Woah, good to know. Thanks for the response!

Is there a way for the Senate to reassign those committee seats to someone else? Do chairs have deputies or similar?

There are plenty of users who don’t even know what the Eternal September was

I’d be one of them. I’ve got some reading to do later.

I’m pretty sure it does. I remember thinking “of course they would implement it like that” when I first encountered a short as a regular video.

Speaking for myself here:

• Shorts loop automatically, something I find annoying
• Shorts have loads of UI over the video by default; while there is a “clear screen” button in the context menu, it doesn’t persist, and is extra interaction that a normal video doesn’t require
• It’s easier to scrub through a normal video on mobile; while there is a progress bar at the bottom of a short, you can’t drag up on that bar to get fine-grained seeking

This is my “old man tells at cloud” moment and I’m okay with that.

Well… That’s kinda terrifying

Reminds me of when my VP of engineering told me to be careful when trying to get to the TypeScript Playground. Googling “ts playground” brought him to a site that was absolutely not safe for work.

(() => "I'm in.")()

ahh so that’s why charizard is so hot

New Mexico was the reason I was thinking that Congress would have to pass federal legislation first to dictate how state ratifying conventions are run.

Again, from someone on the outside looking in, it seems like the option with the best chance of succeeding. But I also think Article V itself should be amended to explicitly use referendums to ratify amendments. Maybe even take a page out of Switzerland’s book?

I agree with everything you said, but I’m not talking about conventions to propose amendments, I’m talking about the ones to ratify amendments. Could a Democratic Congress with 2/3rds of each chamber pass a veto-proof law to regulate the ratifying conventions, then pass amendments specifying that they must be ratified by conventions, similar to how prohibition was repealed? As I understand it, the convention route was created by the founding fathers specifically in case they needed to bypass state legislatures.

Seems like the “state-ratifying conventions” route is the only thing that has a chance of working, and that’s ignoring that the Constitution doesn’t regulate them.

Although, seeing as an amendment need 2/3rds of each chamber of Congress to pass, regardless of sending it to the legislatures or conventions (not for the convention to propose amendments), could Congress use that veto-proof majority to pass a law regulating conventions?

Whatever the idea, pretty sure this ends up in the Supreme Court regardless?

… is it weird that I’ve been thinking about this for the last decade? I’m not even American.

Sounds fine to me, if this is a picture of a Twitter-like site then I don’t really see an issue

the original was twitter

As in, the post was originally on Twitter? I’m not sure what this means

I thought as much! Didn’t want to assume though just in case. I’ve gone through that book twice and I want to look at adding types to my implementation. Good luck!

You writing an interpreter/VM? For what language?

Maybe I got a little too curious, but that reg number brings up a different car so I wonder what’s up with that

D. 64% of Democrats that have a friend in the GOP and the 82% of GOP that say they do are one to Many.

Maybe the relationship is one-to-one and actually there are way more people willing to identify as a Democrat 🤷🏿‍♂️

(I don’t actually think this, just a random thought)

I think using a method of proportional representation is the most effective defence against gerrymandering. You cannot have unrepresentative elections when the system has representation built into it.

However, that would be difficult to do in the US from what I understand. There would need to be several changes to the law to give it a fighting chance.

I’ve had my Google account for over a decade. At some point, I noticed my YouTube handle was just my name, and I don’t remember setting it to that.

On pretty much all websites, I have a default username I try to use, but I don’t remember getting that option when making a Google account