Speaking from my own community, if the community knows who you are you’ve basically nearly won. One of our politicians started their career owning a real estate business where they posted their face on every billboard in the area. They were big with the center of commerce crew, but were* also antithetical to the views of a mostly young and highly educated and progressive city. They won anyways, because the opponent wasn’t already burned into the minds of everyone who drives around here.

I do like the idea of smaller meaning that you may actually know the person and have an opportunity to talk to them person to person, I just have a jaded view because of what I’ve seen happen with human fallacies controlling the results.

The height of irony here is Muslims at large, including in Iran, view Jesus as more of a fundamental figure in their lives than anyone in this administration, including the “spiritual adviser” who is just a fucking loony dipshit conwoman who steals from cancer-ridden grandmothers for a living.

It will never not be the case that Pete Hegseth is a fake human in every aspect of his life, and his assertion of an identity can be used as absolute proof of the exact opposite if any effort is used to compare it to the affirmative position.

In a way it’s brutal proof that atheists hold the correct views when the heavens haven’t smited this abhorrent admin instead of being so permissive to the suffering of literal millions of his supposed children.

Sorry for the edit after your post. I think buying races isn’t harder when there’s more of them, but organizing for them might be. I’d be open to change on that opinion, but eventually wouldn’t you hit a point of diminishing budget for a small candidate that they can’t afford a single commercial whereas the corporate candidate could afford multiple?

Edit: Eventually the resolution of targeted ads starts to fail too relative to the district borders.

I’m not necessarily sold on the idea that reps of a given state should only be responsible for a very small subsection of people who are likely poorly informed. Just thinking of my own representative, who won against a progressive based entirely on name recognition rather than policy, it seems abundantly clear that money can easily touch all races whereas educated voters and advocacy may not exist in enough districts to be meaningful. Money can, and in quantities above the median income with ease.

After reading the article, I think there’s a inherent assumption that more means harder to gerrymander, but every republican gerrymandering recently released is computer generated. What would prevent them from arguing the districts of densely black areas thinly sliced from urban areas and then expanded out to suburbs is legal? When computer modeling and accurate voter information is supplied the possibilities of gerrymandering are not remotely hampered by increased resolution of the electoral maps. The districting will come to head with the notion that the same district even be contiguous. Do you trust SCOTUS to affirm it needs to be?

Probably a strong asterisk for “depending on what country.” Recitivism tends to be less desired in countries which outsource their prison systems either to other countries or corporations.

I think unfortunately this would open the door for bad actors too. Taking old outdated phone batteries and combining them would allow for some crazy things that could do mass harm. Even smoke detectors with Americium can be gathered and dissected to radiate a small neighborhood or inact terrorism. Additional reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn

The whole story of why we use Americium in detectors is an interesting one in itself. https://youtu.be/DuAeaIcAXtg one of my favorite long form nerdy youtube channels.

Doesn’t really make sense even to users. They would shrink the battery to a small fraction of its original side, market it as the world’s lightest and thinnest phone, with 4x the battery life of a normal phone. Then they’d have some other products of a bigger battery version for emergency red phones.

Beyond just companies wanting to turn a buck, there’s other more obvious limitations. The bands to communicate with the tower require physical antennas inside the phone and those frequencies are recycled over time to different protocols or sometimes different uses entirely. It would be useless as a phone before it’s dead.

Also the whole thing about energy density. Current lithium ballpark density is 250 Wh per kg. Taking a modern galaxy 5000mah (19.4wh) battery and multiplying it by your chosen ratio of 10 hours vs a hypothetical 876000 makes it 21,900,000Wh per Kg, still less dense than fusion energy, which is around 24,000,000,000Wh per kg but very close to fission energy density, which is around 24,000,000 Wh. Of the Uranium that actually fissioned during the Little Boy bomb explosion, it only amounted to about 0.8763kg, less energy than a kilogram of your hypothetical battery. I guess luckily batteries only weigh about 50 grams? The factory making them would have more bomb potential than the Beirut explosion if they had more than 47.5 kg of batteries, or enough to make 950 phones.

As an aside, I can’t believe how big the Beirut explosion was, 1GWh. Insane and horrifying.

Doesn’t really need to be alleged when it was recorded by a prominent Israeli politician and posted to social media.

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The fact that businesses sell or are allowed to be taken over by bad actors is a direct failure of capitalism. Companies operating with no regards to reputation is only beneficial when operating as service providers in a monopoly. Why so many allow mergers and buyouts from the worst of society are common truly speaks to the comically stupid system where stockholders would some how prefer their investment be overwritten by a comic book villain who’s going to use the company for villain shit to just not doing that… is it that the stockholders aren’t like us, that it’s CEOs chasing a bonus, that relationships we’re not provvy to overwrite business interests, or all of the above?

He sounds even dumber through text some how.

They’re competing with the couch, not just Republicans. Couch sitters basically always have higher standards of Democrats than they do of Republicans. In fact, the entire electorate and media infrastructure have higher standards for Democrats. It’s fine to disagree, but I feel like that’s just being purposely obtuse for why it’s not in the report. Ken Martin and Ken Martin’s “friend” fucked this up royally and even liberals are pointing that out. Why the cope?

Also couldn’t let this slip by either: Ken Martin commissioned the report, NOT his predecessors.

I would buy that it’s just an out of touch loser’s opinion, but what kinda screws that up for me is that they didn’t even discuss Biden’s age or* cognitive issues being a significant factor. Anyone alive and* paying attention during the time, even someone who only watched morning Joe, would have mentioned that.

Edit: phone typos

I seriously doubt this was prepared during the time they claim it was. It seems like a bunch of nothing words with a strict no mention of anything the left has been talking about being the issue. It’s like what you’d get if you asked a chat bot to prepare an almost 200 page document about why it wasn’t any of these things while being careful not to mention any of those things.

Yeah, you’re right. The formalization of electoral victory isn’t the the final step, it’s the swearing in on the 20th or 21st if the 20th is a sunday.

Don’t forget Jamaal Bowman and Cori Bush, very normal of her to leave out the black people she could have solidarity with.

Unfortunately I feel like the writing was on the wall as early as Roy Moore. He’s quite literally just an obvious pedophile but because Trump endorsed him he won anyways.

It couldn’t happen to worse people.

Technically if he doesn’t croak or move to Israel with all of his stolen government money he’ll be in office until Jan 6th, 2029.