ryper @ ryper @lemmy.ca

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First-past-the-post does need to go, but what gets me is that Trudeau started an electoral reform process involving public consultations and buy-in from the other parties, and what he regrets is not that he shut it down when it wasn't going towards his preferred system, but that he didn't just skip all that and use his majority to implement his preferred aystem.

Trudeau also commented on the form of electoral reform:

He said one of his mistakes was leaving the door open to proportional representation when he did not plan to pursue it. The other, he said, was “not using my majority to bring in the model that I wanted”—the ranked ballot.
Trudeau said he believes a ranked ballot is the most effective at reducing polarization because it causes parties to moderate their message in an effort to pitch to be the second choice of supporters of other parties.
However, the system was dismissed by many of the Liberals’ opponents who noted that as a centrist party the Liberals were likely to receive more second-choice votes and be the primary beneficiaries of such a model.

He regrets not using his first-past-the-post majority to push through a change to the electoral system that would mainly benefit his own party.

I think their mobile apps were in on the contact snooping too, it wasn't just Windows

Pricing seems to be the same as the previous version. They could have at least charged a little less for the much shorter licenses.

Vox half-assed their paywall - the full articles are still in the free RSS feed

My 100GB music library leaves less space than I'd like on a 128GB phone.

Democrats and Republicans HUG IT OUT to end homelessness

He's rich enough to get several warnings before someone maybe considers bringing charges against him.

The 90-minute debate, scheduled for 9 p.m. Eastern on Tuesday in a Manhattan studio that once hosted the children’s program "Captain Kangaroo,”

Such an easy set up for Vance to call the moderators a "kangaroo court" if they get on his case.

Thanks to the electoral college, they don't need to be a majority to get a Trump presidency.

It's "many" like in "Many people on twitter are saying..." i.e. they found 3 or 4 people saying crazy shit and acted like it was a big thing.

I wonder why women would be "more depressed and unhappy than they were four years ago", and "less optimistic and confident in the future than they were four years ago"? Might it possibly have something to do with what his women-hating appointees have done in the last four years? No, must be Biden's fault. /s

But he's a dumb shit who's running for president!

They usually only move the rate a quarter percent at a time, so technically this is a big drop

LinkedIn's blog post on this isn't at all apologetic, just "the privacy policy already let us do this but we've updated it to be clearer." I was expecting them to say something accidentally went live early or there was some other mistake. Nope, it's all according to plan. Fuck you LinkedIn.

It's more about spite at this point

I deleted my account when I discovered that bullshit. LinkedIn's new opt-out AI data gobbling has me this close to deleting that account too.

Edit: Fuck it, I just saw Ars' article with LinkedIn's response. Bye bye LinkedIn account.

Kaczynski asked for clarification about how Robinson believed Stein embedded comments published over a five-year period from 2008 to 2013.

Was it a time travelling AI? Generative AI wasn't much of a thing in 2008-2013.

It's an app for Windows too