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JD Spain, Sr. wins Democratic nomination for Arlington County Board (wamu.org)

Spain’s victory came after the county’s second-ever ranked choice voting election. On their ballots, Arlington voters ranked three of the five candidates. In the first round of the tabulation, the person who got the least number of votes — in this case, Julie Farnam — was dropped, and her supporters’ votes allocated to...

State judge upholds most fines against group seeking repeal of Alaska ranked choice voting - Chilkat Valley News (www.chilkatvalleynews.com)

An Anchorage Superior Court judge has ruled that opponents of Alaska’s ranked choice election system violated state campaign finance laws in their effort to gather signatures for a repeal ballot measure....

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It shows that there is bipartisan support for it among rank and file voters. It’s really just the politicians that know that they wouldn’t stand a chance of winning under such a system that are against it.

Group tied to Colorado election overhaul drops $1 million in last-minute primary spending (www.denverpost.com)

The group is backed by Kent Thiry, the Denver-based former CEO of the dialysis giant DaVita who’s supporting a ballot measure to overhaul the state’s election process. In a statement to The Denver Post on Saturday morning, Thiry wrote that it was “time for many of us to stand up for the majority in the middle. We are...

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Sadly, there are people that would completely agree with this statement, and not detect an ounce of sarcasm.

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A finger waggle, perhaps.

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Yeah, but… Where is that? /s

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In the photos, the tall, geometric figure reflects the rocky desert and perfectly aligns with the horizon.

Ummmmm, that’s the photographer that did that. 🙄

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It strongly reads to me like the writer is trying to make something mystical/mysterious out of a completely mundane “feature” of mirrors.

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It’s right there in the teaser on on this page.

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I hate to say it, but I’m inclined to think that the Russian government may simply block access to Firefox (and the Firefox addons site).

Probably true, but that’s not justification for Mozilla to save them the trouble by doing it for them.

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Link is to the second page of the article. I thought it was odd how it kept saying “Smith said” without identifying who Smith is.

Proper link: arstechnica.com/…/microsoft-in-damage-control-mod…

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There’s absolutely nothing wrong with reporting the facts that you do have when you have them and are confident of your sources.

Acknowledging remaining open questions that you don’t have answers to yet, is a bonus.

A perfect example of reporting before the fog of war clears would be reporting completely erroneous information as factual. So unless you’re suggesting that a Ukrainian fighter jet did NOT in fact strike a target inside Russia, then this isn’t the “perfect example” you’re looking for.

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How Lewis cleans up this mammoth of a mess that he has created for himself remains to be seen. Can he do it? One wonders what Jeff Bezos, the billionaire owner of The Post, who must be growing quite tired of constantly seeing his newspaper ensnared in controversy, thinks of the situation. Inside the newsroom, though, the sentiment is plain as day.

“He’s really losing the newsroom on a large scale,” a staffer said, sizing up the state of affairs. “People don’t trust him, don’t believe he has the same values and ethics as our journalists and there are major concerns of how far he would go to censor or shut down coverage.”

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My first thought in situations like this is that maybe he secretly wishes he were a she. It’s true just often enough that I think it’s worth considering as an option.

And honestly, I don’t care if it’s true or not. If, whenever a public figure publicly tries to humiliate or demonize some minority group, public discourse immediately starts talking about whether said public figure secretly is, or wants to be, a member of said minority group, then it serves as a deterrent for others wanting to humiliate or demonize minority groups.

A) You’re in the closet and don’t want people to know? Then don’t ridicule people who came out of the closet.

B) Oh, you’re not in the closet and don’t want people to think you are? What a coincidence. Also, don’t ridicule people who came out of the closet.

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That attitude/idea can lead to blaming the marginalized group for their own victimhood.

Probably a dumb question, but how so?

I just see it as beating the bully with their own stick. I can’t imagine how anyone would see that and conclude that the bully’s victims are somehow to blame. Probably lack of imagination on my part, so help me out.

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Ahh, that makes sense. Thanks.

Bannon put on notice that prison sentence may be 'the least of his problems' (www.rawstory.com)

Steve Bannon’s trial tribulations may have only just begun as he readies himself for prison and the district attorney who secured former President Donald Trump’s criminal conviction prepares to take him to court in New York, a former federal prosecutor said Thursday night....

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Looks like a prime example of Godwin’s Law

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xkcd.com/1053/

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So, a byproduct of this process is, potentially, greenhouse gases? Yay.

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How would they know now? It’s the same answer. Stop being a dick.

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As I started reading the last sentence, I thought it was going to say, “This effect also works on dogs.”

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… that made any such interference a criminal offence. If the conduct continued, he added, “my office will not hesitate to act”.

If they’ve already committed a crime… then what’s with the fucking warning? This is why the rich and powerful think that they’re above the law. It’s because, apparently, they are.

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IANAL, but I feel like if the heirs to an estate cared enough about the deceased’s Steam account enough to get the court involved, Steam wouldn’t have a leg to stand on. But that’s probably what it would take to get them to do the right thing.

Many US dairy workers yet to receive protective gear for bird flu (www.reuters.com)

CHICAGO, May 23 (Reuters) - Many U.S. dairy farms have not yet increased health protections against bird flu for employees during an outbreak in cows, according to workers, activists and farmers, worrying health experts about the risk for more human infections of a virus with pandemic potential.

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Yeah, I want to see the TST’s tenets up there next to the commandments. That ought to stimulate some interesting discussions.

For those not familiar,

One should strive to act with compassion and empathy toward all creatures in accordance with reason.

The struggle for justice is an ongoing and necessary pursuit that should prevail over laws and institutions.

One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone.

The freedoms of others should be respected, including the freedom to offend. To willfully and unjustly encroach upon the freedoms of another is to forgo one’s own.

Beliefs should conform to one’s best scientific understanding of the world. One should take care never to distort scientific facts to fit one’s beliefs.

People are fallible. If one makes a mistake, one should do one’s best to rectify it and resolve any harm that might have been caused.

Every tenet is a guiding principle designed to inspire nobility in action and thought. The spirit of compassion, wisdom, and justice should always prevail over the written or spoken word.

Source

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Didn’t you read it? They said they would dry fast… and drink. Duh. /s

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failed to apologise for or denounce

Anybody can denounce another person’s shitty opinions.

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ETH abandoned the trustless part. Now you’re supposed to trust the validators. Clearly, you can’t.

The inside story of Elon Musk’s mass firings of Tesla Supercharger staff (www.reuters.com)

May 15 (Reuters) - The day before Elon Musk fired virtually all of Tesla’s electric-vehicle charging division last month, they had high hopes as charging chief Rebecca Tinucci went to meet with Musk about the network’s future, four former charging-network staffers told Reuters....

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… with frickin laser beams attached to their heads!

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I feel like I’ve been down voting a lot of posts linking to garbage articles on sciencealert. Starting to think it’s not a very reputable source of information.

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And even if his statement were correct, he’s got the cause and effect completely backwards.

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