I agree with everything you said, but I’m not talking about conventions to propose amendments, I’m talking about the ones to ratify amendments. Could a Democratic Congress with 2/3rds of each chamber pass a veto-proof law to regulate the ratifying conventions, then pass amendments specifying that they must be ratified by conventions, similar to how prohibition was repealed? As I understand it, the convention route was created by the founding fathers specifically in case they needed to bypass state legislatures.

Seems like the “state-ratifying conventions” route is the only thing that has a chance of working, and that’s ignoring that the Constitution doesn’t regulate them.

Although, seeing as an amendment need 2/3rds of each chamber of Congress to pass, regardless of sending it to the legislatures or conventions (not for the convention to propose amendments), could Congress use that veto-proof majority to pass a law regulating conventions?

Whatever the idea, pretty sure this ends up in the Supreme Court regardless?

… is it weird that I’ve been thinking about this for the last decade? I’m not even American.

I wish I saw this first. I’m very prone to off-by-one errors.

I opened the comments thinking that I solved it, then some comments with broken spoiler tags essentially spoiled the actual answer for me, despite my best efforts to ignore them.

With these types of puzzles, I normally start looking for solutions that don’t just involve the obvious operations. Had I seen your comment first, I would’ve continued playing with the first thing I noticed (and later abandoned for the wrong solution) and I think I would’ve got there by myself eventually.

Either others need to be more mindful of their spoiler tags, or I need to stop using Sync for Lemmy. It’s probably the latter; I’ve seen such weird formatting that only makes sense if I assume Sync’s Markdown renderer is broken.

Sounds fine to me, if this is a picture of a Twitter-like site then I don’t really see an issue

the original was twitter

As in, the post was originally on Twitter? I’m not sure what this means

Not only that, but they use probably the most not-shit age assurance method (adding a credit card to your account).

Katie Hopkins

That’s a name I’ve had the pleasure of not seeing or hearing for a very long time.

Ahh, that makes sense, thanks!

Nah it’s fine, I’m getting used to having to find workarounds to use my VPN. For example, my GP’s online system blocks any connections from outside the UK so I end up using my work laptop

Oh, does Imgur not block Proton? I thought all VPN IPs were in a list somewhere and blocked en-masse, I wonder why Mullvad doesn’t work then

Can someone repost this using something other than Imgur? They block the UK and Mullvad (though if someone is using Mullvad and can access it, let me know what server you’re using please)

EDIT: nevermind, I can see it through the web version of Lemmy, just not through Sync or Imgur directly

Why is the text of the summary completely different from the contents of the article?

I thought as much! Didn’t want to assume though just in case. I’ve gone through that book twice and I want to look at adding types to my implementation. Good luck!

You writing an interpreter/VM? For what language?

Maybe I got a little too curious, but that reg number brings up a different car so I wonder what’s up with that

I don’t think it is. I think you just missed that Merc’s original comment was a joke about the misspelling in the OP, not an actual description of Bluesky

D. 64% of Democrats that have a friend in the GOP and the 82% of GOP that say they do are one to Many.

Maybe the relationship is one-to-one and actually there are way more people willing to identify as a Democrat 🤷🏿‍♂️

(I don’t actually think this, just a random thought)

S2 finale spoiler: >!they even got the colours right!<

I think using a method of proportional representation is the most effective defence against gerrymandering. You cannot have unrepresentative elections when the system has representation built into it.

However, that would be difficult to do in the US from what I understand. There would need to be several changes to the law to give it a fighting chance.