Nobody believes it. It’s entirely an effort to provide just enough legal cover for their genocide.
Formerly /u/Zagorath on the alien site.
Nobody believes it. It’s entirely an effort to provide just enough legal cover for their genocide.
Culturally appropriate other countries’ cuisine.
I don’t have especially strong feelings about it, but they do lean negative. Condorcet voting methods violate the later-no-harm criterion, which personally I value more highly because they’re situations in which an honest vote can actually cause the opposite of what that vote is intended to do. The situation described in this post could be mixed up by difficult-to-predict intentional strategic voting, but that’s better than a candidate doing better as a result of changes in a less-preferred candidate’s rankings.
In other words, if someone votes 1 ONP 2 LNP 3 Labor 4 Greens, and at a later election decides to change that to …3 Greens 4 Labor, that should never decrease the chance of the LNP—or ONP—winning. And in IRV, it doesn’t.
A system that fails Later-No-Harm is, in my opinion, too directly open to strategic voting, rather than it being an emergent property that is difficult to predict.
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Either there’s a bug in their software or I must have just misclicked for my 2nd guess. Because based on what I thought I guessed, it should have been 3 purple
Because I had solved what the yellow category was, but had 5 entries in it, as well as knowing what was in blue and green. So I intended to answer with the 3 left over + one from the 5 “pristine condition” answers. And when I didn’t get a “One away” notice I then started to completely rethink what I had.
Yeah I was probably being a little extreme by starting that comment with “nonsense”. But yeah we use IRV for most of our elections here in Australia, and it’s very routine to talk about which candidate received which votes.
No candidate received a “vote”
Nonsense. You receive your 1st preference votes, and then if no candidate has achieved an outright majority, the last candidate is eliminated and their 2nd preferences receive their votes, etc.
Yes, IRV involves giving preferences to candidates rather than just a simple single vote for a single candidate, but your vote is distributed according to your preferences and it’s silly to talk about it as though votes don’t go to candidates. That kind of language would make more sense for a system like range voting or maybe Borda Count, just not IRV where you can count the election by physically moving individual ballots into piles for each candidate and counting them.
How I feel is the CIA overthrew a left-leaning democratic government in my country because it threatened to close down a CIA base. That’s not tanky.
The acronym AV doesn’t mean Approval Voting. It means Alternative Vote, which is the UK’s name for IRV.
Confusing and annoying, I know.
Wow. Unnecessary and rude. That’s a great contribution to the conversation.
Gonna be honest, I only vaguely recognise the name Patrick Swayze without knowing exactly what he’s famous for. An actor, I think? And I have zero idea who Paul Walker is. Anomalocarus I gather from context is an extinct animal of some sort, which is cool, but I lack the knowledge to know precisely why this specific species is highly valuable.
So Robin Williams gets my vote almost by default, even if I didn’t have more reason to choose him beyond that.
Wow this seems really bad. I do suspect based on the way the VA describes it as being “care of…Crunchy roll”, it may not be the serious federal crime some are assuming. Idk what US law says about cases where it’s addressed to “[a person] c/o [an org]”, but if it’s actually addressed to the org with instructions inside indicating it’s intended for the person I highly doubt that’s such a serious crime.
Doesn’t change the morals of it one bit. But unfortunately just increases the chance they may get out of it unscathed.
Sorry yeah, I know. I was trying to double down on the joke and hoped the emoji would make it clear that’s what I was doing. Doesn’t seem to have landed.
Part of the joke was my stubborn insistence on sticking with the older name for the character, rejecting the fact that they renamed him some time shortly after the start of the Young Justice TV show, which is where I most know him from.
I don’t see any Captain Marvel in the clues 🤔
Not having a strata title is pretty good, but yeah there are much better ways than this. Like I said in the other comment, make it two storeys (or frankly you could even do 3) while making them narrower to fit way more floorspace in while also creating plenty of space for more pleasant, green streets.
And boomers were not 25 in 1991. That would mean being born in 1966; the cutoff I’ve usually seen is in the early '60s.
Old school forums were pretty great. I’ve recently been much more heavily on the official Age of Empires forums since getting away from Reddit, where most of the discussion happens. Those forums are nowhere near as active as the various Aoe subreddits, but still a pretty lively place for some good meaningful discussions, which is nice. Definitely not as good as back when any subject would have fan- (as opposed to company-)run forums to choose from, but not too bad.
But yeah I’m with you on the broadcasty nature of Twitter & hence Mastodon. I use Mastodon occasionally, but find it rather awkward to interact with compared to the topic-based communities on Lemmy.
Ha, yeah it’s always fun work. And even the result was pleasantly surprising in some ways, considering 4 weeks ago we were expecting a total wipe-out for Labor.
I hope you’re finding the Aussie Mastodon community more to your liking and more enjoyable, but also I’d like you to know that at least from me, your opinions were valued here very much.
If you’re a fan of tieflings (based on your username), I’m curious, have you read Erin M. Evans’ Brimstone Angels series? The main characters are tieflings, and it’s where the quotes at the beginning of the race entry for tieflings and dragonborn in the 5e Player’s Handbook came from. Highly recommend.
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