Perhaps they had an understanding in advance. This kind of thing is hardly uncommon. I wouldn't have minded if my wife chose to enjoy her last night as a single woman this way. Her body, her choice.

Although #protip: don't pour wine on the keyboard

Yah, I switched from Macbook Pro back to Surface Book and I'm much happier now, it's a great machine

By the metric they use to measure it, the ads aren't *louder* - they brickwall compress the sound so it seems louder, the idea being that you can still hear it when you're running off to the bathroom or whatever.

My point is, is a system that's capable of electing a president on only 22% of the vote the best system? My sense of fairness says no - I like living in a place where one citizen = one vote, and it doesn't matter whether you're rich or poor, what your job is, or where you're from. And intellectually, just from a mathematical perspective, the potential for that much deviation from the will of the people seems.. suboptimal. Surely there's a better way.

I thought this was a good, unbiased picture of the situation:
https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/amp.businessinsider.com/unequal-distribution-electoral-college-votes-presidential-election-popular-vote-2016-5

They're not really mutually exclusive hey, she could listen *while* she works. One bird, two stones.

Eh. Not my problem :P

big cities and small farms do need weighted votes
Why? Why urban vs rural? Why not, say, people who finished high school vs those that didn't? Or people who work in the private sector vs those in public service? Why not weigh the college by the relative economic strength of the states or some other metric, average citizen IQ or something? Population density seems a pretty arbitrary - and unfair - factor to determine the weight of a vote, to me.

Yep. The whole thing is predicated on the idea that each state be equally apportioned - *not* each citizen.

There are other options too, it's not like if you abolish the electoral vote, all of a sudden you're stuck with California and NY pulling all the strings. It's a very unusual system you have, with some pretty obvious pitfalls

I heard somebody say once that under the perfect conditions, you could win the presidency with less than 18% of the popular vote. Maybe there is no such thing as a perfect system, but that seems crazy

They're making Zuckerberg out to be this android from Star Trek:
https://goo.gl/images/4tcyPm

Thanks mate :)

Nine years next week :) Evidently I'm worth it!

I shit my pants on my honeymoon. Miles away from the hotel, too, with a long walk ahead of us. Pretty smooth, huh?