Liz

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[–] Liz@midwest.social 2 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Tbf, that's not really fair, is it?

[–] Liz@midwest.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

Strategic voting can be an optional strategy under ordinary approval voting. If I don't like either of the top two candidates, it's still in my best interest to vote for the runner-up, if I hate them less than I hate the front-runner.

And look man, I'm honestly not interested in picking over the details. Any proportional system is better than single-winner. By miles.

[–] Liz@midwest.social 3 points 2 weeks ago

Okay, actually though? Keep the mustache, drop the beard, and cut weight (fix your diet) and you would be killer. You look great now, but I can see an even hotter version of you in your future with just a little hard work.

[–] Liz@midwest.social 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
  1. While this complaint is technically true for SPAV, the likelihood that a popular candidate would fail to win a seat because everyone thought they were too popular is just.... Not gonna happen. We already know from real-world AV elections that voters largely prefer to vote honestly, there's no reason to think they would get more strategic when it gets harder to figure out the optimal strategy.

  2. This is a problem inherit to nearly all systems designed to produce proportional results. I honestly can't think of a worthwhile system that doesn't have this problem. Anyway, the goal is not to make the parties take turns. It's to make it possible for minor parties to win seats in the legislature. In the end, no single party would ever have a controlling majority, and they would be forced to form coalitions to pass legislation.

[–] Liz@midwest.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

Hey! You come back here with that irrelevant commentary!

[–] Liz@midwest.social 3 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah but the entire philosophy of Framework would be one phone construction standard and then you swap out the radio chip. Granted, there's never been a hard phone standard, and the parts have never been designed for swapping. They would be the ones designing and commissioning these standards. Anyway, so I'm gonna be waiting very patiently.

[–] Liz@midwest.social 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I hope my phone lasts until we get a framework phone.

[–] Liz@midwest.social 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

You're going to have to get more specific if you want a response beyond "yeah man, it is 250 years old."

[–] Liz@midwest.social 4 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

He certainly wasn't horrified about doing it in the original myth, as far as I remember.

[–] Liz@midwest.social 6 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

Gonna need fundamental change to make the president less powerful and make it so that no one party ever holds a majority in Congress ever again. The first would follow the second, so we should be pushing for something like Sequential Proportional Approval Voting for every legislature we got.

[–] Liz@midwest.social 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So, I agree with everything you said, I'm just not as confident as I would like to be that Iran would stay their own hand. I agree that it's an idiotic idea, actually using a nuke, which is part of why even North Korea hasn't used theirs, but I'm just not that confident Iran could resist the temptation once they've got it. Making Israel disappear is high on their priority list, even if it's a stupid idea.

I'm not dedicated to the preservation of Israel or anything, but part of preserving the taboo against nukes means making sure that we never actually have to retaliate after a strike. Like you said, the cat is out of the bag as far as owning nukes goes, we don't want to end up in a situation where we have to say "okay, WWII and then that time Israel disappeared but we're serious, no more nukes?"

[–] Liz@midwest.social 1 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I would happily give up all our nukes if everyone else agreed to do so as well.

 

Ecosia is a German search engine company which donates 80% of its revenue to planting trees. They take Bing, reskin it, and spend the profits from advertising on planting trees. They're up to about 175,000,000 trees so far.

https://info.ecosia.org/what?_sp=c00c1905-82ee-49a9-a802-904ebfaef758

Edit: This is just a convenient way to turn something you do every day (use a search engine) into a force for good. It's a slow process, 1 tree ≈ 45 searches, but you were going to make those searches anyway, might as well plant trees! Think of it as the digital equivalent of buying local food.

 

A court used an app called Covenant Eyes to surveil the family of an Indiana man released on bond. Now he’s back in jail, and tech misuse may be to blame. The app flagged one of the family's devices as having accessed Pornhub even though it didn't, and this was the only evidence used to throw the man back in jail. They didn't even try to prove he was the one who caused the app to flag Pornhub as visited, they just assumed it was him. The article contains multiple levels of "oh my god our system is messed up."

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