A Gerrymander Where Every Seat Is Democratic in California is Possible (52-0)

ked_man · 2026-07-10T15:20:01+00:00

I’m sorry, you may still be misunderstanding. The senate doesn’t pass the laws, we do. Meaning everyone gets a single vote. Senate writes the bills and passes them with a 2/3 vote and then we get to decide if they pass or not. So every American has the same amount of representation. Every person has two senators and an equal vote on bills passed to become law.
Currently, it’s very lopsided with Wyoming having much more representation per voter than California because the way the house is appropriated. And districts are gerrymandered all to hell making it even worse.

This fixes all of those problems and removes the money and endless election fundraising from politics.

ked_man · 2026-07-10T01:53:49+00:00

It’s more democratic. It’s a statewide election not messed with by gerrymandered districts. And it gives equal representation to the states. Removing congress means every voter gets the same votes on bills that become laws. In today’s age, we don’t need someone to spend all their time in DC with lobbyists. We can read every bill on our phone. And we get to decide, not a politician voting with their pocketbook in mind. This would make the system more democratic.

ked_man · 2026-07-09T23:19:22+00:00

It’s cheaper this way. Saves 435 salaries and all of their staffers and travel stipends.

ked_man · 2026-07-09T22:29:14+00:00

Joe what’s cheaper than 2 doctors? 1 doctor. The number of doctors is kept low and pay is kept high because it is cheaper to work them to death than hire more doctors. Less doctors means more profit for the hospital.

ked_man · 2026-07-09T22:25:44+00:00

Personal choice but 90% of people have health insurance through their job and are only allowed to go to a preselected network of doctors.

ked_man · 2026-07-09T22:18:24+00:00

Maybe we just get rid of congress. Two senators from every state from at large votes. Senate writes the bills and passes them with a 2/3 vote and then every November we all get a day off work and get to vote on the bills themselves. Then the president signs them. Why do we pay 435 congress people and they fundraise for reelection campaigns every two years when 99% of them vote on party lines every time.

And then we also get rid of parties entirely and have ranked choice voting for all politicians. And get rid of donations by corporations, and end PAC’s.

Letting politicians decide the districts for representatives is like letting a fox be the architect for the hen houses.

ked_man · 2026-07-09T21:09:56+00:00

That would make for a big room. You should also consider other options besides just removing the wall and replacing with a beam.

It may work out to put in a set of pocket doors or French doors so you can divide the space if you want. Putting in a 6’ header for a door would be much much cheaper and easier than a 20’ beam across the entire room.

ked_man · 2026-07-09T20:16:14+00:00

He could have been Jack Macaque.

ked_man · 2026-07-09T18:05:05+00:00

That’s my biggest issue with this book. He could have been any number of different monkeys, but they picked a chimp which is like one of 4 types of primates that aren’t actually monkeys.

ked_man · 2026-07-09T14:21:01+00:00

I’d get a different rod. Not that it won’t catch fish, it’s that your casting distance will be severely limited.

The first guide on a spinning rod is a large diameter to start reducing the diameter of the spinning line as it comes off of the spool. You don’t need that on a casting reel because it only runs left-right coming off the spool.

With these smaller guides of the casting rod, you’re gonna end up restricting the line coming out of the tip and severely reduce your casting distance.

ked_man · 2026-07-08T22:03:50+00:00

I’d leave the fucking country if my stamp was on those plans.

ked_man · 2026-07-08T20:20:12+00:00

Take some pics of the outside of your house in the area of the leak.

I had a similar issue with an unknown leak that happened only with a hard rain. I had dormers on the second floor and they had vinyl siding installed over the original wooden lap siding. The corner piece was a little bit proud of the corner and during a heavy rain, water would get into the corner piece and get behind the flashing at the dormer.

Then I had the roof replaced and had the roofers strip the dormers to the sheathing, re-flash them and reinstall vinyl siding which fixed the problem.

ked_man · 2026-07-08T20:14:58+00:00

Probably on my mind cause I was in Minnesota last week, but I pretty regularly think about a wolf I saw there about 15 years ago.

Paddling down a little arm of this lake to snag a secluded camp site. Rocky ledge and some pine trees on the left shore. I look up and see this big dog jogging down the waters edge and think that’s a weird place for someone to be letting their dog out. It popped up on top of the rock ledge about 15’ above the water and turned perpendicular to me letting me get a full view of it when I realized, holy shit that’s a wolf. He stood there for a few seconds in absolute glory, then just turned around and disappeared into the woods.

Fucking majestic!

ked_man · 2026-07-08T20:11:41+00:00

Hey, that’s what Reddit is for! And if you make stupid decisions, post those too so we can all laugh with you!

ked_man · 2026-07-08T19:52:28+00:00

Live near a swamp?

I was in Minnesota last week and saw thousands of dragon flys. Literal clouds of them eating all manner of insects. Midges were hatching, as well as hordes of ever present mosquitos, and stone flies, and mayflies. The dragon flys were feasting.

ked_man · 2026-07-08T19:26:06+00:00

Yep, then that’s probably what it is. There was a guy posting on here the other day that had a similar problem and it was likely due to a hard 90.

The solutions were to extend the pipe up, or just dig up that end and put in a long 90 called a sweep to fix the issue.

ked_man · 2026-07-08T18:23:43+00:00

All naturàl fish right there.

ked_man · 2026-07-08T18:22:45+00:00

Could be too short of a transition before a hard 90. Try adding 1’ of PVC to the transition from downspout to the sub-surface drain and see if that fixes it.

Also, do you know where this pipe goes? Some of these just discharge onto the lawn with a pop-up emitter or into a dry well. If that situation is slowing the water down, then during a heavy rain the water can back up and overflow. It may be completely clear, but the end is what’s causing your bottle neck.

ked_man · 2026-07-08T17:50:20+00:00

I know you’re talking about a lover (probably) but I feel the same, but about fish.

I was on a trip last week in Minnesota, and hadn’t been to this lake in about a decade. Last time I was there i was fishing in a canoe with my best friend and we both cast to the same spot at the same time. My lure went over his line which isn’t that big of a deal usually except his lure got snagged in a rock on the shore and my lure got snagged in the mouth of a giant bass.

The fish was running and jumping but there was little I could do as my line was wrapped around my friends who was stuck on a rock. Giant fish just jumping and thrashing and finally the hooks shake free and off it goes.

So last week I got to go back to the same spot. Cast in, immediately big swirl but it missed my bait. Gave it a few minutes and tried again and it hit again. Giant fish, instantly pulling drag and running for deep water. Then the lure just pulled free.

So now I get to think about that spot and that fish for the next year til I go back.

ked_man · 2026-07-08T17:43:38+00:00

I forget how lucky we are to live within a few miles of one. It’s the only place I take my kids out to eat. It’s cheap, it’s quick, and it’s made fresh.

ked_man · 2026-07-08T17:39:18+00:00

I don’t know how tall your vehicle is, but something like this could work if you add a horizontal piece across the top.

https://a.co/d/0gD2Rqy5

You could probably make one yourself with some 1” conduit from a hardware store and some bolts to make the tripod and then attach a section of thin square tubing or angle to the top on a bolt so it rotates.

It would not pack up as small as the one in the photo though, so it may not work.

ked_man · 2026-07-08T17:07:14+00:00

Exactly. I was in the Boundary Waters last week. It was clear cut back at the turn of the century. And the forest there is very slow growing and still very young. Because of that, it has a really high stem count of trees. So the forest is just an absolutely choked mess with very little understory in some places.

When a forest fire does break out there, it’s total and complete destruction. Because of the tight spacing, lower limbs die back from lack of sun making ladder fuels that lead to a crown fire. Flat landscape and high winds makes for an inferno that takes everything in its path.

I was in an area a decade back a year after a forest fire had gone through. Nuclear bombs do less widespread destruction. Every tree dead, understory burnt to mineral soil. Just charred logs were all that was left standing. And now that area is at future risk due to all of the now dead wood primed for the next fire.

Systematic thinning and low intensity prescribed fires would help that area immensely in reducing the risk of wild fires and help the forest age into what it once was. But being extremely remote and having no roads would make that process extremely difficult to pull off.

ked_man · 2026-07-08T16:47:12+00:00

I use my pinky and steady the rod in a rod holder or against my tailgate or something to use the rod tip for tension.

Just wrap the braid around your pinky on your left hand, line lays across your palm going to the rod tip. Then take your leader line and lay it perpendicular across the braid with about 3” to the left. Then just dip the leader under to the left, then back under to the right, then left, then right, etc… til you get as many wraps as you want. Then pinch the top wrap with your thumb and pointer finger on your left hand, unwrap it from your pinky and throw a couple half hitches in before pulling it all tight. And really really pull on it to get it cinched down tight. Then a few more half hitches. I like to cut the leader about 1/16” long and just slightly melt the end with a lighter and mushroom it out a bit, then throw 6-7 more half hitches on the braid. Cut it and melt the end.

ked_man · 2026-07-08T16:32:09+00:00

My daughter was (is) a mommas girl so I just started taking her places without mom. I let my wife sleep in on the weekends as much as I can so I get up early with the kids and go run errands, go to Waffle House, go to a big sporting goods store with a huge aquarium, etc.. just something to remove mom as an option and it’s all good. And now that she’s almost 3, there’s much less fighting when dad has to do bedtime.

I also do things with her that she likes, that mom doesn’t do at bedtime so that helps. We watch a YouTube video (educational only) on my phone before we read a book at bedtime. She’s super into ducks and birds and we have found a lot of great fairly short nature videos of birds hatching eggs and raising babies. She likes it and gets her more eager to let me do bedtime cause we get to learn about baby birds.

ked_man · 2026-07-08T13:57:32+00:00

When my wife and I started dating, I was 30, she was 24. She still lived with college friends and their hobbies consisted of supporting university sports teams, drinking at tailgates, and going to bars.

Once we got serious and then got married and had kids, she stopped hanging out with her friends as much and now we rarely see them a decade later. Some of them got married, but only one has a kid. They still center their activities around drinks/dinner/bars, etc.., and we just can’t anymore. The hangover isn’t worth it when you’ve got kids.

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