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nulluser OP , to news in DC Campaign to Submit Over 40K Signatures for Open Primaries, Ranked Choice Voting

But they’re not introducing nuance, they’re invoking FUD.

Their arguments aren’t, “RCV is way better than FPTP, and it’s great that communities are adopting it, but I happen to like this similar system even better. Let me tell you about it.” I would love to see discussions like that.

Instead, their arguments are “RCV bad. [Other system] good.”. Their arguments play right into the hands of those that want to delay/avoid change so that they can continue to manipulate elections.

nulluser , to news in Supreme Court allows cities to ban homeless people sleeping outside, even when shelter space is lacking

For communities that do this, the goal is to…

A) Drive out the homeless so they go to other, more charitable communities, and become someone else’s problem, and then…

B) Point out the higher rate of homelessness (and higher taxes necessary to deal with it) in those other communities and say, “Look how awful those communities are!”

nulluser , to science_memes in Plugs

I’ll believe it when Ze Frank does a True Facts video on it.

nulluser , to news in A ton of job postings might actually be fake

It takes six months from “we need a new person with these skills” to “ok here’s the job posting,” ??? And if in those six months the required skills change a bit, you can’t just tweak the job posting and instead have to start over from scratch???

Your company has serious issues that are wasting everyone’s time and need to be addressed. Stop making excuses for wasting people’s time.

nulluser OP , to news in Campaign aims to put ranked-choice voting to a referendum in Ithaca - The Ithaca Voice

Call me a conspiracy theorist, but I am convinced that was Russia!s proof-of-concept for what would become their information warfare against democracy.

I find myself increasingly having to consider this possibility when I interact with people online. Are they well meaning, or are they actively trying to sabotage progress. Maybe they’re well meaning but have succumbed to the arguments of others actively trying to sabotage progress. 🤷

nulluser OP , (edited ) to news in Campaign aims to put ranked-choice voting to a referendum in Ithaca - The Ithaca Voice

RCV has the momentum and is infinitely superior to what we have now. Don’t let perfect be the enemy of much better.

Edit: And honestly, I’d be happy if a community chose one of the other options. I don’t care. They’re all better than what we have and we should be applauding every city, county and state that switches to any of them.

Trying to demonize one because you don’t think it’s perfect is just muddying the waters and subjecting us to decades of more of the shit sandwich we have now while we debate which alternative is flawless.

nulluser , to news in Police: Vandal spray paints ‘F--- Elon’ on 34 Tesla Cybertrucks in Fort Lauderdale

A finger waggle, perhaps.

nulluser OP , to news in State judge upholds most fines against group seeking repeal of Alaska ranked choice voting - Chilkat Valley News

It shows that there is bipartisan support for it among rank and file voters. It’s really just the politicians that know that they wouldn’t stand a chance of winning under such a system that are against it.

nulluser , to news in A woman is accused of attempting to drown a 3-year-old child in possible hate crime incident

Sadly, there are people that would completely agree with this statement, and not detect an ounce of sarcasm.

nulluser , to news in Chemicals from East Palestine derailment spread to 16 US states, data shows

Yeah, but… Where is that? /s

nulluser , to news in 'Mysterious' monolith similar to column seen in 2020 appears in Las Vegas desert: Police

It strongly reads to me like the writer is trying to make something mystical/mysterious out of a completely mundane “feature” of mirrors.

nulluser , to news in 'Mysterious' monolith similar to column seen in 2020 appears in Las Vegas desert: Police

In the photos, the tall, geometric figure reflects the rocky desert and perfectly aligns with the horizon.

Ummmmm, that’s the photographer that did that. 🙄

nulluser , to world in Rare tissue-damaging bacteria spreads in Japan, kills in 48 hours

It’s right there in the teaser on on this page.

nulluser , to technology in Mozilla restores Firefox add-ons banned in Russia

I hate to say it, but I’m inclined to think that the Russian government may simply block access to Firefox (and the Firefox addons site).

Probably true, but that’s not justification for Mozilla to save them the trouble by doing it for them.

nulluser , to technology in Microsoft in damage-control mode, says it will prioritize security over AI

Link is to the second page of the article. I thought it was odd how it kept saying “Smith said” without identifying who Smith is.

Proper link: arstechnica.com/…/microsoft-in-damage-control-mod…

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