Longpork3

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

There are other methods. In NZ every enrolled voter's name gets printed into a physical book, and then crossed off by poll workers when they arrive to vote. An "easy vote" card is also mailed out to everyone, which is basically in index card to make it easier to look you up in the book.

As part of the vote counting process, all these books are checked against each other, to identify if a person has cast a vote at multiple polling places. With any duplicates investigated by the electoral commission.

Effectively the only way to manipulate the vote count would be to spend election week driving around the country, voting once per polling station under the name of a person you knew was enrolled to vote, but would not be voting themselves.

There were ~150 cases of attempted/apparent vote fraud in the last election, out of ~2M votes cast. That seems like a fairly low number to me, and I would not support any attempts to restrict voting to prevent it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Fair, unfortunately it was a work machine that i needed operational again asap.

Luckily i image my machine monthly, so it was fairly straightforward to roll back.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Get a dog. Always happy to see you when you get home, will pester you relentlessly into moderate excercise, #1 wingman for meeting friends or significant others.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Dont commit to a course of study unless you are following your passion, or have a realistic plan to monetise the skills you get out of it.

Even if university is cheap/free in your region, the opportunity cost is steep. You will spend the next 3-5 years on subsistence wages, and come out the other end with very few practical skills beyond those of your specific area of study.

As cliché as it may sound, take a year off and bum around the world doing casual/seasonal labour while you figure out where you actually want to end up, because no-one else can define your future.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Generally yes. My exception was the time i accidentally nuked python in it's entirety...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

It's a chicken and egg situation though. If you let them get away selling you broken games then they have no incentive no stop breaking them.

I am now firmly in camp "better run on linux if you want my money".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

English actualy did have terms for that, they just got a bit bastardised with "yea" and "nay" dropping out of common speech:

Will they not go? — Yes, they will.

Will they not go? — No, they will not.

Will they go? — Yea, they will.

Will they go? — Nay, they will not.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

Counter-point to that would be blade-style leg prostheses, with which 'disabled' people can acheive speeds far greater than non-augmented people.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Has anyone stopped to consider that we may have the causality backwards here?

We know that frodo becomes invisible when wearing the ring, perhaps the reason we can never find the 10mm is that this was already done?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

I feel kind of bad for the woman whose face is now permanently linked to the nichole-bot. Literally dozens of people around the world glancing sideways and whispering to their neighbour when she walks by...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So the answer is to keep slowly sliding into fascism with the 'slightly less evil' party, rather than forcing their hand in the hope of democratic reforms which stop the slide?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

I left my dog shut in the lounge when he was a puppy, when i came back inside half an hour later he had scratched/chewed a hole in the drywall in an attempt to follow me out. Adorable little shit.

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