Good news! RCV already solves that problem

If Bernie didn’t get enough votes to win, the votes for him go to the voters’ second choice candidate (Biden – few voters would want Bernie-Trump). If those combined votes are enough for him to win, then Biden wins in that state. In RCV, Trump would only win if people actually preferred him over Biden

That is why they call it “an invasion”

Two ads before the video starts, which was a movie trailer.

“To watch this ad you first must watch two ads!”

[Borat voice: wife!] right now

I think that’s either for fresh fruit or if it’s near a door it’s for holding your keys

Edit: nevermind. It’s definitely a weird sink

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Also, Mussolini didn’t make the trains run on time. He forbade the press from reporting the trains running late

It would indeed be a silly not

They briefly mentioned government cheese on the post. The story of “government cheese” is actually quite interesting itself. There’s an Omnibus podcast episode about it https://www.omnibusproject.com/200

Also “Does the ToS have a binding arbitration agreement”

If they name it Red Power maybe Eloraam would come back

I was going to disagree with you by using AI to generate my response, but the generated response was easily recognizable as non-human. You may be onto something lol

I have had some luck asking it follow-up questions to explain what each line does. LLMs are decent at that and might even discover bugs.

You could also copy the conversation and paste it to another instance. It is much easier to critique than to come up with something, and this holds true for AI as well, so the other instance can give feedback like “I would have suggested x” or “be careful with commands like y”

It’s doublespeak, a la 1984. In this case many of the words used are inversions of their usual meaning.

I’ll provide some translations:

patriots -> seditionists

biblical -> cloaked in the authority of God – which here must be explicitly stated because their actions are opposed to any God of justice

open boarders -> following legal and ethical principles (remember, these people oppose ethical principles)

peacemakers -> those who use violence, or the threat of violence, to obstruct peace. See also, terrorists

besieged by dark forces of evil -> opposed by morality, ethics, or the law. The addition of “on all sides” changes the ‘or’ to ‘and’

As a bonus, “globalists” is antisemitism. There’s an old canard that justice for minorities = communism = Jewish conspiracy. This is particularly common among nazis. The convoy organizer is signaling that their group is accepting of these ideas

I imagine there’s code to do something like currency conversion or maybe rewards points calculation so the displayed amount is not actually the number used for the final total

God bless America

Don’t have to wait in line if you can’t afford to go in the first place

Taps head

I misunderstood what “war machine” meant.

I heard phrases on TV like “it cost $1 billion dollars per month to keep the war machine running” and “the US captured 100,000 barrels of oil per day to feed the war machine” and I thought this thing must be some epic beast.

The terrorists better watch out! We’re sending the war machine! It must have, like, sawblade hands and tank tracks and breathe fire and have machine gun turrets.

Imagine my disappointment when I learned that THE WAR MACHINE was just a metaphor and not a Mecha Godzilla

I set mine up in 2009 and it is shocking to me how this is not the standard

Your sweet aunt René well deck you in the fuckin’ face!

Few things will get an adult to hit a kid as quickly as that kid questioning their religion. This, from people who insist “God is love”