jfv wrote: Tue Dec 03, 2024 3:13 pm

Dave N. wrote: Tue Dec 03, 2024 2:27 pm

jfv wrote: Tue Dec 03, 2024 2:12 pm What's the doomsday clock set at these days?

It’s been holding at 90 seconds until midnight for a couple of years. Don’t they usually update it in January? Hopefully they’ll take it down to a minute so it’ll fit better with the Iron Maiden song.

I try to work and I keep thinking of World War III.

jfv wrote: Tue Jan 28, 2025 6:09 pm

jfv wrote: Tue Dec 03, 2024 3:13 pm

Dave N. wrote: Tue Dec 03, 2024 2:27 pm

It’s been holding at 90 seconds until midnight for a couple of years. Don’t they usually update it in January? Hopefully they’ll take it down to a minute so it’ll fit better with the Iron Maiden song.

I try to work and I keep thinking of World War III.

Was just updated to 89 seconds to midnight. Seems like it should have been moved closer.

https://apnews.com/article/doomsday-clo ... 7ddba90fb5

Hex wrote: Tue Jan 28, 2025 6:38 pm https://bsky.app/profile/erininthemorni ... thupw73s22

cakes wrote: Tue Jan 28, 2025 7:02 pm

Hex wrote: Tue Jan 28, 2025 6:38 pm https://bsky.app/profile/erininthemorni ... thupw73s22

At this point, it's just chaos and each new day will bring more chaos and shock indefinitely. They are flooding the system and who knows where we'll land, but it will be bad for everyone, even Republicans and maga.

losthighway wrote: Tue Jan 28, 2025 8:22 pm The article I read said under 19 which aside from being obviously awful is also weird. When so many laws are focused on 18 as adult, why 19?

akosinski wrote: Tue Jan 28, 2025 7:51 pm one thing is sure, we can vote our way out of this.

prof Ned Foley wrote: A Condorcet-consistent voting system, named after the French mathematician who developed the idea, will always elect any candidate who a majority of voters prefer compared head-to-head to each other candidate. A Condorcet-consistent system is thus well-suited to deal with the problem of polarization because it will elect the centrist whose own supporters plus voters on the left prefer to the polarizing candidate on the right and whose own supporters plus voters on the right prefer to the polarizing candidate on the left.…
If IRV had been used to determine the winner, Donald Trump still would have beaten Kamala Harris. But as I’ve explained elsewhere, Trump’s victory over Harris is a clear case of the “center squeeze” problem. If a Condorcet-consistent electoral system had been in place that enabled a third candidate in between these two to demonstrate majority support against each head-to-head, that third candidate—presumably, a rule-of-law Republican like Nikki Haley (or possibly Larry Hogan)—would have won the election instead of Trump.

losthighway wrote: Tue Jan 28, 2025 8:22 pm

cakes wrote: Tue Jan 28, 2025 7:02 pm

Hex wrote: Tue Jan 28, 2025 6:38 pm https://bsky.app/profile/erininthemorni ... thupw73s22

At this point, it's just chaos and each new day will bring more chaos and shock indefinitely. They are flooding the system and who knows where we'll land, but it will be bad for everyone, even Republicans and maga.

The article I read said under 19 which aside from being obviously awful is also weird. When so many laws are focused on 18 as adult, why 19?