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If there are enough prisoners that they would create a large enough voting bloc that they could get someone elected, then that means there is something fucked up with the legal system. If there aren’t that many, then what’s the big deal allowing them to vote?
Sure, absolutely. Which is part of the reason I think it’s bad to give the justice department this kind of power.
Because let’s be honest, this is 100% a case of community self defense.
That’s not how self defense laws work, for good reason. Self defense requires imminent threats, and we’ve established this for centuries as the way it should be.
Absolutely the people should be able to elect a felon. This is how the law should absolutely work. Imagine how bad it would be if they could just remove political rivals by getting the justice department to catch them in some bs felony, or even frame them for something. The real travesty is that we allow the state to remove the right to vote for a felony conviction.
That’s actually neoliberal propaganda and not true.
“And I’ll prove this by just spouting empty propaganda!”
Source: my Russian propaganda, bro.
Explain in some detail as to how this is connected.
Now I see your original point in a new light. I just viewed it as a natural progression that the mouse would take over as the primary input because of it’s useful and intuitiveness. So when you say you “hated” this, I interpreted as a hate for mice in general and the wishing for pre-mice days. Rather than just a move back towards the keyboard being the primary interface.
We’ve prioritized “intuitive” over “efficient.”
I would argue, overall, it’s more efficient to aim for the former than the latter, especially if we are talking about the wide range of people who need to use a computer.
But I’m curious as to the “actions per minute” type of efficiency that people are talking about here. I’m an engineer, who has moved into computer programming. I would say the bottleneck for me is never that I have to move my hand to my mouse, but it’s always about thinking and planning. I feel like this “it’s so much more efficient” is viewing us as almost machines that are just trying to output actions, rather than think through and solve problems.
The net result was a populace that didn’t need support as much, because they were used to reading the docs. If a component died, the docs would tell you how to diagnose and fix it.
I think this is more of a problem that it went from an extremely niche thing, to something that almost everyone is required to use, rather than a move away from keyboard only. Or, maybe, the rise of the mouse opened the computer to everyone being able to use it, which is why it has become so ubiquitous.
I call it my Warcraft-Quake era, we still used keyboard only for Doom 1/2 back in the early days
This is my main reason for not pining for the days before the mouse: it made gaming 100000x better. I remember when we first started playing quake, a lot of the guys swore by the keyboard only, until I regularly destroyed them with the mouse. . .and they all switched over.
I’ve also done a lot of graphic design, photo-editing, schematic design, etc. . . and can’t imagine having to do that solely with the keyboard (but again, I’m often like “why isn’t there a keyboard shortcut for this?”).
Also, when it comes to productivity, I guess it depends on what you are doing because usually my big hurdle is not how quickly I can do actions (that is usually more important in video games, tbh), the big hurdle is sitting down and thinking about how to do it correctly.
Sure, it’s not 100% better in all situations. But when you’re unfamiliar with something, almost universally, it’s far more intuitive.
And this doesn’t even take into account things like gaming. I also can’t imagine trying to do visual design things solely with the computer. Like any type of drawing or schematic design.
Being pretty adept at using the keyboard, I’m often frustrated when I find out that the only way to do something is by mouse when there appears that there should be an easy way to do it by keyboard. But, man, I can’t imagine longing for the days before the mouse.
Is this for real?
Yup. He knows how to sell shit to gullible rubes. He’s a dumb fuck otherwise, but the man has an uncanny genius when it comes to self promotion.
Can you show me a state that has no zoning laws, or something similar, that is also having an issue with housing prices?
I’m far from a “the free market solves all!” Type of person, but this is more likely due to government intervention, with zoning laws that restrict the density that can be built in certain areas, rather than a problem with the the free market run amok.
Like it’s insane that nearly 40% of the land in San Fran is zoned for single family. This is government doing, not the free market.
We need more housing to alleviate the problem. But what we also need is a mindset shift of the everyday person that they aren’t getting a 3k sqft house on an acre of land.
I don’t think I’ve ever heard this…I’ll probably check it out
The problem with this garbage type of reporting is that you can create any narrative you want. Social media is so big that it’s not hard to find a handful of posts, like what is being posted in their story, saying almost anything you need them to. Always going to be some insane person in some corner of the internet saying something completely batshit.
The article is really “we found some people on social media saying these things” and it’s being framed as “maga meltdown.” It’s fucking garbage.
I agree that social media has a large influence, but how does garbage journalism like this do anything other than add more fuel to the fire of “traditional media is now trash”?
I wouldn’t be surprised if they don’t, but I’m not as confident as you are, as the committee is split 5/5 and there are republicans calling for its release. Additionally, we’re two years out from any election, so they have a bit more freedom to act on their conscience rather than just bow before Trump.
However, none of this changes the fact that this article is about them meeting to discuss whether to release it. Something that is happening.
They are meeting to decide whether or not to release the report. This is quite literally something that is happening.
Pardoning your son because he had a cross hair on him because he is your son is an abuse of power, no doubt. But corrupt? Nah. Just nepotism.
Pardoning people who attacked the capitol on behalf of your attempts to overturn an election you lost is blatant corruption.
While both are wrong, it’s equally wrong to try and equate them.