Ah thanks, I knew about this part “tne candidate was plotting treason, or has a heart attack.” but didn’t know the back story on that.

THAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THE SENATE

I really do get that, you don’t have to try and explain it again, but it doesn’t mean it’s serving the country any further, just like the electoral college isn’t severing the country or first past the post isn’t.

Things change, and it turns out that this system is allowing for the tyranny of minority which is ironically is the opposite of the intended effect of it preventing tyranny of the majority.

I’m not offering a solution, I’m just saying its a problem just like the others. Everything can be reformed if there a problems.

But yes as I said, fixing the house would be a start.

we are not commuting by horseback any longer.

Is there some reference specifically to the electoral college and horses, or was this just about the passage of time?

Half of me thinks there was something very specific about horses and the college after you wrote that lol.

Its intended, but it’s still a problem. It gives disproportionate power to smaller states and it gets worse as certain areas grow and other don’t.

Wyoming with a population of 581k in 2022 wields as much power in the senate as California with 39 million.

And if you control either the house or senate, you can pretty much stall almost anything.

Even if we got rid of it, the senate is still non representative with small states wielding more power, and the house isn’t proportional because the seats are capped.

So much is fucked.

The Android OS is very hostile to background processes running.

The rules around what’s okay and what’s not is constantly changing, so apps that need to run things in the background are constantly having to update things so they can work properly and sometimes they don’t, or they do it wrong, and then certain features don’t work properly like push notifications or schedules events.

Then, even if the developer does everything perfectly you get OEMs like Samsung that ignore the rules and fuck with your app anyway, and the literal only way to stop it is to go into the OS setting and disable a lot of things, which puts the onus on the user, and not the developer to make the app work.

But Samsung is such a bitch that even then they don’t honor your settings and sometimes revert them, or add new ones that fuck with it again in a constantly changing hard to find nested settings menu.

I actually do like my Samsung phone, but god damn fuck you Samsung for doing this.

If you want a phone that at least follows the ever changing rules properly, get a pixel.

Oops i spoiled the ballot. Too late to get another one, guess I’ll vote in person.

Is it storing it or is it accessing the original content?

Hey siri summarize finances.txt and it opening the file to summarize is different than it having its own copy stored somewhere.

The claim is that their own hosted cloud computing for AI is also secure and that Apple has no idea/can’t know what it’s computing for you.

No clue if it’s true, but that is the direction all cloud AI stuff should go.

So just ask for a mail in ballot, vote twice and deny it.

Even if the ballot went to a different address I’m not sure that gets you off the hook that easily?

What happens if this didn’t come out, and those 4 people also voted in person.

Then when votes are counted, it maybe comes out that they voted twice.

Now 4 different people get accused of fraud and they have to defend that they didn’t do it, but they don’t know who/how it happened?

Well I know that not everything is deleted and it’s often just a flag, but I’m more annoyed that the lemmy UI’s don’t respect the flag, even if the content is still there.

I feel like they should advise you about this when you delete something or do the . by default.

Well TIL as per my other test comment.

I’m going to delete this comment.

edit: i deleted it and I am editing

edit: oh wow that’s interesting.

Not by law, but it’s just like first time offenders or cooperating defendants or guilty pleas often getting lighter sentences.

They could still throw the book at you, as they do at times, but it’s not a guaranteed success.

You send a warning and if they don’t follow it you can now apply for a harsher sentence.

If you skip the warning you might win still, but you’ll have a harder time getting the harshest punishment.

They could still charge him post warning even if he’d stopped, but then it looks like he cooperated and will probably not get the harshest punishment.

Harshest punishment requires the warning and ignoring of it.

Would it have been fine if it’d been after the date?

I thought requiring being registered was itself a problem?

It’s weird that it shows up there as non deleted. I’ve had that happen to me as well.

The only facts these people believe are Alternative Facts^tm