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by toss1 2y ago
Nope, he didn't even get a majority of the people who went to the polls. Only 49.8% [0]. And yes, there are ways to manipulate and exploit flaws in every electoral system, but some are more resistant to others. It only came up to point
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by toss1 2y ago
Of course the first thing anyone talks about are the now far-less-secured data on every US citizen's SSN, DOB, Addresses, Bank Accounts, Taxes, TelNos Emails, etc. now held not (only) in the well-secured US Govt internal networks, but
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by toss1 2y ago
Yes, getting hard data on voter purges is difficult; it's not like they are centrally reported. And, it happens over years and is distributed unevenly over precincts. And, when it is of questionable legitimacy, they work to hide it.
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by toss1 2y ago
Sort of true, but don't act like such a glib answer holds water. It is even less of a democracy when the party in power neither believes in nor abides by the rule of law. In First-Past-The-Post voting, the dynamics inevitably force 1-
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AI and a 160-year-old economics paradox(npr.org)
2 points by toss1 2y ago|0 comments
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by toss1 2y ago
It has NOTHING to do with politics or any particular party It has EVERYTHING to do with putting in power a party that runs by and honors small-"d" democracy, as opposed to the lawless administration now occupying the WH and it
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by toss1 2y ago
>> Why do you think Trump didn’t win legitimately...? Depends on the definition of "legitimate". States with significant R control are very good at voter suppression, from electing barriers to registration, to ensuring that
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by toss1 2y ago
https://www.lwv.org/blog/recent-rise-anti-voter-litigation https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/mass... https://www.democracydocket.com/analysis/how-st
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by toss1 2y ago
I don't know — that's my question! Anybody know? I sort of recall some ant experiments going to the ISS, but are they still there? All spacecraft that I know of are well-cleaned before launch, and there's not much for food s
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by toss1 2y ago
The title makes me immediately think of the question "How many ants live off of Earth?".
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by toss1 2y ago
The institutions are indeed better, but they are under a decapitation attack, and the attackers have a lot more successful historical authoritarian assaults on democracy to hone their attacks. Plus, one party is aprox 100% corrupted and i
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by toss1 2y ago
The harm is to every other vendor who actually pays their taxes, and every resident of the country who now gets lower services for the taxes they pay, because those scammers are cheating at scale.
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by toss1 2y ago
You are definitely using the right word in writing "gang", but not in the way you think But of these changes, from wanting to cut out from the workforce anyone but white men to creating unhinged and unnecessary trade wars with our
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by toss1 2y ago
It also might take four generations or four centuries to 'blow over' Authoritarians do not stop until they are stopped by an external force. The cost of stopping them only increases with every move they make to consolidate power (
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by toss1 2y ago
Excellent description of how things can go off the rails, very far off the rails. It also brings to mind the role of FU money insulating people from consequences and allowing them to live with near-zero empathy or common sense, or conside
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by toss1 2y ago
When the leadership of a country is actively smashing all checks and balances and bribing &/or coercing the other normally (in a democracy) independent branches of government and society to bend to the will of the executive, the co
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by toss1 2y ago
Stop 'both-sides-ing' it. Only one party has been pushing for minority rule (by their own party) authoritarianism for over a decade, and now having gained control is running roughshod over all checks & balances and corrupting
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by toss1 2y ago
Yet, some analysts claim the fact that people nevertheless use these awful choices means they like them despite their frequent complaints. They cite "Revealed Choice", which may apply when there is an actual choice. But in the nea
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Chinese state-linked accounts hyped DeepSeek AI launch ahead of US stock rout(reuters.com)
2 points by toss1 2y ago|0 comments
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by toss1 2y ago
Of course, lower cost is almost always better. But just because advanced devices with (currently) costly components have higher costs is no reason to not create them. If something works and meets a need, the costs of components and manufact
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by toss1 2y ago
https://archive.is/RBHQx#selection-561.0-561.64
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DeepSeek's Popular AI App Is Explicitly Sending US Data to China(wired.com)
7 points by toss1 2y ago|4 comments
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by toss1 2y ago
You just wrote an excellent description of the Greater Fool Theory. [0,1] The greater fool theory argues that prices go up because people are able to sell overpriced securities to a "greater fool," whether or not they are overvalu
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by toss1 2y ago
For the national security agencies, I agree. Other than the incoming decapitation assault by the incoming administration who will install leaders based on loyalty to the executive and not competence and loyalty to constitution, most are ver
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by toss1 2y ago
Good thoughts but as you point out about Elmo & Zucc, there is no way it stays with just the responsible people. It will also not be limited to protest. Just look at what Florida, Texas, and other states are doing about women's h
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by toss1 2y ago
1) A single party apparatus determines something must be removed, and by fiat it is immediately removed 2) Multiple agencies investigate and make a determination that a real threat exists, the threat and measures to resolve it are debated
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by toss1 2y ago
>>not having evolved emitters. Like echolocation in bats and dolphins... Excellent point! In fact, humans do have some echolocation capability [0,1]. That should tell us that LIDAR (or emitter-receiver-range-finder capability) may
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by toss1 2y ago
Plus, the author is wrong about both drivers running the red light. YEs, they are pushing the yellow, but they are both legal insofar as the car is over the line when the light turns red. The first "running the red light" car at 1
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by toss1 2y ago
Ah, got it now, and it's an excellent point. Mostly thinking the idea of cameras(+intelligence)-only may be best in the end just from perspective of smallest effective resources and assuming biomimicry is best. To your point, there ar
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by toss1 2y ago
Because LIDAR specifically gives you the range or distance to each object. While in theory this should be possible with multiple cameras and stereoscopic vision/analysis, it obviously is not as simple in practice as it seems in theo

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