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I assume you're talking about Carpenter and yopyop is talking about Piker

Woah, good to know. Thanks for the response!

Is there a way for the Senate to reassign those committee seats to someone else? Do chairs have deputies or similar?

There are plenty of users who don't even know what the Eternal September was

I'd be one of them. I've got some reading to do later.

I'm pretty sure it does. I remember thinking "of course they would implement it like that" when I first encountered a short as a regular video.

Speaking for myself here:

• Shorts loop automatically, something I find annoying
• Shorts have loads of UI over the video by default; while there is a "clear screen" button in the context menu, it doesn't persist, and is extra interaction that a normal video doesn't require
• It's easier to scrub through a normal video on mobile; while there is a progress bar at the bottom of a short, you can't drag up on that bar to get fine-grained seeking

This is my "old man tells at cloud" moment and I'm okay with that.

I agree with your general vibe but it's worth noting that this was semi-proportional.

Hungary uses Mixed-Member Majoritarian, so the constituency seats do not influence the proportional seats. Mixed-Member Proportional generally attempts to make the final seat count match the list vote as close as possible, whereas in MMM, it's almost as if the constituency seats and list seats are for two separate-but-parallel elections.

To put this in perspective, Tisza (the winning party) got 53% of the list vote, but nearly 70% of the seats (which is even more significant because in Hungary, you need 67% of the seats in their unicameral parliament to amend the constitution). MMP would have not awarded such a large majority; they would have got about 106 seats instead of 138.

Again, big fan of proportional representation, and while Hungary's system is technically better than what we have here in the UK (unless you're Scottish, Welsh, Norther Irish, or a Londoner), it's not really a good example of PR.

Well... That's kinda terrifying

Reminds me of when my VP of engineering told me to be careful when trying to get to the TypeScript Playground. Googling "ts playground" brought him to a site that was absolutely not safe for work.

(() => "I'm in.")()

ahh so that's why charizard is so hot

New Mexico was the reason I was thinking that Congress would have to pass federal legislation first to dictate how state ratifying conventions are run.

Again, from someone on the outside looking in, it seems like the option with the best chance of succeeding. But I also think Article V itself should be amended to explicitly use referendums to ratify amendments. Maybe even take a page out of Switzerland's book?