brianary

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[–] brianary@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I don't think that degree of optimism is justified.

My notes on this are a little old, but:

No VRA protections, voter purges/caging (Crosscheck), targeted disenfranchisement & gerrymandering, insecure/unauditable voting machines, undermined census, and gaming the electoral college, all impact the fairness of our elections, on top of the naive first-past-the-post implementation.

  • https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/07/20/this-anti-voter-fraud-program-gets-it-wrong-over-99-of-the-time-the-gop-wants-to-take-it-nationwide/
  • https://capitolfax.com/2017/10/13/dem-house-members-want-state-to-withdraw-from-flawed-national-voter-registration-crosscheck-system/
  • https://capitolfax.com/2017/10/19/accidental-and-apparently-harmless-password-leak-could-prompt-move-away-from-crosscheck-program/
  • http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article184229328.html
  • https://www.thenation.com/article/house-republicans-just-voted-to-eliminate-the-only-federal-agency-that-makes-sure-voting-machines-cant-be-hacked/
  • https://apnews.com/af2f0ede054d8baebbe1bb6ca47b4895
  • https://www.politico.com/amp/story/2018/01/09/rnc-ballot-security-consent-decree-328995
[–] brianary@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It depends, up to four works for some apps depending on monitor size, but otherwise I do the same thing as @Nibodhika@lemmy.world.

Overlapping window managers, the most common type in use by far, just seem crazy to me. Windows almost never use the available monitor space, and they have to constantly be wrangled around each other so that… you can drag something instead of using the clipboard, I guess?

[–] brianary@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 days ago (6 children)

You don't usually have them all open at the same time, you minimize some. Or maybe you add more monitors.

[–] brianary@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 days ago

Thanks for digging into that!

[–] brianary@lemmy.zip 4 points 6 days ago

Corvair, Gremlin, Concord, …

[–] brianary@lemmy.zip 9 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Do you have any references for this? I only ask because "cities are dangerous shitholes" has been a talking point of reactionaries for a long time.

[–] brianary@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 week ago

So much this. Car noise is a huge problem.

[–] brianary@lemmy.zip -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I can tell you're really proud of these replies, but I'm afraid they don't actually make sense.

You were hoping to prove a logical implication (if P then Q), but you feel it was disproved since the premise didn't happen. However, "not P" doesn't actually prove anything about the implication.

Anyway, no one is really accomplishing anything constructive here. Good luck!

[–] brianary@lemmy.zip -1 points 1 week ago (3 children)

If it's not compelling enough for you to read it to support your position, why would I read it?

[–] brianary@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

There's a lot of hope being pinned on the probably uncorroborated testimony of a coconspirator being questioned by agents of a prime suspect. I have a hard time seeing either side accepting anything that comes out of it.

[–] brianary@lemmy.zip -2 points 1 week ago (5 children)

So you didn't read it either? Interesting.

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