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How did this happen?
  • The phrasing I've settled on personally is "the only choices were Harris, Trump, or Either."

    In a winner take all election, anything but a vote for the runner up is an endorsement of the winner.

  • What is Trump going to do to social security since he is now going to be president? Just wondering because my mom gets SS and she does not want me to support here?
  • Please understand that "nothing" means the built up surplus runs out and there will be not enough money to pay all benefits.

    The smart and easy fix would be to raise the cap on ss taxes while flattening the "you deserve more money because you made more money when you were working" weirdness.

    Instead, they'll likely either do nothing and force the dems to fix it in four years, play with benefits to make the poor suffer, or try and replace it with a phased in 401k style stock market scam.

    (that last option, btw, is killing social security.)

  • Is Online Voting The Future?
  • If you can figure out how to have anonymous and secure ANYTHING over the internet you'd win a nobel prize.

    For the moment, claims to do all three either lie about one part or are as sci-fi magic as sapient AI or faster than light communication.

  • Nate Silver: Here’s What My Gut Says About the Election. But Don’t Trust Anyone’s Gut, Even Mine.
  • Depending on your state that's probably true... Unless, like Georgia (or maybe Texas soon) you have an even where a Red-controlled state goes Blue by a thin majority and the NPV keeps special attention away from them.

    I can honestly see Texas republicans joining the NPV if they go POTUS-blue just once. Especially if there's any downballot effect.

  • Nate Silver: Here’s What My Gut Says About the Election. But Don’t Trust Anyone’s Gut, Even Mine.
  • Politics doesn't happen in a vacuum.

    When the NPVC goes into effect, both major parties will run whole-country campaigns and swaths of the nation that are currently ignored will get actual attention. While some states may have pullback campaigns, its also likely that other states will react by joining the compact to preserve the new status quo of not being ignored.

    (the compact itself does allow for states leaving, and even sets a nice 6-month time offset. )

  • Understanding The Electoral College Debate
  • There isnt a debate.

    One of the major parties in the USA knows that they are able to get power only because the 1929 Apportionment act artificially buouys the power of less populous states in the House and by extension the electoral college. The other one is just fine with actual proportional representation.

    Not t metion that the EC doesn't encourage presidential candidates to campaign nationwide: most states are ignored, and focus is on the minority of swing states.

    (and Lincoln had a clear plurality of the popular vote. He woukd have won a national vote too.)

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    Don't forget to always vote for the lesser of two evils, folks!
  • You're not "striving for revolution", you're carrying water for regression to a pre-WW2 USA.

    Getting pregnant,. transgender, homosexual, foreign-seeming, and left-leaning Americans killed (in that order) will save exactly negative Palestinian lives.

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    A book costs $1 plus half it's price. How much does it cost?
  • In common commercial english, i would read that as "this merchant will offer to trade any of the books for an amoumt of currency equal to half the book's cover price plus $1."

    Such vagueness also suggests sufficient informality that the merchant may either accept seperate offers or veto the general rule on a case-by-case basis.

  • Is it too much to ask to demand an end to genocide?
  • You say that like there's a world where the cop is not less-bad than the serial rapist.

    Honestly, at this point you're either a pro-trump troll or a trump-like useful idiot. There is little i can say that might change your mind, especially if you're in the latter group and honestly think the ghosts of gaza will thank you for your performative morality when Trump gives the ok for Israel to go mask-off.

  • Is it too much to ask to demand an end to genocide?
  • Is it too much to ask for a meme template that doesn't DIRECTLY contradict your message?

    Or did you mean to imply that single-issue anti-gaza-slaughter voters are the equivalent of star wars criticts being properly annoyed by folk who like melodramatic space opera?

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    Plan after Harris-Walz victory
  • In order to blame the bad actions of the United States for the "polycrisis", you really need to excuse all of the bad actions of everyone else.

    To pick a timely issue : blaming the USA for the actions of Israel in their* Gaza territory we would need to excuse Israel for the actions of Israel.

    If a general strike would have any effect id support it, but the target should be the specific actions of our country rather than the actions of other sovereign nations.

    (*: If the govt of israel does not recognize a distinct Palestinian state, and the pseudo-governments of Palestine cannot exert sovereign control to keep Israel out, then Palestine is [unjustly] and [occupied] territory of Israel.)

  • Explain why the US bail system is not insane
  • Bail is not money you get back. It's money that a bail bondsman doesn't have to fork over if you dont show.

    Either you are so rich that the opportunity cost of tieing up the whole amount is more than the fee (so you just pay the bond fee) or you don't have enough and need to ask someone to lend it to yoy (that is, you pay the bond.)

    New York tried to largely ban cash bail (becaue its essentially just a way to lock up the poor), but because of Republicans and police unions (i repeat myself) who whined about offenses while out on bail, the state poked a bunch of holes in it instead of making pre-trial detention easier.

    Cash bail is ALWAYS indefensible. If someone is so dangerous to civic order they need to be detained pre-trial, then no amount of money should get them out of it.

  • What is your solution to the problem in the world you're the most vocal about?
  • Did you just intend to endorse organ harvesting and grave robbing?

    And, if you want tax reform capital gains aren't your target, but instead "unrealized gains". A billionare pledging stock to back a loan should pay tax on their whole net worth's increass in value first.

  • "Excuse me, I'm bombing."
  • In an American-style single-ballot-plurality wins election, anything but a vote for ons of two leading candidates is effectively an endorsement of either.

    It sucks, but if you're not voting and advocating for Harris, you're not voting or advocatong against Trump.

  • Is there a specific example of Target getting a shoplifter felony convicted for a small individual theft that puts them over the felony limit?
  • So, you're asking if there is a shoplifter whose small-dollar.spree was stopped by target, who was then arrested by the police, who then refused an initial plea offer from the DA, who was then charged by a grand jury, refused a pre-trial plea offer, went to trial, refused the pre-verdict plea offer, and was then found guilty?

    Well, what about someone who hit 60k over 120 visits?

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/05/07/target-self-checkout-thief-aziza-graves-convicted/73599144007/

    (edit: shortened url.)

  • House rule for comment : Spell Slot Heresy

    First house rule from my P2e remaster game, offered for your review.

    Spell Slot Heresy

    Since Pathfinder is balanced at a per encounter level, per-day limits on daily abilities are largely only kept around due to tradition. And tradition is just peer pressure from strangers, I don't see a good reason to follow it.

    Any spellcaster can recover spent spell-slots with a one-hour activity, as noted below, while characters with focus points can recover them during combat.

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    Recover Magic

    Traits: concentrate, exploration, manipulate Requirements: You have expended a spell slot or used some other once-per-day activity

    You spend one hour to recover your expended magical power.

    During such time you may not work on any other activities or actions or be treated for wounds. At the end of the hour you regain spell slots or once-per-day abilities as per your daily preparations. If you have cast spells from a wand or staff, the item also regains any expended uses or charges.

    If you are a prepared spellcaster such as a cleric or wizard, you may not replace what spells you have prepared for the day.

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    Refocus (1A)

    Traits: concentrate, flourish, manipulate Requirements: You are missing at least one focus point.

    You take a moment to perform some deed to restore your magical connection, such as touching a talisman, speaking a phrase, or simply taking a breath. Doing so restores 1 Focus Point at the end of your turn.

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    EDIT: For the record, please presume the above is all released under the ORC license as a derivative of Player Core 1.

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