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  • So New York kind of has something like this. They can run candidates under multiple parties. For example, they run the DNC candidates under the Democrats, but also under the Working Families Party, and both will count as a vote for them. My family members in New York always vote for the Dem candidate under the WFP because it helps them make quorum and also signals that they prefer the WFP endorsement over the DNC.

    Here's an article with a sample ballot from a district of NY. You can see Kamala and Trump under Dem/Repub, but also under WFP/Cons as candidates. Same with the senate.

    The national numbers never show the breakdowns of which bubbles were actually filled in, just the totals. But I'm always curious as to what the ballot breakdown actually is.

  • The consensus seems to be that people that voted democrat in 2020 voted republican this time because they experienced inflation under Biden that think it was his fault.

    What consensus is saying this? Outside of Latino men and first time voters shifting to Trump, most analysis (so far) is that the Democrats lost around 10-15 million votes from 2020, compared to Trump losing only 2 million. If all the Dems/Undecideds moved to Trump, he would have not lost voters.

    What was the Red vs Blue turnout in Nebraska in 2020 vs 2024, I bet that would go a long way to explain why the union leader lost.

  • I'm really not trying to be conspiracy brained, seriously, but won't the DNC also be making money from a Trump presidency? Stocks/private contracts of the DNC executives aside, don't they also get huge amounts of donations when they're the "opposition"?

    I'm not saying they purposely ran a shitty campaign, but they clearly have a "silver lining" for if Trump won compared to us normies. Man, it's so fucked, please someone give me evidence to the contrary, I beg.

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  • I don't really use peertube, but if it has livestreams I'll check it out, thanks!

  • I can't load the article on Voyager for some reason, and I've never even heard of this, but the clown turning into a cloud goes hard. For that alone I am interested.

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  • Is there a Fediverse option for livestreams?

  • This is also assuming that the 300+ million Americans have the same size carbon footprint, which is probably not true if you think about it for more than a second. I doubt the bottom 60% of earners in the country have the purchasing power to create that much waste through excess consumerism at this point.

    Most of those "Shein/Temu/Aliexpress" hauls or 10x vacations across the world in a year you see on social media are not done by middle or lower income people/families.

    This is very much a top heavy issue.

  • Well, at least drip release means that I can rip the music on a set schedule to distribute to more people/place in other repositories.

    Fuck Nintendo for having their legendary composers make some of the most iconic music in gaming and then making them practically unlistenable in a legal manner.

    For example: why the fuck is the legal distribution of the Cadence of Hyrule soundtrack limited to 25 vinyl presses given to Twitter winners, and NOTHING ELSE???????

  • You get it. I agree with all of your complaints (but another unpopular opinion, I didn't mind Sera we got lol)

    Inquisition is actually my least favourite in the series, and I hate the pivot to hyperfocus on the "super special elves" and getting the most out of the story ONLY if you play a specific type of elf. I'm also not absolutely gaga for Varric (I like him, I just don't think he should be everywhere). I felt really fatigued by the end of the game tbh.

  • I hope Dreadwolf gives you at least a little bit of what you crave, soldier 🫡

    For what it's worth, Dragon Age as a fandom has some of the nicest, least gatekeepy gamers I've ever interacted with. I feel really bad y'all are stuck under EA's thumb.

  • I agree with you, same thing happened with Last of Us 2. Valid criticism was drowned out and to this day if you say you disliked any aspect of the game you have to give a disclaimer that it isn't because there were gay/trans people in the game.

  • I think DA2 knew what it wanted to be, EA just decided to not let Bioware have the time or manpower to do it.

    I personally think that it still has the best overarching story, environ and atmosphere in the series so far, and (controversial opinion) I LIKED that I played as Hawke. The Warden and the Inquisitor are the typical "thrown into a world changing even they have tenuous connections to", and feel a degree removed from anything but the main event sometimes.

    But Hawke? They are in the thick of it. Does not matter what class Hawke is, my guy/girl is going through it at every (repeated dungeon) stage of the game. I honestly felt more for Hawke in my playthrough of DA2 than my personal avatars in Origin and Inquisition. Kirkwall sucks soooo bad, man.

  • By then, real reviews will make themselves known.

    This is the way. There are corpo/early access reviewers who are giving it 10/10s, and I'm also seeing morons screeching about review-boming it because of the DEI/Woke Agenda™️ and that you can make a non-binary player character. It's gonna be a shitshow on release.

    Feel bad for the Dragon Age fans, they've been waiting for this for ages.

  • -puts on tinfoil hat- Is this why we're suddenly getting so many remasters/remakes?

    -takes off hat- No, it's probably because the corporate gaming industry is creatively bankrupt and want to cash in on nostalgia with minimal risk. But remakes/remasters probably strengthen the "market harm" portion of their argument.

  • I would like colourful phones back though, they were so much more fun compared to the sea of black/white/grey + ONE option in the blue-purple spectrum we have today.

    Can we get that AND bigger batteries?...bigger colourful batteries even?

  • Thank you for this, I had to scroll down so far to find a subscription-wall free link. Makes me wonder if anyone actually checked the article...

  • Love Keepass. Love that I can sync it however I want. Love that there are multiple open source client options across several operating systems.