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  • Whether a state goes 51% of 100%, counts the same.

    While the Electoral college has it’s own major issues. Awarding of the votes is done because 48 State Legislatures believe all the votes should go to the winner. Maine and Nebraska award their vote on a semi-proportional system. A true proportional system would go a long way of addressing some of the major issues such as a someone’s Presidential vote being utterly meaningless. A Republican in California or Democrat in Idaho. (https://electoralvotemap.com/which-states-split-their-electoral-votes/)

    This is the problem when people say “Vote Blue”. Sure voting Democrat/Republican for US House or lower elections does matter, Senate and Presidential elections? If you live in a Red State, a vote for the Senate or President is completely meaningless in having a say of who gets elected.

    Sure, states flip from red to blue and vice versa. However, that only happens if Parties really invest in that state to change it. Parties don’t have unlimited funds, they pay attention to swing states which would have a better return on investment.

    It’s the inherent flaw of first past the post/winner take all style of voting.


  • We can excuse the sexual assault (in fact we encourage it)
    We can excuse the racism (in fact we encourage it)
    We can excuse the child rape (in fact we encourage it)
    We can excuse hating the poor (in fact we encourage it)
    We can excuse the ableism (in fact we encourage it)
    We can excuse the corruption (in fact we encourage it)
    We can excuse the misogyny (in fact we encourage it)
    We can excuse the ineptitude (in fact we encourage it)
    We can excuse another pointless Middle East war (in fact we encourage it)
    We can excuse destroying the social fabrics (in fact we encourage it)
    We can excuse the backstabbing on long standing allies (in fact we encourage it)
    We can excuse dragging the country into economic turmoil (in fact we encourage it)
    We can excuse the violations of the Constitution (in fact we encourage it)

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  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tetris_Company#Legal_enforcement

    TTC drew attention in the late 1990s when it attempted to remove freeware and shareware clones of Tetris from the market by sending out cease-and-desist letters claiming both trademark and copyright infringement.[11] Creators of Tetris clones claimed that the company had no valid legal basis to restrict tetromino games that did not infringe on the Tetris name trademark, since copyright “look-and-feel” suits have not stood up in court in the past (Lotus v. Borland), and because the letters made no patent claims.[12]

    In August 2008, Apple Inc. removed Tris, a clone of Tetris from its online App Store.[13] In March 2009, the Tetris Company sued BioSocia, operator of the Omgpop gaming portal[14][15] because one of its multiplayer games, Blockles, was too similar to Tetris. By September 2009, Omgpop removed the game from the website and replaced it with an alternate that the developers created, based on Puyo Puyo.

    In May 2010, lawyers representing The Tetris Company sent Google a Digital Millennium Copyright Act Violation Notice regarding Tetris clones available on the Android Market.[16] Google responded by removing the 35 games listed in the notice even though, according to one developer, the games contained no references to Tetris.[17][18][19]

    In February 2011, the Tetris Company continued to make copyright claims against independently developed Tetris clones, most notably against Tetrada on the Windows Phone 7 marketplace. The developer, Mario Karagiannis, rejected the claims of copyright infringement on the grounds that copyright does not cover gameplay design, but still removed the game, citing lack of resources to fight what he called “bullying”.[20][21]

    In the case Tetris Holding, LLC v. Xio Interactive, Inc., a US District Court judge ruled in June 2012 that the Tetris clone Mino from Xio Interactive infringed on the Tetris Company’s copyrights by replicating elements such as the playfield dimensions and the shapes of the blocks.[22]

    In April 2021, a YouTuber called JDH made an operating system that only runs Tetris.[23] Two months later, his GitHub repository was taken offline by The Tetris Company because of copyright infringement.[24][25]