News
Welcome to the News community!
Rules:
1. Be civil
Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban. Do not respond to rule-breaking content; report it and move on.
2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.
Obvious right or left wing sources will be removed at the mods discretion. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted seperately but not to the post body.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source.
Posts which titles don’t match the source won’t be removed, but the autoMod will notify you, and if your title misrepresents the original article, the post will be deleted. If the site changed their headline, the bot might still contact you, just ignore it, we won’t delete your post.
5. Only recent news is allowed.
Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.
6. All posts must be news articles.
No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis.
7. No duplicate posts.
If a source you used was already posted by someone else, the autoMod will leave a message. Please remove your post if the autoMod is correct. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.
8. Misinformation is prohibited.
Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.
9. No link shorteners.
The auto mod will contact you if a link shortener is detected, please delete your post if they are right.
10. Don't copy entire article in your post body
For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.
view the rest of the comments
I can’t stand redistricting shenanigans like this. All maps for all states should be done by computer. Any politician who has a problem with the computer’s results can explain why before a bipartisan committee. The committee can decide whether to implement any changes.
That’s it. No theatrics, no bullshit.
Perfect! My administration will select the programmers..
Lol choose whoever you want. Wait till they see my $10mil check
I would be fine with that under any administration before this one. Any government related technology now comes with bullshit and theatrics baked in by executive order.
Grok will draw the district lines
I don't think computers should be doing distracting. Minority communities deserve representation and an algorithm could easily divide those communities into separate districts taking away their ability to collectively organize and advocate for themselves. A lot of the horrible gerrymandering shaped districts are made to connect minority communities so they can have a say.
If were not gonna do proportional representation then I think Michigan has a good system where they have a non partisan independent distracting board that is randomly selected from citizens who apply.
Yeah but how do you program the computer? I'm cool with just using city and county lines.
I'm a fan of the shortest splitline algorithm.
I don't think districts are good. I think allocation based on proportion is better if we are going to change laws. If there is 10 seats 55.1%/44.9% is the vote for platforms in the state then we should hold a primary for 4 seats on x platform and 6 primary election for other platforms. Then land weirdness won't matter per state. Every vote counts.