I don't mean to be antagonistic, but could this just be due to poor job satisfaction on your side. There is nothing wrong with not loving your job. Maybe you use it as a means to an end but I personally really enjoy talking about what I do for a job because I love my job
And it will fail due to the current voting system. CPG Grey has a great explainer on why there will only ever be 2 political parties under the current system https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo
It is so wild that your country is beholden to either one of two private organisations. What if one of them (e.g. the Republican party) goes totally off the rails? There is basically no mechanism to wholesale replace them because the inertia is too great.
This is only a problem because the president is an elected office, if it was appointed by the legislature and a 50% majority or coalition is required to form a government like modern parliamentary systems it would not be an issue.
Forgetting what could have been, a third party does not need to win the president's office or even have a presidential candidate. A handful of senate seats and a dozen or so house seats are enough to make a huge difference. It will essentially be the tie-breaker or "dampner" party that prevents extremists from wrecking havoc like they are now. Think of it as having a party of Joe Manchin's without the selling out to big coal part.
Not having a presidential candidate at all prevents voters from voting on party lines. They should also prevent the option where you check one box and that means you vote for only one party for all candidates. If you want to do that, do it one by one.
Also, I have a solution for gerrymandering: split a state into a square grid where the dimnensions are set based on a false assumption of equal population distribution. Then adjust the size of squares with less population than the presumed popularion under equal distribution by merging them with a similarly apportioned square segments of a neighboring square with the least population. The result would be a somewhat fairly divided grid where divisions are made by the algorithm and nothing else. Census adjusted of course every few years. What is wrong with this idea? Squares will have less people than others but the difference between them is minimized. The number of house seats depends on the number of squares(or rather square derived parcels).
> ...a third party does not need to win the president's office or even have a presidential candidate. A handful of senate seats and a dozen or so house seats are enough to make a huge difference.
How is this not the same problem? Are there a bunch of states that have better voting mechanisms for their federal representatives?
In some states it is always landslide win for one party, basically a one party system for some districts because the other side is always too extreme. People can vote for the guy they like the least for president and the guy they like the most for legislative seats because they address issues most relevant to their district.
Yes. The mathematics make zero sense for a third party in the United States. But, I think Bernie Sanders showed that it is at least viable to form a wing in an existing party and have an effect on the platform even if your preferred party candidate loses. I think this is what the green party needs to do: become a wing of the democratic party. And I think anyone who wants to have a political voice in the U.S. needs to either work to change how we vote and how our representatives are selected (good luck with that), or work within one of the two parties in some way.
30 years ago a third party led the polls during the summer [1]. It all exploded after that, but I think that it shows that there is a possibility for a third to have an actual chance, although all the stars need to align. 30 years is a long time ago, but I think that the media landscape now is considerably easier for a third party than it was then (easier direct access to voters, national news intake is spread over more sources), and the current assumed candidates (biden & trump) unpopularity in the next presidential election seem to favor the possibility of a third party.
It might not be a probability, but I think it's a possibility.
I remember, but that wasn't really a third-party. That was just Ross Perot. I do think the two parties are slightly vulnerable to a strong enough, and rich enough, candidate surrounded by a cult of personality, but even in this case it would have been wiser had Perot simply challenged for the Republican nomination like Trump (another outsider) did 24 years later. He probably could have ousted Bush, and he really might have a won the presidency that way.
If en marche didn't win in france that would just have been one guy. Every party seems to be just one guy until it actually gains enough momentum an power to grow outside of that person and has to build an organization that survives them.
Thanks for catching that! I couldn't find anything from my logs, that was frustrating.
The frontend of Peerdiem is served from www.peerdiem.com while the backend uses www.api.peerdiem.com. It seems that a strict tuning of the AdBlocker might prevent requests to a subdomains.
I will put up an explanatory text on the homepage for those encountering the same issue. Thanks again!
Do you get the same "No painting found for today" error as well?
I'm fetching the artwork + metadata myself in advance to avoid any throttling on the API.
I don't see any error on that endpoint in my logs, this is strange. I will investigate it further.
> People drank the 6 inches (150 mm) deep river of whiskey that is said to have flowed as far as the Coombe. None of the fatalities suffered during the fire were due to smoke inhalation, burns, or any other form of direct contact with the fire itself; all of them were attributed to alcohol poisoning.
No one was killed as a result of the fire. They all died from drinking to much of the river of whiskey. Wow
I was a big fan of Protonmail but there recent outages have been far from ideal. Might be worth considering other alternatives if 24/7 access to emails is a must
You mean the outages from like... last week/this week? That was the first outage in like years of service, and it was resolved pretty quickly, with good communication throughout and an apology. The discussion on Reddit is worth looking at[0].
What alternatives are out there without service degradation/outages?
Also not to undermine my own point (Protonmail is wonderfully stable for me) who is getting life or death emails these days? I could take whole days of downtime (hasn't ever happened) and probably be OK.
Why do we all pretend that we are all so important that we need services with bulletproof reliability and as many 9s as we can get?
Bit of a rant, but not directed at you so much Cxckers!
Personally, I don't rely on it 24/7 and just use it for my personal use but some people use it for business purposes and not having access to your emails for a day or two can be expensive down time.
> The people who fall for it of course never ask where the money is coming from, because if they did they'd figure out it was suckers like them.
This is the case with all forms of gambling. I think that they know that the money is from others less fortunate. However, human nature seems to make us believe that somehow, we will be the lucky one.
Yesterday we unfortunately experienced technical difficulties which meant that Proton services were offline intermittently throughout the late afternoon and evening European time. During this period, incoming email, outgoing email, and push notifications were also temporarily delayed. As of 2:45AM Geneva time, all emails and notifications are caught up, but we are continuing to monitor the situation in case of further faults.
We can confirm that no data and no emails were lost. Due to our redundant infrastructure, emails that were not immediately delivered were queued and automatically redelivered. We are still investigating the issue, but what we can share so far is that the technical difficulties were caused by a software update that was conducted over the weekend which adversely impacted the performance of certain systems. Unfortunately, this issue only appeared under under high loads which we were not able to fully simulate in testing. Furthermore, because this was a major software and operating system upgrade, there was no way to roll back the software update.
This result of this was an extended period of intermittent outages and performance issues while we tried to work around the issue. We have now put a number of safeguards in place, and will continue to improve the reliability of our infrastructure to guard against this type of issue in the future. We apologize deeply for this issue and thank you again for your understanding. Our engineering team is currently conducting a root cause analysis and for transparency, we will be sharing results on the Proton blog after our investigation is complete.
9 months ago when Destin released his first video on film, I got my dads old Olympus OM1 and started shooting with it. I have to say, I totally get it. The delayed gratification of not knowing how your shots will come out, the asthetic of film, I love it. Big thanks to Destin for this new hobby of mine and I can't wait to see more in this series
