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andrewducker) wrote2019-03-06 12:03 pm
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Interesting Links for 06-03-2019
- Female Cyclist Forced To Stop When She Nearly Catches Male Racers After Their Head Start
- (tags:cycling )
- A quick look at QUIC (the next generation of HTTP over TCP/IP)
- (tags:internet networking web Technology )
- Picosecond lasers weld glass and metal together for the first time
- (tags:lasers materials )
- Prospiracy Theories
- (tags:conspiracy satire truth funny )
- Should vagrants be flogged in the street?
- (tags:homelessness libdem )
- Emmanuel Macron: Dear Europe, Brexit is a lesson for all of us: it's time for renewal
- (tags:europe thefuture )
- The Movement To Skip The Electoral College Just Passed A Major Milestone (but has a long way to go)
- (tags:politics usa voting viaDanielDWilliam )
- A Brief History of British and Irish Languages
- (tags:language Wales Scotland UK England Ireland history viaDanielDWilliam )
- A Behind the Scenes Take on Lithium-Ion Battery Prices
- (tags:batteries thefuture Technology )
- GMB launches Scotland's first sex workers' union
- (tags:Scotland unions sexwork )
- Widening Russia Money Laundering Scandal Hits European Banks
- (tags:Russia europe fraud banking )
- Missing out on sleep robs brain cells of ability to repair themselves
- (tags:brain sleep )
- The Special Curse of Living on Instagram's Favorite Street (Paris's Rue Cremieux)
- (tags:Paris celebrity photography )
- Goldman Sachs relaxes dress code (which companies still insist on more formal dress codes?)
- (tags:clothing work )
- On Food Shopping for Brexit
- (tags:UK europe OhForFucksSake food Conservatives )
- What is it like working at a company during and after the release of a negatively received game?
- (tags:games work epicfail )
- Momentum fined over ??16,000 for multiple breaches of electoral law during 2017 election
- (tags:labour politics uk )
- What Causes the Smell of New & Old Books?
- (tags:smell books chemistry )
- Unless something is done, paying by cash will become near-impossible in the UK soon.
- I haven't used cash in weeks (if not months) - but the people hardest hit are the poor and those with bad mental health.
(tags:cash money uk Technology ) - Study Finds No link Between Violent Video Games And Teen Aggression (Yet again)
- (tags:psychology aggression games violence )
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There is some protection for smaller states in the composition of the Senate. Each state, regardless of size, has two Senators. Wyoming has one Senator per 280 thousand people. California has one per 19 million.
There is also a little protection in the House of Representatives, as each state gets a minimum of one Representative. North Dakota, Alaska, Vermont and Wyoming would not have a whole representative to themselves if the Representatives were stricly apportioned by population. The way the seats are allocated is a bit hit and miss for smaller to medium sized states.
Whether the whole of those three factors is enough of a protection for smaller states and the right kind I don't know. It gives smaller states (in theory) more Presidential focus and more electoral clout, especially in the Senate. This in theory should allow them a better chance of at least blocking action they don't like or trading stuff they need for stuff other people want.
I think fundamentally I'm a little bit wary of changing one part of a constitution without considering how it works with other parts. I'm also wary that my support for this measure is driven by my left of centre desire to see a Democrat in the White House.
(Although NB, as my dad once remarked, it might be better for the US to have a Democrat in the White House, it might not be better for us. See the Cuban Missile Crisis for example.)