kata1yst @ kata1yst @sh.itjust.works

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Yep, this is the thing people often forget about gerrymandering. The entire point is to take a large margin of victory in an area, and use it to offset your opponents margin in another area, usually by carving into your opponents margin with several of your own.

The more gerrymandered a set of districts is, the more likely they are to be tipped by an unexpected change of turn out by a given group.

One group gets complacent (my vote doesn't matter in this state, since my party always wins!) or one group gets fired up... And suddenly the story flips.

Hmmm, I'm very sorry to hear that, honestly. I'd say the average PF2e player takes it a bit more seriously than the average DnD5e/N player, but not a whole lot.

Perhaps it's the part of the community you engaged with? Obviously every forum/chat server is going to have it's own flavor. The older communities that started with PF1e and still focus there are going to be more elitist in general just because of how PF1e came to be and it's target audience. But PF2e is much more widely targeted.

Discord isn't free, private, or open source, but it does host several great PF2e communities I participate in if you'd like a recommendation. But if you are just sharing your personal experience and aren't looking for a "solution", that's totally valid and I completely respect that.

I've always felt the community was extremely kind and welcoming, personally. The publisher even goes out of their way to support and represent LGBTQ+ in their official worldbuilding.

There's always going to be elitists in every hobby of course, they do exist in PF2e as well. But it's not the majority by any stretch.

Hells Rebels on the Find the Path Presents feed. Hands down.

If you like a little more silly/lewd Glass Cannon campaign 2 is a lot of fun.

I'd argue it's not more complex, just different. Once you play 3 action combat you'll never want to go back.

People get intimidated by the depth of PF2e, but just remember that DnD5e/N is also a fairly complex system where you only reference specific rules when you need to, same as PF2e. The advantage is that PF2e is (in my opinion) more cohesive and better covers edge cases.

Only fair after last week's final destination-esque snipe lol.

I'm not sure it accounts for everything, but people tend to embrace conservatism (and yes, eventually Authoritarianism) due to fear. I was very young during the HIV/AIDS scare, but the fear was rampant and very real.

Magic Johnson making his diagnosis public and Princess Diana touching someone with AIDS was international headline news.

People are dumb and fear makes us less empathetic and even dumber.

This is correct for a given transaction, but there's no consensus needed to open a Bitcoin wallet. That is usually just a private key in an encrypted envelope.

Alabama's state slogan is "Thank God for Mississippi", because they can at least point to one place where things are worse.

Seems like a stand up guy with a ton of qualifications. Hopefully enough of the members see him as an agreeable alternative to MBS. All the problems he mentions are very real and very visible, and unfortunately much bigger than he carefully implies. The consolidation of power and authority and extreme lack of accountability is appalling.

Hell, just for the regulations of 2026 debacle (giving teams basically just 1 season of development is so horrible considering the huge swath of changes) MBS obviously needs to go, and likely, hopefully, the member orgs are upset.

And more pointedly, all the recent morality police bullshit and the horrific sexism, particularly demonstrated in his culling of female leadership roles and around the extremely negligent FIA disinterest in F1 Academy, which is nearly entirely run by Susie Wolff and like 3 sponsors with basically no budget or marketing support from FIA.

🖕MBS🖕

It's a real parameter.

The Polynesian people had many ways of detecting land far beyond the horizon using ocean currents, temperatures, weather patterns, animal movements, and others which they used to island hop all the way through the Pacific Islands.

I have little doubt it was a well informed theory before they got into their vessels.

Check the plastic retaining ring inside that holds the lower burr in place. Mine broke, but they're cheap and easy to replace.

https://www.baratza.com/en-us/product/ring-burr-holder-sp0101174?sku=SP0101174

Or if you have an ESP: https://www.baratza.com/product/ring-burr-holder-for-encore-esp-sp0102053

Are ya p-hacking, son?

https://media1.tenor.com/m/OibcqkA9ZlgAAAAC/arrested-development.gif

I was so happy when rumors were circulating about Susie Wolff tossing her hat in the ring, but she's stated she's not going to try this time.

Not sure who else could unite people, help progress the sport, and survive politically, but I agree, MBS needs to go, he's been a disaster.

The life and times of a software developer.

I'm going for Mussolini.

Mostly undoing his legacy and trying to placate their base, who is sharply divided in the actions of Trump/GOP since the election.

I apologize for the double reply, truly. Didn't want to add a huge amount of text in an edit since I figured you'd reply quickly.

I'll summarize my rebuttal thusly, and you can decide for yourself if you want to continue.

I think we're arguing over the definition of species using two separate definitions. Encyclopedia Brittannica indicates that genetic species is a distinct definition from the definition of biological species.

Is it fair to say that genetically these homonids are extremely closely related, but had distinct populations with distinct traits and morphology over time and across large geographies due to adaptive pressure?

So then the debate centers on when or if speciation occured with each of those definitions, which I don't think is a really productive exercise. We're basically saying the same things just differently.