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Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008

bulletsponge13 posted:

CNN just had a headline that the DNC is withholding results for "Quality Control" reasons.

OK, every African dictator ever.

Waiting for Bloomberg's next check to clear

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Suicide Watch
Sep 8, 2009
They’re using an app to tally results. Either the geriatric boomers don’t know how to use a smartphone (ageism sue me) or its a deficient system with bugs, or there’s some hacking going on. But does it matter? It was gonna be a bad idea anyway.

shame on an IGA
Apr 8, 2005

The app was written by Hillary's 2016 campaign manager and you have to keep tapping the screen because if the screen goes to sleep while they're punching the official results into the reporting app everything is deleted when it comes back on and they have to start over.

No, seriously every word of that is true.

shame on an IGA
Apr 8, 2005

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r69Xq1ZnSk

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
noob bitch idiot cornfuckers

https://twitter.com/cwarzel/status/1224539006689411072

https://twitter.com/baseballot/status/1224543357965406208

https://twitter.com/ec_schneider/status/1224541947194417153

facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 05:05 on Feb 4, 2020

Suicide Watch
Sep 8, 2009
I’m not a yang Stan but if there’s a reason to have a tech literate leadership this is it

Brute Squad
Dec 20, 2006

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human race

maybe this will finally kill the caucus.

sharknado slashfic
Jun 24, 2011

shame on an IGA posted:

The app was written by Hillary's 2016 campaign manager and you have to keep tapping the screen because if the screen goes to sleep while they're punching the official results into the reporting app everything is deleted when it comes back on and they have to start over.

No, seriously every word of that is true.

:psyduck:

maffew buildings
Apr 29, 2009

too dumb to be probated; not too dumb to be autobanned
#Resistance coming through already

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
NOOB BITCH IDIOT CORNFUCKERS

https://twitter.com/russelneiss/status/1224537598271676417

IT'S A WHOLE loving THREAD OF COIN FLIPS FOR CAUCUS TIEBREAKERS

Meanwhile: https://twitter.com/ec_schneider/status/1224545155648233473

facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 05:13 on Feb 4, 2020

Fister Roboto
Feb 21, 2008

facialimpediment posted:

NOOB BITCH IDIOT CORNFUCKERS

https://twitter.com/russelneiss/status/1224537598271676417

IT'S A WHOLE loving THREAD OF COIN FLIPS FOR CAUCUS TIEBREAKERS

Meanwhile: https://twitter.com/ec_schneider/status/1224545155648233473

Might as well be playing calvinball.

piL
Sep 20, 2007
(__|\\\\)
Taco Defender

facialimpediment posted:

NOOB BITCH IDIOT CORNFUCKERS

https://twitter.com/russelneiss/status/1224537598271676417

IT'S A WHOLE loving THREAD OF COIN FLIPS FOR CAUCUS TIEBREAKERS

Meanwhile: https://twitter.com/ec_schneider/status/1224545155648233473

Inshallah.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
It's bedtime.

Since this was covered in a below tweet, here's a replacement:

https://twitter.com/zachhammer/status/1224538369675407360

Brute Squad
Dec 20, 2006

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human race

https://twitter.com/nycsouthpaw/status/1224546953419272194

:edit: oh gently caress you.
i kid

:doubleedit:
now i feel bad.

pygmy tyrant
Nov 25, 2005

*not a small business owner

Suicide Watch posted:

They’re using an app to tally results. Either the geriatric boomers don’t know how to use a smartphone (ageism sue me) or its a deficient system with bugs, or there’s some hacking going on. But does it matter? It was gonna be a bad idea anyway.

Por que no los tres?

Voting via smartphone sounds terrible in so many obvious ways. Is there a major racial disparity in smart phone ownership or something?

maffew buildings
Apr 29, 2009

too dumb to be probated; not too dumb to be autobanned
I know this boondoggle could have just been what was going down but I am so distrustful of the DNC that I immediately wonder how they're trying to gently caress over Sanders with this. I don't like thinking this way, it's upsetting and doesn't make me feel good about our democracy (among other things that do that)

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

Brute Squad posted:

now i feel bad.

EAT THIS

https://twitter.com/Julio_Rosas11/status/1224546895479164929

Qtotonibudinibudet
Nov 7, 2011



Omich poluyobok, skazhi ty narkoman? ya prosto tozhe gde to tam zhivu, mogli by vmeste uyobyvat' narkotiki

Suicide Watch posted:

I’m not a yang Stan but if there’s a reason to have a tech literate leadership this is it

it won't help. the app was presumably developed by someone tech literate, and it still sucks.

outside some companies with extraordinary resources, the tech industry is driven by a race to the bottom where it makes business sense to not hire QA people or anyone who can reason about how humans actually use computers in practice. the applications you use often don't immediately fall over and die under extremely common and predictable scenarios, but only because they have large enough user bases and enough instrumentation to determine that they break constantly under those scenarios, and have been around long enough that someone fixed that poo poo. this doesn't work as well for applications that get used for one night only.

Brute Squad
Dec 20, 2006

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human race


i am slain.
please accept this tweet as penance.
https://twitter.com/zachhammer/status/1224541219440807936?s=20

Wingnut Ninja
Jan 11, 2003

Mostly Harmless
I love how one of the reasons for using an app is that it's "faster". What does getting everything in a few hours earlier than they used to matter at all? It's literally the first contest in the entire national race. They could use bicycle messengers to gather the results and still have plenty of time.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice

Wingnut Ninja posted:

I love how one of the reasons for using an app is that it's "faster". What does getting everything in a few hours earlier than they used to matter at all? It's literally the first contest in the entire national race. They could use bicycle messengers to gather the results and still have plenty of time.

But how would that disrupt paradigms?

Proud Christian Mom
Dec 20, 2006
READING COMPREHENSION IS HARD
the DNC is just a large grift for the consultant class who then do everything possible to protect their wealthy benefactors

Brute Squad
Dec 20, 2006

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human race

When you're being interviewed by CNN and on hold with the Iowa DC, just tweet out the results. Click through for the thread.

https://twitter.com/shawnsebastian/status/1224538096571686912

Also, big Baghdad Bob energy
https://twitter.com/Clay_Masters/status/1224550601146740741

maffew buildings
Apr 29, 2009

too dumb to be probated; not too dumb to be autobanned
I will never understand how the guy with 2x the persons the 3rd place guy gets the same number of delegates but I'm beginning to think everyone here who said caucusing is loving stupid are right

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS

Suicide Watch posted:

I’m not a yang Stan but if there’s a reason to have a tech literate leadership this is it

Tech literate leadership isn’t going to deliver us any more than Herbert Hoover’s engineering degree delivered America in 1929.

The best we can hope for is politicians who call the right people.

shame on an IGA
Apr 8, 2005

lmao the iowa party posted the reporting hotline # publicly and now /pol is DDOSing it

Godholio
Aug 28, 2002

Does a bear split in the woods near Zheleznogorsk?
The Democrats are going to lose their own primary through incompetence.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS
I hate to sound accelerationist, or optimistic, but perhaps a high‐profile failure will chasten the DNC.

Fister Roboto
Feb 21, 2008

https://twitter.com/headfallsoff/status/1224558755972558848

Patware
Jan 3, 2005

Platystemon posted:

I hate to sound accelerationist, or optimistic, but perhaps a high‐profile failure will chasten the DNC.

:laffo: :laffo: :laffo: :laffo:

McNally
Sep 13, 2007

Ask me about Proposition 305


Do you like muskets?

Platystemon posted:

I hate to sound accelerationist, or optimistic, but perhaps a high‐profile failure will chasten the DNC.

You mean like losing a general election to Donald Trump?

Best Friends
Nov 4, 2011

Platystemon posted:

I hate to sound accelerationist, or optimistic, but perhaps a high‐profile failure will chasten the DNC.

Failure is their job and they're doing great

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

good night irene

maffew buildings
Apr 29, 2009

too dumb to be probated; not too dumb to be autobanned
They're going to have a contested convention or whatever it's called, do everything to ensure bernie doesn't get nominated, lose to trump again and then go haywire doing everything to prevent any more progressives/getting rid of the ones there. Everyone under 40 will be told this is our fault.

I hope I'm really wrong here but, well

UP THE BUM NO BABY
Sep 1, 2011

by Hand Knit
https://twitter.com/nktpnd/status/1224548702452428802?s=19

bird cooch
Jan 19, 2007

maffew buildings posted:

They're going to have a contested convention or whatever it's called, do everything to ensure bernie doesn't get nominated, lose to trump again and then go haywire doing everything to prevent any more progressives/getting rid of the ones there. Everyone under 40 will be told this is our fault.

I hope I'm really wrong here but, well
Dude. You are pretty wild with this nonsense.

Fister Roboto
Feb 21, 2008

maffew buildings posted:

They're going to have a contested convention or whatever it's called, do everything to ensure bernie doesn't get nominated, lose to trump again and then go haywire doing everything to prevent any more progressives/getting rid of the ones there. Everyone under 40 will be told this is our fault.

I hope I'm really wrong here but, well

The convention is going to be loving lit, and I mean literally.

maffew buildings
Apr 29, 2009

too dumb to be probated; not too dumb to be autobanned
Wow you're right, maybe they'll come together as a unit and solidify behind whoever the nominee is and help campaign in battleground states and engage their younger Congress people who have done great at mobilizing voters and outreach to help with voter registration and turning out the vote.

Fister Roboto
Feb 21, 2008

bird cooch posted:

Dude. You are pretty wild with this nonsense.

It's exactly what happened 4 years ago, right down to millennials being blamed for not coming out to vote*.


*for the shittiest candidate since Dukakis

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Acebuckeye13
Nov 2, 2010

Against All Tyrants

Ultra Carp

Fister Roboto posted:

The convention is going to be loving lit, and I mean literally.

shame Abbie Hoffman isn't still around, he'd show you folks what a real contested convention looks like.

One good thing might come out of this mess at least:

https://twitter.com/hunterw/status/1224564089898393602?s=19

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