It’s targeted zero US citizens.

Lots of Russians and a very prominent Israeli, but no US citizens.

It will be 6-3 or maybe 5-4. The exact same outcome, but the propaganda machines will spin it as a narrow decision.

This is the way, at least until we get rid of First Past the Post and other Ordinal voting systems.

Score, STAR, or Approval would all make primaries unnecessary, and also reward people for honestly voting their preferences. Which is sort of why there’s so much pushback against them.

I will add context to your factual statement with the existence of regulations requiring safety systems to deal with what is called a Double Ended Guillotine break in the primary coolant line. In over 70 years, with reactors in 35 countries, there has never been a Double Ended Guillotine break in the primary coolant line, because it’s physically impossible. Pipes don’t break like that, they just can’t break like that.

The actual (still extremely rare) failure condition is called Leak Before Break.

The safety systems required to prevent the imaginary Double Ended Guillotine break cost millions of dollars per unit and actually make it harder to implement safety systems for Leak Before Break.

There was a piece on npr a few days back, all things considered, that talked to someone who was talking about search and seo and ai and such.

The tldr was that seo tools before ai gave you a lot of information that you could use to grow a website. Ai search on the other hand is a black box that may or may not do anything at all.

I sketched it out, and might play with it more. Maybe try some painting, it’s been over 10 years since the last time I painted anything more than even coats.

I’m also of the copyleft mindframe, so if you want to play with the idea, have at it.

Tankies are authoritarians. Red fascists. They don’t give a fuck about anything or anyone, just their fascist kings being in charge so they can hurt people they think are inferior. Just like any other fascist.

They shit on Marx and gargle Lenin and Mao, then tell you that actually state control and secret police are the real communism.

Is it any wonder from people who cheer when the tanks roll over protesters and revolutionaries?

No, the added costs have little benefit.

College itself is great. The added costs have not added to the experience.

I’ll say we over expanded college in the wrong way. Turned it into a business. That greatly expanded the costs with little actual benefit.