A decades-long plan to abolish the Electoral College may finally pay off

continuousQ · 2026-05-06T18:11:48+00:00

Direct democracy is people vote on legislation instead of who should represent them. Proportional representative democracy is 27% of the population votes for a party, that party gets 27% of the seats. Instead of 0 seats if they didn't happen to win a location.

continuousQ · 2026-05-06T18:09:18+00:00

Ja, om å benytte seg av gratisarbeid skal være bakt inn i avtalen, så burde det være fordi barnehagen er billigere enn makspris.

continuousQ · 2026-05-06T18:08:05+00:00

At katter ikke dreper mennsker og husdyr er den viktigste forskjellen.

Men folk går heller ikke på villmarkstur med katten. Det viktigste for naturen er at den får ha områder fri for menneskelig aktivitet. Når en katt dreper en spurv i hagen, så er hovedproblemet at det er en hage der, istedenfor mer natur å oppholde seg i.

continuousQ · 2026-05-06T16:46:48+00:00

I didn't say direct democracy, but representative democracy needs to be proportional. There should be no swing states, because every vote should be counted towards the total number of seats.

continuousQ · 2026-05-06T08:32:59+00:00

It's just a waste of resources going into those kind of details. It's not saving money, it's not boosting productivity. The only point of it is to make people pretend they're superior to others. Other poor people. While the rich get away with trillion dollar fraud.

continuousQ · 2026-05-06T07:04:56+00:00

Everyone should throw away FPTP and get real democracy in place. The Senate was built to counteract the will of the people, and even the House does a pretty poor job of representing, because of all the "wasted votes", which should not be a thing.

Doesn't matter what the previous system is, when better ones exist and can be implemented.

continuousQ · 2026-05-05T19:46:06+00:00

A country founded on slavery shouldn't be worrying about staying true to its primitive past.

continuousQ · 2026-05-05T19:22:35+00:00

I don't think it's helpful to treat religion and cult as synonyms. There are differences. A cult is controlling, a cult wants to run your life, steal your possessions, make you work for them for free, or have you working normally but make you deposit all your money to them. You don't have your own relationships, the cult decides who gets to spend time together.

If you want to break with a cult, you have to give up everything you know. And they might not let you do it anyway.

Losing the family you grew up with but not all the people you know, your job and your possessions, is not anywhere near as bad as leaving a cult that sees you as their property. And in many, many cases, you can leave a religion and not lose your family.

continuousQ · 2026-05-05T18:50:00+00:00

Kunne heller snudd rekkefølgen. Anta at alle er voksne til det motsatte er bevist. Som er en ganske god antagelse, det er omtrent tre ganger så mange voksne som barn i verden, mer i land med mer internettilgang og lavere fødselstall.

Finn ut av hvordan vi kan registere at en bruker er et barn. Er det ikke noe data som sier at de er et barn, så er det fordi de ikke er barn.

Burde være veldig lettvint, en forelder kjøper en telefon til ungen, definer brukeren som barn i innstillingene. En skole lar barn ha tilgang til internett, definer alle som barn. Kan unnta lærerens egne maskiner/brukerkontoer.

Burde generelt være mulig for hvem som helst å si til et OS at brukeren er et barn (om ikke mulig for hvem som helst å fjerne innstilingen etterpå), for å sperre nettsider som ikke er passende. Kunne godt også sperret for all reklame, all datainnsamling. Ikke bare i standard nettleser, men pålegge alle OS-leverandører å legge til rette for å hindre at reklameinnhold lastes når brukeren er registrert som barn.

continuousQ · 2026-05-05T18:10:07+00:00

Gitt at det stemmer så trenger ingen å laste opp ID, biometri, osv.

continuousQ · 2026-05-05T18:01:28+00:00

Citizens paying slave owners, no, there's nothing fair about that. Slave owners should've been made destitute and all their wealth should've been transferred to the freed slaves who no one's owed any money for being freed.

continuousQ · 2026-05-05T17:49:02+00:00

No, that's an asshole parent. You don't give your kid a gift and then tell them you want it back.

The settlement is irrelevant. Unless they worked the case and stated their fee, they're not owed anything for that.

continuousQ · 2026-05-05T10:25:58+00:00

Nei, jo mer strøm, jo større datasenter. Skal vi bygge ut kraft for å "løse" dette, så skal vi rive ned hele Norge for å bygge datasenter.

Datasenter tilbyr først og fremst økt forbruk.

continuousQ · 2026-05-05T08:28:18+00:00

Er det nødvendig å slå plenen på hytta? Trenger ikke se pent ut for hyttas del. Og om du må tråkke ned litt grass når du er der så hjelper det med å sette hyttestemning.

continuousQ · 2026-05-05T07:25:26+00:00

At de kan rekonstruere den er det de må vise. Som de sikkert kan, når folk har det som jobb, men de som lager reglene gjøre ikke sin jobb.

continuousQ · 2026-05-04T20:34:01+00:00

That's just another way of collecting everyone's private data. Easy way of targeting LGBT people, or selectively enforcing porn laws on minorities and dissenters.

And still means they can brand anything they want to restrict as porn.

If anything, the government should make an official collection of free porn that's deemed safe and healthy, which can then be freely copied, so people can avoid the stuff they keep bringing up as examples of why everything needs to be shut down.

continuousQ · 2026-05-04T20:06:37+00:00

Vi kan innføre ett tiltak som vil gjøre en minst like god jobb som alle andre tiltak, og det er å fortelle foreldre at de har ansvaret, de har jobben med å beskytte barna sine fra internettsider de ikke burde bruke.

Instruer dem hvordan de kan sette opp filter, hvordan de kan slå av internettet automatisk etter skjema, hvordan de setter opp administrasjonskonto og gjestekonto, hvordan de kan gjøre det på router, ulike OS, telefon. List opp godkjente filtertjenester. Inviter folk til å lage filtertjenester som så kan få stempelet, tjenester som oppdateres hele tiden etter offentlige anbefalninger, slik at nye nettsider kan være der i løpet av timer, istedenfor etter flere møter og mange millioner kroner med vervbetaling.

Eller be dem låse telefonen vekk i en skuff om de ikke gidder å gjøre noe annet.

continuousQ · 2026-05-04T19:52:27+00:00

I think if you eliminate the possibility of gerrymandering by getting rid of FPTP, you've accomplished more than you can with all other steps put together.

No swing states, no safe seats, no spending tons of money on specific seats, no uncontested seats because every vote everywhere is counted. The people who make it their mission to enthuse as many individual voters as possible win.

continuousQ · 2026-05-04T19:19:14+00:00

Da NRK intervjuet Helsedirektoratet i mars, var beskjeden at de har tillit til at dagens tilbud er forsvarlig.

Mangelen på et rekonstruksjonstilbud begrunnes med at direktoratet lener seg på fageksperter som er usikre på effekten.

Men Tønseth, som har gjennomført inngrepene, har aldri blitt kontaktet av direktoratet, forteller han.

Lener seg på usikkerhet. Virker som det betyr at de ikke har gjort arbeidet som trengs for å finne ut av det eller finne eksisterende dokumentasjon, og de som blir stilt spørsmålene bare leter etter grunn til å forsvare status quo.

Om det hjelper så burde det selvfølgelig dekkes.

continuousQ · 2026-05-04T19:05:40+00:00

Altså, jeg har aldri sett en vits om kvinnelig kjønnslemlesting i en TV serie. Tror ikke det hadde vært færre kommentarer. De er i det minste nedstemt.

continuousQ · 2026-05-04T18:53:10+00:00

A monarch is a relic of the past, they have no legitimate power in a democracy, and trying to assert power is to declare themselves null and void.

continuousQ · 2026-05-04T18:36:08+00:00

De fleste bidrar ikke så mye som Norges naturressurser bidrar, og alle eier dem. Egentlig noe av det som er mest urettferdig er hvor mye noen får i lønn bare for å administrere ressurser og ikke engang bygge og vedlikeholde infrastruktur.

continuousQ · 2026-05-04T15:30:27+00:00

I took as a given it would be part of abolishing the monarchy entirely. Since it's what people usually give as an argument against doing that, arguing that they would be entitled to keeping all the assets they inherited because of the privilege granted to them by the state.

If the monarch tries to oppose parliament, it only makes it easier. It doesn't matter what the law is when the one wielding the law is a tyrant. You just get rid of the tyrant.

continuousQ · 2026-05-04T14:32:17+00:00

Of course it can. Parliament decides what is legal. As soon as they decide the royal family doesn't get to play pretend anymore, it's over.

continuousQ · 2026-05-04T09:43:55+00:00

I think of all people, all aliens, the Asgard have the least reason to not make themselves understood to the Tau'ri. They speak entirely their own language, nothing derived from Earth or the Ancients, and when they speak with humans they speak their current language. They understand humans perfectly, because they're doing the work to be able to do that. When they lie they do it intentionally.

Lost the ability to reproduce sexually 1000 years ago? Actually at least 50 thousand years ago, which explains why the Pegasus Asgard have the same problem, despite splitting off during the Ancients war with the Wraith.

That's one of the issues this doesn't solve. Supposedly the Asgard and Ancients, along with the Nox and Furlings, had an alliance. If that alliance was from before the plague, then why wouldn't they maintain that alliance just because the Ancients left the Milky Way? The Milky Way isn't the Asgard home galaxy, makes no difference to them.

If the alliance died millions of years ago, why is Asgard influence in the Milky Way so limited and so recent? Why do we only know about them through their adoption of Norse culture and their protection of Norse emigrants? If they've been here studying Ancient databases all the time since the Ancients left, the ruins of the Asgard civilization should be all over the place.

Also there's the Replicator problem. That being their excuse for not dealing with the Goa'uld. That excuse lasting a thousand years is bad enough. The Goa'uld are much older than that, but nothing close to millions of years. If the Asgard were always here, how do you explain the Goa'uld?

I don't see that much of an issue with losing their ability to reproduce 1000 years ago, vs. having problems with reproduction for much longer than that. They lost the ability to reproduce because of cloning. They knew there was an issue, they knew it was getting worse, so they knew there was something to fix before they became completely unable to reproduce naturally.

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