Good Morning all

@Bjorn - MD Volvo is my favorite car company

I used to like the dorky 200s and 240s when I was little. They were pretty a pretty cool company till they got bought out by Ford. Same with Saab till GM bought 'em out.

Volvo got bought out by the Chinese, but they let them keep production in Sweden

I love Chevy tbh, other than that, Mercedes 😎 🇩🇪

I only ride alpacas

Made in Bangladesh 🇧🇩

@Drover Tom Their ownership structure may have changed since last I was keeping tabs. It's been a while, but yeah. As far as the above article's concerned, though, I was more concerned about the Google factor than anything else.

@Bjorn - MD Ya the Geely firm owns volvo. I’m excited to see what they come up with using Googles software for it, since google has been working on driverless cars for ages but never rushed them to market

*come up with as far as actually taking some of Tesla’s market

@Drover Tom Yeah, but they aren't actually driverless. It's just that now, *you're* not driving your car; *these* guys are...

Next year is the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower voyage landing in America

OOO I didn't know that

@DixieBoy76 - KY Yep 💪

Hopefully this gets struck down by the courts.

Good morning fellow non tinfoil non-autistic handcraft artists

Makin' some assumptions there, buddy... 😏

@Hakujin - CA "Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors," It's constitutional.

May appoint a number of electors.

It DOES NOT grant the state permission to dictate how they vote

It grants the state permission to appoint the electors as they see fit.

Almost all states allow the winner of the popular vote to select the delegates so I'm not sure how this is different in practice

Popular vote of their state.

The people in their state how they voted

This law, however, tells them they must vote according to how the national vote tallies. In essence, disregarding how the people they represent vote

So now the voting public in California and New York will be determining how Colorado’s electoral votes will be cast, instead of the voting public of Colorado

This should be an easy one to strike down.

I'm afraid it sounds constitutional. They could totally ignore the vote if they wanted

basically the legislature can stack the Electoral College in any way they wish

@DixieBoy76 - KY Wow,didn't know that,that is awesome to hear! 400yrs!

@Perihelion - CA it’s not Constitutional for a state to dictate how their residents vote.

Maybe I'm missing something here but it's been at upheld by the Supreme Court that the state legislature can select the Electoral College without consulting the people

Yes, that is selecting the electors

Which is constitutional

Right and the electors will vote 99% of the time as instructed

Telling them HOW to vote, disregarding the electorate for who they represent, is not Constitutional

That is voting according to their OWN states’ electorate

The electoral college doesnt represent the electorate

It just is whatver the legislature decides

Which for almost all states is selected by state popular vote

Yes they do. They vote according to their states electorate