Call me a conspiracy theorist, but I am convinced that was Russia!s proof-of-concept for what would become their information warfare against democracy.
I find myself increasingly having to consider this possibility when I interact with people online. Are they well meaning, or are they actively trying to sabotage progress. Maybe they’re well meaning but have succumbed to the arguments of others actively trying to sabotage progress. 🤷
RCV has the momentum and is infinitely superior to what we have now. Don’t let perfect be the enemy of much better.
Edit: And honestly, I’d be happy if a community chose one of the other options. I don’t care. They’re all better than what we have and we should be applauding every city, county and state that switches to any of them.
Trying to demonize one because you don’t think it’s perfect is just muddying the waters and subjecting us to decades of more of the shit sandwich we have now while we debate which alternative is flawless.
It shows that there is bipartisan support for it among rank and file voters. It’s really just the politicians that know that they wouldn’t stand a chance of winning under such a system that are against it.
Yeah, but… Where is that? /s
It strongly reads to me like the writer is trying to make something mystical/mysterious out of a completely mundane “feature” of mirrors.
In the photos, the tall, geometric figure reflects the rocky desert and perfectly aligns with the horizon.
Ummmmm, that’s the photographer that did that. 🙄
It’s right there in the teaser on on this page.
“Terrorism? Boy Howdy” 🤣
I hate to say it, but I’m inclined to think that the Russian government may simply block access to Firefox (and the Firefox addons site).
Probably true, but that’s not justification for Mozilla to save them the trouble by doing it for them.
Tangent: Whenever the news reports a major earthquake somewhere, I like to remind people that Plate Tectonic Theory is “just a theory” and that some religious leaders confidently assure us that earthquakes are caused by promiscuous women.
Link is to the second page of the article. I thought it was odd how it kept saying “Smith said” without identifying who Smith is.
Males, yeah, that’s how we high five.
No, we don’t.
Females I go waaaaaay lighter on. Like a fist bump with your palm.
And the intended recipients are all psychic and can tell that your delivery will be different than every other drunk high-fiver they’ve previously encountered. Right?
How Lewis cleans up this mammoth of a mess that he has created for himself remains to be seen. Can he do it? One wonders what Jeff Bezos, the billionaire owner of The Post, who must be growing quite tired of constantly seeing his newspaper ensnared in controversy, thinks of the situation. Inside the newsroom, though, the sentiment is plain as day.
“He’s really losing the newsroom on a large scale,” a staffer said, sizing up the state of affairs. “People don’t trust him, don’t believe he has the same values and ethics as our journalists and there are major concerns of how far he would go to censor or shut down coverage.”
Looks like a prime example of Godwin’s Law
So, a byproduct of this process is, potentially, greenhouse gases? Yay.
Please don’t perpetuate this myth. He was tried, and found guilty, for falsifying business records to cover up payments that he made for purposes that many of his voters would find objectionable in order to hide that objectionable information from those voters to prevent them from making an informed decision and affecting an election.
How would they know now? It’s the same answer. Stop being a dick.
As I started reading the last sentence, I thought it was going to say, “This effect also works on dogs.”
Re #3; Yeah, that’s the “heart warming human interest story” part of the orphan crushing machine.