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Hey there, fellow political enthusiasts and furry friend lovers! We're Alex and Taylor, and we're on a mission to document our obsession with congressional apportionment. But, we're not doing it alone – our faithful companions, Nero the dog 🐶 and Scipio the cat 🐱, are along for the ride. 🚗

As many of you know, congressional apportionment is the process of determining how many seats each state gets in the U.S. House of Representatives. It's a topic that might make some people yawn, but for us, it's like a thrilling adventure!

This is art.

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angry Hexbear noises*

Hot but correct take.

The edited punctuation is indeed easier to read, exactly why it was introduced. But, regarding the "indended pace": Dickinson used her unorthodox punctuation with intent, and if the pace feels jarring, and/or forces you to pause and reconsider - that's likely what she really intended.

Well I do see many people posting poems just so, without the authors, not just by mistake. So this one ticked me off, especially because I really wanted to know who the author is :D

The second comment wasn't meant as criticism directed at you, but at the editor. This version with normalised punctuation is indeed very widespread online.

I don't really understand why people post poems online without providing their attribution. Perhaps poems are perceived as something similar to proverbs, small floating bits of wisdom without a specific, individual author.

Unrelated to that, it's interesting to note that this particular rendition is not a very "loyal" representation of the original manuscript. Emily Dickinson used dashes extremely frequently in her poetry, and this edition appears to remove them completely, replacing them with more conventional punctuation. You can see the original manuscript at https://dickinsonsbirds.org/project/poems/210 - IMO this editorial decision isn't justifiable.

They should be archiving a lot more of the internet, too, including all media.

They do, they have an extensive collection of scanned books, music and film.

Even the most fascist redfash still would have killed the nazis.

They'd kill who they define as nazis. I find that tankies' (especially Hexbear) definition of nazism doesn't entirely correspond to mine or that of most other people. So this is not something to be super optimistic about.

The last one is not the Firefox logo, but the general Mozilla Foundation logo.

Source: literally just looking at the icon on your desktop.

I know I shouldn't be the one to nitpick because I posted a similar "design simplification bad" meme myself just yesterday, but still... :D

Kind of, but on the other hand people (male, I believe) are openly agreeing with it ITT and apparently find it funny.

Watching a Youtube video here and there is not an addiction. Google has a monopoly in the area. I've switched from Chrome to Firefox, and use both Google and Yandex search, but I can't really switch away from Gmail, and if I want to watch e.g. a music video or some educational clip or interview, etc. etc. 99.9% of the time Youtube is the only place where I can do that.

I guess where you're coming from is the annoyance with the endless complaining about Twitter and reddit. But those two, while definitely unhealthily large and living off an addicted userbase, are still not in a position as monopolistic and as unavoidable as Youtube's.

assuming the ads are not malicious

All ads are malicious.

Tax our billionaires.

They'd probably bribe half the EU parliament and make it reduce the taxes in EU instead.

As a EU citizen - no thanks, unless you get like ten seats in the EU parliament at most.

instead of spending energy to “fix search” or “build better admin tools” they put their focus into buzzwords and ads. The NFT profile snoos, the crypto approach

Now that you put it that way, it sounds like reddit is run by people from r/wallstreetbets.

That's the weird part. Apparently it's existed long before the API shutdown, and they only started advertising it a little bit when they killed off reddit awards, as some sort of alternative.

Not that it would've succeeded either way, but it seems like they didn't even try?

I hope this does go to show you that English really isn’t total random chaos like it’s often portrayed

Too late, there's already the mandatory "three languages in a trenchcoat" comment.

Smh the background/flag isn't gold-black stripes 🤦‍♂️

Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of intentional violence and fear to achieve political or ideological aims

By that definition, every state that has ever waged a war is a terrorist state.

Let’s not discuss semantics.

Your post is based on classifying X into group Y, that sort of claim has to presuppose some semantics of Y by definition.

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