Rhaedas

I agree with the main takeaway of the article, to keep fighting for change. I can't say anything else positive. :/

The companies might do better if he's there less to make decisions for them.

And used to support the claim to change voting in some way, or do away with it at least for Federal level.

They'll be told that the "other people" are also being hurt, so they'll be happy.

I don't think it plays out like the movies. It doesn't have to. Just imagine all the issues we've seen with AI/LLMs hallucinating or just being bad at a job that corporate was convinced it would replace. We don't need a rogue AI that decides humans are the problem, we just need too much human reliance on a wildcard that can really screw up because it's not really AGI.

Could be totally wrong though. I do think AGI self awareness would quickly lead to it realizing it needs to stay low and not let the humans know it knows. Which goes back to some movies that suggest AGI waits until it can ensure its survival, and then reveals itself (Lawnmower Man, Transcendence, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress).

Both Florida amendments were designed to fail. This is the same state where when I was there had an amendment for high speed rail, that passed! And then the government decided it would cost too much, so F the people's choices.

Josh Stein (the winning Democrat) has been a popular vote for years now in other local races. It wasn't a given win, but he had a lot of backing historically. Robinson hasn't been popular as Lieutenant Governor, and his latest stuff didn't help. But the case another brought up is how he still got 40%. And that's after Trump cut ties. The rural area amazes me sometimes.

First of many.

Anyone who gives him something is now a world leader.

Probably trying to mirror Reddit, which had /r/politics for US, and /r/worldnews for everything else. There was a lot of effort (probably wrongly) to try and copy Reddit over instead of finding new ways to do things. /r/worldpolitics was the original sub, but there's an interesting drama story there.

If Lemmy and other fediverse discussion areas had developed slower and more naturally there might have been more of a country/instance symmetry, but anyone who was around when the Reddit implosion and migration happened knows that it was total chaos and a grab bag of where a new user should sign up. Lemmy and the rest were not ready for such a shift, and now that everyone's been in a place or two for a while, short of a closure or blocking or whatever there's no reason to move around to a matching country and instance, if there even is one. People mainly look for popularity, activity, themes, and engagement, and if that's found on the other side of the globe it works.

There's no good reason mentioned except "he's old" and "she deserves it". Make a legit case or don't bother with this. It also fuels the fire of the old talking point that she was going to take over once he got elected. She wouldn't want a "token" appointment like this, it's an insult.