No it didn’t. 74 million votes in 2020, currently at 71 million for 2024. At best he matches previous numbers and that’s unlikely. Are people just making shit up?
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No he isn’t. 71 million votes this year. 74 million in 2020. When the tally is done, at absolute best he matches his old performance within a percent or so, and that’s unlikely.
Granted I don’t understand those people, but this difference between now and 2020 is lack of support for Harris, not increased support for Trump. I’ll add people sitting at home to the list of people I don’t want to associate with.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Touchscreens Are Out, and Tactile Controls Are BackEnglish
4·2 years agoI recently learned that in my car the same light is used to indicate that the parking brake is on and that the brake fluid is low. Nothing bad happened, and it’s getting worked on, but my first thought was that the sensor on the brake must be broken. It’s poor design, seemingly without reason.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Touchscreens Are Out, and Tactile Controls Are BackEnglish
7·2 years agoI have heard that the reason for this is that trucks in that size range are less regulated by the EPA. Companies didn’t want to put in the research to develop trucks that met emissions standards, so they just make them really heavy for no purpose, evading regulations. Take this with a grain of salt, because I’ve done zero research of my own on it.
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politics @lemmy.world•It’s not alarmist: A second Trump term really is an extinction-level threat to democracy
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The problem isn’t that states have disproportionate power, and moreover the NPVC is a poor solution. The problem is that all but two states allocate their delegates in a winner-take-all manner, so that a candidate with only 51% of the vote gets all of the delegates.
The NPVC requires huge buy in to work because in nearly half of cases it doesn’t result it a person’s voting power represening their actual vote. Thus, no individual citizen has incentive to support it. If it ever gets enough support to take effect, as soon as a state ends up with its delegates going to a candidate the citizens of that state didn’t vote for, they’ll repeal it and it will end nationally due to the wording of the law.
The solution is for states to allocate delegates proportionally to the votes of its citizens. That’s what voting is all about. If that system were in place, then there would have been no elections with a mismatch between the college and popular vote. Every citizen has individual incentive for that system, more so than the current system or NPVC, and therefore you don’t need the group buy-in wording that the NPVC has. It can be achieved on a state-by-state basis, and it would only need a few states to operate this way to have an impact.
Someone is going to point out that there are details and some states want to be fought over for their small percentage to swing the state, but the fact is that this solves the problem, and overwhelmingly this has fewer barriers and weakenesses than NPVC. If you care about this, contact your state government to change how delgates are allocated.
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11·2 years agoUse infinite monkeys.
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Linux@lemmy.ml•Linux Sys Admins, do you work on Linux or Windows office laptops?
3·2 years agoI have a fairly new, expensive (not $5000 expensive though) laptop from work. It’s quite a high powered laptop. It’s full of administration crap that constantly runs in the background using 8 GB of RAM and at least 20% of the CPU, nonstop. Daily I run out of RAM and it freezes. I have a 15 year old laptop that, without exaggeration, is faster to use and can run more programs without running out of RAM.
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why are laptop adapters so much larger than phone adapters of same power rating?
31·2 years agoVolts are not a unit of power. Watts are a unit of power.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’English
211·2 years agoNever heard of Android I guess?
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politics @lemmy.world•Here in Michigan, we know the Democrats have failed on Gaza – and they’ll pay dearly for it | Mona Mawari
2·2 years agoIt also ignores that many of the the non-core policies of both major parties move toward the policies of the winning party. If Trump wins, support for Gaza in both parties will decrease. Not that there’s never a reason to vote third party, but nothing about third party voting is advantageous for this particular issue.
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politics @lemmy.world•Here in Michigan, we know the Democrats have failed on Gaza – and they’ll pay dearly for it | Mona Mawari
31·2 years agoA black and white view of the world gets you nowhere. There is a huge difference in the way that this administration has handled this war and the way that Trump says he plans to handle it. To say that there is no difference in the degree of support these people would provide to Israel or Gazans is incredibly naive. Your choices are grass flavored ice cream, or shit flavored ice cream. Vanilla isn’t on the menu, and you have to pick one. “I don’t like either”, as if the two choices are the same, is living in a fantasy world.
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politics @lemmy.world•Here in Michigan, we know the Democrats have failed on Gaza – and they’ll pay dearly for it | Mona Mawari
41·2 years agoPeople who deliberately misquote people are not worth talking with. There is a choice and if you think pretending like there isn’t one gets you somewhere, prepare for a very different approach to this war when Trump takes office.
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politics @lemmy.world•Here in Michigan, we know the Democrats have failed on Gaza – and they’ll pay dearly for it | Mona Mawari
112·2 years agoI don’t at all understand what the point is here. Do you think that Trumo will support Gazans? Trump has said he would wholeheartedly take Israel’s side and provide more support than the current administration. There isn’t a choice between what you have and what you want. It’s between what you have and something worse than what you have.
Trump winning doesn’t force Democrats to support Gazans. It forces them to side with Israel in order to appeal to the electorate.
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politics @lemmy.world•The big picture: Who is favored to win the presidency?
1·2 years agoI can’t figure out what you mean. The subtitle in the lemmy post goes to the same place. Within the article I dont see a link elsewhere.
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politics @lemmy.world•The numbers clearly show Hillary Clinton blocked Jill Stein from the White House in 2016
1·2 years agoHumorous, but also stupid.
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politics @lemmy.world•The big picture: Who is favored to win the presidency?
6·2 years agoI don’t know what I’m missing here, but I don’t see numbers for the race at the link provided. I just see national polling numbers.
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Which adjective should come first, modular or versatile?
24·2 years agoAlthough there is a common adjective order, it’s not always clear which category a word belongs in. People insisting that the words “modular” and “versatile” fit into whatever category they chose are presenting a lot more certainty than is warranted. I am a native speaker, and either order sounds fine in this case.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Google adopts small nuclear power reactors at unprecedented scale — inks deal for seven reactors to feed AI data centersEnglish
1·2 years agoAccording to the article you have provided, it has… The first figure under Global Studies shows nuclear prices have increased, and the general trends of the various studies in the two tables show an increase over time.
He is currently at 72 million and in the last election got 74 million. This is the third comment in a row that I’ve had to say this. Where in the world are people getting these ridiculous numbers?