And apparently pretty rugged , I just took it snowboarding and a beer blew up on it . Still working fine ! Edit 24 hours post beer , it is dead <| sep |> This is a proper butthurt <| sep |> Received thank you D <| sep |> Bernie will always be a hero of mine after seeing his run for the White House and how gracefully he spoke truth to power and never wavered . <| sep |> I don ' t stopeatingwhen I ' m full . The meal isn ' t over when I ' m full . It ' s over when Ihate myself . Louis C . K . <| sep |> No . It comes from the 35 ths compromise . Remember when slaves were counted as 35 ths of a person ? Because southern states demanded their slaves be counted in terms of representatives in the house , they needed a way to make sure that representation applied to presidential elections , too . The electoral college made sure that southern states got to vote with the popular force of their slave populations . The electoral college literally exists because of the institution of slavery . It was designed to help protect slavery , and it ' s a throwback to a time when we owned people in this country .