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Exactly! I mean, the problems with electronic voting are mostly technological, and thus can be overcome. We also don't need absolute security for every single vote, especially if we have multiple votes on the same things.

To take the Brexit example, there could have been a subsequent vote about how it should be done, then a last minute vote to decide whether or not to go ahead with the final decision, and then afterwards a vote in review of how it's going and whether to change course - along with votes on trade agreements and everything else that would be different. Even for people who didn't vote seriously to begin with, they're going to take it more seriously as time goes on.

We could have digital voting for most day-to-day things, like local ordinances, but then big decisions can be done securely with paper and pencil (no pens = no swapping for one with disappearing ink).

Sack the lot of them, let civil servants run the day to day, pick the best lawyers to write laws, have a direct democracy to vote on them (as well as subsequent review votes).

People shit on direct democracy as if it is doomed to fail, and point to things like Brexit as an example of how it won't work. However, Brexit was a one off vote that had a huge disinformation campaign behind it, and such a campaign cannot be sustained indefinitely for everything. Also, many of the bad votes are basically joke votes; the novelty will quickly wear off when people start seeing that their vote has a direct result.

Long gone are the days where we need to pick someone to go to a central place of governance on our behalf. We pretty much all have the ability to communicate instantly across the entire nation and beyond. Why should we have a "representative" when they don't actually represent our views?

That reminds me of the genius idea my son came up with for spaghetti bolognese with garlic baguettes. It used to be that the end pieces were my least favourite, but he started taking the end 3 or however many pieces as a whole chunk. Then he would scoop out all the bread from the open end, then refill it with spaghetti bolognese. When I do it I like to cut up the pulled out bread with the side of my fork and stuff that back in there also, really packing it in, then you just scoff the bolognese baguette end in all its glory!

That's exactly what I was thinking. My tongue rests on the roof of my mouth, to pull it back takes more effort. In fact, as I open my mouth my tongue sticks to the roof a little, then pops away - there's like a vacuum seal holding it there, effortlessly.

In other countries, the losing party almost always pays - the US is somewhat unique in that paying is the exception, not the rule. However, the real crime here is that lawyers charged $260,000 to pursue this case.

Well my suspicion is the main reason for the name change is to preserve some of the value of the Twitter brand. When Musk's site inevitably dies, someone else can buy it up cheap.

Sounds like a runway collission? The article is pretty light on the exact details, the Reuters article has more but I guess it's early days.

Link to the actual release: https://www.scummvm.org/news/20231230/

Thanks, I think maybe they unlocked the article though as it's available now.