Your myopic view of the impact of gerrymandering (looking only at whether presidential elections involve districts or not) is simple-minded and ignorant.

I have seen the proof. I’m just not willing to do research for a random internet troll who’s too lazy to do a simple search on their own. I have more important things to do with my time.

You’re literally the only one here making decisions without data. 🤷‍♀️

Muting you now. You’re too childish for me to engage with anymore 👋

My unwillingness to spoon feed you data is not proof of its absence. You are free to disregard arguments because you’re too lazy to look it up, but it just makes you look like a petulant child 🤷‍♀️

I’m not going to educate you on how gerrymandering has direct downstream consequences on presidential election results.

It is so, so easy to find the information on that. Like, one Google search. Including data. I’m not going do your work for you. And I’m not going to play into the “if you don’t give me literally everything then your whole argument is null” fallacy.

How could you possibly dispute that state legislatures historically disenfranchise large populations of voters by targeting specific demographics? That this has reprecussions for presidential elections? And that gerrymandering is a major component of capturing state legislatures and governorships?

Stop trolling.

I’m not sure why I need to provide that information for the most recent election? Nothing I said is controversial or logically disputable

I don’t give a shit about op in this context. I am responding to a claim that gerrymandering cannot change a Presidential election result and that is simply a demonstrably false statement. Whether it did or did not impact one specific election is irrelevant

That’s only if you look at a single election in isolation.

However, when you consider that it is state government that decide things like how many polling locations to have and where to put them, whether mail-on ballots are supported, voter ID requirements, etc. your statement becomes less accurate.

Can you gerrymander a Presidential election? No. Can gerrymandering lead directly to a change in future presidential election outcomes? Resoundingly yes

And that’s how you know you’re in the forkin’ Good Place

Light novel readers looking at this image going “If you know, you know. And wow, they nailed it.”

In all seriousness, this is what happens when you write novels without doing any world-building and just put down whatever seems “fun”. The are sooooo many things in that series that make no sense once they are superceded by later plot devices. Rowling didn’t think any of it through ahead of time and gave almost no thought to internal consistency with previous content when she wrote new things.

It’s honestly a terrible series in most regards and it’s kind of disappointing how popular it became.

Also she a trans-hating bigot. Fuck J.K. Rowling. Can’t forget that part whenever discussing her or her work.

Reminds me of a classic and very dark humor joke.

Ok. Why don’t you try explaining how digital security works to the security professional some more. I’m sure you’ll convince me real soon 😜

This is a misunderstanding. You can’t possibly know if there’s been a benefit, because you wouldn’t know unless your account was compromised. The mere presence of 2fa on an account will stop credential stuffing attacks dead in their tracks.

It’s like saying “this lock on my door is pointless because nobody has broken into my house”.

A minor annoyance now to avoid a major headache later. Worth the trade

Atta girl, Patty! This is what we sent you for.

Not gonna pretend she’s not part of the establishment, but her and Maria Cantwell have been our picks for the Senate for several elections now and with good reason when you look at the alternatives.

Called this a while ago https://urusai.social/@neatchee/112255667073894754

Space Ghost; “Moltar, eject the warp core!”
Moltar: “We don’t have a warp core.”
Space Ghost: “Good work!”

It shouldn’t be that confusing, considering this is literally the challenge lawmakers (honest ones, as rare as they are) face.

There’s a great blog post by Neil Gaiman (despite recent revelations about his misconduct) that talks about “why we must defend icky speech”.

Long story short, the law is a blunt instrument. If you cannot clearly and accurately define the terms being used in the language of the law then you wind up with a law that can be applied beyond the intended scope. Like when you write laws about freedom of religion and then wind up with The Satanic Temple erecting statues of Baphomet in court houses. Or banning the Bible from library because it contains depictions of violence and sexual deviancy or promiscuity

These issues aren’t just academic. They have real-world consequences. Like, there have literally been legal rulings made based on the presence or absence of an Oxford comma

Is that kind of pedantry useful to the average conversation? No, of course not. But there are people trying to make laws that target women, or trans women, and if they can’t accurately define what a woman is then the law can be used to target people they didn’t want targeted.

Which is one of many reasons why trying to target trans folks with legal authority is a fool’s errand

Great scene. Carter dismantling the dummy is very satisfying

I never said anything about the quality of the games. I’m speaking specifically to the monetization bullshit.

As I said elsewhere: budget bloat happens in a lot of places. Greedy executive and publishers is one place. Overambitious design goals that get scrapped is another. There’s also bad tools workflows, mismanagement, and any number of other contributing factors.

But even indie devs are getting screwed on pricing and making far less than they deserve to be in many cases.

If people keep buying CoD and Assassins Creed, devs will keep making them. And if they can’t increase retail price to cover the budget they will find other ways to do it.

I almost replied from my inbox; glad someone said it before I even got to it haha

Oh don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying the capital structure is fair by any means. I understand all the reasons why people - especially right now - are struggling to justify big purchases.

And I will readily agree that inefficient and improper use of resources is one of the contributing factors to ballooning development budgets

That said, video games are - and I challenge you to disprove this - easily one of the best investments for entertainment. Dollars-per-hour of fun on a 20hr, $60 game is $3. For a live service game where people spend hundreds of thousands of hours playing it can get below $0.10 per hour.

EDIT: I also agree that demos need to make a comeback because I’m sick of wasting money. Though people also need to read some reviews before they buy occasionally :/