Because it isn’t burning, it’s exploding like a very big big big stick of TNT that’s going off veeeeeery slowly

I actually don’t think a fully artificial human like mind will ever be built outside of novelty purely because we ventured down the path of binary computing.

Great for mass calculation but horrible for the kinds of complex pattern recognitions that the human mind excels at.

The singularity point isn’t going to be the matrix or skynet or AM, it’s going to be the first quantum device successfully implanted and integrated into a human mind as a high speed calculation sidegrade “Third Hemisphere.”

Someone capable of seamlessly balancing between human pattern recognition abilities and emotional intelligence while also capable of performing near instant multiplication of matrices of 100 entries of length in 15 dimensions.

Metabolism mostly. Kinda glommed into a listlessness of not knowing what I’m doing with my life in a professional sense.

I still think the dill pickle flavored ones taste better

Basically, “I can’t stop thinking of dat ass lol, you said I could tap that but now I’m blueballed, so I’m in the basement feeling like a loser while jacking off to you and trying to hold the spit until you get here.”

Some of those terms are basically the equivalent of appending lol or XD or rofl onto the end of every sentence, but yeah, it’s basically just “ayo lemme smash already gurl!”

Shoulda spray painted “weirdo” on it just to provoke them into super Saiyan truck mode

As in our profits and minimized losses.

I say make it a gradient based on zip codes.

High enough that the local average rent is no more than 30% of it.

Doesn’t just make sure workers get paid adequately wherever they are, also provides a slight incentive towards making jobs in less developed regions of the country to bring more jobs out to the exurbs and such.

I wonder what resources are available to digitize the collection.

Genuinely one of the few ways I think Blockchain tech could be used productively, since those records are extremely hard for hostile actors to alter or damage once committed into the log. It basically becomes a permanent copy so long as the nodes are maintained.

Might not be as “authentic” but while the books have value as artefacts, the words are what take priority for preservation above all else.

Hey don’t blame us, blame the nepos who got on the board without even needing to study for it!

My MBA track actively rewards me for thinking like a socialist XD.

Association based morality is a hell of a drug.

Everything Kamala does is at best annoyingly misguided because she’s "one of them."

Everything Trump does is at worst excusable because he’s "one of us."

They don’t have principles, they believe the good people need to be protected and that the bad people need to be punished, and that what decides good from bad is who they are, not what they do.

I blame the Calvinists. Fuckers pull predestination out of their rancid anuses and we’ve all been suffering for it since!

So we really just cycled all the way back to “The Left” being a dogwhistle in antisemitic conspiracy language again huh?

Trump said they’d be to blame if he lost and this pops up not even a week later.

US Greens are damned traitors to democracy itself.

I am baffled beyond baffling by how everyone swerved on this one

BECAUSE I AM VERY OBVIOUSLY NOT TALKING ABOUT A FPTP SYSTEM YOU ILLITERATE COW!

READ THE DAMN CHAIN! I EXPLICITLY CALLED OUT STAR VOTING IN THE FUCKING CHAIN!

USE YOUR CONTEXT CLUES GODDAMN YOU!

We do need a rewrite at this point.

The US as a structure has overgrown the limitations the constitution has as a governing system.

Not even in the sense that the US is approaching being a fully representative democracy while the constitution was designed as an oligarchic republic of household owning family heads.

Just the sense that the system of governance itself is not one that can handle 50 states with territories and DCs in change.

There needs to be a dramatic expansion just in the electoral infrastructure and system of this country for the house and Senate to even stand a chance of performing the roles they’re supposedly intended to, and that’s before we get into how they themselves need to be radically redesigned.

The office of the presidency itself needs to be eliminated and folded into the powers of the House and Senate, the supreme court needs to be replaced with a sortitioned case by case bench selection to end the efficacy of jurisdiction shopping, and the process to pass amendments needs to be SIGNIFICANTLY altered to smooth the process and provide checks and balances between the people, the states, and the feds.

Ok now I know you’re intentionally being obtuse.

Read the fucking chain Sea Lion and quit arguing with a position you invented out of thin air.

…then they both get on the ballot?

I feel like at this point you’re going out of your way to be obtuse about not understanding what is being explained.

Party infrastructure is involved at exactly no point in this process.

Multiple people from the same party would be able to share the ballot.

This is because the voting system is such that there would be no spoiler effect from two or more candidates from the same party running.

In fact, an ideal would be for parties to encourage multiple candidates to run, since there would be few offices in contest for which there would only be a single open seat.

A petition submitted to the relevant municipal electoral committee?

…did you just entirely forget that you get on the ballot via petitions completely outside the primary process?

Nah, “The Party” never picks candidates, it’s just that spoiler effects are removed via reforms like STAR voting