I can’t say for certain that none of the experiments the psych dept conducted at my school offered payment. I participated in several and didn’t get paid. It’s been more years than I care to admit so my memory is a bit fuzzy on every detail, but I recall notices on bulletin boards and sometimes mentions in a class…

Exactly. And it only requires enough states to agree that total 270 EC votes in order to work. Candidates would need to campaign to all voters because each would count equally. And no Constitutional amendment or Congressional approval required.

Your presumption about Congress being required to change the EC is not true. There’s already a strong movement underway at the State level to change it, and it can succeed.

Presidents can’t change it directly, but their election is determined by it, so raising it as a serious issue seems perfectly appropriate to me, and more than welcome.

In Japan restaurants often have pictures or plastic models of dishes displayed out front. I’d take a picture with my phone of what I wanted and show it to the waitress. Always got a nod and a smile.

The very worst aspect of the Trump fiasco is what it says about a society that continues to allow someone so deranged to manipulate the levers of power from our highest office.  

Is anyone else comforted by the fact that the US President is so organized and efficient in the use of his time that he can get all the work of running the country accomplished and still play golf 20% of his days, spend 60% in unstructured “executive time”, and still be able to pitch in running Fox, GM and SNL? Me…

Been reported the pilots weren’t informed there was an automated system to override.

Numerous instances of pilot error, or even intentionally causing fatal crashes, would be the counter to that conclusion.  Hard to say what’s worse, but I’d wager humans are the greater risk.  In the case of the Max and MCAS it still appears human error in the design and implementation was the fundamental problem.

Don’t know about this one, but when I was getting my experimental psych degree unpaid student volunteers were used.

“I can’t judge him, to be entirely honest. While I don’t think I’d actually, y’know, ask about the moon landing hoax after being treated like royalty in the Johnson Space Center, I would definitely, 100 percent be thinking about it.”

Not a joke. Here’s a section from the Texas GOP platform:

Looks like he’d knocked back more than a few rounds at the bar that blitzed his brain before getting concussed by a fist.

I’m a single person. Pixel 3, Nest doorbell, and Chromecast Ultra. Very happy with all of them. But you don’t know me, so that parts still true.

“it doesn’t look like breaking the small third window of the car set off the full alarm”

Had no idea I had to go to Japan to do that.  So, uh, should I put my clothes back on now?

You appear to be willfully missing my point and conflating individual rights with democratic representation.  If you don’t see problems that need fixing I have nothing more to say.

“We don’t live in a democracy” is an excuse to justify any sort of idea or movement that goes against the will of the people. It’s a hollow argument. Yes, of course we don’t live in an idealized democracy, but there is no rational justification for the intentional denial of proportional representation. It’s more than…

What majority are you referring to in 2010 and 2016? Trump was not elected by a majority. The Senate does not represent the majority. Gerrymandering and voter suppression have skewed the balance in the House. It does seem unlikely that the Senate will go majority Dem, but that’s a reflection of the system of choosing…

You’re conflating two completely different concepts. One is equal protection of rights for all, which I never questioned. The other is the fundamental concept of democracy, that the people will be proportionately represented by those making laws, setting policies and selecting the judiciary. Politically motivated,…