Head for the extreme northwest and northeast corners of the country; Alaska and Maine both use RCV, including for presidential elections. It's not 50 states of RCV but it's a start!

Linux ISOs are my all-time favorite thing to torrent so this does seem like it requires further research.

• objectively wrong: doubles down
• no expert: the most educated
• dumbed down (thanks!): incomprehensible amounts of wits

Does your LinkedIn profile list, "The School of Hard Knocks", under education? You argue like someone who has never had any serious, formal education.

On the bright side, you should seriously consider running for public office, you check every box for the modern politician in some places.

I think you're both arguing about the wrong things, but did you read the article you cited?

Literally the first sentence of the article:

The Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad fired a barrage of rockets into Israel on Monday as...

If, like me, you're not an expert in Iranian backed militia groups, it then goes on to say:

Islamic Jihad, an ally of Hamas - both of whom are backed by Iran - said...

Idk about the rockets or any of the details but do try to become familiar with the evidence you're citing before acting like you're an authority on the topic.

This is a matter of perspective.

Is that how this usually works? A single low-level judge rules on a case and then the malicious behavior never happens again? TIL

I disagree, these children are minors and the their behavior, while abhorrent, belies a fundamental lack of perspective and empathy.

I've been a teenage boy before and I did some bone-headed things. Maybe not this bad, but still, I agree with the judge in this instance that it would be inappropriate to impose permanent consequences on these kids before their life even gets started because they were stupid, horny, teenage boys.

Even if we assume that these kids don't all have well-meaning parents who who will impose their own punishments, having a probation officer in high school is not going to help with popularity. Then, mandatory classes that will force these boys to evaluate the situation from another perspective seems like a great add-on.

I know it doesn't feel like justice, but our goal as a society shouldn't be to dole out maximum punishment in every instance. The goal is to allow all of us to peacefully coexist and contribute to society - throwing children in a dark hole somewhere to be forgotten isn't going to help with that.

Having said all of the above, it feels like a good time to emphasize that we still don't have any good ideas for solving the core problem here, which is the malicious use of this technology that was dumped on society without any regard for the types of problems that it would create, and entirely without a plan to add guard rails. While I'm far from the only one considering this problem, it should be clear enough by now that dragging our feet on creating regulation isn't getting us any closer to a solution.

At a minimum it feels like we need to implement a mandatory class on the responsible use of technology, but the obvious question there is how to keep the material relevant. Maybe it's something that tech companies could be mandated to provide to all users under 18 - a brief, recurring training (could be a video, idc) and assessment that minors would have to complete quarterly to demonstrate that they understand their responsibilities.

They were never really hiding it, we just all assumed they were insane fringe ideas and nothing would come of it. Things have changed...

I don't know why people expect these companies to just give this service away.

Idk if you've noticed but there seem to be a lot of people on Lemmy who are opposed to the theory underlying the profit motive. If your product or service is priced above cost then it is automatically bad. 🤷‍♂️

This political action group sent out a survey to everyone who subscribes to their newsletter and the folks who are engaged with this anti-establishment political organization are gasp against the establishment candidates.

Calling this a survey is an insult to statisticians; at best this is a straw poll and doesn't provide any meaningful information about how these sentiments might be shared more broadly. Yes - Arabs mad, Biden bad, we know this with or without the survey, but it doesn't survey a representative (randomized) sample of Arab-American voters, so it's impossible to extrapolate the results at a state or national level.

The website makes it sound like all of the code being bespoke and "based on standards" is some kind of huge advantage but all I see is a Herculean undertaking with too few engineers and too many standards.

W3C lists 1138 separate standards currently, so if each of their three engineers implements one discrete standard every day, with no breaks/weekends/holidays, then having an alpha available that adheres to all 2024 web standards should be possible by 2026?

This is obviously also without testing but these guys are serious, senior engineers, so their code will be perfect on the first try, right?

Love the passion though, can't wait to see how this project plays out.

Yes, all of the most advanced chip making factories are in Taiwan. It's the biggest reason that the US passed the CHIPS act and also why there is so much geopolitical tension around Taiwan.

Why did you think there was so much focus on Taiwan? Boba is great and all, but surely it doesn't merit the protection of the US Navy. 😁