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which I agree with, but still think the benefits of smaller districts would improve things even if you end up with fraud in some areas

someone posted a good counter-argument in this chat last week

yes legorhin what we really need is to return to the original 1 rep per 50,000 rule and make the districts so granular that gerrymandering is impossible (edited)

but that sample size is smaller

and if you look at history, a 1-party system

and I sorta think democracies naturally trend towards a 2-party system

proportional systems are weird, in-practice they rarely solve problems because they add more incentive to gridlock and get dissolved as a do-over

they have 1 at-large district

the maps suck because.... you don't really need a map of it

wyoming's map

there's a better one

actually pika

the straight line state

Pika, there is a comission who wants to do that

they changed it in '24, and are now changing it back

well, maybe 5% different

(this is literally the map they had before for those who don't know)

@reorruatrnte your state is having its lake removed

that's a good one Phijkchu_Pikachu Unrelated, but Baj has been posting a lot on reddit, and this is funny

jfc

that post, is the most hateable thing you could say

bro kys

oh, he's just a sensitive little shy boy

bro, this guy sounds insufferable

lmao

he literally says that

I swear

I didn't even read it all

oh

15 years later, and the thing you want to get off your chest is that everyone else was too toxic and cliquey lmao

no wonder nobody liked him lmao

's poll Place your bean has closed.

I take it back, don't move here I just drove by some shitty new condos that advertise 1500 sqft starting from the "low 900s" Spooky Phijkchu Or, you let me croot you to work on satellites (edited)

Hey dead dog

Lol, ok that's such a retarded premise I lk might steal that as a shitpost mtcdood Example: Customers ask vague questions. It takes us a long time, sometimes nearly an hour, to guess what they want. Some retard (he's not he's just not being wise) says "Here's my AI project to speed up the guessing process." I'm like...

Through 10 layers of NGOs or military contractors

And somehow all this money is from our taxes at the end anyway

Yep, there's no better way to say it that I know 99% of what we bring forward is going to get shelved or not have a customer, but I have the budget and team so I may as well spend it, which ironically looks better for our metrics And when we do find someone interested, 99% of the time it's because they have money they

Literally hasn't been loaned out in 3 years because nobody wants to hear they're fucking up

I have a friend doing the same thing, huge engineering consulting company in California TinyBomby Well, my company did do a lot. I just specifically had nothing to do. It was a really weird situation where my company works with "captive shops" to get work done and my company provides the captive shops with engineers. H

And when you start managing teams, you realize most work you give them is ultimately pointless/purposeless anyway Even when it's just greenlighting their personal projects and giving them funding, none of it will ultimately serve any purpose or even be used

Yes Garbage 70%-80% of white collar work is this Garbage Do you guys all live in the WKUK Stapler Factory Sketch or is that just a subsection of the US economy

Leg and Pika will laugh for me saying this But the most useful thing anyone can do at companies like that is to fuck around with AI all day You either accidentally will solve major problems or at the very least you get a marketable skill you can get a raise for at your next job

Oh lol, you're really burning it down

Issue is there's not enough work for any of these industries if you cut out all the BS