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  • The source is cited above. I’m not surprised you’ve ignored it though.

    No I read it. Just forgot since, you know, its been hours.

    You’re clearly trying to paint the EC as part of the House/Senate compromise when no evidence for that exists.

    Why would there be some pushing for the president to be nominated by congress?

  • If given infinite resources, yes. I answered you.

    I again didn't ask that. Its also not true for all populations(such as human populations)

    The current population will likely be zero, perhaps simply approaching the limit of zero if tardigrades and extremophiles survive. But in terms of multicellular life, yeah, there can be a zero for sure.

    I did ask if there can be either. I asked why you assume it would be.

    It would be cool if our ozone was working perfectly, then, huh? But it’s not any more, and is getting worse:

    That source seems to indicate that they're not entirely sure why it is getting worse, but it is a combination of factors. However NASA and the the UN say recovery of the ozone layer is still on track for 2040.

  • I cringe at the narcissism of thinking others are "normies" or whatever. The type of reddit "sportsball", "I hate small talk", "dark humor", "r/raisedbynarcissists", etc. And many more things. A lot of it feels like it's just people thinking they know better than others(yes I see the irony).

    Unrelated answer I get uncomfortable eating in restaurants.

  • If a population is given infinite resources, sure, theoretically.

    I didn't say they were given infinite resources. I said if a population is growing exponentially does that mean it will continue to do so.

    The energy that comes from the sun is cumulative and may as well be considered infinite since the sun isn't going out any time soon.

    Yeah?

    Did you really think that was a gotchya?

    What? It was a question you didn't answer. Why do you assume just because something is exponential that it will continue. Another example- transistor size in processors exponentially shrinks. Does that mean eventually it's going to reach zero nm? (hint the answer is no)

    I'm also not saying that this disproves something can exponentially fall to zero. I'm just saying, stating the current relationship doesn't guarantee it will continue.

    Look at every other planet. That ours happens to be energetically at a temp to support life is the exception.

    Earth is very far removed from other planets in terms of atmospheric conditions.

  • That was why the conversation was Congress, the People’s will indirectly, or a popular vote directly.

    Source?

    The people who wrote the document knew an appointment system could not and would not stand.

    But they also knew some states would prefer it and may be reluctant to ratify if a popular vote were required.

    Throwing it to the state legislatures to officially decide was the compromise.

    How is that a compromise? Unless you mean because it gave the states the authority, which yk, is what I said.

    I’m not even sure why you’re arguing this? Are you trying to argue that we should appoint electors now?

    You said "At no point did the founders want the state interests to vote for president. It was either the people directly or the people indirectly."

    Which is untrue. And again, the electoral college was intentionally designed to be a middle ground between "popular interest" and "state interest"- you falsely said "You’re thinking of the 3/5ths and the large state / small state compromises."- which is not what I was thinking of.

    The number of electors states were given was guaranteed to be 4 + population. The 4 constant was for the same reason as the senate 2 constant, to fairly represent all states, + population was for the same reason as the house- to represent the population of the country as a whole.

  • Okay you can dismiss it, but how about I just show you what the constitution says:

    Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress

    The electors are determined by the state legislature. Same as what was intended of the senate.

    The South Carolina legislature even appointed their electors until 1860

    As Wikipedia says:

    Each state government was free to have its own plan for selecting its electors, and the Constitution does not explicitly require states to popularly elect their electors.