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  • Well there’s cost. Think about how many outlets in an office or home.

    You may not understand the engineering of “UL” or safe switches because they would have to have full current of a short going through them, you have arcing, lifetime toggles, the ozone weakening the molded plastic, etc.

    With most outlets (receptacles) there is a solid copper bar that goes from the wall wires to the part that pushes against the prongs of the plug. With a switch it’s slightly more complicated and would you only break the hot? What if someone wired outlet backwards?

    Sure you could make every plug involve a fuse, circuit breaker, arc fault, GFCI, and a switch. And a USB transformer and nightlight.

    It could help though in many homes if you had only one outlet wired to a switch, and could help with parasitic current draws of almost everything modern.








  • Presidential primaries did not exist until the 20th century, and they did not have a major impact on conventions until many years later. In 1960, John F. Kennedy won several Democratic primaries, but Lyndon Baines Johnson remained the favorite of the party establishment.

    At any rate it was the Convention that selected candidate until…

    After the controversial 1968 presidential cycle, the Democrats began to reform their nomination process to make it more inclusive and transparent, and to make its results more representative of the will of the party as a whole, not just the party bosses and insiders.



  • derphurr@lemmy.worldtopolitics @lemmy.worldIowa Caucus Megapost!
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    they can by saying that the state’s ruling stands because it’s up to the states to run their own elections, which it is.

    Do you know what SCOTUS even if? No states cannot interpret 14th Amendment because it’s “their” election. SCOTUS has final say.

    And there are many arguments against Biden giving aide to the enemy, which if you are paying attention to the Republicans have listed their many arguments they will use in court. I suggest you read their articles of impeachment as a starting point.


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    If SCOTUS leaves it up to states, and leaves it self executing for 14th. It means anyone can file civil action.

    You might think Biden is not in violation of 14th, but many Republican secretary of states DO think so. It’s very vague just like used in CO, “given aid or comfort to the enemies” will be up to courts to interpret.