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by thedream 6y ago
Indeed. So when a poll worker deviates from the stated rules, it necessitates investigating why that happened (and deciding if such a deviation was proper). What an amazing coincidence it is that this poll worker just so happened to dev
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by thedream 6y ago
It's almost as if someone anticipated this phenomenon and created a section in the guidelines to further clarify and provide examples of disallowed behavior...
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by thedream 6y ago
> No, it's pretty straight-forward. Great! If it's so straight-forward, can you please quantify the intention behind the document entitled "Guide for Election Board Officials in Philadelphia County"[1] for me? ... I
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by thedream 6y ago
not a masochist
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by thedream 6y ago
The scenario you described didn't happen. What did happen was that a poll worker made up their own version of the election guidelines and injected their personal biases related to "specific ballot measures" and the "po
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by thedream 6y ago
"The intention behind the rules" is a thing that lives in your imagination. It cannot be quantified. That's the point of having written rules. Expecting that poll workers will read and adhere to The Rules as stated isn't
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by thedream 6y ago
Doing a thing that's "not a good look (according to Spivak)" != a violation of the stated rules Being perceived as "an asshole (according to Spivak)" != a violation of the stated rules Thanks for demonstrating my po
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by thedream 6y ago
Imagine a group of programmers unable to tell the difference between "violates the rules" and "hurts my political feelings"... yikes.
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by thedream 6y ago
> Everyone pretends that they are making the world a better place, when they know without a doubt that in fact, they are making the world a worse place. They are not bad people. "Doublethink is a process of indoctrination whereby th
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by thedream 6y ago
The article is about affluent "Silicon Valley"-type preppers -- did you read it? You seem to be confusing that concept with some kind of straw(wo)man meme you found elsewhere.
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by thedream 7y ago
For my penance I shall hereby link a similarly cool, jQuery-free library[1] that also improves a few things: - handles element drag & drop - very customizable (ability to BYO layout algorithm is nice) - better license - update
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by thedream 7y ago
I had the opposite reaction, this library really shines because of its simplicity of implementation. Just add a single JS script, some CSS classes, a few click handlers and you're done -- you get a really nice-looking sortable and fi
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by thedream 8y ago
"video is different than GIF" != "proof of cherry-picking with the intention to deceive"
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by thedream 8y ago
> cherry-pick the single version from the various transcodings of a video that happens to portray an inaccurate version of the event Where is the evidence that this happened?