If you think that something that happens 11% of the time (less than 7%, if you discount Adams and Hayes) is "really frequent", then I can't help you.
I'm not sure why we're focusing on a "11% of the time" either. This isn't the 1800s, the country has changed a lot, including the Electoral College. Due to the limitations on the total number of electors, the EC power of more rural states has grown over the years and is at an all-time high.
There has to be something to drag into court.
His sycophants, including Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, have already signaled that they're open to having the courts make the decision, including on the flimsiest of grounds, like mail-in voting being inherently fraudulent. Kavanaugh specifically mentioned in a recent decision that if mail-in votes arrive after election day, then it has the stink of impropriety, and that the election results should be available on election day -- despite that not being part of any rules, and not having been true in many prior contests.
We are dealing with a group that openly states, as Mitch McConnell did on the Senate floor, that making it difficult for groups of people to vote (he was talking about federal employees in this case) was a-okay if those groups tended to vote predominantly Democratic. He used to coach voter suppression efforts under the excuse of fixing election fraud, which we know isn't a problem. But the mask has fallen off completely. There are no norms or laws, there's only what they can get away with, by hook or by crook.
Trump yelled at government officials that he wants to execute the whistle-blower
Please provide a source for that statement.
This video, for instance: "He added: "You know what we used to do in the old days when we were smart? Right? The spies and treason, we used to handle it a little differently than we do now."
He said the whistleblower was a spy and had committed treason. When he refers to "The spies and treason, we used to handle it a little differently than we do now," the penalty for treason in the US Code is death, and we have a history of spies who have received the death sentence.
Jesus, I can't believe I'm falling for a piece of shit troll. Thanks a lot, now I'm wasting my time going through your bullshit.
Fine. FINE.
Here's a report of a Nissan Leaf catching fire.
Mitsubishi has had problems with their Lithium Ion batteries overheating, it resulted in a temporary halting of the production of the model.
Apparently the Dodge Ram had a hybrid for awhile (who knew?). They were designed to have a reverse power flow, so vehicles plugged in could power a building in the case of a power outage, but the battery packs overheated again.
GM redesigned the Chevrolet Volt to reduce the chance of fires in an accident.
There are a number of incidents with a bunch of smaller EV manufacturers outside of the US as well.
...if any state is a poster child for terrible election practices, it is surely Georgia. Bold claims demand bold evidence, and unfortunately there's plenty; on Monday, McClatchy reported a string of irregularities from the state's primary election in May, including one precinct with a 243-percent turnout...Multiple sworn statements from voters describe how they turned up at their polling stations only to be turned away or directed to other precincts. Even more statements allege incorrect ballots, frozen voting machines, and other issues.
Like I said, I posted almost 20 years on the account without a problem, and now that account is trashed. Slashdot operates on a completely "hands-off" approach to administration, with no way to settle harassment, and that only works as long as you have the perfect system. As we've seen elsewhere, if you have no approach to handling harassment, harassers win.
I see, you might have a point. I thought slashdot editors with unlimited mod points take care of that.
Like I said, I don't have much evidence anymore that editors even read the site, other than whipslash's occasional community engagement. Certainly not enough to handle something of this frequency.
Despite some limitations slashdot voting system is OK in most of the cases.
I'm fine with the mod-up/mod-down system for the most part. I do think that one account shouldn't have so much power to affect another account, especially through the karma system which is easily exploited by someone with no life. That one account can karma-bomb another into useless oblivion is a design flaw that couldn't possibly be what the coders had in mind, and that's the flaw that should get fixed.
It's not usually -1 Troll or Flamebait either, it's usually Off-Topic or Redundant that gets used. Things someone could individually look at and think "Well, that's a subjective opinion. I wouldn't have gone that far myself, but maybe you could make the case for it." Something that might look innocent in isolation, but when you gather all the posts and look at them as a group, it's pretty clear what's going on.
Like I said, I posted almost 20 years on the account without a problem, and now that account is trashed. Slashdot operates on a completely "hands-off" approach to administration, with no way to settle harassment, and that only works as long as you have the perfect system. As we've seen elsewhere, if you have no approach to handling harassment, harassers win. I've had a lot of my preconceptions about communication on the Internet challenged over the last year. I used to hold Slashdot up as a gold standard of discussion, but this site has definitely taken it's lumps of late.
> This will encourage packaging to be redesigned to utilize plastics that can be processed along with compost
This will encourage manufacturers to increase the cost of the product and pass it on to the consumer.
This will encourage competitors to use different packaging not subject to the tax, thereby allowing them to undercut the ones still using high-tax packaging.
So we have been blaming the Chinese taking over all of our American jobs. Now, the Chinese don't want these garbage scavenging jobs, then my question is why don't Americans take these jobs if they are so desperately trying to win back jobs from China.
Because in the United States, we are obsessed with lowering the costs of (some) things. Americans will have a hard time doing these jobs because we don't want to pay the workers a living wage. We got used to lowering prices in the US by having goods manufactured in countries where the workers could survive on a fraction of what Americans could survive on. Have the prices on those goods dropped? Yes! They have, and they're far more affordable now than they were then. A decent quality stereo color television cost $659 in 1983, $1600+ in today's dollars. I can get a decent 50" Ultra HD 4k from Costco for $429.
Many goods are cheaper now compared to the past.. but not all things. Food is not that cheap. If anything, housing costs have gone way up in the last 30 years. So the cost of living is still pretty high compared to many other countries. If we had to employ people to sift through recycling, they would need to be paid at a certain minimum level where they can still live, and that level may be too high than people want to pay to have someone sort recycling.
"A mind is a terrible thing to have leaking out your ears." -- The League of Sadistic Telepaths
