@dreamsNscience Early memory chips could flip bits if you repeatedly accessed adjacent locations. Capacitive coupling iirc. Manufacturers coped with that by scrambling addresses internally so that adjacent addresses in address space were far apart in physical space,
Let me get this straight
> 84% of Americans support requiring a photo id to vote
> every major democracy in the world does this except the US
> even under our very eyes, the mail-in ballots in California are highly suspiciously slanted toward only one party
And yet majority canโt push this through?!
This is a traitorous level of incompetence
Pass the SAVE Act!!
Let me get this straight
> 84% of Americans support requiring a photo id to vote
> every major democracy in the world does this except the US
> even under our very eyes, the mail-in ballots in California are highly suspiciously slanted toward only one party
And yet majority canโt push this through?!
This is a traitorous level of incompetence
Pass the SAVE Act!!
๐จ BREAKING: The US Senate has just REJECTED the SAVE America Act as part of budget reconciliation, 48-50 โ would've required voter ID and proof of citizenship nationwide
REPUBLICAN NAYs: Thom Tillis, Lisa Murkowski, Mitch McConnell and Susan Collins
UNBELIEVABLE!!
It needed 60 votes.
Why can't the Senate pass what over 80% of Americans want?!
@Scobleizer@karatademada I used to care. But X is not a place for serious conversations so I no longer care.
Threaded discussions would be a huge improvement but I doubt we'll ever see them here.
I really miss nntp.
I think one needs to ask what aspects of our culture five decades ago were based on Christian values and how losing those values has been harmful.
I too am not a believer. But it seems to me that there is a rational basis for โdo unto others as you would have them do unto youโ and for many of the Ten Commandments.
There's no more accurate a metaphor for the West than slowly bleeding to death by the hand of barbarians while corrupt authorities tie our hands behind our back.
@ClassicLearner@nikitabier The censors on X are out of control. I suspect that conplain-mobs are causing it. I've had some innocuous posts censored too.