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  • That is the fastest way to turn a blue state red.

    Split the vote so that the minority Republican vote can win. Because there are more registered Republicans in California than in Texas.

    No, the actual answer is to change the voting system to a Cardinal system, so that there are no such things as Spoiler party’s or split votes.

    Approval or STAR are the answer. Either would enable third parties to exist and thrive.

    As a note RCV is not a Cardinal system, and still has the Spoiler Effect. People lie about it saying it’s the fix for all problems, but it’s actually worse than what we have (there are parts that are better, but more parts that are far worse)




  • chaogomu@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzBut yes.
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    Except, even then, an average coal plant will release more radioactive material over its lifetime than Fukushima did.

    It’s just Chernobyl that you have to top. And even then there are coal plants that come close.

    Now, it’s not apples to apples. Coal plants release uranium and thorium. Not ceasium and strontium.

    But yeah, never go swimming in a coal plant ash pit. For more than the obvious reasons.


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    Adding more radiation to tobacco. Sure.

    But slightly serious here. The actual mechanism of about 75% of tobacco related cancer, is the fact that tobacco leaves bioaccumulate natural radioactive elements from the soil.

    If you smoke, you have radioactive lead and polonium in your lungs.






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    Harris was the path of things slowly getting better. Wages finally overtaking inflation.

    Given a couple years, we would all be in a better place.

    Trump’s tariffs will drive up the price of everything. The last few years of inflation and greed will pale in comparison.






  • Technically it’s the other way around. The size of the electoral college is determined by the size of the House plus the Senate.

    Now, the House was meant to increase in size as the population increased.

    Now, since the mechanism for that increase wasn’t spelled out in the constitution, there were heated arguments every 10 years over the new maps, but it came to a head in 1921.

    Long story short, the permanent apportionment act of 1929 set the size of the House at 435 members. We’ve added two states since then, and the US population has tripped. But still it’s 435.

    Repealing that one law would fix several problems.





  • Countless was a little under 2000 people (at least as far as Harris is concerned) That’s about half of what her predecessor in the same office did over roughly the same time period.

    Now, that conviction is for “possession, sale, or cultivation”. Most paid a fine rather than serve jail time. We also don’t know the exact breakdown of possession vs sale vs cultivation.

    We also know that Harris pushed for decriminalization and legalization in California, and has pushed some of the same as vice president. I think Joe is the roadblock there, even if he was convinced to pardon a bunch of people for simple possession.