I think maybe you misunderstood the compact.
I’m your example, the states who signed the compact would all put their votes to candidate Y, assuming they had more popular votes in all states.
It’s not “join us or be punished”, it’s “we will implement the will of the majority, not matter what”.
That’s like eliminating private property with extra steps.
I mean, I’m basically okay with that, but none of this “a third of your wealth per year” nonsense.
Supreme Court: “Not like that.”
Nobody gets disenfranchised. Rather this compact enables the radical idea of “one person, one vote”.
It’s not completely pseudo-science, as there are a lot of correlations with things like academic success or job performance:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient#Social_correlations
Political revolutions usually involve a wealthy class being kept away from political power, combined with a particularly unpopular and stupid absolute ruler.
In the US, the wealthy are the political class, and while Trump is stupid and unpopular he has only been in power a year. Most people think he will be gone in 3 more years, and even if he jettisons the Constitution and stays in as President, he is old and unhealthy.
Just to be clear, you probably don’t want to take it during the flight.
According to that site meat consumption in Europe has dropped by 19% but grown by 10% in the US.
I’m old school, and would set up Fetchmail. It can pull down either POP or IMAP (I haven’t used POP in 25+ years, but I guess it works fine still). Then I’d run Dovecot or some other IMAP server on my host to read mail from there.
I have a friend who is also a foot anti-fetishist. I find being revolted by feet equally inexplicable to being aroused by them, but both are fine I guess.
Increases in productivity go to the owners, not the workers. Even imaginary increases in productivity.
In a somewhat related prime number incident, we have the term “baker’s dozen”, meaning 13. This is because bakers were found to be reducing the size of loaves of bread, and the government required that they include 13 when they sold 12 to make up for the discrepancy. So shrinkflation has been going on basically forever…
Any prime number is divisible by itself though? So you can split a box of 3 amongst 3 people. Remember that 2 is also prime, and you can’t split a box of 2 or 4 between 3 people.
Anyway, I think the bigger issue is the 25% reduction from 4 in a box to 3 in a box, and we can be plenty annoyed and/or outraged at that. 😆
I don’t necessarily think that’s a problem. A revolution wouldn’t end up with a new Obama or Clinton. Ideally it would end up destroying capitalism and saving humanity.
Mostly accurate, although the flight delays tend to be announced one short delay at a time. “We’re going to be a few minutes late pulling out from the gate.” “We missed out takeoff window, so we’re going to have a 20 minute delay.” “We need to refile our paperwork, so we’re heading back to the gate.” “Ground crew changed shift, so we need another 45 minutes.” And so on…
In the Netherlands we don’t have commercials on Netflix. Is that really a thing?
The 17th Amendement requires the direct election of Senators. Blue state accept red states’ votes for those.
If you’re going to make an argument based on bad faith of states, then the US basically ceases to exist as a republic, regardless of whether you have the compact.