I don't really care what the law calls it. One time an American law tried to call pi equal to 3.2. Had it passed both houses instead of only one, that still wouldn't have changed what pi actually is.
Ranked-Choice describes a feature of a large number of voting systems. Namely, any system that involves ranking candidates in order of preference. Instant-Runoff Voting and Single Transferable Vote are the two most popular such systems, but there are many others, including the Borda method and Ranked Pairs. It's better to just be clearer about what it is you actually mean, rather than use an ambiguous term that's going to lead to more confusion.
It is possible to be pro-Palestinian and anti-Hamas at the same time.
Hamas might be doing bad things, but there is no need to condemn Hamas in order to also criticise Israel. In fact, the exact opposite is true. Hamas exists and has the power it does because of Israel.
I dunno how many people have seen season 2 of Star Wars: Andor, but there's a part in that where the Empire funds rebels on a planet specifically because they want them to do terrorism so they have an excuse to come in and genocide the people. They want to manufacture consent for genocide, and while we don't see a lot of the broader public's reaction, it certainly seems to have worked.
That whole thing is literally taken directly from real-world conflicts, including this one. Netanyahu himself directly funded Hamas because he knew they were more extreme than other Palestinian organisations, and by doing that, he helped create the conditions where he can continue to escalate the genocide while the world sits by watching. Every person killed or otherwise harmed by Hamas is Israel's fault. And that's before you get into all the murders of children, doctors, and journalists done directly by Israelis.
In Star Wars, we side with the rebels even though sometimes they do terroristic things that cause innocent deaths. Why? Because they're rebelling against genocide. Once the genociders are wiped out entirely, we can talk about how a good government for the people should be run.
I don't "support" Hamas, but neither do I condemn them. I recognise them as the direct result of Israel's genocide. Effectively, another agent of the Israeli government. The only way to defang Hamas's actions is for Israel to pull back, unilaterally, to the 1948 borders and to provide massive aid in reparation to the civilians who they have harmed through the IDF, through West Bank settlers, and through Hamas. Terrorists thrive in injustice, and anything that doesn't fully call for Israel doing everything to cease the injustice is pissing in the wind.
A little more detail on how big this is. Since 1980, the Liberals and Nationals have been so tied together that we very often call them "the Coalition". Our news media reports on election results by saying how many seats the combined Coalition has won. In the state of Queensland, the two parties are fully merged into the Liberal National Party, or LNP, and the term LNP is sometimes unofficially used to refer to the Coalition elsewhere. In federal politics, LNP members choose whether they sit in the Liberal party room or the National party room. Peter Dutton was a Liberal-aligned Queensland LNP member.
For Germans, you can kinda think of this as equivalent to CDU/CSU splitting, with the main difference being that instead of different states, the Nationals represent rural areas and the Liberals represent urban and suburban areas. But it's fuzzy and they do sometimes softly compete against each other.
Also quick note: they're called the Liberals because they ostensibly stand for individual liberty. Personal freedoms etc. But they've evolved into crony capitalism and conservative culture wars.
If I say "the life support system for the USS Enterprise", nobody thinks that that's a system running on the life support that gives you the USS Enterprise. It's a system running on the USS Enterprise that gives you life support. Windows Subsystem for Linux sounds like it's a system running on Linux that gives you access to Windows.
Yeah the premise of it really is. Our starting inventories were literally whatever we brought with us, plus whatever happens to be in the host's house. The conceit we went with was that the person who's gonna be GM is just "running late" when the apocalypse starts. It was just let down by some disappointing character stat generation methods and mechanics that weren't very good.
Damn. I did buy a copy of V5 back before the pandemic because someone was going to start up a game that I was pretty excited to be in. Unfortunately that went by the wayside and I've so far never gotten to play any World of Darkness games.
The nichest RPG I've played was probably "End of the World", where the premise is you play as yourself, arriving at your regular RPG night, and just as you get started, the apocalypse starts. Awesome premise. Fucking terrible mechanics. Do not recommend that system.
Actually, that's not quite true. I did once play a home-made system someone else at my table created. But it wasn't particularly inspired in my opinion, and didn't do anything very interesting you couldn't do with a little tweaking of PbtA.
d20 fantasy is my main thing that I keep returning to, but I've had plenty of other RPG experience ;)
Bro's defending genocide in other threads and says other people need to be less radicalized. (Nice way to give yourself away, btw. Mr lemmynet**.au** clearly actually from America.)
The leftists I’ve met tended to study the Arts (English, sociology, history, etc) whereas the right wing types all studied math, engineering, computer science
Sure, maybe. I'll point out that there's a known statistical trend of more highly-educated people being more left-leaning, but I'll leave that discussion there, because it's not actually the point.
I didn't actually say anything about nerds being leftists. I said that nerds are anti-sport. And that Lemmy is made up of nerds. Both of which, I hope, are not controversial statements. Not that Lemmy is made up of a representative cross-sample of nerds, but that of the users who are on Lemmy, most are nerds. My conjecture is that the reason you see a dislike for sport on Lemmy is not because Lemmings are left-wing, but because they're nerds. And that if you were to control for political belief, Lemmy would still have a stronger anti-sport bias than the general public. While if you controlled for "nerdiness", Lemmy's anti-sport bias would be relatively weaker. Not an easy experiment to perform in practice, unfortunately.
Passive consumers make up the largest number; the base of the pyramid. But you seem to be implying that there's nothing between that and the tip of the pyramid, who create their own communities and post their own content into them.
OP seems to be a user in the middle. Happy to contribute to ongoing conversations by commenting, replying, and voting, but not as comfortable starting conversations. Which, to be honest, is also where I'm at with sport threads. I used to love popping in to a live game discussion megathread to comment on a particularly outrageous call, or to see the community's response to something controversial. But it's not a subject area I'm invested in enough to start the community myself, or to make enough comments to help start a lively-looking megathread.
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I don't really care what the law calls it. One time an American law tried to call pi equal to 3.2. Had it passed both houses instead of only one, that still wouldn't have changed what pi actually is.
Ranked-Choice describes a feature of a large number of voting systems. Namely, any system that involves ranking candidates in order of preference. Instant-Runoff Voting and Single Transferable Vote are the two most popular such systems, but there are many others, including the Borda method and Ranked Pairs. It's better to just be clearer about what it is you actually mean, rather than use an ambiguous term that's going to lead to more confusion.