FTA:
"He then casually suggested the nuclear option.
“I won’t say cancel the election, they should cancel the election because the fake news will say ‘he wants the elections canceled. He’s a dictator.’ They always call me a dictator,” a grinning Trump said."
If you didn’t vote for Harris, you enabled Trump. It’s really that simple.
At a national level, the winner of any given election will be the Republican or the Democrat. There literally is no other choice.
The last time a 3rd party candidate even came close was Ross Perot in 1992, and he won exactly 0 states.
Prior to that? George Wallace, 1968, who captured the “I really want Nixon, but man, he’s just not racist enough!” vote. He won 5 states.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_United_States_presidential_election
Outside that? 3rd parties hover around 1%, 3%, on a really good day maybe 5%.
So you can choose to help a candidate you like or you can choose to hurt a candidate you don’t like.
Voting 3rd party only hurts the mainstream candidate closest to your position and helps the one farther from your opinion.
So what do we do to fix all this?
#1 - Get 100% vote by mail in every state. We saw what a difference it made in 2020.
#2 - Endorse progressive candidates at the local level and vote them up the chain. Mamdani is a great start in New York, let’s see what he does then move him up to Congress or the Senate. He’ll never make President because he’s not a native born citizen, but how far up can he go?
#3 - The poison is first past the post elections, that needs to change, but as we saw in 2024, people are incredibly resistant to changing it. People voted it down, and in elections where it was used, voters skipped those votes.
https://stateline.org/2024/11/14/ranked-choice-voting-faces-cloudy-future-after-election-setbacks/
Ranked choice was on the ballot in multiple states + Washington D.C. Only D.C. passed it.
Portland used it for a city election and one district saw a 20% drop in votes:
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Truth, but unless there are 60 votes in the Senate, nothing will happen and unless there are 67 votes in the Senate, it will be the same as the last 2 times.
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Perfectly Legal
The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich–and Cheat Everybody Else
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/291700/perfectly-legal-by-david-cay-johnston/
Can non-fiction be a trilogy? 🤔
Free Lunch
How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and Stick You with the Bill)
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/300246/free-lunch-by-david-cay-johnston/
The Fine Print
How Big Companies Use “Plain English” to Rob You Blind
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/305192/the-fine-print-by-david-cay-johnston/
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Not technology in general, but there are specific technologies that are mind-blowing.
Back when I was in college, IBM announced they developed the technology to manipulate individual atoms. They used it to spell out “IBM” at the atomic level.
Not sure where or if they ever DID anything with it, but that was fascinating!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_(atoms)
If Trump hadn’t run, Biden wouldn’t have either. He said multiple times he was the only one who could beat Trump, in fact, he was saying that as recently as after the election.
It takes 6 months to run a primary, they had 107 days.
Now, we could argue Biden should have bowed out sooner, which he absolutely should have, but it wasn’t obvious to everyone until that shit show of a debate.
Even then, the debate was June 27, 2024 and he didn’t quit the race until July 21, 25 days later.
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Man, once you get invited to the cookout, you are IN. 😉
Philosophical quote from my favorite politician:
“Heroes are not giant statues framed against a red sky, they are people who say ‘this is my community and it’s my responsibility to make it better.’”
- Tom McCall, Oregon Governor, 1967-1975.
I did stumble on an interesting AI use that seems super legit for creatives:
There’s an AI powered app for a specific brand of guitar amplifier. If you want your guitar to sound like a particular artist or a particular song, you tell it via a natural language input and it does all the adjustments for you.
You STILL have to have the personal talent to, you know, PLAY the guitar, but it saves you hours of fiddling with dials and figuring out what effects and pedals to apply to get the sound you’re looking for.
Video, same player, same guitar, same amp, multiple sounds:
https://youtube.com/shorts/wsGj4zsfOuQ
From a purely artistic perspective, this would be like asking AI for a Pantone or RGB palette set for a specific work of art. All it’s doing is telling you the colors so you can avoid doing all the research and mixing yourself.
How you USE those colors? That’s on you!
Kind of a crappy article:
“If it’s a truly transformative technology the manner of the transformation and the values encoded into it will be set now. That is a political question.”
Which the author pretty much completely ignores…
No. Was 220-213 with 2 vacancies.
MTG left - 219-213.
This guy dies - 218-213.
Even if the vacancies get filled with Democrats that’s still 218-215.
So 4 more seats need to change to flip it. 2 Republicans + 2 vacancies.