Liz @ Liz @midwest.social

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Eating some yogurt

No? Under the usual American implementation of RCV only the highest ranked candidate on a ballot gets the vote from that ballot. If no one has a majority of the remaining votes the person in last place is eliminated and their votes are redistributed according to the individual ballot preferences. So if the American presidency was ~50/50 red v blue as first choices (with a few people picking third party candidates) whichever third party candidate that took last place would get eliminated. In fact, mathematically speaking, if red and blue each got at least 1/3 of the first place cuts votes, one of them must be the eventual winner and the other must take second place.

There are other systems that could cause chaos with your suggested rankings, but they're generally not considered serious methods exactly because they are chaotic under reasonable circumstances.

I agree that the National Popular Vote is a fantastic idea. I can't wait to see it hit the threshold and immediately get hit with lawsuits from terrified entrenched powers.

I strongly disagree that RCV would have a significant effect on the presidential campaign, since it has already been shown to have little effect on any other campaign. It's also ubiquitous in Australia, with a similar two-party forcing when implemented for their single-seat elections. The only reason they have third parties is because of their proportional elections.

That paper is making some absolutely ridiculously unscientific comparisons, and immediately ignores the existence of omnivores after flatly stating that most people eat an obvious diet. It's absolute trash.

I genuinely have no idea what you're trying to say with that link. What's obvious?

It's a pretty neutral face, the fact that people are arguing over it is kinda evidence for that.

Well now I'm curious about what kind of willfully ignorant statistical comparisons we could make between the dangers of alcohol vs men...

I'd root for them

Says the person tying to claim humans are supposed to be herbivores.

Seeing as how we hunted multiple mega fauna to extinction, I'm gonna go ahead and say that humans have been eating meat for a very long time. Also there's shit tons of archeological evidence for our omnivorous diet going back hundreds of thousands of years, but... whatever.

I will never understand why people feel the need to try and prove humans are supposed to be herbivores. Who gives a fuck? There's ample evidence that your can eat a healthy vegan diet, who gives a shit about "supposed to" if you can eat vegan either way?

I'd prefer Approval Voting, RCV has really been over-sold and it practically the same to FPTP anyway. In RCV elections, the first round winner ultimately wins the race 96% of the time. That article tries to claim it somehow makes a difference in campaigns, but in a practical sense, it doesn't. Campaigns rarely say "rank me second," because of course not. Who would aim for second place? It also has unfortunate consequences with disenfranchising poor and minority communities, because they end up submitting invalid ballots at a significantly higher rate.

Anyway, so if you're all like "stop attacking RCV it's better than FPTP!" Well, I agree, but use that energy to run a referendum campaign and switch your local elections to Approval Voting instead. It's used in both Fargo and St. Louis and we're seeing the same positive effects that RCV has without the voter disenfranchisement.

I'm trying to imagine a job where being a disagreeable antisocial recluse is an advantage and I'm coming up blank.

They are called tiles. I think that's the official name, anyway.

Unless the person has said they think those things are cool or acceptable, why would you assume they were inconsistent about thinking brand idoltry was dumb?

I believe it. I also love that phrase and now consider it the official Texas version.

I think they've started to turn around in the last decade or so, but not fast enough for my liking. They definitely were heading to the right for a good long while before that though, especially on economic issues.

Psh, I'm voting for him. I'm doing a lot of other stuff to improve society in ways I think are important, but when it comes to my presidential vote, Biden is the lesser evil in a voting system that requires I take that into consideration.

You'd still need demarcation down to .1 mm. Your eyes are going to struggle to guess which line you're supposed to with, much less estimate last, unmarried 0.01 mm. 100 μm is about the width of a hair. 10 μ, well, good luck.

Regardless, such a precise measurement is meaningless when it comes to height, because there's a lot of uncontrolled variables that will change you height for any given measurement.

Linux Mint is the "I can't believe it's not windows" in the Linux world.

I have come across a stranger online who looks exactly like me. We even share the same first name. We even live in the same area. I'm so excited for this wonderful new technology...

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