Peter Drake HAS MOVED @peterdrake@qoto.org
- Siva Afi
- https://tgc.link/siva-afi
- Cascadia 9.0
- https://www.cascadia9game.org/
I have moved to peterdrake@mstdn.social. If you found peterdrake@qoto.org on a website, please let me know at my new account.
Joined Aug 2018
Interesting -- I was beginning to think YOU'RE "just trolling, not really interested in conversation on the topic". Still, let's give it a go in the name of the QOTO ideal.
Regardless of what you think about me, the NPV compact has already passed in 12 states plus DC, controlling 181 of the 270 electoral votes it will need to kick in. It's sitting on two more governors' desks. This is a real change that's coming, not idle philosophy.
Despite your (somewhat uncivil) assumption, NPV advocates HAVE done our research. Here's my understanding of why the EC was established. Correct me where I'm wrong:
1) The Founding Fathers, with a narrower concept of "the people" than we have today, didn't want to leave decisions to the masses. They imagined that the electors would meet to discuss their decision. This is no longer relevant because faithless electors are now fantastically rare.
2) When the Constitution was established, getting all of the states to sign on was challenging. There was a debate between "every state equal" (the senate) and "every person equal" (the house). Specifically, the slave states wanted to protect that institution, so they arranged to be able to count 3/5 of their nonvoting slaves as part of their population. This is also no longer relevant.
Of course I'm aware of the notion of the tyranny of the majority. It just seems to me that the EC merely replaces it with a tyranny of the minority, which is certainly worse.
RT @ThingsWork@twitter.com
This is how seagulls bring earthworms to the surface. By stamping their feet on the ground, seagulls produce vibrations that mimic the sound of raindrops
Worms come to the surface to migrate and moist soil means they can move further distances than if the ground is dry
RT @codeForPDX@twitter.com
Real Native history in a video game: An Indigenous take on The Oregon Trail
https://newsmaven.io/indiancountrytoday/lifestyle/real-native-history-in-a-video-game-an-indigenous-take-on-the-oregon-trail-t0HHVelCr0uBAsBE64jumQ/ @nativesintech@twitter.com @O_NAC@twitter.com @NAYAFam@twitter.com @IndianCountry@twitter.com @tribecalledgeek@twitter.com @PIGSquad@twitter.com
RT @sarah_edo@twitter.com
Someone sent this to me and it’s bone chilling in its accuracy
I got my mom a new phone with a brand-new number yesterday and it's already getting spammered.
RT @__apf__@twitter.com
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1360: story about a werewolf is interrupted to ask you to pray for the nobleman who paid for the translation
RT @DTWillingham@twitter.com
Middle-schooler: What's the noun for expedite?
Me: What?
MS: Like "something that's been expedited."
Me: Oh. I don't know.
MS: I keep thinking "expedition." But I know it's not.
Me:
MS:
Me: It should be, though.
MS: Right? There should be someone we could call.
RT @ringo_starrrr@twitter.com
no pain au chocolat no gain au chocolat
RT @DreamK3ng@twitter.com
At this point I don’t even know if I’m breathing correctly https://twitter.com/tukangcukurrpw/status/1107104773767987200
Colleague: *arrives at last committee meeting before spring break* *pulls four bottles of wine out of her purse*
RT @mcmillen@twitter.com
I have a CS PhD & worked at Google for 9 years.
Probably none of that would've happened if my CS 1 class weren't taught in Scheme. The kids who came in already knowing C and Java were equally perplexed by Scheme and therefore I didn't feel like the dumbest one in the class. https://twitter.com/maddiestone/status/1107343534548357120
RT @chadloder@twitter.com
Stanford just launched their Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (@StanfordHAI@twitter.com) with great fanfare. The mission: "The creators and designers of AI must be broadly representative of humanity."
121 faculty members listed.
Not a single faculty member is Black.
Due to bad planning, I've had handfuls of sugar and salt for both lunch and dinner today.
RT @EliFitch@twitter.com
Hell Yeah I know about linked lists
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What else u got
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RT @NotLasers@twitter.com
That day, Westley was amazed to discover that when the Dread Pirate Roberts was saying, "Good night, Westley. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely kill you in the morning." what he meant was, "I love you."
This video powerfully makes a point about unconscious gender bias in the workplace without (quite) coming out and saying it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFW2cfzevio
Conspiracy theory: climate change isn't *fake*, but it was deliberately engineered for the benefit of Big Sunscreen.
Marketing gimmick: sous-vide board games.
- Siva Afi
- https://tgc.link/siva-afi
- Cascadia 9.0
- https://www.cascadia9game.org/
I have moved to peterdrake@mstdn.social. If you found peterdrake@qoto.org on a website, please let me know at my new account.
Joined Aug 2018
