Red states already do this, the supreme court has already ruled that it can’t review gerrymandering cases, newsome isn’t doing this to get a win, California is likely to elect democrats with or without the new maps, he is doing this to highlight how messed up it is that this is allowed.
Since the beginning of our history, our capital city has been continually shaped and reshaped by the diverse communities that have called it home. If some people think we would be better off without jerk chicken or jollof rice, without Rye Lane or China Town, Ramadan or St Patrick’s Day, without the films of Sir Steve McQueen or the songs of Little Simz, without Yotam Ottolenghi’s food or Emma Raducanu’s backhand – I don’t think they’ll find many Londoners who will agree.
In fact, the evidence is that Londoners have more positive views on lawful immigration than the rest of the UK, and that’s not a surprise. Because we know we have nothing to fear and everything to gain.
This so perfectly sums up the biggest thing I love about London 🥰
Also non-american but subject to a bunch of us-centricn news anyway 😅
Good question you need to be able to re-draw boundaries, but re-drawing boundaries shouldn’t have a material effect on election results (assuming the same people vote the same way.
I have heard a few proposals like “districts must be regular polygons” or avoiding moving people from contested seats into safe seats.
Neither of them are perfect for a number of reasons (reliance on perdictive models, ways to work around etc.) so the common approach is to appoint an independent redistricting commission to handle it and have them look at a bunch of metrics to figure out if it’s fair.
The nice thing is a perfect solution isn’t even necassary for improvement, just preventing horrorshows like Texas’s 33rd (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas’s_33rd_congressional_district) would help.
The main problem is that a few states passed ballot initiatives to combat gerrymandering, the politicians then undermined or straight up ignored them and then in 2019 the supreme court decided that it wasn’t within the jurisdiction of the federal courts to hear cases around gerrymandering. Funnily enough every single one of the justices who decided they were fine with republicans germandering efforts were appointed by republican presidents who could have guessed?
So now it’s de-facto legal; states run by the democrats are doing similar things and the clearly-acting-in-good-faith pundits on the right are screaming “look both parties are the same see! See!”
Err… I may have strayed from my point a little, but yes IRCs are the way to do this provided they have sufficient legal backing to see that their decisions are enforced.
I love when someone posts an AI response to support their argument, then someone else asks for the prompt and it shows that the asker must have had to go through a dozen iterations of prompt to get the answer they want
I’m impressed with this, someone has clearly given it more than 30s of thought
treating unrealized gains used for collateral as income avoids most of the complicated issues around wealth taxes while still enforcing that you have to pay your fair share if you want to live a life of luxury.
Congressional pay caps seem like a good way to align their incentives with helping all their constituents rather than just the donors and median mean that passing a real minimum wage law is to their direct benefit. No idea how you would get around the increased risk of bribery though.
Fixing gerrymandering, replacing fptp and scrapping the electoral college evens out the voting power so an election is less likely to be swung imby a handful of close districts in swing states.
Striking down Citizens united would (could?) clean up campaign finance making it harder for fossil fuel lobbies (for example) to purchase power.
I don’t know how feasible it is given some of it is federal, some of it is state level and I imagine some of it requires ammending the constitution, but I would consider any candidate who ran on some/all of these to be a good choice focused on fixing the root causes of a lot of the problems the US is facing.
I also fall into this trap semi regularly, a happy medium I have found is a missable items guide that doesn’t tell you how to play or where to go but it does tell you “make sure you get item X before going to place Y as that’s your last chance”
It means I can be happy to play sub optimally knowing that if I really want I can go back and collect anything I missed later.
This has been quite good for Clair obscur
No, if matching your words to your thoughts would hurt someone the correct solution is to change your thinking.
Because for a lot of people posting snark on the internet is more flattering to their ego than advancing the goals of movements they claim to support.
(Yes I amxaware of the irony within this post)
Technically the act passed in 2023 under the Sunak government.
That said; I can’t seem to find a vote breakdown and I would not be at all surprised if labour also backed it.
I’m hoping enough public dissatisfaction leads to labour repealing it but I won’t hold my breath.
I was wondering this too, I think it’s because:
If you look at the trace at the row1,col2 position it moves left and right twice as fast as it moves up and down, where as the row2,column1 trace moves up and down twice as fast as it moves left and right.
So they could never be identical, but maybe you would expect them to be rotated 90 degrees?
But that would fail too since they all start at the top center position, but if you rotate the “n” shaped trace it wouldn’t touch the top center.
If you looks at the interactive link OP posted https://www.intmath.com/math-art-code/animated-lissajous-figures.php you can play with the phase shift which controls if you get an n or and 8 shape, or something in the middle.
It’s supposed to be the sound French people make when they laugh, despite none of the french people I know sounding anything like that.
I think it’s part of this weird cultural stereotyping the internet does where someone posts a funny meme with an inaccurate stereotype in it, then a legion of mouth breathers re-post the same meme whenever the nationality in question comes up, then due to repetition people who have never met that nationality thinks its real.
People stopped doing the fake “Ching Chong” false Chinese accent bit ages ago (thank god) but I guess France and the French are still valid targets.
I got one via YouTube, I think I was so shocked to see that wars have pr campagins and advertising spend now that I forgot the actual details.
Theme gist was that Iran developing nuclear weapons was a threat to world stability and isreal was stepping up to do what had to be done etc. etc.
No mention of Islam but given it’s a PR campaign I would be surprised if they connected race or religion to their motivation for bombing.
Do you get joy from simple things like eating a nice meal or taking a hot shower on a cold day?
Can you anticipate joy, if you are planning to meet up with friends or watch a movie or read a book; does thinking about the activity lift your mood even a little?
When you think back to happy memories do you feel happy, do you remember what the sensation of happiness felt like?
Not a professional and none of this is diagnostic one way or another, but it’s probably worth checking if you have exhausted or outgrown a hobby which just means you need to find more things you enjoy even if it’s just to add variety to your week. Or if your ability to feel joy itself is failing, in which case you probably need to a professional
Headline describing a good thing being met with scores of comments explaining how actually this is a bad thing is incredibly prevent all over Lemmy.
I don’t know if it’s because people feel like cynicism makes them informed or smart or cool, or if it’s just the left wing manifestation of “don’t believe what the media tells you sheeple” but it’s like clockwork.
Makes sense, the more immigration is seen to be a problem the better republicans do on voting day.
They want to talk about how high immigration is but so little to tackle it, Dems are incentivised to do the opposite.
Super apparent in the UK where the conservatives government decided to spend enormous sums sending a handful of asylum seekers to Rwanda rather than actually paying people to process their claims.
Coin flip between it just being yet another case of musk lashing out because his ego hurts and him trying to distance himself from the trump admin when the closeness has caused catastrophic damage to his companies brands (too little too late, but still)
How do you reverse a chemical castration if it’s later revealed the person was wrongfully convicted?
You stop the regimen of drugs and the primary effect ceases https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_castration
I’m not arguing for the policy, I think violating someones bodily authority is inherently evil and should not be on the table even as a result of a criminal conviction.
But I think our objections should follow the science, we should object to the harm caused to the (falsely)convicted while on the drugs rather than the permencance of the sentence.
The difference is that chemical castration is typically a course of drugs that alter the body’s hormone production while it’s being taken to reduce sexual desire/function, when the subject stops taking the drugs the body returns to its natural hormone balance.
Physical mutilation is a one off, permenant, irreversible operation.
The problem is that the term chemical castration is wildly misleading in its attempt to describe the process.
It’s becoming more common where I am for a couple to move back to somewhere near one of their sets of parents before they have kids so they can rely on them for occasional childcare since both of the new parents usually have jobs