They are monthly not daily popups. They are daily at the start kust to make sure you memorize your PIN, then they peter off.
However if you ignore a monthly one then it doesn’t disturb you until the next monthly reminder. What is the point of a PIN if it can be ignored?
The pager attack was pretty targeted. Very low percentage of civilians killed (unlike the percentages of Hezbollah attacks on Israel).
Unfortunately Americans are not reading this thread :(
So MMP solves the problem, yes?
Ranked choice with a single member is better than FPTP.
5 candidates is closer to proportional but it is flawed because it is “low resolution”.
One could theoretically have a system to vote for hundreds/all seats for finer resolution but MMP is a tried and tested way to achieve the same.
We have come full circle to my initial comment…
Ranked choice allows for coalitions like in AU.
Maybe you mean Multi Member Proportional voting like NZ and DE. That is the best system but complicated. US cannot even deal with converting to metric so MMP would result in exploding heads.
I don’t think you understand the Australian Senate voting system or Tasmanian lower house or the MMP of Scotland, UK, DE.
They all have ranked choice but are tweaked to be proportional too.
MMP makes it proportional by also giving you a party vote which determines what proportion of seats that party should hold so that you don’t get a situation like you described in Australia’s last election. Better to watch a 2 minute video on it.
MMP is the most accurate/fair proportional system but more complex.
That’s massively skewed. Even though the difference is tiny, Labour got almost a 2/3 supermajority.
One way to remedy this would be to retain ranked choice but make the electorates/districts three times as large and elect three members in each. Just like how Tasmania does but with 5 members and 5 huge districts.
The Australian Senate voting does roughly what both houses of the Tasmanian state voting do and what you are calling for.
The Senate still has ranked choice but also proportional representation because of the multiple members in each district (in the Australian Senate the “district” is the entire state, with 6 members elected each time).
Federal Labor currently cannot pass any laws without Greens support in the senate (unless the conservatives support the bill).
Districts are fair because the member can be accessed by local constituents (in theory anyhow). US Gerrymandering is unfair. Australian Gerrymandering is nowhere near as bad.
These coalitions still happen with ranked choice but only if a minor party is popular in a district.
Except for Tasmania in Australia where minor parties have an even better chance. It has only 5 districts for state elections and each district has 5 seats. Greens often get a seat because their candidate is 5th most popular in a district.
In other states they are now winning seats but fewer than Tasmania.
Ranked choice allows for coalitions like in AU.
Maybe you mean Multi Member Proportional voting like NZ and DE. That is the best system but complicated. US cannot even deal with converting to metric so MMP would result in exploding heads.
It would not have been a problem if you had ranked choice voting.
If Musk sets up his own party that would split the conservative vote so the Republicans would finally be open to ranked choice. Would probably require ⅔ majority in Congress.
But Dems might be too hungry for temporary power to support such a much needed fix.
It will be remotely human run.
Consumer car
Podcast on 99% Invisible with the guy, also talking about other one handed keyboards on the market (and why they suck).
40 minute uncut video of Tesla robocar in LA. Impressive. It may be a cheat using remote drivers I suppose.
Here is a short video showing Tesla robocar ignoring a school bus’ stop signs and flashing lights.
Don’t forget that there is also income from advertising and ticket sales.
I am no fan of Eurovision but it is good value for national pride:
Eurovision is funded by participating broadcasters and this contribution is a total of €6.2 million (£5.2 million), combined.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/tv/who-funds-eurovision-song-contest-24173525
Olympic gold medals don’t make money. It is for national pride. Even hosting the games does not always make money.
Actually I am Aussie. 12 years ago it was calculated that each gold medal costs us AU$12m (so about US$11m in today’s money). It embarrasses me.
Even if we were the only country researching…
I have heard GOP politicians saying something like “why should we fund a cure for a disease and everyone else benefits without spending a cent?”
Why doesn’t their national pride on the world stage extend beyond sport?
Why should the world benefit from our taxpayer funded research? I want my taxes spent on training Americans so as to let the world watch (for free) fast running and swimming.
Am still waiting for a skipping event in the Olympics.
A fairer comparison would be Eliza vs ChatGPT.
Wrong.
https://threema.com/en/why-threema/open-source