Litmus test is the Virginia election. All of their statewide positions occur during the odd years. And this year, the governor is up for grabs.

1. Amendment that Congress cannot limit the size of the House of Representatives. This will eliminate the Appointment Act.

2. The Senate should be increased to 10 per State. This will make bribery significantly harder.

3. A new branch of government (People’s Branch) which has the sole job of ensuring the transparency of the government by auditing, investigating, prosecuting for corruption of all members of the Federal government. The branch will be run like a Union where a board of 15(ish) is elected nationally and they appoint a speaker. Term limits are 1 term, six years, non repeatable, and members are not to have served in any other Federal branch for at least 5 years before or after service in the People’s Branch.

4. All elections for Federal positions are to consist of RCV or (or better) voting methods. FPTP is banned.

5. National firearms laws that forces 1-year of firearms training for anyone, including law enforcement, to wield a firearm. This will include de-escalation classes, proper weapon safety, and other known weapon safety measures with requirements for recertification every three years. Penalties for violation will be severely increased.

Beach houses that are close to the ocean shore are typically on stilts here in the case of flooding caused by hurricanes.

As a result, the 1st floor can be at least 3-4m above the ground level.

There’s lots of costs to AWS. They’ll rope you in with the whole free tier for compute and storage. But AWS has charges for outbound traffic, detailed logging, elastic IPs, etc.

It’s a whole job to just do cost analysis for cloud services.

That one dollar in the 33% bracket has .33 in taxes instead of .28. So their obligation goes up .05 per every dollar in the 33% tax bracket.

Where I live, we had early voting for a whole month now. We went during the second week - 0 minute wait. It took longer to walk into the building and follow the signs than it was to get my ballot, vote, and walk out.

Twilight really fucked up the romance genre, huh? Lol

Nah, I think he can find plenty of them. They just won’t fit his expectations of what they’ll look like.

I live in the DC area. It’s the same even though I know it’s a solid blue area for like a 30 mile radius

No… Not made in Wyoming. That’s where the LLC is, but not the actual manufacturing facility.

The more people use Firefox, the better. Lots of people had to use Internet Explorer for things… Until they didn’t because Chrome was faster and web devs focused on browser-agnostic technologies.

The system he supported wasn’t one where the House was capped at a limit causing the Electoral college to be skewed towards the minority.

Issues with the electoral college can be resolved by getting rid of the Reapportionment Act and moving towards Star or RCV voting. Both are significantly easier to do than passing an Amendment to get rid of the EC.

Yep. Virginia has it’s statewide position elections on the odd years. So it’s congressional and governor elections tend to have fewer people vote. However, the Dems have gotten wise and have managed to turn out more during these elections.

My favorite is how they claim that PRC doesn’t invade anyone, ignorant of their attempts in Korea (Korean War) and Vietnam (after the Americans left).

I need this poster or canvas printed so I can hang it on my office wall…

Stupid and unlikely thought I had: The West don’t want Russia to know just how weak it really is against the West so that Russia doesn’t kick itself into high gear trying to truly modernize its forces by eliminating the grift and corruption that plagues its MIC. A Russia plagued by a corrupt military is a Russia that is essentially toothless in an armed conflict.

Of course, this doesn’t excuse not allowing deep Russian strikes with already provided equipment.

Requires constitutional amendment. You know what doesn’t? Getting rid of the Reapportionment Act. Expanding the House by a considerable margin will bring back a more fair EC.

It feels like whoever made this only sees those large suburban sprawls in the South West of the US where it’s all flat desert. Or the suburbs built on large tracts of farmland that had trees taken down many years before for crops.

Housing development is expensive when you have to cut down and uproot large tracts of forest. They’re not willing to do that unless there is a high rate of return… Such as an apartment building with a hundred tenants.

He’s been doing this forever. He’s THE flip flopper of all flip flopping.

Much more than that.

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