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This! x 10,000!

A system born for to deal with XVIII century limitation that was already bad at doing so at conception.

Agreed 💯! But American "democracy" itself is a joke.The fact that there isn't a national holiday that gives everyone in the country the opportunity to vote, the fact that we can do EVERYTHING online except vote, the disenfranchisement of black people, the Citizens United ruling, Gerrymandering, lack of term limits, politician's stock portfolio benefitting from their political decisions etc. etc .... The orange pu$$ygrabber tried to steal an election and was able to run again 4 yrs later! 🤯... Everything about the American system is a farce 😓

The electoral college was put into the Constitution at the end because the founders by their own admission couldn't come up with anything better. It was based on several assumptions, all of which quickly turned out to be false. A quick fix was done with the 12th amendment, but that's about it.

I can't hit up enough for this!!

It's so freaking stupid, your vote doesn't count with that c**p.

As an American, abolish it! It's not the democratic way of voting, it's just a group of people who choose for us. The popular vote is the only thing that matters.

Americans: Wtf is an opposition party?

Intentional, not a flaw. Did your school not require a government class? This is explained quite thoroughly.

if this was eliminated then 2 states would run the country. The EC is to give fly over area equal say in elections.

every year congress - both parties - comes to work day after day, but refuses do draft a constitutional amendment. bipartisanship at its finest!

Until the US adopts Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) giving voters the option to rank candidates in order of preference: first, second, third, etc. we'll remain divided with half the country hating the other half.

Non American here. Would someone kindly explain what that is?

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Yep, because us fly over conservatives LOVE to have Coastal "elites" telling us we can't grow food or raise cattle because it all "comes from a grocery store!" Riiiiiiiight!

If we do away with electoral college we need to do to away with states and the idea that you govern better the closer you are to the citizens

Democracy is three wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner. But sure, let's try mob rule for a cycle or two. What could possibly go wrong?

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actually it is a very good system. Remember we have 50 semi-independent states, united by a Federal Union. Each State has their own election system, own voting rules and laws, etc (not to mention own court systems, legal systems, military, legislature, etc). So how do you do a vote for president when each state has entirely different legal and voting systems? each state does their own separate vote and sends their results to the federal government. But then how do you apportion the election? Each state gets delegates based on the number of representation in congress (2 senators, plus each House Rep), because that is divided proportional plus 2 senate seats. So based on each states vote, you get their delegates or portion of (not all are winner takes all). It is a very good system. A single nation-wide vote, would lead a literal civil war. Remember before 2000 there wasnt even a concept of a "national vote winner" because no concept exists. You win the states, and win the country.

I get it when it's a price label and being easily removable would let people peel it off and replace it with something else. Others should be thicker material with a weaker adhesive.

Same with the tops with those zip tabs.

This is the single most genius idea i have heard. Get this person their Noble Prize now.

Salesman:" Unfortunately this Escape SE does not have a large screen, all it has is a Driver Info Center"..."You don't understand, that's a selling point for us".

I just transfer the contents to a convenient container with lid. Otherwise, rolling up the excess plastic of the inner packaging and holding it in place with a clothespin will work in a pinch. Lastly, opening the inner packaging over all the width is not necessary. Cutting off a corner is enough if you go fir the clothespin solution.

I hate these, Soooo dangerous.

When you buy scissors and you need scissors to open the packaging.

Okay, the toliet foot pedal is still the best, but this is clearly runner-up.

Not to mention there are often font & background colour combinations that add another degree of difficulty

It's been ages since I last used windows, and have never used mac, but I can't imagine how files can be "hidden". Don't you have some kind of file explorer anymore?

Especially the ones specially designed for finger bleeds.

Yes yes yes. I loathe it

Don't be ridiculous. You're *supposed* to wear your glasses while showering.

And what about getting the pump pop up after you buy it? This is always a huge hassle, since everything turns and doesn’t unscrew.

Would you like to try YouTube premium? Are you sure? Really, really, really sure? You can say "No" but I'm going to keep asking forever.

connect your phone (which might not actually be better) or tablet or a cheap Bluetooth keyboard to your TV.

I prop them up. They're not getting me, dammit!

Yes, I never played with batteries as a kid but I was not a dumb baby.

Or you accidentally drop because wet hands and the freaking lid breaks

Tamper-proof packaging is all thanks to the a55hat Tylenol po1soner back in the '80's

So the contents go bad early and you have to go out and buy more. What are those manufacturers thinking anyway?

YES! A commercial comes on and its 10x louder than the show I'm watching. I think they do themselves a disservice when they do this because I immediately mute the TV, which means I'm not hearing ANY of their ad. Leave it the F alone and I won't mute it.

Good question. My air fryer remembers how long it has to go after an outage. V handy

And no indicator whether occupied or not. All of this only in the US of A, overseas has figured it out.

Forget laptops, this problem is a hundred times worse on phones or any other touchscreen thing.

And the glue used to keep the plastic on is so strong that even with a bigger tab, you have to cut through anyway.

Just remember these slides replaced the metal ones with pea gravel at the bottom.

Oddly specific.