what made you change your mind?

this is so fucking validating. thanks for sharing.

It’s because whomever gets the most votes, gets the office they ran for.

Say there is an election for a state governor this year. The candidate that gets the most votes is the one that gets the position. Let’s say there are four candidates running, each representing one the following four parties: Ones, Twos, Alphas, & Betas. The population is mostly evenly distributed among the parties so that each have 25% of the vote. Of this election, whomever gets the most votes wins, so they focus on getting their people out to vote. Now, Ones and Twos have much more in common with each other than the rest, so they decide that it’s better if they team up because while they may not be perfectly happy if they win, they’ll be more happy than if either Alphas or Betas win. They create a joint party called Numbers. The voting population is now distributed so that Numbers have 50% of the vote, while Alphas and Betas have 25% each. The Numbers party will now easily win all elections. Alphas and Betas see this, and they decide to join their parties too, coming out with the Alphabets party. What was once four parties became three then two.

This is an effect that results from having a winner-takes-all (i.e. first-past-the-post) type of election. In places where people vote for parties of their legislature, and the legislature then elects their executive leader, you get more parties. People can vote for their favorite party that represents them best. Those get into legislative office. Then, those parties can team up to promote their favorite candidate for leadership. In this manner, everyone has a more detailed representation, so the legislature represents the population more correctly. The downside is that the leader is not directly voted on by the population, but the politicians.

I may be a little incorrect on how the details work in the second paragraph, but that’s the general idea. If you want to see a video that explains the first paragraph using animals as parties, check this CGP Grey video out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo

It has been my experience that the best persona to use at work is one of no humanity. Be a corporate robot. When you walk in those doors, kill any sense of emotion. Look at everything logically. Make no friends. Focus on the tasks that your performance is measured. Leave no room for misinterpretation.

Most people are cool, but some are hunting for opportunities. Don’t give those people any opportunities.

I think that what happened with the Boeing 737-MAX crashing was that they had a sensor that if it got stuck, the software was programed to make the plane pitch down, even overriding the pilot’s own input. That resulted in the deaths of 346 people.

If it’s Boeing, I ain’t going.

I told a psychologist that I was being abused. I gave her examples of things my girlfriend was doing. She smiled and told me to do things that made it much worse. She told me that I wasn’t allowed to have privacy because it would prove to my girlfriend that I was cheating. When I finally escaped, I told her that I didn’t know what was real. She smiled at me and said we would discuss it at our next session. It was explicitly our final session.

I keep asking AI for reasons that would make that okay. What possible reason could she have for doing that? AI says there’s no justifiable reason at all. I don’t get it. Nothing makes sense.

We don’t know each other, but if we met, we’d probably understand each other really fast. If there’s an afterlife, I hope we meet up. I’m sure we could both provide each other some validation.

Since they starting letting the US do all the dirty work while they reap the benefits and look innocent at the same time.

Why did they get early access?

I just tested it. I sent an obviously nude photo via a Google Messages text to myself. I didn’t see any speed bumps sending out or receiving and there was no blurring of the photo, so it doesn’t seem to do what the article says it does. Has anyone seen the app work as they say it does?

I don’t get the “intent” of the quotes at all. Anyone have any idea?

Does it sound as great as it looks?

Wowwwww. Are they openly locking/banning Musk/DOGE subs by saying that’s their intent? How are there still redditors there?

Puts on beef?

Who did?

And, how can you tell it was sharpened from the picture? Usually, when I’ve seen sharpened knives, the cutting edge has scratch marks perpendicular to the blade and is wider than normal from being grinded into a longer slant.

First, lol

Second, that looks like Kate. It’s the stock text editor on KDE.

I like Apostrophe

https://world.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/apostrophe/

I searched the term…I don’t even know what to where to start. There are just so many areas to discuss that I’m just like, never mind.

you know they did that shit on purpose because they hate you. you should cause a scene, or everyone will know you let them win. pls report back.

Anxiety - You’re not anxious rn, but you’re always anxious. Something is wrong.

Depression - Let’s activate to quell anxiety over there.

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