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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (8 children)

"WHY ARE YOU SO QUIET???"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Okay so in most cases, teleportation is instantaneous. But if you tamper with the disassembler, now can "teleport" yourself to a new location while the old you is still there. Now there's 2 bodies that look like you. So which one is you. Does your consciousness shift into the new body or stay with the old one? Or does your conciousness control both bodies?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

To be fair, a Republic with a mostly democratic system is far better than the governments available at the time. The entire world was essentially all monarchies.

Now, the issue with the implementation was that initially, only land-owning free white men could vote. Over time, the people who were eligible to vote increased and the barriers to voting were gradually removed due to pressue from the people. The election system in the US today is far better than what it had been.

But here some issues that needs to be fixed:

  1. Get rid of the electoral college. One-person, one-vote. Electoral college violates that principle.

  2. Ranked choice voting / Instant runoff to replace first-past-the-post

  3. Get rid of the Senate, transfer all their powers to the House. Get rid of gerrymandering by allocating seats based on percentage of votes. Getting 51% of the votes means roughly 51% of the seats, not 45% of the seats due to some stupid districting shenanigans.

  4. Supreme Court justices should not be permanent. Example: 15 seats and each seat has a 15-year term with staggering expiration. Each year would have one seat expiring. Each year, one person will be appointed. If a judge dies before the seat expires, appointment would require 2/3 of the vote to confirm, or wait until the year it's suppose to expire then you can appoint one with only 1/2. One president shouldn't have more influence over others because there happens to be more Supreme Court justice death during the term.

  5. Get rid of bribery. ~~And Congress members should not be allowed to access their money during the term and live on minimum wage only in the official residence to be provided by the government. (Well they probably shouldn't have that much money at all, but that's a topic for another time) Let's see how quickly rich congresspeople would quit when they don't have access to their luxury lifestyle.~~ (Edit: On a second thought, this part seems a bit problematic. The other points still stand.)

That's some basics on how to make things better. Not perfect, in fact, far from perfect, but more bearable until we can convince people to make more changes.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

My disappointment is immeasurable, and my day is ruined.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I like mine spicy with pepper.

Edit: I mean the deer, not the cat lol.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The Amazon got broken up pretty good when they cut down the trees.. Oh you mean the other Amazon?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Are you in a rural area?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You can edit titles in Lemmy

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago

States rights to um… protect the um… economic…

institution of…

um…

no I’m not a racist… it was states rights!

/s

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't think investors care if the image says "fuck spez". I mean, whoever is dumb enough to "invest" in reddit probably doesn't know that spez is the same dude trying to sell them the idea of investing in reddit.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (14 children)

Meh, it's good enough to be usable. I have 50/10 Mbps down/up and I can watch 1440p videos just fine. What do y'all use your internet for? Do you have like 5 family members watching stuff at the same time?

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Facebook is already infiltrated by the liberal media, I get my news from the only trusted news network, Russia Today.

/s

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