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Cake day: November 20th, 2024

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  • If your representatives aren’t in any way obligated to vote in accord with the wishes or best interests of the people they represent then it’s definitely not any kind of democracy

    Most representative democracies have no requirement for representatives to actually vote accordingly to their voters interests. This is called the free mandate.

    So the electorate college works in the same way. I vote for a middle man which I trust to vote accordingly with my wishes. The electoral college is a dumb system no doubt, but it isn’t necessarily non-democratic


  • I have had a Google home for years and I wholeheartedly agree. It is like they lobotomized it a couple of years ago?
    Commands that it could do when I bought it, to my amazement (wow it can do that‽), is long gone. Now it feels like it struggles even with the most simple commands such as playing news or turning on a light.

    Wonder what happened.

    Edit: oh yeah, and it has become sexist as fuck. It won’t listen to commands whatsoever from women. If a man tries the exact same command it executes it.
    Voice models retained and all.