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Schadrach

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  • Cards Against Humanity continue to bring good into the world

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  • Merely paying you to vote at all is illegal. But they're not doing that - they're paying you to make a plan to vote, to post a tweet and to make a public apology. Nothing says you have to go through with the plan to vote, merely that you make one - and that distinction is the legal line they are walking.

  • Cards Against Humanity continue to bring good into the world

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  • It doesn't say anything about voting voting Trump, just blindly saying you support the 1st and 2nd amendment. Like I will gladly and openly say I completely agree with that, but there's not the slightest chance in hell I'm voting for Trump.

    Cards Against Humanity however is very carefully threading the needle around committing election fraud. They're paying you to make a plan to vote, but not based on whether or not you actually follow that plan and vote. The latter is very explicitly turnout buying, what CAH is doing is possibly just far enough away to be legal. I'd be shocked if no one uses them over it though as close as it is.

  • Oklahoma seeks to buy 55,000 Bibles – exactly like the ones Trump is hawking

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  • ...and doing it with requirements that funnel state education funds to a political candidate is just...chef's kiss

  • Judge Unseals New Evidence in Federal Election Case Against Trump

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  • Because the parties with the power don't want to, because it might cost them power.

  • MAGAts be all ...

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  • K. I want you to look at somewhere like rural WV and imagine what public transit infrastructure or bike infrastructure that would actually be useful would look like. Preferably that wouldn't cost more than the entire state budget to run and would be useful for people to use to get to work and to at least one major grocery store and one place to get appliances or furniture.

    Say, Powelton, WV. Or Dry Branch, WV. Or Webster Springs, WV. Or Amma, WV. And these aren't even the hardest examples in the state, but they're ones I know well enough to likely be able to comment on your answers.

  • Missed Connection

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  • I have one of those ridge wallets (birthday present, decent wallet) and apparently they had a giveaway for a gold cyber truck. That would be the single most conspicuous vehicle on the road. Like, obnoxiously so. I feel bad for the winner.

  • Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible

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  • That's easy - they'd come to Lemmy and become Lemmy mods to achieve the same thing.

  • Kyle Rittenhouse texts pledging to ‘murder’ shoplifters disillusion his ex-spokesperson

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  • I mean he did, but he both didn't know that at the time and it's not relevant to the goings on that night.

    I'm just going to lead with this: he's an idiot, and in an ideal world he would have not been in Kenosha that night at all.

    That said, if you followed the trial and the evidence presented, it very obviously fit the definition of self defense.

    I wish them the best in their civil trial, but unless they're relying very hard on civil trials having a lower standard of evidence, are getting criminal trial evidence excluded, or are including new evidence not part of the criminal trial that makes a massive difference they probably won't win.

    Shooting Rosenbaum will likely have the easiest time if they can pay an ME to give contradictory expert testimony to what came from the criminal trial. Because while it's on camera, you can't clearly see what went on with their hands and the gun in the video, and have to rely on the ME and testimony to fill in the gaps.

    Getting wrongful death civil damages for someone shooting someone who knocked them to the ground and was coming at them with a blunt object will be harder, but not as hard as for Grosskreutz, unless he can bar his criminal trial testimony from the civil case or come up with an excuse why his answers don't mean what they appear to.

  • Large Majority of Americans Want to End Electoral College

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  • Err, ending the electoral college requires a constitutional amendment. Proposing a constitutional amendment requires either 2/3 of state legislatures or 2/3 of both houses of Congress to set in motion and requires 3/4 of states to approve. This is why the ERA was never ratified - it only got 31 states.

  • Large Majority of Americans Want to End Electoral College

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  • Winning there matters currently. More than any other state. It's just everyone assumes the Dems are going to win it so it's less of a big deal because depending on your party it's either a given or a lost cause.

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  • California is actually about middle of the pack for the House, currently. What skews the electoral college is that eveb the smallest states still get two Senators and a representative, and thus 3 electors.

    The states that are least represented in the House tend to be ones that have 1 or 2 Reps and are very close to getting one more. Like Delaware, Idaho or WV. All of which are over 895k people per Rep. Most states are somewhere in the 700s.

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  • No, it would replace it with a majority FPTP country wide system. Californians are a minority of the country. They do not get sole control, nor would they under a popular vote system.

    Unless this also dramatically changes voting patterns nationwaide it's essentially the same thing. Every time in recent history the electoral college and popular vote have yielded different results, the difference was smaller than the margin in California.

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  • As far as wanting to maintain the current electoral system, both parties are the same and they are the same in this one particular thing because they both benefit from it and any move away from it upsets the status quo that keeps the money and power flowing to them.

    The only move either party wants to make away from the current electoral system is if they could find a way to reduce it to a single party system and that party was theirs.

    They aren't the same in virtually any other way, to the point of being as extremely and overly opposed on as many other things as possible, in part because presenting everything as a dichotomy of extremes reinforces that system.

  • Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second

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  • I can top it - my first desktop PC was an Epson. Come to think of it, my first printer was an Epson dot matrix. Loud as fuck but it was a good little workhorse.

  • Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second

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  • They are. They just aren't the only one.

  • Paralyzed Jockey Loses Ability to Walk After Manufacturer Refuses to Fix Battery For His $100,000 Exoskeleton

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  • With the introduction of protected mode it became possible for programs to run in isolated memory spaces where they are unable to impact other programs running on the same CPU. These programs were said to be running “in a jail” that limited their access to the rest of the computer. A software exploit that allowed a program running inside the “jail” to gain root access / run code outside of protected mode was a “jailbreak”.

    I still miss the narrow window in which you could make use of paging without technically being in protected mode. Basically there was like one revision of the 386 where you could set the paging bit but not protected mode and remain in real mode but with access to paging meaning you got access to paging without the additional processor overhead of protected mode. Not terribly useful since it was removed in short order, but neat to know about. Kinda like how there were a few instructions that had multiple opcodes and there was one commercially distributed assembler that used the alternative opcodes as a way to identify code assembled by it. Or POP CS - easily the most useless 80086 instruction, so useless that the opcode for it got repurposed in the next x86 processor.

  • Large Majority of Americans Want to End Electoral College

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  • Doesn't end it, merely does an end run around it. Also unlikely to ever take effect, because to get to 270 electoral votes worth of states supporting it you're going to need to get states on board with it who will directly lose influence and/or who generally don't vote in line with California and moving to the winner being decided by national popular vote (whether directly or by using it to pledge electors) essentially makes the result largely determined by turnout in California (both times in recent history the popular vote and electoral vote were not in alignment, the margin for the national popular vote was smaller than the margin in California).

    It's a lower bar to reach than actually ending the electoral college, but it's unlikely to succeed for essentially the same reason - you have to get multiple states that will essentially lose any influence over the executive branch if they approve it to approve it.

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  • Probably that interstate compacts have to be approved by Congress. It would be the most obvious angle of attack.

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  • FYI Hillary did not win the popular vote just because of California

    Yes, she did. That there are other combinations of states that she won that combine to have a similar total margin doesn't change that her national margin was smaller than her margin in California. And that's the crux of the argument Snopes makes - she won the national popular vote by 2,833,220 and sure she won California by 4,269,978 votes but there are other states she won that if added together had a combined margin in her favor of more than 2,833,220 votes and also just her California votes alone wouldn't be enough to exceed Trump's vote count nationwide so it doesn't count.

    Which is...kinda ridiculous? It's a big stretch for a frankly kinda dumb claim.