I hope her advice is “Don’t do what I did.”

BoTh SiDeS aRe ThE sAmE???

Isn’t it common knowledge that Netanyahu wants Trump to win? Trump would let him level Gaza and then buy the rubble to build a resort.

Well. Yeah, it all makes sense because the foreign powers who want WWIII the most are all funding him.

Back in the day, if I saw some braindead karma farming post on Reddit, I took a look at their post history and quite a few times it was a brand new account. I would simply reply “Welcome to Reddit! How has your first [week/day/hour] been?”. I think precisely twice it turned out to be a new human user, the rest of the time they would just delete the comment (or possibly even the account).

I got banned years ago from r/funny because I was browsing on “new” (like I do here), responded to a post with a lame joke within minutes after it posted, then the powers that be decided the poster was a spammer, and banned me too. I asked them why they banned me, but got absolutely nothing in response. It turns out, though, that being banned from there made absolutely no difference to my Reddit experience.

Now that Reddit is a public company, and courting income from paid official subreddits, it’s only a matter of time before there is a huge class-action lawsuit over their uneven moderation policies. Especially if companies start steering a good portion of their customer interaction there. It is super unfair to be cut off from legitimate customer service because of a power-tripping mod in a totally different part of Reddit.

Besides, I hit on the best way to ensure I never get banned from Reddit: I don’t go there anymore.

I find LinkedIn useful, but absolutely refuse to install the app on my phone. I figure it’s enough to give them access to my contacts and resume to monetize, they don’t need my location also.

Whenever I get an email notification that I have a LinkedIn message, I check it the next time I am at my desktop. Then, without fail, after I check it they send me a follow-up email reminding me that “LinkedIn is better on the app!”

That just reinforces the idea that I will never, ever install their app.

That Times link now says it was actually Jerry Brown, not Willie Brown, who Trump was in a helicopter with, and it was never in danger of “going down”.

But I guess to Trump, all these Brown people look the same…

UPS doesn’t go to every address every day (‘Cept Sundays,) the same way the mailman does.

US Postal Service has some sort of deal with Amazon now, I have gotten Amazon packages delivered by my regular mailman on Sundays. I hope he’s getting paid well for that.

This doesn’t mean that 75% won’t vote for him, but rather that 75% now think that the party would be better off with someone else.

Count me as part of this. I liked the job he did these past 4 years, but wish he kept his ego in check and just decided to walk away this time. If he’s the one on the ballot come November, I’ll vote for him, but it’s harder to defend that position now.

It just means you need to figure out how to route between them, that’s all.

There is an additional wrinkle if God exercises His ultimate veto on the winning candidate after the election. The winning candidate doesn’t actually win until the new Congress (on or around Jan 6) counts up the EC votes that were cast in December, and must get a majority of them. In the event that the winning candidate dies before the EC meets, all those electors have to be careful. If they split their votes, and no one candidate achieves the majority, the election for President goes to the House (where each state’s delegation gets a single vote), and VP goes to the Senate. So all the electors would have to coordinate quickly on a replacement . The logical choice is the VP candidate, of course but the coordination still has to happen.

The Electoral Count Reform Act did make some major changes that reduces chaos when the count is taking place:

• It increases the threshold for challenging an Electoral slate to 20% of each House, to eliminate frivolous challenges

• In the event a challenge is upheld and their votes are tossed, it also reduces the amount of EC votes needed to get a majority.

But still doesn’t change the fact that these challenges can occur, and if a EC slate comes in for a candidate who has died it still ultimately leaves it up to Congress to decide what to do. That would seem to be a challenge that could get to the 20% threshold.

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/how-electoral-votes-are-counted-presidential-election

The problem, though, is when so many companies are outsourcing their customer service to social media like Reddit. And communities, like OP’s school, which have nothing to do with the current situation on other subreddits. “Ban evasion” is nothing but a power trip if the ban was bullshit to begin with.

If all Reddit had was pictures of cats and porn, then getting banned would not be as big a deal. Now that it is public, being used for legit reasons, and has “money”, I am waiting for a bunch of people who are being banned for arbitrary reasons to file a class-action lawsuit. I might even join, even though I haven’t been back since the APIcalypse. I was banned from /r/funny years ago and to this day I don’t really know why. (In fairness, though, that might have improved my life…)

… Is it possible the office is in Southeast London but the actual work is North and West?

I read through that link, and an ID requirement simply wouldn’t have helped. A bunch of Democratic political operatives convinced locals (who were already registered to vote) to apply for absentee ballots, then individually harvested them and delivered them, in violation of several existing laws. Throw the book at those folks, but the answer is not to make it harder to vote.

It is on absentee ballots. It’s got a question on it that ask if you’re a US citizen and you check yes or no, no proof needed

Citation Needed

… That doesn’t even make sense. I’m convinced now that you have no clue what you are talking about.

This is about registration, not absentee ballots. If someone requests an absentee ballot, they are already registered. In many states, absentee ballots need to be requested on an individual basis, and if someone requests a ballot, they are going to take the time to fill it out and return it. In some states they can request a second if they changed their mind (or even go in and vote in person), but all ballots are tracked and only the last one is counted.

Nobody is going to give their absentee ballot away for someone else to fill out. And there are no piles of ballots waiting for ACORN to fill them out using names from the phone book.

Because your right to vote is fundamental, and shouldn’t be taken away just because you lost the paperwork.

Plus, non-citizens understand that trying to vote will ruin any chance they may have in the future of getting citizenship. People here illegally also don’t want to call attention to their presence here and won’t risk trying to vote based on that. Those people are not voting in any meaningful capacity.

The voter suppression thing is real, though . Click that link I left above; in certain states, there is a regular purging of the voter rolls, for frivolous reasons. Some voters don’t find out they have been purged until they show up at the polls (after waiting in a long line to boot). Not giving them some way to cast a provisional ballot is the same as disenfranchising them.

Look, I understand why this is happening. It’s part of a concerted effort to make voting harder, and challenge the eligibility of certain classes of voters who tend to vote a certain way. But we do have eligibility requirements for voting, and the logical time to check them is when registering.

The real question is whether someone who has no documentation whatsoever should be disenfranchised. Like that homeless guy in the 59th Street subway station. He says he was born in Brooklyn in 1966. If that is true, and he is a citizen, he is eligible to vote whether or not he has a pristine copy of his long-form birth certificate. We need to have a system to accommodate him.

And understand what the end-game of Republicans are. They want to couple this with an aggressive purging of voter rolls. So they maliciously un-register people who they think will vote the wrong way, then impose these paperwork requirements on these people, all with the goal of discouraging them from voting.

So, while it may seem reasonable to demand proof while registering, that reasonable request is part of a larger goal of disenfranchising large groups of people.

He’ll take it