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[–] criitz@reddthat.com 1 points 2 months ago

Star voting solves all the problems for single winner elections

[–] criitz@reddthat.com 24 points 2 months ago (3 children)

The Clampets are moving again

[–] criitz@reddthat.com 37 points 2 months ago

The people that named those places were still European

Checkmate

[–] criitz@reddthat.com 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I was curious about the claims about Eno so I Googled a bit. Eno actually is responsible for a lot of these ideas being put in use, if not inventing them himself. He basically pioneered the concept of standardized traffic rules.

As for the stop sign, Eno proposed the idea in 1900:

In a 1900 article titled “Reforming Our Street Traffic Urgently Needed,” for Rider and Driver magazine, he proposed placing stop signs at intersections. It was a civilizing notion.“That was a new concept and really did introduce the idea that you had to watch out for other people,” Schank says.

Harry Jackson created his octagonal sign 14 years later, in 1914:

Stop signs were invented in Detroit in 1914, which seems the obvious place considering it’s the car center of the universe. Detroit police sergeant Harry Jackson was working an intersection where one lane came in at an odd angle and so he continuously had to stop the cars coming that way. He took a board, cut the corners off and wrote “stop” on it. It did the trick and soon he was telling the other cops about it and it soon caught on.

The invention of the roundabout is a bit more complicated. Circular intersections of some kind predated Eno, but they wouldn't all be considered roundabouts by our definition today.

[–] criitz@reddthat.com 12 points 2 months ago

vituperative
/vī-too͞′pər-ə-tĭv, -tyoo͞′-, -pə-rā″-, vĭ-/

adjective
Using, containing, or marked by harshly critical or irate language.

[–] criitz@reddthat.com 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

K nevermind then

[–] criitz@reddthat.com 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

That's not a legal scholar. This clause in the constitution says it's treason to "levy war" against the US, which one would imagine includes a large group of armed people storming the Capitol, regardless if the country is currently "at war".

I'm curious about the idea that "legal scholars agree" that the country itself must already be at war, unless that's not what you meant?

[–] criitz@reddthat.com 0 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Do you have a source on that?

[–] criitz@reddthat.com 8 points 2 months ago

Just look at the reflection of the sky in a lake (try any Bob Ross painting) to see a mirror reflect top and bottom

[–] criitz@reddthat.com 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Keeping an eye on Harris' stance on the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, Sanders made sure to bring that up, saying, “I think, in all fairness to the vice president, she’s been the candidate for all of one month. And it’s been a hell of a month. You have to organize the convention, select a vice presidential campaign, get out on the campaign trail. So, they are still working through their policies.”

[–] criitz@reddthat.com 2 points 2 months ago

Ok sure, we're going to skip shit like The Matrix but include Notting Hill?

[–] criitz@reddthat.com 3 points 2 months ago

This doesn't take into account that it's a swing state

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