Trump is a coward. He's a schoolyard bully coward. He got punched in the last debate so he's crying foul in the corner.
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Exhibit A: George Santos
Ranked Choice Voting (or ANYTHING with preference polling) would be vastly better than our current system. It would enable 3rd parties to thrive without being nearly the spoilers they are now.
Every voting system as it's flaws and edge cases, but our current First Past the Post system is a trainwreck crushing the Republic by degrading into two majority parties (as it demonstrably always does) and then letting other countries and dark money prop up spoiler candidates to hurt their opponents.
We either fix our voting system or we eventually lose the Republic.
It wasn't fun, that's for sure.
... It's nice, though you're still driving a two ton weapon, but now you're used to it.
The Amtrak system in the US shares rail, and is low priority, than freight trains. Basically, passenger rail has always been a side business for the train companies the US. It is subsidized and used as a bribe by the federal government to even try to keep a passenger rail service alive.
That means our trains are often kept as slow speeds to stay behind freight trains, and will be stopped to wait for freight trains if some is off schedule. The routes are also mostly only rated for 60mph speeds, so even at full speed you're barely keeping up with cars on the highway, and then you add in stops at every podunk town that slows it down even more.
Until the US invests in a separate passenger rail network that can support consistent speed and schedules, it will remain on par with similarly under developed nations for rail service.
There's also the very muddled announcement that to make it you'll need to change trains at some small town.
Or, they just decide to not stop at your station, so you get to hop off past your station and ride a train back the way you came.
All that said, it's still a miracle from God compared to the crap we have in the US.
Okay. Regardless of what it really is or not. I've decided I'm not voting for President Biden in the next election. Nor Hunter Biden. They're both off my list as candidates.
With varying degrees of regret. Some cities named to keep the right of ways, so rebuilding is more reasonable, others gave/sold it off and now they're double plus fucked.
Most of the pre-1950's trams were private, and not city run. The cities that took them over and kept them running are looking really smart at this point.
My city is about as smart as a box of rocks.
Ah, the replacement mythos, blended with White Fascism and Christian Nationalist chaser. All badness all the way down.
It sounds like Twitter is hosting their services on several cloud platforms or replication services that weren't blocked by Brazil. So, users in Brazil just hit the 3rd party platforms and kept going like usual.
Is that Twitter's fault and/or on purpose? Don't know yet, but services like Akamai need to make sure their hosting Twitter doesn't get them banned in Brazil across the board.
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I turned down a professorship position at a uni in part because they used windows for the whole curriculum. It would have driven me crazy having to use windows given how annoying it is for dev work. I put value on my sanity and it wasn't worth the modest pay bump to be driven batty every day.
I likely get to teach an IoT class next term. It's going to be so much fun with SBC systems running Linux and Arduino sensor systems! That's worth a ton to me.