HumbleFlamingo @ HumbleFlamingo @beehaw.org

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Sorry, no, absolutely not.

This should be a federal thing. No reasonable person should be debating if a person should receive life saving care or not.

Reasonable people can disagree with little things, like how high a fence can be in your front yard, not if someone should die because other people don’t have a modest grasp of high school biology.

It's not 'terrible', but it does have issues just like every other voting system. It's significantly better than what we have now.

Approval voting simplifies things but also has limitations because it removes any weight/preference people may have. If 55% vote for A, and B, but prefer A over B, and 45% vote B and C, but prefer C over B.... B wins but 55% of the voters preferred A. Same exact issue you're raising with RCV but occurs more often with approval than RCV.

Keep fighting the good fight, but don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

It ain't so bad. Just make sure you go home and take a shower and don't head back to work after....

Also choose your urologist by glove size.

but until we can build up enough progressive movement to update it to a better system

We also need to try and expose as many people to the alternatives as possible. Anyone who can should be trying to utilize RCV. Trying to figure out what game(s) to play at game night? Use RCV. There are plenty of free apps out there to facilitate.

The more people who use it, see it's benefits and that it's not as complicated as people make it out to be, the faster it will happen.

Go vote for non-murderer if you want, just don’t tell yourself it makes you a good person because you pick the one who can't possibly win and let the bigger murder win.

“I ignored the shitty reality of the situation, so I’m a hero!”

Both buttons result in dead people, but one button results less dead people.

The choices suck, but the less shitty choice should be pretty obvious.

Further, the latest batch of Ukraine spending was funded by cutting funds to the IRS, so we’re not only losing money now, but in the future too.

Yeah, blame the republicans for that one.

No, it isn’t, because our government doesn’t mandate a living wage nor regulate the prices of war materials,

You may not like what is being produced, but the jobs producing arms are good paying.

and in fact, there’s been extensive reporting on price gouging in the war industry.

For sure. It never should have been privatized.

The big priorities for Biden seem to be making up ways to get more of our money dumped into Ukraine

We are not sending pallets of cash to Ukraine. The money is buying arms and equipment that is being sent to Ukraine. The arms and equipment are produced here, in the US. The VAST majority of the money is going into the US economy. It's literally creating good paying jobs here in the US.

They got worms and need to drag their bum on the carpet to scratch...

Fun Fact: The more advertisers that pull out because they appear next to nazi shit increases the likelihood the remaining advertisers will appear next to nazi shit.

Freetube pointing to a local instance of Invidious.

Best $500 I ever spent. Well, $504.99. The frozen peas were $4.99.

This is standard in *nix (Unix and Linux) operating systems

No, it very much isn't.

"I'm not touching you, I'm not touching you!" the child screamed... But the yard duty was not fooled.

Hurts 401k's too.

Home owners insurance is going to pay out and sue the ever-loving crap out of everyone to recoup.

“If Ossof and Warnock win Joe Biden will have the votes he needs to impose Communism.”

Pretty sure that happens next week, that's what I read it on facebook.

I was referring to YT sometimes hiding videos from the feed of new content. For example when GDQ adds 30 videos in a day, YT will simply ignore them and not list them unless I go directly to their channel's page. with FreeTube, it's just a linear list of videos by published date, and it shows you which you've watched too.

To your point, yes, you can't open a new tab, but since everything is listed in order and marked, it's way easier than using tabs.

I haven't found a downside, honestly it works better than youtube. I get a list of all new content on the channels I subscribe to, not just what the youtube algorithm wants me to see.