DirkMcCallahan @ DirkMcCallahan @lemmy.world

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"The ability to type does not make you intelligent."

Your whole world just fell apart and you think it's your fault? Nothing that can't be fixed with a little song and dance!

Pure poetry!

The 60% threshold isn't inherently bad, and I agree that an argument could be made for requiring at least 55% approval in order for a ballot initiative to pass. Here are my problems with the Ohio situation:

• Issue 1 would make it harder to put initiatives on the ballot, period. The big hurdle is requiring a relatively large number of signatures from EVERY county in the state. This means that a single ruby-red county could single-handedly keep an issue off of the ballot
• Ohio is so gerrymandered that ballot initiatives are about the only voice available to the population. The GOP has supermajorities in the state Senate and House, even though they only have about a 4% advantage in registered voters.

It's absolutely critical to defeat Issue 1.

significant/overwhelming majority of counties

Change "counties" to "people" and I might agree. But "significant majority of counties" is just an extension of the anti-democratic bias that we see in the Senate and EC. It should always be one-person-one-vote.

Even though I was in the prime age group for Digg, I shockingly never even heard of it until after I became a Reddit user and heard tales of its demise.

StumbleUpon was my main Internet resource during those years. I still miss it.

Conservatives decide to use the court system to fuck over people in need? What a shocker!

"Junk websites filled with AI-generated text"

And here I thought this was going to be a headline about Reddit.

This is why I always find a way to decline dinner invitations.

I mean, I'll happily eat 10 olives as part of a salad, or 20 straight-up as a snack. You've gotta rinse them off first, though. Also, the cheap brands are less oily and salty.

Or like the fly that gets into your car right before you set off on an 8 hour road trip.

Well, to be fair, I don't care what you're going through; if you run a stop sign and nearly T-bone me, then fuck you.

My Fediverse experience became exponentially superior once I learned that the default sorting options were a bit shite compared to the alternatives.

And then we find ourselves falling victim to the sunk cost fallacy.

Yo

Guilty as charged.

And dumber than W's public persona.

This really describes the Republican party.

This is in reference to the 14th amendment, right? Assuming that he's convicted before the election, how would that be enforced? Say New York refuses to put him on the ballot and SCOTUS says that they can't do that. What would happen then?

It's wild that there are so many charges, and in such a short timeframe. It feels like just yesterday that we weren't sure if he'd ever be charged with anything...

When I heard that this was the 3rd indictment, I found myself thinking, "Ok, there's the Mar-A-Lago case, but what was the first one? Ah..."

In the future there will be entire college courses dedicated solely to the Trump era.