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Cake day: August 5th, 2023

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  • Linux, Microsoft & iOS engineers have a flat tire.

    • The Apple engineer : “let’s replace this tire ASAP”
    • The Linux engineer : “we need to understand what caused the issue first, or it might happen again”
    • The Microsoft engineer : “shouldn’t we just go back in the car and see if the issue solves itself?”

  • To be fair (French here), we love to make fun of your elections but ours in not much better.

    We elect our president in two rounds and only keep the two best candidates for the second round. So if every candidates has around 10% of votes, two rather niche candidates could get to second round. To avoid this, it means that candidates that have compatible-ish ideas should team up on compromises but apparently that’s not a competitive strategy (compromises make you look weak maybe ? 🤷)

    So yeah, we can also have weird results. But at least we have a large panel of ideas that gets represented-ish (our society gets more and more polarized too, and this is frightening).


  • The posts you reply to have been deleted, but I’m assuming it’s talking about “taking responsibilities about the people’s vote” based on this single quote…

    From a foreigner perspective it’s hard to imagine how a federal election is perceived for Americans, because your country is so big with so many states that have completely different mindset and economics.

    In Europe we have a shared parliament that works on making compromises on some topics, but I guess a global referendum would be a huge mess too.