wolfpack86

@wolfpack86@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This will lead to the majority of the state getting full say and suppressing minority views. This can be political, racial, etc.

  California has a large Republican population. If it goes state wide they get zero voice as the full state will go blue.

  These days I’m kinda fine with that, but in principle this is wrong. The same suppression logic can be spread to ethnic groups, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the main complications in the US is the racial mix. Looking at party lines and geographic boundaries is an over simplification

  Say 20% of the population is black, and the state has five reps. Two neighboring cities each have 30% black population, and enough population to have two of the five reps. The rest are dispersed in rural areas. Do you draw that each city gets one rep? Or do you draw such that a district has a majority of black residents, with funny boundaries to accommodate the geography?

  The former means that you will more likely end up with a white representative for both cities and the voice of the black community are not heard in the legislative body. The latter means that you have now gerrymandered to ensure a group gets a voice they deserve.

  This is the real pain in the ass about the whole thing. Some level of drawing stupid districts is needed to create good. Pure geographically created boundaries will only cause segregation if we want minority groups to have an equal voice in the legislature.

  But, people in power tend to fuck everything up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Y'ALL GOT ANY OF THEM HALLOPINERS⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Zookeenee 🤌🏻

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a smoker, with a port for a temp probe in the meat.

  When you smoke something for 10-12 hours it’s nice to get temp readings from wherever. It might also have automatic control for temperature management.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Choose a number, 1-5!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  4 looks too spork like. No thanks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Choose a number, 1-5!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Head of 2, body of 5.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the not too distant past this was a thing⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t that one of the clear use cases?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Book now for 2025's most on-theme cruise destination⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “However, one of the 14 crew members on the Portuguese-flagged Solong cargo ship is missing, the vessel’s owner Ernst Russ says.”

  The Solong.

  The universe is trolling us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It'll happen to you!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s obviously truth to there being diminishing returns, but this chart is garbage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Orange Dickhead dies before taking his oath again will sucession still be applicable? Like Vance the new pres and Johnson the new VP?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Unless of course the VP dies and the President nominated the speaker as the VP and was confirmed

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can I not be an adorable junkie⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  F*rgiven

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can I not be an adorable junkie⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s ur, yu ful muthed cunt

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Get good.⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Denying their existence is totally on-brand

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Get good.⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly there’s a difference between baby talk and using age reasonable vocabulary.

  You don’t need to ask a 3 year old why they are being disobedient. But it’s perfectly reasonable to ask why they “aren’t doing what you asked them to do”.

  Those are all different from why u no lissen bebe