Years before the Cambridge Analytica fiasco, I left Facebook and vowed to never join any platform Zucks touches. Dude just gave me the creeps. One of the best times I ever listened to my vibes.

They covered this in Hitchhiker's Guide. The answer is a towel. A towel is just about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can carry.

Bobby's been thinking the deep thoughts ever since Hank stranded him on Mars for disrespecting propane.

EC is great when you've got too many people to tally votes efficiently. So basically it's only use since the advent of the telegraph is to ensure mega cities don't disproportionately affect rural locations via election results. With EC, rural states have more weight than they otherwise would. I still think we should switch to a popular vote for elections.

Was a telemarketer for 2 weeks once. Mostly calling for donation type stuff on behalf of March of Dimes and the like but sometimes they put us on scripts for the NRA. I had gotten used to plenty of no's and was already on the verge of quitting when this fellow said yes.

Phones are already a bad job for me as I am both a people pleaser and get stage fright, so imagine my reaction when the prompt after his agreement to a $25 donation was to ask him for $50, and then $100, and well you get the idea. The final prompt it gave me was for a $500 donation in exchange for a lifetime NRA membership and a leather jacket and I'll be god-damned if this guy didn't agree without breaking a sweat. I quit within 48 hours.

Now I'm a mail carrier and am much happier.

Reddit won in the since that Sparta lost. Nobody tells the story like they're LOSERS. Sometimes, being the protagonist in a tale is more important than winning.

What doesn't? That rural states have more weight via the EC than they would in a popular vote? It's not a benefit to the country and citizens as a whole, but it is to those individual states.

Glad I'm realizing this before getting too attached to any one account. Setting up on a few instances now.

I don't believe in the Christian Hell, but Joe does. I'd like to see him there. And his daughter as well, of course. There is much pride to find in being from WV, but stains like this family detract from it.

Like billionaires all came from some weird reverse orphanage 😂

Hmmm, I hadn't considered it in those particular terms, previously. I would definitely say my actions are less moral than they would be if I was doing the raising and butchering myself. Evil feels harsh but if we are using clear cut terms like good, neutral and evil, then I have to put my current actions in the evil column. And since my entire argument is based on a moral middle ground, I would say yes. I am attempting to move into morally neutral territory.

Right. Which is why I stated in my original comment that I am in favor of a popular majority vote...

Edit: typo

I don't know. That feels a bit off-center to me rather than middle considering one end of the spectrum is "kill nothing ever" and the other end is "How many endangered animals can I make extinct just for funsies." If everyone killed what they ate themselves, manually, I bet we'd have a bunch more vegetarians hanging around.

He's a WV politician. I assure you, he KNOWS he's going to heaven. It's a mentality here.

I agree that question is morally neutral. And not yet, I don't, but that is the long term goal. I've got the land I would need and am working on fencing. In the interim, I have switched to meat raised and butchered by hand.

Nope but I will add it to my list. Checked out the link and it's right up my alley. Thanks.

Well yeah. I hope I didn't imply they actually won lol. I'm saying they lost, but when people generally tell that story like in the various movies or a history class lecture, they're positioned as the good guys. So many many years later, in that all we have are stories, that matters more than winning. Just my opinion I suppose.

Side note: yeah that Gerard Butler movie 😂

So, like, sisters of Jesus?

Voting down some of my others I accept but this one is golden and I stand by it 😂. If Tamora had just watched him cook, she'd have known where her sons had disappeared to

Saying it's more efficient was meant to be a little tongue in cheek. It's not now. It was a few hundred years ago when communication was still done by horseback.

Having local governments does mitigate the effect megacities have on rural locations, yes, but not regarding national elections. An argument I've heard time and time again for keeping the EC is that without it, each president would be decided by NYC and LA.