Rhiow
9d ago
Yes, you're right. The ballets drop down to a box within the machine that we have to lock at the end of the night in my precinct, so there should be no way to scan the same one twice.
Rhiow
9d ago
Yeah, I think that's definitely a risk, though I'm hoping after a few elections of tossed out results the community would be more inclined to pay attention, and if they're not, well, I personally won't be too put out if their vote doesn't count in national elections anymore.
In theory it should be pretty obvious if someone tries to scan their ballot at the voting machine multiple times, you just need the guy standing next to the machine to be watching. Of course, it means the election results kind of hinges on him paying attention, but you can assign multiple people to that job if it really becomes an issue.
Volunteer quality is going to depend heavily on the precinct. I live in a fairly well-off neighborhood in a pretty wealthy county, and the election work pays less than minimum wage, and the more important jobs (such as being in charge of the entire precinct) basically require you to work the entire 12+ hour day. The only people willing to do it are going to be at least somewhat motivated to have their community's votes counted, there are much better ways to spend your Tuesday otherwise.
Rhiow
9d ago
"Half of Broward County’s election precincts reported more ballots cast than the number of voters."
There's an "easy" solution to to this, just toss out all the votes for the precinct if it happens, maybe allow for a margin of error, like one or two more ballots than voters is okay, but more than that means the precinct doesn't get counted.
If this county's elections operate like mine, everyone working at the precinct is a volunteer from the local area, maybe further if they don't have any volunteers locally. Either way, communities that can't secure their elections shouldn't get their votes counted.
This nearly happened at my precinct in 2024. Guy manning the voting machines wasn't paying attention and nearly let someone cast their ballot and walk out with their voter card, thankfully we caught it before she left the precinct.
Rhiow
22d ago
Hmm, I think it's definitely true the average (as in the mean) man does more dangerous and arduous work than the average woman. The workplace fatality rate for men in 2023 (that was the year I could find consistent numbers for) was ~7-8x the maternal death rate that year.
However, I'm less convinced that the average (as in the median) man does as much dangerous work. About 65% of men work some kind of management/service industry/sales job, and I don't think these jobs cause as much pain as birthing a baby. Even if the do, there's just as many women working them as men.
Rhiow
22d ago
I do think its 'cheating' to suggest that women are excused from their obligations on the grounds that men aren't living up to their own standards, when the womens' obligations are relatively painless but very visible on a social level, and men's responsibilities are harder to perceive but extract a drastically higher cost when drawn upon.
I'm not sure what kind of obligations you are thinking of for women, but the first one that comes to mind for me is pregnancy and childbirth, and I would not describe that as "relatively painless". Sure, it's better now to have 2.1 children with an epidural instead of 10+, but I think it's still a more arduous obligation than what the average man in the west will be called upon to do in their lifetime.
Rhiow
2mo ago
Demanding a dog stay on a bed too small for it to even turn around for 4+ hours is deranged according to my values.
Rhiow
5mo ago
Emotional labour for someone that appreciates it can definitely be one of the appeals of the job. Emotional labor for someone that's screaming obscenities at you is crap and probably the worst part of the job.
Activists complain about the latter and don't talk about the former because they're activists. If they thought "yeah, everything's okay actually" they wouldn't be activists. People tend to complain when their jobs are bad and not say anything when it's good anyways, so I'm not surprised you don't see much talk about good emotional labor.
Rhiow
5mo ago
The concept was originally applied to job, if I remember correctly. Ex: the flight attendant whose father passed away yesterday but still serves snacks and drinks on the flight with a smile and pleasantries is performing emotional labor.
I don't mind it as an idea in that context, honestly, but the people applying it to personal relationships are insane.
Rhiow
7mo ago
I don't know if your first question is meant to be rhetorical, but I'm going to assume it isn't.
I got to Starbucks about 2-4 times a month, depending on how much driving I'm doing on weekends. I can order from the app before I leave home, and by the time I arrive at the shop the drink will be ready for me. The only exception is their nitro cold brew, which I think the employees wait until you get there to pull to preserve drink quality. The employees pretty busy when I get there, but will respond with a "Have a nice day!" when I thank them for the drink. The seats in the café are almost always all occupied.
These are suburb Starbucks, and notably there's no other local coffee shops in the area. One of them is unionized, I have no idea about the others.
Rhiow
8mo ago
She's usually clothed in blue or blue over red in traditional Western art, though from a cursory Wikipedia search once "blue is the most expensive color" might have been the reason why that color was used.
Rhiow
8mo ago
The one tested in that video was water-cooled as well. They found a wire wrapped around one of the screws holding the water cooler in contact with the CPU that might have caused enough of an air gap to prevent heat from transferring effectively from the CPU to the cooler.
Rhiow
8mo ago
FYI Gamers Nexus reviewed either that exact model or something similar from CyberPowerPC and found the CPU was hitting 95C and getting thermal throttled.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=XqCweJmlZc0
You might need to either replace the heat sink entirely or remount it yourself if you get it.
Rhiow
10mo ago
And the jingle for a Japanese camera shop chain.
Rhiow
10mo ago
It's more apparent in her essay on why the red pill is wrong, and she calls herself a female writer at the end.
It does make me question how accurate the beauty myth essay is, though, since it's apparently written by a (very unusual) woman and not a man.
Rhiow
1yr ago
Depending on where you are you can also trying looking for a G3/Continuing Anglican parish. They've avoiding a lot of modern insanity by breaking away from the Episcopal Church over the ordination of women.
Rhiow
1yr ago
It's this article. https://kirkcenter.org/essays/a-cause-lost-and-forgotten/
Rhiow
1yr ago
This is absolutely something liberals and the Blue Tribe have as a perspective, and indeed even the most ivory-towered of them will fairly consistently blame conservatives for 'not grappling' with it in a genuine way rather than just shoving it out-of-sight. They just believe that the Correct solutions are near-completely opposite from the Red Tribe ones: favoring Therapy and voluntary treatment for the literal-schizophrenics and improved material support for the non-clinically insane.
I actually think this proves Hlynka's point. Liberals don't believe violent schizophrenics on the train are an underlying state of nature we'll always have to deal with, they believe its caused by a lack of therapy or support, and with enough support, we can live in a world where there are zero violent schizophrenics on the trains.
Rhiow
3yr ago
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My parents told me the same thing, it's generally good advice!
Also, any problems your spouse has with their parents/siblings will become your problems as well when you're married.
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