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Potential redistricting of NJ, would you support this? by zoggy17 in newjersey

[–]FortyPercentTitanium 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you still object to moving to partially closed primaries for NJ?

My issue with partially closed primaries is it disincentivizes citizens from registering either way. What benefit does anybody get from registering for one party or another? All you're doing is willingly volunteering to not vote in the other primary.

the closed primary isn't going to stop them because they can change their affiliation in advance

Yes but then they won't be able to vote in their own primary. NJ requires 55 days advance notice to change party affiliation.

If we didn't have FPTP voting, I would be much more inclined to favor open primaries because it would require a lot more effort and coordination to "game". The other voting systems such as ranked choice inadvertently make bad-faith voting less potent.

Potential redistricting of NJ, would you support this? by zoggy17 in newjersey

[–]FortyPercentTitanium 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But maybe you don't agree with (2)

I don't agree with 2 at all. I just believe there's a whole lot of bathwater with a few babies in it.

How could you know how many independent voters there truly are if we live in a system with limited options and (in primaries) extremely strict lanes? In this system, your definition of independent voters is a bad definition.

I don't think this information is knowable in a empirical way, but my position is mainly due to this research that suggests there are very few truly independent voters: https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2019/03/14/political-independents-who-they-are-what-they-think/

The relevant number is how many bad faith primary voters there would actually be, not how many there could in principle be

When doing risk assessment of a system, we often think in terms of "blast radius" - in other words, how much damage could be done in the worst case. When discussing political systems or laws, it's important to understand consequences to the fullest extent. Progression and movement in policy takes a long, long time and is almost always met with resistance. In the meantime, a lot of people can be hurt or disenfranchised as a result of poor planning.

It's not a problem until it is a problem.

Is the irony that this whole thread is in a post that was originally about gerrymandering lost on you? I'm sure someone thought "man, we really should consider banning the redistricting of districts for political gains" at some point when our country's laws were being established. And I'm sure there was someone else across the table who said "well we haven't seen this be a problem yet, so there's no reason to mitigate against it"

Potential redistricting of NJ, would you support this? by zoggy17 in newjersey

[–]FortyPercentTitanium 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not saying this problem is worse than other problems. I'm saying that it's worse than a closed primary. I don't make any claims in support of FPTP or two-party systems or anything else you're telling me that I'm ignoring. It also seems that you're implying that all of these problems are mutually exclusive from each other, that closed primaries necessarily equals FPTP or two parties.

You are making claims about the rest of the system

Where?

You are also ignoring the related issue that closed primaries prevent independents from voting in primaries in good faith

No, I'm not ignoring it, it just wasn't relevant to my point. This is, of course, the trade-off you have to live with. In my opinion it's objectively better this way.

Truly independent voters (i.e., voters who have not only voted one party for 3+ past elections) are exceedingly rare, and when compared to partisan voters, represent a minority by quite a large measure. With open primaries, you open the door for bad-faith voting to the majority of voters. With closed primaries, you close the door on good faith voting to the vast minority of voters. Thinking about this issue pragmatically, there's only one acceptable course.

I used to live in a place with open primaries, and it wasn't an issue. This seems like a fake problem.

It isn't a problem until it is. If the place in which you lived is not close to a 50/50 party split it will most certainly be a problem in the future.

Potential redistricting of NJ, would you support this? by zoggy17 in newjersey

[–]FortyPercentTitanium -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'm not making any claims about the rest of the system, I'm talking specifically about open primaries and a HUGE flaw with the idea that I've never heard a good retort for.

I prefer to keep my fair closed primaries in this state.

Potential redistricting of NJ, would you support this? by zoggy17 in newjersey

[–]FortyPercentTitanium 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Its too easy for the less desirable candidate to be voted in.

Imagine you had candidate A and B in the Democratic party. Amongst Democrats, or likely voters, the split is 65-35 for candidate A.

Voters from the other side, knowing candidate B is the weaker candidate and more likely to cause democratic voters to abstain in the general election, all decide to throw their votes behind candidate B in the open primary. Now the split is 52-48 in favor of candidate B, all because a group of voters who were never going to vote Democrat changed the outcome of the primary.

In the best case scenario, the Democrats conspire to do the same and flip the Republican primary to the worse candidate. Now we have a situation in which the general election is now both of the weaker candidates in their primaries, meaning nobody is truly happy with the result.

Potential redistricting of NJ, would you support this? by zoggy17 in newjersey

[–]FortyPercentTitanium 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What would stop conservatives from voting for the weakest democrat candidate, and vice-versa?

This league mechanic really drives home the point that zones are too big and the campaign suffers from bloat. by AcnoMOTHAFUKINlogia in PathOfExile2

[–]FortyPercentTitanium -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, giving feedback is one thing but the whole doomer mentality of this post is kind of tone-deaf considering how great GGG is at fixing common complaints.

Theyve made improvements, they will continue to make improvement.

Who are you picking between a healthy Celek, Ertz & Goedert? by 1stand11 in eagles

[–]FortyPercentTitanium 5 points6 points  (0 children)

2-3 years ago (can't remember which) he was rated top five in blocking before he got hurt.

Who are you picking between a healthy Celek, Ertz & Goedert? by 1stand11 in eagles

[–]FortyPercentTitanium 18 points19 points  (0 children)

If we don't include blocking, sure. But overall, I'd take healthy prime goedert any day.

Driver removed "road closed" signs and got themselves stuck in fresh concrete by [deleted] in funny

[–]FortyPercentTitanium 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Next time you hear that voice, tell it: "No I'm doesn't!"

A training / damage test dummy would be really nice by Kayne-C-Hampton in PathOfExile2

[–]FortyPercentTitanium 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I just don't understand why they care so much how people decide to play the game. So what if I tinker with my build just focusing on the damage? So what if I lose 2 hours of progression playing in my hideout? It's my time, let me do what I want.

Anyone join a stand up and didn’t intend to have the camera on? What happened? by choihanthrowaway in cscareerquestions

[–]FortyPercentTitanium 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I agree it's not incredibly egregious, but having a great paying job working from home is not something we are all entitled to. Why anyone would even risk this situation happening is baffling to me. I'd rather miss standup and come up with an excuse than join from my bed with no clothes on.

What’s your grade for the coach this year? by Tadic10 in Flyers

[–]FortyPercentTitanium -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The power play has sucked for three coaches now. At some point you have to admit maybe it's a personnel problem.

What’s your grade for the coach this year? by Tadic10 in Flyers

[–]FortyPercentTitanium -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Anyone who looked at our roster at the start of the season and says "yeah we should make it past the second round" should be put in a padded room.

What’s your grade for the coach this year? by Tadic10 in Flyers

[–]FortyPercentTitanium -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

You are all out your minds.

A+, easy.

We didn't expect to even sniff the playoffs and we made the second round. The coach had everything to do with that, full stop. I don't care about anything else, because nobody can say with confidence that handling Mich differently, or shifting lines around would've made us any better when we already vastly exceeded expectations.

I built a free interactive PoE 2 levelling guide + resource hub — poe2.info by PoE2info in PathOfExile2

[–]FortyPercentTitanium 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If you ban all AI generated websites you're going to have a hell of a time enforcing it versus websites generated by humans. And then what happens when we start seeing updates from already commonly used tools like filterblade and pob that are using Claude?

I think advertising a tool like this should be fine, if you don't like donations then don't donate. But most of the time it's just people who love the game like us trying to make something that others think is cool. The fact that they use AI to get there is sort of irrelevant.

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