Some useful simulations for understanding many proposed voting styles, and the potential drawbacks of each.

https://ncase.me/ballot/

Not sure if it’s my specific app or lemmy as a whole, but that spoiler tag isn’t working. Sometimes they’ll break if you put a space between the tag and your text.

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Looks like reddit spoiler tags just don’t work in general

Not sure if it’s my specific app or lemmy as a whole, but that spoiler tag isn’t working. Sometimes they’ll break if you put a space between the tag and your text.

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alarmist, cost, growth, “India and China,” innovation, and resilience

Because unemployment isn’t really that low. When we talk about “people here now who could use those jobs”, we’re usually talking about people in dead end jobs that could use a career job.

So great, pull them into our elder care system, give them a career level up…now their old jobs are still unfilled. And while we’re super shitty as a country towards entry level service workers, we also as a country really want those jobs to be filled. So we’d need to fill that gap in the employment pool somehow.

Just in case you misread the title (because I did at first), Namibia is explicitly not looking into other people’s pants now.

Why did it take until 2024? Humans being humans, I guess. Gotta go after some “other”.

Progressive tax brackets. This hypothetical tax is only on money earned over 10M/1M.

$9,000? Fucking seriously?

Antibiotics. Turned so many lethal wounds into minor cuts.

Please be the story of the congressfolk that legalized raw milk, celebrated by drinking raw milk, and all got sick as a result…

Fuck yeah.

As far as in aware, not being a NY company isn’t the issue, it’s the fact that they have no evidence they can actually pay the full amount in the event that Trump doesn’t follow through with his obligations for the bond.

Note that these broods are mostly not in the same region, so most places will see a fairly normal amount of cicadas this year.

Eastern Illinois gets both broods, it’s gonna be WILD there.

They have access to US markets and are defended by the US military, without some of the requirements of being a full state.

It seems to be that it’d be better for PR to join as a full state, but thus far they’ve not gotten the votes together to do it.

Nope. They get a non-voting representative in congress who can speak on issues but has no ability to directly impact legislation.

This brings the total electoral votes joining the compact to 209. Michigan will join soon, bringing it to 225.

270 electoral votes needed for the change to take effect. We’re getting there.

It’s not about the crops, farmers work by the sun, not by the clock.

It was able conserving candles and oil, for lighting rooms.

Suffocation by CO2 is a pretty painful way to go, so I wouldn’t recommend.

I don’t know that the switcheroo is the likely bad outcome, but more like “still in the process of unlearning the cult life, and still finding some ugly vestiges”

You can’t extract minerals from where they don’t exist. No law will change that.

We shouldn’t be relying on foreign manufacturers to meet our demands, our country is large and diverse enough to do it on our own.

Except for the fact that there are many necessary minerals for these batteries that are overwhelmingly located in China, and not present in meaningful quantities in the Americas. China is in a position of strong leverage here since they can control the price of mineral export even if our manufacturing ramps up.