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Comment Re:It's the law, in those states (Score 0) 391

That argument would hold water if the US electoral system was based on 'one person, one vote'

It's a representative democracy.

Individuals have representatives. Everyone has one, and they are popularly elected by the people they serve.

States have Senators. Each State has 2, and they are popularly elected by the people in that State.

The President serves all States, and is elected by the State electors, because the President serves all States. Those electors are appointed in such manner as the State legislature (the representatives of the People in that State) choose.

"that removes governors and state courts from the decision-making process on election laws"

You mean they might follow the constitution?

Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress

The Constitution explicitly gives that power to the State Legislature, which is accountable to the People. It does not give that power to the feds or the State governor to dictate additional terms. It's extremely explicit: "in such manner as the Legislature thereof may direct". Not "in such manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, plus the feds require the Governor to certify it."

while giving state lawmakers free rein to change rules to favour their own party which for the most part favours the Trumpublican party

The votes belong to the State. They have been able to do what they want this whole time. If CA wanted to pass the "electors are always chosen by the Democratic party" law, they can. It's literally in the constitution that State legislatures can do whatever they want with State votes.

Which is why the People control both houses of congress.

Comment They're already available through this simple hack (Score 2) 25

Long-form tweets are already available through this simple hack:
1) Type a post in a notepad app up to 1,000 characters
2) Screencap the note & paste it into a tweet as an image
3) copy/paste the actual text as the ALT-text for the image
4) add up to 240 characters in tweet body ...
6) PROFIT!

Comment Why remove the human-readable date? (Score 2) 224

There are a LOT of milk choices, I already have to decide between Cow, Oat, Soy, Coconut, Cashew, Flax, Hemp, and Blends/Pea Protein - also unsweetened, original, chocolate, and vanilla for the plant-based options - and skim, 1%, 2%, whole, and A2 for Cow.. If I need to then scan multiple cartons with my phone (and USE MY DATA) to finalize my decision I'd be pretty annoyed.

If you have to individualize the Qcode, the cost to continue to include a human-readable date is trivial so why not both? But if you do remove the human-readable date, at least have a scanner right by the fridge so I don't have to use my own phone and data.

I do like the idea of automatic price reductions for milk nearer expiration, we go through four cartons a week here, so milk with four days to go would usually be fine.

Comment WindowsME worst OF THOSE LISTED (Score 1) 184

Having used versions of Windows going back to 2.0, I have to say 2.0 and 3.0 were far worse than WindowsME.

And even the relatively stable 3.1/3.11 releases should have been made TCP/IP friendly far earlier in their life cycle.

Also, grouping Windows 10 and 11 together is not a good idea for this poll. Having used it for a few weeks now, I'd say Windows 11 is a bigger departure from Windows 10 than Windows 10 was from 7.

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