Here are some examples of "other software" that does compute this.
Mbin still reports the raw reputation score, e.g. https://fedia.io/u/@[email protected]
Piefed instead reports an attitude percentage, e.g. https://piefed.social/u/[email protected]
Both do so without requiring an account.
The problem is that it's the FEC who's responsible, and they're constantly deadlocked at 3-3 which renders them toothless in terms of enforcement.
(The way I'd fix this is to have a new law passed allowing a "President's representative" who the President appoints to the FEC - without need for confirmation - as the 7th member, and who automatically resigns when the President leaves office. This 7th member can break the deadlock.)
Anyways, it seems like Musk has no way to verify that the winners are actually going to vote Red. Here's hoping that the vast majority that he gets signed up end up turning out for Harris instead.
He doesn't really want to do that though. Much more useful to Putin to stay in and keep trying to throw wrenches into the works and such.
Same reason why Russia tried to join NATO back in the 1950s
Agreed in full. I'm happy with the majority of the majority btw - that wasn't an angle I had considered originally.
Actually, not exactly the same, as in 2022 Ukraine was generally recognized as a fully independent country when it was invaded. Whereas, generally countries do not get involved when another country deals with a matter within its own internal territory... thus Taiwan's current situation is more precarious in some ways.
Being the remains of another government that originated from another area has, in a lot of ways, hurt the people of Taiwan.
On the one hand, he's richer. On the other hand, when he decided he didn't want to buy Twitter after all, even his lawyers couldn't get him out of that one.
I hope they dig into why this happened. The campaign apologized, but they need to be able to give assurances that it won't happen again.
“Our campaign regrets this action and its impact on Dr. Ghanim and the community, and he is welcome at future events."
I think that's what makes the Russian Federation's actions so bad. With the situation being as dire in Gaza as it is right now, every scrap of edible nutrition that is allowed to make it in counts.
The Russian Federation may not be a friend of Israel, but clearly they aren't going to do any good for Palestine either.
Same. In terms of the mechanics of getting this fixed (abolishing the Electoral College), I'm partial to following the guide presented in https://www.vox.com/2020/1/14/21063591/modest-proposal-to-save-american-democracy-pack-the-union-harvard-law-review
But also open to other ideas.
It really is worth remembering that the Electoral College was designed the way it is to support slavery: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/11/electoral-college-racist-origins/601918/
The TLDR here is that this gave the South more voting power because they could partially count the non-voting slaves in coming up with the number of electors. And since the slaves couldn't vote, the elector system allowed their masters to essentially steal their 3/5s of a vote.
In fact, the main reason for the Electoral College was slavery. It's another holdover from a past that should have been long ago discarded.
The populations in the North and South were approximately equal, but roughly one-third of those living in the South were held in bondage. Because of its considerable, nonvoting slave population, that region would have less clout under a popular-vote system. The ultimate solution was an indirect method of choosing the president, one that could leverage the three-fifths compromise
With about 93 percent of the country’s slaves toiling in just five southern states, that region was the undoubted beneficiary of the compromise, increasing the size of the South’s congressional delegation by 42 percent.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/11/electoral-college-racist-origins/601918/ (or https://archive.is/YnSkW )
I don't get it. He was okay with endorsing Biden back in 2020 after taking ownership in 2018. So why skip the endorsement now?