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> that one of them was elected to the county Board of Supervisors.

can you explain this part of the joke?

The idea is that Rails apps are such a large portion of the population that they elected a representative from within themselves.

It's not intended to be taken literally (I assume).

EC2 instances are almost certainly a supermajority of the population. What's surprising is that there are still humans on the county board!

Must be gerrymandering or something, maybe aided by voter suppression by English speakers against those in the county whose native language is x86-64.

Most Rails apps just aren't engaged politically. More education and activism is necessary to mobilize them.

Maybe also related to the recent news of a small town in Delaware allowing corporations to vote in municipal elections (not a new thing for Delaware apparently).

In a reverse Turing moment, I actually submitted this joke to a chatbot, and it got it.

ChatGPT doesn't know that I was hoping there was some truth to it after September 2021.

In Florida you have so many hispanic citizens that they have significant representation in local politics. In this specific county you have more cloud servers serving rails apps. However, they're not citizens and can't get elected to public service.

This answer, while correct, somehow feels very GPT.

Honestly the question felt very Llama in the sense that it didn't really pass my Turing test, so I couldn't really answer it in a way that didn't feel robotic.

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