Well, that apparently means the government that did that doesn’t agree with me.

The composition of the Senate is very problematic and also entrenched in the constitution and requires unanimous ratification to change.

Registration of prohibited car models is not allowed. You might be able to import them, but there might be punitively high tariff and it would not be legal to drive

I still think an elected chamber is important. Might be better to create a third chamber filled by sortition. Legislation needs to pass 2 out of 3 chambers of Congress to get to the president. Call it the “House of Jurors” or something. It would consist of 5,000 members divided proportionally to by state or territorial population and selected by sortition among registered voters for a term of two months or until they quit (people can quit immediately if they don’t want to serve). There is no formal debate, but members can talk to each other. No legislation can be introduced. Their only job is to show up and vote. The meeting place is a football stadium, once a week. Scantily-clad cheerleaders will be present for halftime and there will be free beer, Coca-Cola, and Costco hot dogs. Participants get $20,000 for their trouble. Accommodation provided free of charge at a hilariously large Motel 6.

All of this would probably still cost less to the taxpayers than Congressional salaries and expenses. And besides, what are corporate interests going to do, bribe five thousand people? Lol

Localist parties can probably win as well. I think there are some observations that can be made from UK elections, which also use first-past-the-post.

• Local political parties can win. The Scottish National Party did well in Scotland for several years (until their poll numbers collapsed after their former leader quit and got arrested)
• It makes more sense for small parties to pour all their resources into contesting a small number of seats than to contest and lose a large number of seats. The UK Green Party spent a lot of effort to get their leader elected to Parliament in the Brighton Pavillion constituency.
• Local representation matters. When your party controls several seats on a local council or devolved assembly, they have more chances to gain visibility or even govern. US parties should spend a lot more effort on state legislative races than the presidential one.
• Vote-splitting is less of a concern when one ideology is already overwhelmingly dominant in a region. That is a good region to try to win. For example, the DC Statehood Green Party is the second-largest political party in Washington, D.C. because the DC Republican Party is tiny and terrible (polls in the single digits). That’s a good place to try to win some seats.

The competition is welcome. We need it to continue to drive innovation. At least in America, traditional American brands haven’t put out anything interesting for years. Just the same models being rehashed, but slightly bigger and more fuel efficient.

Yeah, what’s wrong with GNOME’s calendar? It’s basic and it works… fine. I use it for my daily tasks.

Window’s default calendar is similarly mediocre.

Or the boxes are pre-made and they ran out

Normal person: ¬(Garbage | Trash) = okay to put here if it is not garbage and not trash

Computer programmers: ¬ Garbage | Trash = okay to put here if it is not garbage or it is trash, but since garbage and trash are the same thing and ¬P | P = 1, it’s okay to put anything here

In a normal context, I would agree with you but when louder singing is enforced by the State then I take issue with that.

Believe it or not, it happening in one country doesn’t mean it’s okay to happen in another country

Don’t forget—this is a nuke threat. Israel has nukes.

You don’t seem to know the meaning of the word “spend”.

How much have I bought in crypto to hold myself? I don’t hold any crypto. The answer is zero.

The figure that appears in column E of Form 8949? Over a million USD.

You answers seethe of jealousy. You keep trying to pin the label “crypto bro” on me because you want to dismiss me as someone not worth listening to, and the money I earned as illegitimate and fake. You argue not because you think you’re right, but because you can’t bear to be wrong. To you, crypto is a scam with no use and everything it touches turns to shit, and everyone who says otherwise must therefore hold the opposite opinion and think everything it touches turns to gold. Binary thinking at its worst.

Your thinking is simplistic and devoid of nuance. You’re right about one thing though. I am condescending. Because you deserve it.

Reply if you desperately need to put in the last word with a feigned aura of coolness, and laugh it off, because there are no more arguments to be made. Only insults left. You won’t receive a response, and I won’t even read whatever you write, because this conversation is over.

Go buy a Cybertruck or something.

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Read carefully, because it seems that reading comprehension is not your strong suit.

Wiktionary defines “crypto bro” as “an enthusiastic cryptocurrency supporter, usually male, especially a dogmatic and condescending one”.

You may notice I do not fit any of those categories, besides perhaps being male.

For the adoption of cryptocurrency by businesses and states, I am apathetic, even mildly in opposition. As for being dogmatic, I entirely am not, because I don’t give a shit.

But I will admit, you have successfully tempted me into being condescending towards you.

Why would I make up the number 1 most common interaction between a Cybertruck owner and a normal person?

But here’s a picture I took of his car while he was attending church (across the street from the grocery store):

And yes, you can tell it is new because it doesn’t have a number plate yet.

The picture was taken on 30 March, the interaction happened a few days earlier

(past tense)

But how do you define “crypto bro”? Sure not “any person who’s ever held cryptocurrency”, right? Because that would make 25% of the US population crypto bros.

I absolutely reject this categorisation. I don’t give a shit about crypto or any of the ideas behind it. It’s interesting from a technical perspective as a person who holds a computer science degree, but I’m in it for the money. Holding crypto is gambling, and nothing more.

The only crypto I hold now is for online poker sites and for buying precious metals on r/pmsforsale on Reddit.

What makes you think I’m a crypto bro?

I was walking to the grocery store when I saw a neighbour polishing his in front of his house. I said “Wow, a Cybertruck,” and he replied, “Cool, isn’t it?”

I said, “No, it’s a $120,000 go-kart made of scrap metal that will rust in a month.”

Edit: sounds fake but I do have a picture of the car in question, but I took it on a different day—

Deadliest other animal. There were 602 homicides in England and Wales in 2022/23.