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See the full thing here: https://www.vox.com/scotus/411185/supreme-court-religion-charter-schools-oklahoma-drummond

There’s a setting for that. It’s open invite or admin invite. Default is open invite.

Doubtful any of the participants knew that, though.

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Hi Doctor Nick!

What an utterly depressing column. I can’t help but agree. Sigh.

I’d like to say I’m hopeful that society will remember the last century of slow progress after the next four years of getting it’s ass kicked, if not for the fact that we just went through this shit a few years ago.

It’s the same as the article title. Horrible nonetheless.

Ah, thanks for finding the facts. So the first election had a surprise result. It worked exactly as designed, and either people didn’t understand that could happen or they’ve since been convinced it was contrary to what they wanted.

Given the whole goal of RCV is that outcomes are satisfying to the largest number of people you’d think this result wouldn’t have had a backlash like what we’ve seen.

I’d bet the losing party was behind the measure, and I’m somewhat happy to see it fail. I hope that means the majority of people were in fact satisfied.

Some jurisdictions using FPTP may do a runoff if there’s no winner with a 50% mandate, but most do not. Split votes such as 45/40/15 with 45% declared the winner can and do happen.

If I remember correctly one of the first major elections using RCV resulted in the person who overall got the most first choice picks losing the person who overall get the most second and third choice pics. So it worked as designed in that the winner was the person with over 50% of the vote, but it really upset all the people who had supported the person who would have won under the previous first past the post system.

@MajorHavoc has it covered. It’s the flush valve that varies most. Most common is the flapper design, but some brands use plastic towers.

Fill valves are almost universally interchangable. Your variables there will be age and interference. You’d have to go back to basically antiques before things become incompatible. As for interference, units with the big float on the end of a rod may not fit in a tank that uses a tall flush valve. They make more compact styles for those situations.

All that bring said… What are you trying to fix? The flush and fill valves are by far the most common maintenance items, but if neither of those things are the issue then you’re going to run into proprietary parts fast.

If all candidates are on the same timeline then I agree. That’s not the case here. 100 days vs literal years of planning.

I buy all my supplies from companies making more than 25m, who buy from other companies making more than 25m, and so on. My COGS will go up a minimum of 3%, more than likely closer to 10% when you compound the entire supply chain. I don’t care that I won’t pay into the general tax fund, but I sure as hell care that I’ll have to convince my retail customers to pay 10% more on my products after already struggling with inflation cost increases the last few years.

Good. Don’t let Congress inaction in the pursuit of election politics work, and take credit for yourselves instead.

This is broken governance in action, but at least we have action this time. Pray the courts stay out of it for the sake of the people being helped by this move.

Brilliant being combative with strangers in the same echo chamber as you. Glad we spent this time together.

I’ve been hearing it for over 8 years now, to varrying degrees of intensity across the media spectrum. I’d assume anyone else paying even the least amount of attention has, too.

Yet here we are at a 48% split with 3 weeks to go.

So yeah, keep reporting. Maybe that fraction of a percent will make the difference; it’s close enough that it could! But don’t hold your breath, and don’t keep beating on the same horse as if doing so will make a difference.

I think we’re at a boy who cries wolf point. News pieces like this are almost a daily occurrence. Those who don’t care won’t simply because it happens again. If anything it will further galvanize their resistance.

There’s a sense that these things must be reported and recorded for reasons of history, but for whatever effect one would like to happen as a result it is probably useless.

For the most part memes are self contained to their own communities. It takes a few days but you can achieve a relatively meme free experience if you block each community.

I hate your analysis, and not because you’re wrong.

Not since SCOTUS gutted the voting rights act.

Not for a couple years now.