Thank you for answering my question! That's a very interesting system it's very diferent from my country, where I live it's all decided by popular vote and we vote on a machine placed in a electoral zone (wich is basically a school) and we get the results in the same day so everybody is drunk by 8 p.m some people of happiness and some people of disgust. (Even if it's forbidden for bars to open in the election day, but we're not very good at following rules)
I wish that were the case here! In past elections I voted via a voting machine, typically stationed at polling places at local schools. But in-person voting is a bit more of an issue with COVID running rampant over here, not to mention some places have ridiculously long lines (we’re talking multiple hours). Thankfully where I live, the wait is usually never more than 45 minutes, but it all depends on how many polling places there are and what the voter turnout is.
I was just reading Touch - wonderful story by the way - and I came here to say that sensory overload is a bitch and I can relate to that. Does reader have any side effects from that?
Don’t wanna give too much away about her, as more about her is being uncovered in the story... but so far what’s been described as sensitivity to everything, everything being painful/too much, etc., which would cause a lot of mental stress and physical pain for her. Depending on how much she is being bombarded (e.g., all senses all at once) I’d imagine it’d be disorienting/confusing for her because her brain can’t sort and process all the sensory input coming in (I find neurology very interesting, so I speculate on it a lot).
Most of it is written from how I’d imagine it would feel, and extrapolating from milder personal experiences (migraines, sleep exhaustion, etc.), with research to clarify some stuff when I have the time.
So, do you think Horikoshi will show us Mr. Compress past? We already have everybody origin story, (Toga, Shigaraki, Twice, Dabi, even Spinner if I remember correctly) even if Mr. Compress doesn't have a strong presence like Shigaraki, ir Dabi I think that his past must be very interesting. Think about it, a man that hides his face, even from his comrades, and has almost an obssession for a good show, even if hurts people! I'm unnable to forget when he took Chisaki's arm with a smile on his face
I hope he does! I’m very curious to hear his origin story!
Him taking Chisakis arm with a smile was great because he took the same arm that Chisaki took from him. It was very poetic and it made perfect sense why he was so happy about it.
I think I can officially call myself a simp. I made a sketchbook entirely from scratch just to put Dabi's sexy face on the cover. And I don't feel a single amount of shame. Is that how it feels to be a simp? I literally just learn a useless ability
This is a Dabi simp safe space here! You made a sketchbook from scratch? That’s awesome! You definitely deserve to put whatever you want on the front of it (and sexy Dabi is always a great choice)!
I've seen that you also draw. That's very cool! Which kind of materials do you work with? Have you tried nankin ink?
I’ve worked with a variety of materials over the years, but have been most consistent with pencils/colored pencils. I’ve also done painting, pen, charcoal and pastels.
So due to covid, the lines had a space between the people. And there was some people at the entrance who control the amount of people who enter the building. Luckly I didnt have to wait in the line to vote, there was just me in that section, and we had to use alcohol in our hands before going to the machine. Here in my country, we're obligated to vote until 60 years so most of the elderly stayed at home.
I think it’s great to require citizens to vote in the elections. Its such an important part of the democratic process, and people should be involved in their democracy.
Unfortunately here, not everyone WANTS the public to have easy voting access. Voter suppression is a real issue here, but I’m hoping us Americans can address this and make the democratic process more fair for everyone.
How does your voting system works? I was looking at a recent post you made and it says that Biden was winning, but Trump has more states, I didn't quite understand that... And apparently you dont get the results in the same say, right? Sorry if I'm bothering you.
Short answer: A big thing to keep in mind is that when looking at the map it seems weird because there are a lot of big states in the middle of the U.S. that are actually sparsely populated. Most of the U.S. population lives along the coastlines (including the Great Lakes in the Midwest).
Long answer (a peak into the U.S. election system):
The U.S. election system is a bit odd. Votes for presidential elections are shown in two ways: the popular vote and the electoral college.
The popular vote is exactly how it sounds - whoever has the most citizen votes (in the entire U.S.) has the most popular votes. Normally you’d think, “whoever wins the most votes wins, right?” NOPE. Not always the case in America!
Why? Because what REALLY matters, are the votes obtained through the electoral college.
Basically, each state is given a certain number of electors based off of the number of congressional and senate representatives. (Electors are designated individuals who represent their state and cast their presidential vote based off of the candidate winner within that state.). All states have equal senate representatives (2), but states congressional representatives are dependent upon population. Therefore, states that have more people (and therefore more representation), have more electoral votes to cast towards a presidential candidate.
So for example, California has a higher population than, say, North Dakota. Therefore, California gets more electors (55 total) whereas a less populated state will have far less (e.g., North Dakota has 3 electors). Each state calculates their respective presidential votes within that state and whoever wins is given all of the electoral votes from that state.
This is intended to mitigate the power of the population majority in favor of the political minority. It’s meant to keep the majority from trampling over the interests of the political minority (i.e., the founders were scared of a full, direct democracy) so no one is neglected or taken advantage of within the political system.
Unfortunately though, this method of assigning electoral votes based off of population per state has some serious issues.
Mainly, it reduces the power of the vote in some states and increases it in others. The ratio of state populations and number of electoral votes within those states aren’t balanced/equal across all states (you can read more on this here).
This is how you get such things as “swing states” - states that are relatively even in their democratic vs. republican voters and have a significant number of electoral votes that the presidential candidates want. So for example, the state of Pennsylvania gives 20 electoral votes. Whoever can sway the most voters to vote for them in that state will get all of those 20 electoral votes to put them towards their end goal of 270 electoral votes to win. So candidates are going to focus a lot of their attention in that state compared to a non-swing state whose majority always makes it lean one way or another.
You also get the issue of the political minority winning the presidential election even though the other candidate won the popular vote (e.g., this happened in our 2016 election between Clinton and Trump).
Anyway, sorry for the wall of text, lol. But I wanted to make sure that I explained it as best I could.
P.S.: we didn’t know the results of the election the same day because a lot of citizens cast their votes via mail-in ballots this year due to covid concerns (safer than voting in person). Some states have it written into their laws that they aren’t allowed to actually open and count these ballots until election day. So, if they’ve gotten millions of ballots (for example, Pennsylvania) then there is no feasible way for them to open and count all of the votes by the end of the election night. Also, some states will accept ballots that arrive AFTER election day, so long as they were mailed out ON election day (i.e., post-marked with the election-day date), which are still counted towards the votes for that state.