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  • Its pretty good at giving correct answers but god its slow and expensive. You gotta print and post like 2 million letters asking your question, wait for the concensus to be achived, wait for the comittee to conbein and compile the answer, then wait for the answer to come back.

    They could at least streamline it a bit, maybe call instead of mailing the answer, and save a bit on the post by just having a dedicated radio signal that blasts the question to the entire population instead of having to send everyone a letter.









  • God I started a new long distance deive for work recently and its half on a rural highway. Like 10 tiny towns over arpund 60 miles.

    Every one…

    Outside speed limit is 55 mph

    Hit town, 45 mph

    30 feet later, 35 mph

    2 blocks in the middle, 30 mph

    Back to 35 mph

    35 mph feels like it lasts riiiiiight up to the edge of the town.

    And half the time the first drop going in and the 55mph sign going out are obscured by overgrown trees.

    Its just designed to catch people traveling the corridor.




  • The psh for all this surveillance may actually be a bit of achilles heel for these authoritarian schmucks.

    My experience is that rural, Conservative types, really REALLY hate surveillance. My MIL won’t do anything (pay bills, banking, dorctor stuff, anuthing) online, for example. She is worried it will get snooped and stolen.




  • Things I have heard, that may or may not be accurate but do not sounds like “batshit stuff.”

    • If its after the 3rd, they can’t do the special election because its too close to the regular election, I guess it takes 3 months to organize the special election. Nevermind that the special election person would get sworn in for most of November and December.

    • I have also seen, I beleive for this one, that it may be that the GOP would pick 3 replacements, and the Governor who is a Democrat, picks from.thise three, maybe I am thinking of a different state, but they risk the Governor picking the “least crazy” of the three.

    • More likely, I saw a comment that if McConnel is gone, it disrupts several comittees and could shift them to the Dems or tie them. His successor is not guaranteed to be his replacement in these comittees.