There's several hours of time lag between the article being posted and OP replying (as I write, 13 hours when the article was posted, 8 hours when OP linked something) -- you and I must have very different definitions of instant!

Poor Vermont, no one in America will think of them in this context!

Yes, I'd imagine they're talking about the Eggers book in this case -- it's a decent enough read imo.

Can I visit the world you're in, where votes in US Congress aren't predominantly along party lines?

The US system is far more dysfunctional — we have the Senate, which ensures that there isn’t an opportunity to conduct a vote along any line!

The real lever of power in congress is the parliamentary process in the Senate.

I’m not so sure. A system in which a party that wins only 34% of the vote is given a near supermajority in the legislature and control of the executive seems pretty dysfunctional to me.

In the US Senate, 80% of the votes represent 46% of the population.

Wyoming has more sheep than people, but they are represented on the same basis as California, Florida, etc.

I think right now that's not as much of an issue as the 80/46 numbers suggest. If, say, the Democrats had 80/100 votes just from representing that 46% of the population, that would be bad. But that's not how the two parties distribute right now. Big states can be Democrat (California, New York) or Republican (Texas, Florida). Small states can be Democrat (Vermont, Delaware) or Republican (the Dakotas).

The Republicans do end up with a small (up to 5%) advantage in the Senate but that's it. Nothing remotely close to the Labour party getting a near supermajority in the Commons from 34% of the vote. It's simply much much worse in practice than the situation in the United States.

Yeah, the real difference is that in the US, there is a separate election for president. In the UK, as in many other countries, the party that wins parliament gets to form the government (and determine the prime minister or whatever the title of the de facto head of the executive is). In some countries this is complicated by multiparty systems where coalitions are required, but the general idea of aligning the legislative and executive branches in this way is fairly common.

Don't forget South Georgia!

Was this a while ago? The laws around jaywalking in CA changed at the start of 2023: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...

Ah yes, it predates that law. It looks like there's a phasse-in period, during which certain rules apply, and then in 2029 new, slightly different rules apply. At a quick glance. I can't quite tell what the differences are, or why they need the 2029 changeover.

Throttling's normal and expected. OP indicates "shuts everything down" though -- which sounds more like the CPU turned off to prevent damage. That shouldn't happen if the cooling is working properly.

Conor Daly: https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/motor/2018/08/24/eli-l...

That's not a cancelled ride tho? It's admittedly a bit weird, but he's still driving in one of the top flights of American motorsport. He hasn't exactly been removed from the sport, as implied by Walter

I had thought the sponsorship pull had put him out of business. Glad to see I misremembered the incident. Thanks for the correction.