Because a war is in his interests right now, he’ll make whatever excuse is necessary.

Nah probably is him, with just a teensy bit of photoshop.

Just inject it directly into the brain smh

It does actually. The system is rigged to only allow two viable candidates. Anyone who says otherwise is either a conman or just foolish. You must pick one, or the rest of the country will pick for you, and you will get nothing.

There are rare situations when a party breaks up, allowing the other party to win, but those are increasingly uncommon, because everyone knows how it will end up.

That said, many mammals DO have a baculum, such as gorillas, chimpanzees, dogs, raccoons, hedgehogs, bats, and many more.

Well yeah, and if more people did that we wouldn’t be dealing with nearly as many problems as we currently are.

I don’t think tentacles HAVE bones…

Oh no, that sounds terrible! Now let’s both take the BDSM Test to make sure we know what other kinks to steer clear of.

This evidence is certainly in contrast to those who believe, based on the writings of Charles Dickens alone, that the Earth is around 4.5 billion years old.

🤣 this writer is genius

Woah woah woah, I said nothing about blockchain. That would almost certainly be the wrong, overly complex solution. The systems that exist for cryptographic voting do hit ALL your points while having the additional benefit of being perfectly auditable.

Cryptography is a much larger field than blockchain, and people use it for trusted communication every day.

Yes, which is why I explicitly said I do not blame the person for making the split second call. You do what you can with the tools you are given at that moment.

But it’s a very compelling case to analyze what went wrong and try to learn from it. Saying “there’s no other way” is silly, because in this case it sure seems there could have been several other ways.

Strongly disagree. They literally shot him in a less than lethal way (he was only slightly wounded, according to the article) and he stopped attacking. It’s entirely possible that other countermeasures would have been sufficient.

That’s the whole point of crypto though, you publish the mathematically verifiable results, and everyone becomes a vote counter. Instead of trusting a small group of people to do it right, you can verify the counts yourself in a trustless system.

The algorithm isn’t a black box like you’re saying, it’s fully auditable and decentralized so any fuckery is immediately visible.

Now maybe I’m wrong and a mathematically verifiable algorithm can’t exist, but to my knowledge that’s never been shown to be the case.

Edit: turns out there are MANY such systems, and they are mathematically verifiable, and used in actual use cases today. The only thing stopping it is lack of political will, and arguably, the fact that even people without computers have the right to vote.

You do not have to trust the software. You could do that math for yourself if you really cared.

Surely there is a cryptographic way to count votes where someone can check that the results are correct but not how individuals voted, right?

They should NOT have shot at him. Gun safety 101 is “don’t fire unless you’re willing to kill something past the target”, which in this case was a BIG FUCKING CROWD. The criminal needed to be stopped, but this was not the way. Perhaps if he had been actively shooting I would feel differently.

I’m actually not criticizing the guy who pulled the trigger. The situation was a mess and I don’t think a human has the reaction time to think this one out. But it’s another case where we can see that even “good guys guns” can cause more damage than bad guy guns, unlike what the right wing might lead you to believe.

No, there was a bad guy with a gun, but the good guys killed an innocent bystander instead of the actual criminal.

You can’t even trust someone with perfect intentions with a gun.

“Our victim was not the intended target,” Brian Redd, the Salt Lake City police chief, said, “but rather an innocent bystander participating in the demonstration.”

Sounds like police to me.

So glad that the good guys with guns took out the bad guy with guns. Oh wait.

I love the iconic Far Side glasses on the mother bird.

Well I mean, slavery is still illegal. Black people are able to vote, hold office, own property, etc.

There’s still a lot of social injustice to solve but there’s been a lot of progress, albeit slow.