ChickenNugger

False analogy. You can split stacks of ballots to be counted and hand them to different people. I don't know why you're arguing so hard in favor of electronic voting when it's good for no one but voting machine companies and election thieves.

This the reason why I didn't sign up for KDP Select for the books I self published. You're effectively giving your copyright to Amazon.

Since I didn't I can still give free copies to anyone I want, because I'm the copyright owner.

Which is funny, because that's the very thing that a nation should be very invested in: producing more of its own citizens.

That doesn't work anymore.

>Public Opinion Has "near-zero" Impact On U.S. Law.

>Professors Martin Gilens (Princeton University) and Benjamin I. Page (Northwestern University)’s study found that the number of Americans for or against any idea has no impact on the likelihood that Congress will make it law.

>One thing that does have an influence? Money.

>While the opinions of the bottom 90% of income earners in America have a “statistically non-significant impact,” economic elites, business interests, and people who can afford lobbyists still carry major influence.

https://represent.us/americas-corruption-problem/

America is a republic only on paper. It's a de facto oligarchy.

I mean look at how TurboTax, Intuit, H&R Block have been able for decades to keep the IRS from doing our taxes for us. Literal rent seeking behavior and the only people it benefits are the tax filing companies. Literally everyone else in America loses. https://sunlightfoundation.com/2013/04/15/tax-preparers-lobb...

The biggest trick capitalism ever pulled is convincing people that it's not a system of government where whoever has the most money, rules. The plague of rampant regulatory capture just further proves it.

Political donations are a matter of public record for a reason.

So yes, it's a either a journalistic failure or deliberate obfuscation.

Voting fraud is generally a statistically insignificant issue. It's election fraud that is the issue.

More here: https://www.findlaw.com/voting/how-u-s--elections-work/what-...

And there it is.

The lack of a breakdown into which got how much is a either a journalistic failure, or deliberate obfuscation.

>I'm not sure how you expect us to manually count 150 million ballots quicker without using any hackable electronics.

The solution to vote counting scales right along side the problem. You use more human counters. If it takes 2% of the population to count votes, then you just...keep using the same percentage, just more people.

I reiterate: There is no good faith reason to use electronic voting machines. It injects an ability to scale up election fraud, and that is all it does.

>I know PayPal spun out of Ebay a long time ago and that PayPal is especially evil and sociopathically unscrupulous but...

I thought it was that PayPal was built, then bought by eBay so the could double dip.

I literally just selected your question and searched brave: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/01/paypal-stole-use...

The first thing any responsible bird owner will do is get rid of all teflon pans. Even a self cleaning oven will kill them. This has been well known in the bird community for years. It's the very first thing we'll tell a new/prospective bird owner. It's really as bad as "Cook a meal, all the birds in the house die."

Here's Tom Scott's second video explaining why electronic voting is a terrible idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkH2r-sNjQs

Electronic voting machines and companies that manufacture them should both be illegal. Yet their use is widespread in America. The primary reason they're a bad idea is they make widespread election fraud easy. There is no good faith reason to use them.

>41. In total, SAMUEL BANKMAN-FRIED, a/k/a "SBF," the defendant, and his coconspirators made over 300 political contributions, totaling tens of millions of dollars, that were unlawful because they were made in the name of a straw donor or paid for with corporate funds. In dozens of instances, BANKMAN-FRIED's use of straw donors allowed him to evade contribution limits on individual donations to candidates to whom he had already donated. As a result of this fraudulent conduct, BANKMAN-FRIED and his co-conspirators caused false information to be reported by campaigns and PA Cs to the FEC, which had the result of impairing and impeding the FEC' s reporting and enforcement functions.

>CC-1 ultimately became-at least in name--one of the largest Democratic donors in the 2022 midterm elections and made donations to further BANKMAN-FRIED's agenda that CCI otherwise would not have made.

This is worse than election rigging. There are reasons there are donation limits, and this dude deliberately, knowingly went around them to help the Democrats in the midterms.

Because my ISP spies on what I do, and tampers with my connection whenever they feel like it.

And several cryptocurrencies. You actually get a discount for paying in crypto. Which is awesome because it allows people with oppressive governments to use it.

>The problem is... yeah. This stuff, as I see it, is very literally killing us. Our modern civilization, in a wide range of shapes and forms, is "human toxic" - and as a random blogger in the backwaters of the internet, I see no harm in calling a spade a spade.*

Ahem, The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. From professor Ted: https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/unab...

Since you seem super duper into this, you could try what I do on many evenings even just as an experiment. I just strap on a very nice LED headlamp that has a pure red LED that I use for "night mode".

That it uses way less power is actually just a side effect of me wanting all the blue lights off at night. I know it's not for everybody, but I find it really relaxing. The trick is to get one that's not a joke lamp from china with a fat markup but a nice headlamp with powerful LEDs. Like this: https://www.blackdiamondequipment.com/en_US/product/spot-400...

The relevant bit being: "Settings include proximity and distance modes, dimming, strobe, red LED night-vision and lock mode"

I also have a couple of 'hurricane' lanterns and I really enjoy the fire-based lighting but even with "clean" kerosene the smell can be unpleasant indoors.

I've had similar problems since I was a little kid.

I do try and combat the blue light problem with nightmode on all my screens, turning off LED light bulbs, and, as weird as it might be, donning my red LED headlamp to get through the evening without much blue light in my life.

>I just appear to be some form of mutant.

This may be literally true for me given that I grew up in ground zero for the DuPont C8 poisoning.

>I wonder if there are such eccentrics alive today, and how could we tell if we're looking at a sneak peek of the future to come?

I would assume they're being downvoted/mocked on social media.

>Additionally, inspired by the fiction of Jules Verne, Tsiolkovsky theorized many aspects of space travel and rocket propulsion.

Science fiction is important!

I think that a more contemporary example would be Ian Banks conception of the Minds - a set of a AGIs that are more or less benevolent; contrast with the dystopian ones: Skynet from Terminator, the OSes in Her, or the machine in Ex Machina.

Scifi authors are the dreamers and we need them to keep doing what they do to inspire people.

Can you elaborate? What's the utility? And not to be pedantic, but what do you mean by sleep sufferers?

I think sci-fi became real when the Internet connected smartphone (personal computer was a name wasted too soon) became ubiquitous.

The thing is it's completely non-existent in nature. Not to get too into the Naturalistic Fallacy, but we're biological organisms that evolved in nature and have acclimated through evolution to it the things that do exist.

That is we have a circadian rhythm, because for millions of years we couldn't see much at night, so we just went to sleep. And all sorts of animals including us start getting frisky in spring because it means resources are about to become abundant so it's a good time to copy ourselves. Even women's menstrual cycles are roughly equivalent to the lunar month.

But a 7 day period? Only exists in society because of - essentially - the bible.

In nature (on Earth) there are days, years, months, seasons, but that's really it. Even an hour is an arbitrary amount of time in a day (the length of which actually varies anyway!).

Careful. I did this more or less by accident, with a main account, a porn account, and a goof off account. I didn't maintain a list of which ones had been banned from where and there were subscription overlaps.

One morning all of them - including the one that was 9 years old and had awards from participating in the first ever reddit gifts - got banned for "ban evasion".

Now I just make a new one every few months and distrust any account that can survive for more than a few years without getting banned.

So they encourage throwaways, but also ban you for using them.

re: [flagged] lol, you can't criticize Democrats on HN. It's verboten.

No

lmao that this got flagged.

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