• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    It’s so weird that I saw those commercials on tv for 3 years, and then eventually the pillow I had been sleeping on for decades finally crapped out. I WAS going to buy one of his. At this point he had ZERO voice on politics. He was just a pillow salesman.

    And then right before I bought a new pillow, he goes on this rant about trump, and america, and blah blah blah.

    I didn’t buy the pillow.

    Think about that. He had a business that had been working fine for years. Nobody had ANY opinion on him, except “he’s the guy who sells pillows”. Thats it. Thats all he had to do. Just sell pillows, and don’t bring politics or religion, or whatever batshit conspiries he holds into the public eye. Just sell pillows. Thats all you had to do. You had one job.

    Instead, now everybody knows he’s a nutjob, and his business is failing. Oh well. So sad. Here’s a tiny violin.

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        1 month ago

        My mother bought me one, slightly after he started getting political. I was like, ehhh I might as well use it. I didn’t buy it, so why not? Worst fucking pillow I’ve ever had. Then later after it was clear he was insane, she bought me some sheets. Hate to admit it but the sheets were actually really good.

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      1 month ago

      Dude won the pillow lottery and could have coasted through the rest of his life all of us could only dream of. But then he had to open his mouth and take it to 11.

      Small tip for you folks that somehow make it big selling shit to the public. Whether you’re right or left, best to keep it to yourself publicly. Certainly don’t go all in on an idiot that sprays Cheeto dust all over his face and does who fucking knows what to his hair.

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      1 month ago

      He also claimed to be spending $1 million per month at one point trying to launch and maintain his social media app, Frank Social.

      lmfao what

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      Jesus Christ, how bad does it have to get where your 3 crack dealers get together to do an intervention? These are by far the most compassionate crack dealers on earth. One even babysat dude until he fell asleep? Wtf? This just goes to show that minnesotans are the nicest people on earth.

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    This jerk convinced my county to get rid of our voting machines. A county that’s always been about 65% red 35% blue.

    Yeah I’m totally sure Biden stole the election by having a county in California vote the way they had been voting for decades.

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      I’m honestly not convinced voting machines are a good idea, especially proprietary ones. You are asking everyone to blindly trust the intentions of the company making them. You also risk bugs and hacks.

      Public elections need to be transparent, and easy to oversee, voting machines makes that much harder.

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        Theoretically, a voting machine could be open source, tracable, verifiable, and well regulated.

        In practice, all your currently existing industries can only make black boxes that even the makers can’t guarantee the workings of.

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          One problem that remains even with your theoretical machine is that non technical people are left behind in the verification process. It can be argued that a voting and verification method that is opaque to quite a significant part of the population is undemocratic.

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            True, a fully transparent system would require every voter to understand the machine and how the systems prevent tampering.

            At the same time, I don’t think even a majority of voters know how the voting process works in the U.S. and Canada today, simply trusting that such a process exists. I’d argue that many of the processes aren’t even fair, with gerrymandering and spoiler effects being common. Large numbers of people even believe that mail-in votes are simply a tool for fraud.

            So yes, ideally everyone would fully understand every step of every system of the voting process, but a working system is possible without that. If a more opaque system could increase verifiability and/or allow faster easier voting, it might be worth it. Of course currently existing voting machines do neither, and massively increase opacity at every level, so they’re quite terrible, but I don’t think they need to be perfect to be useful.

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        The problem was that hand counting votes in a county of our size is not legal, and I’m pretty sure we ended up switching to different machines anyway, so it seems to have just cost money and turmoil for no benefit to us.