TIL, never heard of that recession before. It last about 8 months and seems to be the smallest labeled recession in the past 100 years

The trains are running normally again, the post is over 1 day old. Lemmy just doesn’t have a lot of posts

I don’t think the rules of succession state he can’t be speaker of the house. If it came to it he would be skipped over for the next in line

I’m not fan of the guy, but taking the stance of “I’m descended from slave owners and think we should lynch the guy” is definitely a way to say you really do not like him

Nope communications failure, it was resolved before this morning thankfully

Not to be pedantic, but even if he hasn’t kept up with the licenses to practice medicine he still has a MD or Doctorate of Medicine. Dr. is still an applicable title

My german apartment is managing, but these thick walls are getting warmer day by day. I’m afraid it’s going to become an oven before long

Why does the state need to count votes quickly? Votes should be counted accurately, not quickly.

You can have both

On your point about printing off a human readable copy that can be verified manually, you have now invented the worlds most expensive pencil. You’ll always want to verify the manual copy, so why bother with the computer one?

This way the state can count the votes quickly and if there are any audits they have a physical analog to compare. Honestly if the state just randomly audits 1 county per election to check for issues they will catch anything weird going on and save a tremendous amount of time and money.

If the audit discovers something weird they can then count up all the paper ballots and fix the software.

Additionally in 2024 the UK had 28,809,340 votes cast. The US had 158,427,986 votes cast.

My state prints out a physical slip that shows the vote that’s deposited into a box. It’s tied to your electronic vote. Ideal system imo.

We get the speed and convenience of electronic voting and there’s a secure analog form to audit

Thank God you’re here to tell us the correct way to whip our troublesome women 🙏

a) it’s an example to illustrate a point. You only have to be a very moderate lemmy user to know what I’m talking about.

b) The first sentence was correct. The rest you made up, but that’s okay you are right for the most part. Unfortunately some people don’t just mean supporting Iran in terms of the conflict with the US/Israel. If you look at the comment that I replied to you can see the user says that Iran should be supported because they oppose global hegemony. That extends far beyond the recent conflict.

In their mind the USA is the “enemy team” so whoever is up against them they will then be the “good team”. That’s exactly what the person I replied to is saying. It’s frankly sad and morally bankrupt.

Funny how your type will double down on how there’s no moral choice between democrats and Republicans

Yet somehow you can find the “moral” choice between a theocratic dictatorship (also capitalist btw) and an imperial nation.

This mentality exhausts me. If people can stop treating geopolitics like a fucking sports match that would be great. We don’t have to root for anyone in a given conflict. We can acknowledge both sides are bad and not matter the outcome it will be bad for common people.

If we ever are able to do this we might actually have some progress. But until then we continue to worship inherently evil states