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What an utterly depressing column. I can’t help but agree. Sigh.

I’d like to say I’m hopeful that society will remember the last century of slow progress after the next four years of getting it’s ass kicked, if not for the fact that we just went through this shit a few years ago.

It’s the same as the article title. Horrible nonetheless.

USGS event page for this one

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc75095651/executive

Ah, thanks for finding the facts. So the first election had a surprise result. It worked exactly as designed, and either people didn’t understand that could happen or they’ve since been convinced it was contrary to what they wanted.

Given the whole goal of RCV is that outcomes are satisfying to the largest number of people you’d think this result wouldn’t have had a backlash like what we’ve seen.

I’d bet the losing party was behind the measure, and I’m somewhat happy to see it fail. I hope that means the majority of people were in fact satisfied.

Some jurisdictions using FPTP may do a runoff if there’s no winner with a 50% mandate, but most do not. Split votes such as 45/40/15 with 45% declared the winner can and do happen.

If I remember correctly one of the first major elections using RCV resulted in the person who overall got the most first choice picks losing the person who overall get the most second and third choice pics. So it worked as designed in that the winner was the person with over 50% of the vote, but it really upset all the people who had supported the person who would have won under the previous first past the post system.

Community rule is 30 days.

If all candidates are on the same timeline then I agree. That’s not the case here. 100 days vs literal years of planning.

Added to my post!

Added to my post!

Made a 5" aluminum baseball bat in high school shop class learning how to use a lathe. It’s been on my keys ever since. Thing is probably older than most folks reading this.

Edit: pic as requested. :) https://i.imgur.com/jrxStc4.jpeg

I buy all my supplies from companies making more than 25m, who buy from other companies making more than 25m, and so on. My COGS will go up a minimum of 3%, more than likely closer to 10% when you compound the entire supply chain. I don’t care that I won’t pay into the general tax fund, but I sure as hell care that I’ll have to convince my retail customers to pay 10% more on my products after already struggling with inflation cost increases the last few years.

3dfx Voodoo3 2000 AGP

Two letter TLDs are reserved for countries. No gTLDs use a two letter TLD.

According to the rules set by the org that controls the fate of IO. They can easily change the rules if they wanted. There is a vested interest in not losing IO, and nothing but their own rule to stop them. Who’s to tell them they can’t do whatever they want in this matter?

Yep. This is such a weird fear monger topic.

If the country that owns IO ceases to exist then IANA will just make it an ICANN generic TLD. Such a widely used TLD won’t be allowed to disappear. The rules are all made up anyway.

The Washington district that includes Vancouver has one of the most contested House races in the country this year.

They explain nothing. They’re in the same boat as all others: open source will let them keep MV2 longer than mainstream chrome, but that future is uncertain as the main project codebase starts to evolve around MV3 and backward compatibility to hack MV2 back in gets lost over time. Nobody here can make promises, and sites that make that make those judgments are naive.

3? I generally don’t care, but some people are insufferable. They spew nonsense meant only to get a rise out of others and have a chip on their shoulder. Interacting with their existence is a waste of mine, so bye bye.

If we’re being cynical, he knows he stands to benefit. ;)

Not really sure what the calculus is here.

Don’t get on his bad side? Not that they aren’t already at odds, just remember T is highly transactional and this could be seen as a favor that may buy some brownie points.