Why does it have to be an app? I don't want to install your garbage spyware on my phone. Just make an extremely simple webpage without any ads or other garbage.
Apple's App store doesn't list permissions, but permissions are not given until the user is asked for each individually. I think it's against the app store guidelines to require permissions that aren't actually necessary (eg. requiring microphone permission before displaying a news article to the user).
You realize the app recommended is the Guardian’s and uses updating notifications to present in a predictable manner and context? This seems like an improvement in user experience over keeping this in a tab along all the other tabs and having to meander past your regular distractions, many of which might present results in a less restrained manner than what is being advocated for here. It seems like you saw the word app, made a throwaway, and ranted about the word app.
Hopefully criminal charges would be filed against the responsible parties (destroying ballots is a felony, as I understand it). If none are charged, consider the US a defunct superpower. We don't possess a huge population (relative to the globe) and if the rule of law has failed so dramatically we will lose whatever remains of our political standing within the world.
But I still think it's unlikely that this will happen. At least on a statewide level. I could see some voting precincts doing something completely moronic like this.
This is a distracting and unhelpful comment. The rules (despite attempts to persuade us otherwise) are well-established and not nearly so easy to deviate from, even in this tumultuous time.
Only if PA really is the state that decides the election and the vote is too close to be obvious there. Any permutation where it isn’t that close and we’ll probably know tomorrow.
> How is Twitter a source of information rather than gossip, opinion, and outright information warfare conducted by both sides?
Your Twitter experience will be wildly different depending on who you follow. If you do this with some care, and also don't take everything at 100% face value, you too can have a low-misinformation Twitter experience.
I quit Twitter in 2015 when my supposedly level-headed friends (most of whom are fellow software engineers) lost their minds and switched to posting only about politics. Twitter immediately lost all utility. To me, politics has little to do with good governance, and is thus a kind of misinformation or spam. I opted right out of all that. I’ve been much happier ever since.
I didn't quit FB, but I stopped looking at it. I maintained it strictly to organize group events which it was very useful for. The feed, however, has become garbage (as demonstrated again when I perused it this morning for grins).
I often see news I am interested on Twitter hours before it makes the actual news. And some content that I want to know that never makes the news.
I'm sorry to tell you that the traditional media isn't any better for gossip, opinion and information warfare. You gotta be able to analyse your sources in any case.
I prefer not to follow news at all. 99.999% of it never has anything to do with me. If I can’t hear it from the front porch of my house, I don’t care to know about it.
Or you could, ya know, just wait until tomorrow. The outcome is going to be the same whether you find it out right this minute or next week.
Nothing at all is meaningful until at least the polls close on the west coast, and probably not until long after. Go to bed and find out when you wake up. I promise that nothing is going to happen overnight that requires your action.
Usually after an election I just wait until someone tells me what happened. When Trump first won back in the day, some dude in the gym just came up and told me with a forlorn look on his face.
My son told me at breakfast — it was the first election he could vote in. But like you I figured the results would be the same regardless so I had read a book and gone to bed.
FWIW, a gym is about the last kind of place that should be open right now, based on what we know about how this particular plague spreads. No judgement from me either way, but take care of yourself out there.
I believe that in a lot of people, that quest for assurance causes more anxiety. Even when the news is good, the effect is fleeting, while any bad news lasts longer. You prime yourself to keep seeking little hits of reward, like a hamster at a feeder bar.
You do what you gotta do, but I think you should consider the idea that it'll be more reassuring to do something that takes your mind off of it -- especially sleep, which takes your mind off of everything. Internalize the fact that the stream of updates do not matter, and you might find it easier to sleep. It will be hard to turn it off if you've been feeding it all day.
I say this not because I have no feelings or worries, but exactly the opposite. I am quite anxious. I'm trying to deal with the anxiety by refusing to engage with it, and focusing on what I know about the timeline.
I've almost managed to completely abandon the 24-hour news cycle. You hit the nail on the head with the anxiety thing. I live in Victoria, Australia and people looked at me like an alien when I didn't know what the daily COVID case numbers were.
Ironically it's 4am here and I recently woke up with my mind racing. Nowt to do with COVID or the elections though!
Indeed, and I think that treating this like sports is part of the problem. Victory for your team dominates any actual effect of policy on human beings. And it's constant -- the game is going on at literally every instant, with a SuperHyperDuperMegaBowl every four years.
Our choices of elections teams are only slightly less arbitrary than our choices of sports teams. Once chosen we get a continual barrage of cheerleading for us and against our arch-rivals. It's not just the ordinary mental failings of refusing to consider things from others' point of view (while telling ourselves that we have carefully considered and rejected it). It's the continual thrill of the match, with both points for and points against creating mental rewards to cheer harder and not look away for a moment.
We'll all be healthier if we stopped looking at it like a sports match. And the first step, I believe, is to turn it off, so that we can engage with it at a greater distance, without the dopamine hits and troughs that make it so addicting.
I don't understand political anxiety. In the United States, elections even of the president, do not ultimately matter a whole lot. There are several layers of government and several governmental co-equal bodies such that the election of any one person is not super important. And that's the way it should be:
While usually there's some truth in this sort of sentiment, this simply isn't about the election of one individual this go round. It's about perpetuating and legitimizing the overreach of one particular political party that seeks to keep itself in power despite the conventions and rules that should allow it to be removed — see: autocracy.
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[ 6.0 ms ] story [ 145 ms ] threadAlso, does Apple list permissions? I couldn't find it on their website (easily). I did find Google play store permissions easily.
Oh and no HTTPS.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
No wonder most non-webdevs think the web is bloated.
A live updating page with the results as they come in, and often with their predictions once they are able to call the results.
Just pick whichever media site you like best.
Three years of litigation and someone barely involved getting a misdemeanor plea bargain?
But I still think it's unlikely that this will happen. At least on a statewide level. I could see some voting precincts doing something completely moronic like this.
The rules are what the supreme court says they are, which is why the appointment of Barrett was rushed.
Your Twitter experience will be wildly different depending on who you follow. If you do this with some care, and also don't take everything at 100% face value, you too can have a low-misinformation Twitter experience.
Luckily Twitter wasn't a "friends" platform for me, and so far I'm doing okay using Lists and being generous with blocking.
I'm sorry to tell you that the traditional media isn't any better for gossip, opinion and information warfare. You gotta be able to analyse your sources in any case.
Nothing at all is meaningful until at least the polls close on the west coast, and probably not until long after. Go to bed and find out when you wake up. I promise that nothing is going to happen overnight that requires your action.
Yeah, snarky but whatevs. The assurance of control helps, even if it’s just checking your phone is still working while expecting a call.
You do what you gotta do, but I think you should consider the idea that it'll be more reassuring to do something that takes your mind off of it -- especially sleep, which takes your mind off of everything. Internalize the fact that the stream of updates do not matter, and you might find it easier to sleep. It will be hard to turn it off if you've been feeding it all day.
I say this not because I have no feelings or worries, but exactly the opposite. I am quite anxious. I'm trying to deal with the anxiety by refusing to engage with it, and focusing on what I know about the timeline.
Ironically it's 4am here and I recently woke up with my mind racing. Nowt to do with COVID or the elections though!
Our choices of elections teams are only slightly less arbitrary than our choices of sports teams. Once chosen we get a continual barrage of cheerleading for us and against our arch-rivals. It's not just the ordinary mental failings of refusing to consider things from others' point of view (while telling ourselves that we have carefully considered and rejected it). It's the continual thrill of the match, with both points for and points against creating mental rewards to cheer harder and not look away for a moment.
We'll all be healthier if we stopped looking at it like a sports match. And the first step, I believe, is to turn it off, so that we can engage with it at a greater distance, without the dopamine hits and troughs that make it so addicting.
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