America can go fuck itself … I have no respect for any of you because you’re leading us down a deadly path

If you don’t like where we are leading, why the fuck are you following?

Instead we have districts representing millions of people and others representing just a hundred thousand but with the same voting power.

That is not actually true. There is no congressional district with even one million people, let alone “millions”. There is no congressional district with “just a hundred thousand”.

• The current largest, Delaware-at-large, has 989,948 people.

• The current smallest, Rhode Island 1st, has 545,085.

That is the maximum variation. It is due to Delaware being not quite big enough to warrant two districts, and Rhode Island being just barely large enough to warrant a second. Delaware is underrepresented, Rhode Island over.

Due to the fundamental concept of districting, the outlier districts, both large and small, will always be in 1 and 2 district states. Districts in larger states will always be divided more fairly than the smallest states.

The Supreme Court should have been expanded as the federal judicial circuits did. There should be a Justice overseeing each federal circuit, of which there are 12 now.

I think we should appoint one new justice at the end of the first and third years of each presidential term, to keep appointments as far away from the presidential and midterm elections as possible. Add a new seat every other year, and never refill a vacated seat.

Allow the size of the court to fluctuate. Allow single-seat swings, instead of expecting justices to time their retirements for when a favorable president is in office, or risking two-seat swings when an unfavorable president replaces an unexpected vacancy.

The average tenure of the court is currently 16 years, which would give us 8 justices. But, strategic retirement is artificially reducing the expected term, so terms would likely be much longer.

The longest tenure was 34 years, which would give us 17 justices. The typical size of the court would likely fluctuate between 10 and 14.

I would include one more factor, to reduce the effect of Senate intransigence. Every circuit court judge has been previously confirmed by the Senate. The president would obviously prefer to nominate the youngest justice they can find to SCOTUS, but if the Senate decides to play games and refuses to confirm, the circuit court justices represent a small pool of pre-confirmed candidates that can be nominated without additional confirmation.

Nobody has the moral fortitude to step forward and fix shit because it’s broken.

I bet this guy knows how to play Mario Kart.

Well, not with that attitude.

Technically, its only a hamburger if it comes from the hamburg region of Germany. Anywherr else, it is sparkling beef.

I’ve found Jami from another comment a few hours ago, but I haven’t downloaded it yet. But I think it expects an existing internet/network connection, where Briar seems to be focused on getting messages across through any means available.

I’ve never used it, but I’ve heard of “Jami” that is supposed to operate in a similar fashion.

AFAIK, yes. Latest release is from March of this year, and they have commits as of a month ago.

Are you familiar with Briar?

Works over internet, TOR, local wifi, bluetooth, even “sneakernet”.

Yes.

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You seal everything but the battery in one watertight compartment. The battery is a sealed, self-contained package, in a second compartment. Dunk the phone, the only thing that gets wet are the battery contacts, which are protected the same way that earbuds with magnetic chargers are protected: if the contacts get wet, the battery shuts itself off until it has been dried off.

Technically, orbit is just forward, really, really fast. “Up” is incidental to the process.

What people do and their customs are not your business.

I cast a mental vote on behalf of each and every woman in the country. Votes that they and you ignore.

Theybare subjected to a government they did not choose. That pisses me right the fuck off.

If a die is weighted, the first roll is no longer 1/6 probability to get a 7

Yes, actually, it is. No matter what the first die lands on, there is a 1 in 6 chance that the second die will land on the corresponding value necessary for a “7”. You could glue the first die to the table with “6” (or any other number) showing, and there will be a 1 in 6 chance that the second die will bring the sum to 7.

Weighting one die (to favor “6”) will increase the probability of every outcome over 7, and will decrease the probability of every outcome under 7, but the probability of rolling a 7 will not change.

I’ll take the wholesale experience, please and thank you. Shut up and take my money. Emphasis on the “Shut Up” part.

They just rule that “spending money” is speech.

That makes the law an unconstitutional infringement on the first amendment.

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Ah, yes. It is the slave’s fault that they do their master’s bidding. They are complicit. They could just overthrow the overseers. Instead, they provide them with the means of their own enslavement.

That’s you. That’s what you sound like.

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Ask the women and girls of Afghanistan if they want us gone. The women and girls who are no longer allowed to attend school, and can look forward to generations of total subjugation.

Why do you hold the opinions of their oppressors in such high regard?

You say they asked us to leave. They dont have a government with sufficient legitimacy to even make such a request. They won’t have one until several generations of school kids have been raised to believe their mothers and sisters are actual people, not just some weird furniture.

When the first generation of co-ed Afghani school kids are in nursing homes and hospice, we can start listening to Afghan opinions about our continued presence.

Yes, permanent installations, influencing their economy and culture for decades. So that our grandkids see them grow into a nation more comparable to South Korea than North Korea.