all secretly run by Nazis.

  • Trump Accuses Federal Workers of ‘Playing Golf’ After He Spent the Last Three Weekdays at His Golf Courses

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  • Take the upvote. You beat me to it.

  • Feminists

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  • You support the message that attacking a group people are born into and a group people choose to identify with are equally bad?

    Q: Are Not All Proud Boys Like That? Or does it only extend to groups you support?

  • Feminists

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  • They are bad because their website is literally godhatesfags.com.

    Always found it weird that there are people who believe that the immortal and all powerful creator of the universe is for some reason deeply, deeply concerned with what ~10% of a particular branch of weird hairless apes decides to do with their genitals enough to do things like call down plagues and natural disasters over it. Like that's just....such an extreme level of being a gooner that it's even more absurd than the whole monotheistic God of everything idea to begin with.

    Clearly the universe was created by committee - that's how you end up with things like the platypus when the bird team and the mammal team are forced to compromise on a design to get the product shipped on time.

  • Digital Fingerprinting: Google launched a new era of tracking worse than cookie banners | Tuta

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  • I wasn't suggesting it as "font list and you're done". I was using it as an example because it's one where I'm apparently really unusual.

    I would think you'd basically want to spoof all known fingerprinting metrics to be whatever is the most common and doesn't break compatibility with the actual setup too much. Randomizing them seems way more likely to break a ton of sites, but inconsistently, which seems like a bad solution.

    I mean hypothetically you could also set up exceptions for specific sites that need different answers for specific fields, essentially telling the site whatever it wants to hear to work but that's going to be a lot of ongoing work.

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  • The crazy part about fingerprinting is that if you block the fingerprint data, they use that block to fingerprint you. That’s why the main strategy is to “blend in”.

    So, essentially the best way to actually resist fingerprinting would be to spoof the results to look more common - for example when I checked amiunique.org one of the most unique elements was my font list. But for 99% of sites you could spoof a font list that has the most common fonts (which you have) and no others and that would make you "blend in" without harming functionality. Barring a handful of specific sites that rely on having a special font, that might need to be set as exceptions.

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  • In other words, they went public and must now maximize gains for shareholders.

  • Man in Florida 'shoots two Israelis he thought were Palestinian'

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  • Yeah, this is Florida Jew. Seriously though, it's an Ashkenazi Jew who confused Middle Eastern Jews for Palestinians.

    We don't normally typify Florida Man as Jewish, but his being Jewish is kinda central to the incident.

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  • The circumference of some unit wheel. If you make a wheel that is 1 unit in diameter in any unit that you please and measure things by placing a mark on the wheel where it touches ground at your start point and counting off full revolutions as you roll the wheel, stopping when that same mark is at the bottom then your measurements are always going to be count X size of unit X pi. If you do more than one such measurement in total then all of your measurements are going to be divisible by the size of unit and pi. If there's any record of what that unit is (and if you engage in a lot of trade there just might be), then the whole thing becomes kind of obvious when someone converts to the lengths to your units and always gets a multiple of pi.

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  • ...it would be if in your analogy GMail blocks Yahoo because they don't like the politics of their CEO, Outlook blocks both GMail and Yahoo to create a safe space, and you left Protonmail out of the list entirely because almost everyone else is blocking them for not banning users who email the wrong kind of porn to each other.

    It's not a big deal until you realize the notion that they all talk to each other is mostly a lie and all the big ones block dozens of instances each. Hell, the threads on the larger instances about whether or not Threads and Truth Social should be defederated if they ever enable federation were some of the highest activity topics on Lemmy for a bit. So was people cheering about Burggit shutting down their lemmy server.