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by tdb7893 9mo ago
There's no way to stop them federally without a full coup since they are administered by the states. The US has a long history of not cancelling election but suppressing votes (e.g. literacy tests, gerrymandering, closing polling locat
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by tdb7893 9mo ago
I don't know why you think people aren't complaining about state and local police accessing data. I've seen these complaints a lot (though the state and local data access is a lot less visible, especially with the gutting of
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by tdb7893 9mo ago
With paper ballots you can do hand recounts physically with the paper and it's much harder to change values than digitally (obviously), which is a huge difference. You could switch to hand counting by default for everything but the con
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by tdb7893 9mo ago
Are there places that don't do paper voting in the US? Ballots are still paper everywhere I've voted (mail in ballots, electronic ballots with printouts, filling in bubbles, etc. It's always been paper). Also, even with paper
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by tdb7893 9mo ago
Goat production is overall much cheaper now so wouldn't we expect the "real" price to be less? That it tracks the price of goats and sheep makes me think it's not a particularly stable unit of value since I don't ex
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by tdb7893 9mo ago
So firstly, I'm not in tech anymore so this is just trivially not true for me (I study animals and most of the people I meet are similar fields). Secondly, there's no company where their goal is destroying "western civilizati
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by tdb7893 9mo ago
As an American who is a current grad student at Purdue this sucks. I've met great grad students from all around and it's sad that these exact sorts of really smart people have had increasing difficulty in coming to the US and stay
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by tdb7893 9mo ago
It's a weird thing to hate on Wikipedia for since in general it's one of the cleaner sites I visit. The absolute garbage of the Fandom wikis shows just how bad it could be.
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by tdb7893 10mo ago
Most of the scientists and engineers I know are on different visas. The US has gained a ton from being largely the cultural center of the world so it's good that there's a visa to take in cultural figures (even if I don't per
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by tdb7893 10mo ago
I still think these things can be worth pushing for, it's an issue that even the older conspiracy theorists I know naturally understand. There's a persuasive use to advocating for something simple and a constitutional amendment on
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by tdb7893 10mo ago
I'm starting to think there should be a constitutional amendment specifying a right to privacy because the last few decades have shown they'll just keep pushing the boundaries otherwise.
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by tdb7893 10mo ago
Many of my engineering friends happen to work in defense (I'm friends with a lot of aerospace engineers from college) and are now highly specialized engineers on stable and long term projects and happen to be at the forefront of innova
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by tdb7893 10mo ago
The article talks about how the Fed chair thinks we might be overestimating jobs and with the number of people I know who are currently struggling to find jobs I would believe that (not engineers, just people that had random jobs). Lots of
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by tdb7893 11mo ago
I think unions are great but they are deeply flawed, like any human organization, but for my family they really worked and both my parents had good jobs in unions. My dad's union both saved him from being fired and also tried to get hi
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by tdb7893 11mo ago
A negligible fraction of chicken production is backyard operations. Any quote talking about chicken production is referencing how they are actually produced, which is generally huge industrialized farms (often hundreds of thousands to milli
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by tdb7893 1y ago
I'm flexible and I'll have a wide variety of marketable skills so I'm sure I'll figure something out eventually. I think I come across as a lot less anxious than people expect because I've just accepted these challe
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by tdb7893 1y ago
My guess is I'll end up in government or an NGO but I'm probably going to do a PhD before that so getting a real job is at least 5 years away. The previous grad students for my advisor are all employed with decent jobs so I'm
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by tdb7893 1y ago
Yeah, I'm employed as a research assistant as part of the Master's program currently. There are jobs in government, non-profits, and academia potentially after. I've never loved money (except for the flexibility having it giv
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by tdb7893 1y ago
I think a lot of tech people feel this way. The feeling of mismatch between my values and the values of leadership is why I left the industry. I'm starting a Master's degree studying birds and it feels like such a weight off of my
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by tdb7893 1y ago
I'm a Democrat (well, nominally at least) but they clearly need some people from both parties to fund the government. Democrats won't vote for a "clean" bill and Republicans won't negotiate. The crazy thing is peopl
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by tdb7893 1y ago
I think this would be good for kids but also I want that sort of feed as an adult.
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by tdb7893 1y ago
People shouldn't be throwing sandwiches at people but it's wild in the US that the most minor stuff against the police and they try to charge you with a felony but police can commit pretty much any form of assault (even on camera)
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by tdb7893 1y ago
In addition to not responding to any of the specifics that the poster clearly put time into, there's also a huge mismatch in tone. In general, do not act very corporate when people are personally pissed off, this has a tendency to just
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by tdb7893 1y ago
One of my friends is a mechanical engineer doing the most standard "nuts and bolts" form of engineering and by these standards he isn't even an engineer. I don't think there are any reasonable English speakers who wouldn
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by tdb7893 1y ago
One of my family members was a research director at the UN and came from a middle class American family. It has its problems (he certainly has his share of complaints) but the idea that they are all nepo babies is incorrect and they do have
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by tdb7893 1y ago
Most of my friends are mechanical or aerospace engineers and it's all the same job in a different medium (many do a significant amount of software as part of their work). They don't have stamps and aren't any more legally lia
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by tdb7893 1y ago
I was against the Biden pardons at the time but in hindsight with the current administration pushing poorly done prosecutions for political purposes I have changed my mind on them. Trump will say his pardons are similar but looking at the f
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by tdb7893 1y ago
I don't really understand how you come to the conclusion that the current system is non-functioning. There are tons of examples of it working (I even have members of my family who took their research to make products) and for the rocke
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by tdb7893 1y ago
I get this sense often when the "famous" tech CEOs talk, they sorta come across like that uncle that you humor at Thanksgiving dinner. My best guess is there's a selection bias in that the more grounded ones are less likely t
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by tdb7893 1y ago
Ignoring political implications here and just on a personal level I wish political ads were banned. Quite possibly my least favorite type of ad to see and I've never felt meaningfully informed by them (generally quite the opposite).

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