I haven't read the book. It just seems like wishful thinking that such limits on voting won't be turned around to oppress the population in general and minorities in particular.
I'm glad it worked out in the book, but can you think of any other government systems that worked out on paper, but failed their live run? I don't want to be part of that mistake, I'm busy enough being part of this American one right now.
It sounds like you dodged a bullet or they weren't serious about hiring. I'd likely respond that "wouldn't it be more suspicious to have an account with almost no activity?"
That looks like a nice plot, thank you for sharing the picture. I always struggled on the best time to trim the old canes, do you prefer to do that in the fall after fruiting or spring?
I want Twitter to fail for how it's turned, but until shown otherwise, bluesky is another closed system. It's better than Twitter and I hope they prove me wrong.
You're trying to understand the logic behind motivated reasoning. They knew the conclusion they wanted, so they constructed a fig leaf of an argument that 1/3 of people would cheer, 1/3 would defer to the tortured logic by habit of deference to authority, and 1/3 would protest while being alienated from the whole.
I read this with the subtext that Ronald Reagan worked as governor of California to pass gun control after Black Panthers were exercising their right to bear arms.
No 4d chess needed, this is their best.