@Chatt_TT@PatrickRuffini That math still doesn’t add up. If they can only do 75k per day, fully staffed, it would have taken 18 days to do 1.3 million.
@somewhatdaft@mwstateofmind@___frye That seems far, far less bad.
Anyone who stored data with Google, Microsoft, etc., essentially free or far below cost for years, and expected it to not be used for whatever monetizable purpose these companies came up with, absolutely deserves to have all of their data used.
Yeah, unfortunately, this desire is incompatible with left-wing (progressive, Democrat) governance. The benches are beds for the homeless. The outdoor lighting is stolen. The walkways are open-air drug dens. The dining is shut down over sanitation.
Why? Because enforcing laws which prevent these abuses of the public is itself considered by the left to be an abuse of privilege.
Left-wing, progressive governance is incompatible with civilization.
@PaulHerzog3@stanfordNYC Ballot counting isn’t inherently slow. We don’t need to figure out ways to make it faster. We just need to not do the things which cause it to be slow. The difference is actually meaningful.
@devahaz@acher_2@growing_daniel@mattparlmer What? That’s completely untrue. When voting is in-person, an ID can be required to vote, and from that point onward, ballots are secured by observers at every step.
Mail-in voting is a joke and an insult to the legitimacy of our democracy.
If voting were completely in-person save for rare exceptions, every person had to present a scannable & federally-registered ID in order to vote, ballots were physically-traceable objects, and we had bipartisan ballot-counting and oversight, that might be able to know that.
If any one of those is missing, it’s extremely difficult to make that claim with any real confidence.
@starship2619487@otherside_X42 I think this mentality is largely downstream of the fact that Jeff’s satellite business continues to try to use dirty tactics with the FCC to slow or impede all of SpaceX’s satellite business.
Honest question, why are the homes built today in LA and the Bay so awful?
We built far better homes basically from the time of the Industrial Revolution, up until the 1990s. Since then, average quality has become absolutely terrible. Is this just the result of politicians requiring that housing today be built at the threshold of being economically nonviable?
@SaraHigdon@rikarends You’re getting so close! Traffic onto and off of ramps is managed using… *lanes*! Like this one! With horizontal poles extending over it!
And actually, 40,000 people die to driver error each year on US roads. Asking drivers to “just pay closer attention” is a losing strategy.
@SaraHigdon@rikarends Which of these two concepts describes the thing across which horizontal poles were extended?
Hint: the car did not repeated move between two different ramps.
@elginfamily6@cmasonOC@Jason Not calling you a socialist. I’m calling the socialists who use this same reasoning to justify support of property seizure socialists.
Anyway, you don’t seem to have a response to the clear hole in your presented argument.
@SaraHigdon@rikarends Horizontal poles sticking across a closed lane is bad enough. Horizontal poles sticking across an open lane because a ramp ahead is closed is unfathomably bad.