There should be a free voters guide that gets mailed to all registered voters, and is available at the library.

You’re giving excuses that make no sense. No one is saying to vote a straight party ticket. Do your research, take notes on the candidates, go vote. Why are you inventing this memorization nonsense?

You’ll find that, while each candidate can have positions that you agree with and that you don’t, but you probably have a pretty good idea which issues matter most to you, so you can focus on those issues. If they say things you agree with about things you care about, and they don’t seem like liars, vote for them. You’ll probably find one party’s platform aligns with your preferences, and you only need to keep track of the ones not in that party if you really want to memorize the candidates. Or, find an organization you agree with and start from their recommendations.

But just bring your notes to vote, if you’re allowed. My state is 100% mail-in voting, so I can fill out the ballot as I research. How many candidates are in your elections that is causing you to panic like this?

It’s an open-book test. You don’t have to memorize anything. Everyone else has this figured out.

What kind of ballot are you using that is just photos and voices?

This is the most insane argument I’ve ever heard. Write them down!

Yeah, I never really used it for handwriting. That seems basically unverifiable sometimes, when I can’t read it myself.

Always worked well enough for me.

I buy direct from the manufacturer whenever I can.

The prices outside of Amazon will be higher though, that’s the reason for this enforcement, the “Amazon tax”. Cory Doctorow has been talking about it for a while. I’m glad to see someone that can do something heard it.

Finding stuff outside of Amazon isn’t easy, though. Search engines barely show results for anyone outside Amazon, Walmart, and ebay. Too often I’ll find a retailer for a while only for Amazon to buy it later or otherwise destroy them (I miss Woot and Jet and Fictionwise and Bookpool, &c).

That seems a more likely outcome.

These voters have already swung the other way by 25% in a more recent poll.

https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-lost-low-info-voters

The Windows FOSS part, sure, but unenforceable copyright seems quite possible, but probably not court-tested. I mean, AI basically ignored copyright to train in the first place, and there is precedent for animals not getting copyright for taking pictures.

“Not popular” literally means it won’t happen, you are restating my point.

You know Trump ran in 2000, right? And that he isn’t a third-party candidate?

If you want to hijack the Democrats like Trump hijacked the Republicans, that’s a good strategy!

Give me a creative solution that understands the system, and the math involved, and I’m entirely on board. But wishing isn’t enough.

Only once has a third party candidate made much progress, and Perot was right-wing/libertarian. You can’t skip right to a third party presidential candidate without making progress with that party locally first, then in Congress. That just how this system works. You can pretend that enough people will spontaneously vote for your same third party candidate, but that’s a demonstrably a fantasy. You can claim that a vote reflects on your own morality rather than something strategic and practical, but that’s a view pushed by people hoping to take advantage of youth vanity and split the vote.

False dichotomy bullshit. It’s not enough, but to denegrate voting altogether is also stupid.

Well that’s fair enough for the larger point, at least within NY. I guess I was mostly reacting to the notion of “fixed”, mathematically speaking.

When has the housing supply ever been fixed, though? It’s always growing, and it should always be driven by demand.

I guess I’d say that the joke is for us and not them, but I’d also argue that they genuinely don’t assimilate, probably to a much greater degree than any other demographic.

Conservatives don’t assimilate into American society.

I’m experimenting with the LILYGO T-Deck+ on MeshCore for messaging and thinking about the Mecha Comet for other stuff. I’m really hoping to leave the corporate stuff behind.

Weld quickly first so you have time for the cement to cure.