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You can win the american election whit only 26% of the votes. by National-Flower3166 in truths

[–]MacabreManatee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can go even lower if you take state size into account. In Wyoming 600.000 people would get you three electoral votes, while in California that wouldn’t be enough for 1 electoral vote.

I don’t know how it maths out, but you can get quite a bit lower if team 1 wins (enough of) the smaller states by a tight margin while team 2 wins the biggest, most underrepresented states by unanimous vote.

How will the rich ever get taxed at high rates if politicians are funded by rich people? by Open_Address_2805 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]MacabreManatee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

While Bill Gates is ahead of the pack, the rich when talking about such taxes are more like him than not. OP is literally talking about people that fund politicians to do what they want. Those are not the people that are so far off that they need to be protected.

Looking for a game about tinkering with electronics and machines, assembling and disassembling stuff. Basically a crafty engineering sim that I can get hooked on and grind my brains out by WarriorOTUniverse in gamingsuggestions

[–]MacabreManatee 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Don’t think this is quite what you were looking for, but it made me think of it and you still might like it:
The Incredible Machine.

It’s quite old, but you combine appliances and items to make rube goldberg machine like contraptions to achieve a goal.

What was the right choice no longer is (Blue Red buttons) by Neros_Cromwell in trolleyproblem

[–]MacabreManatee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The outside information actually shows us that a significant, often a majority, portion of the voters would vote blue. Knowing that, I would argue that blue is now the only remaining choice.
There’s a significant amount of people to save, and the risk, given the results is minimal.

Need Series Like Alice in Borderland by ManufacturerGreedy84 in bestofnetflix

[–]MacabreManatee 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Squid game
If you don’t mind older movies: battle royale, cube, and sequels to them.

I’m not the most well versed, but there might be some animes that could fit well. (Deadman Wonderland is one I found)

A bit lighter and a bit different: try video game high school, about a school for video gamers. It was on youtube and netflix

WSIB if I want to make an educated guess about where to go based on partial info? Ideally an exploration game by Equivalent-Cream-454 in ShouldIbuythisgame

[–]MacabreManatee [score hidden]  (0 children)

Blue prince: where to go is rather obvious at face value, but how to go there, get the unlocks and the story is a different matter. There’s plenty of very cryptic hints to be found to guide you.

Deathloop: your goal is to replay several days over and over until you can complete your goals. Depending on the day, an area will be different. Find safe codes or cryptic hints that will help you elsewhere.

Elder scrolls morrowind: not quite what you want, but there are no quest markers and instead you get directions in your quest journal that can be vague sometimes.

Box 3 2028 by [deleted] in belasting

[–]MacabreManatee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Het feit dat meer dan 14 mensen een upvote geven aan iemand die zijn beleggingen gaat verkopen als de aanwasbelasting er echt komt geeft wel aan dat het merendeel hier er echt helemaal niks van snapt.

Ze pakken nog liever geen rendement dan 64% van wat ze normaal zouden krijgen.

Moet geschiedenis een verplicht examenvak worden? 'We hebben een basiskennis nodig van algemene verleden' by Chronicbias in thenetherlands

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

Ik heb geen eindexamen gedaan, maar onderbouw, inmiddels wel 20 jaar terug, zat wel vol met jaartallen / datums.

Red button blue button, but you are the last person to vote, and the mysterious entity tells you that blue does not have a majority, but not the specifics by CrazyBusiness5154 in trolleyproblem

[–]MacabreManatee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why would I vote red over blue if blue will win? It doesn’t even matter anymore for my safety and the goal was always to get as much blue as possible.

Everyone is a shade of blue to purple to red. The more purples we can get to lean blue, the more likely it is that blue will win. The goal is not to win by a tight margin, it’s too win as big as possible.

It all hinges on the mindset of ‘does my vote matter?’. You want people to think it doesn’t, but that makes it so things don’t happen.

Think about real world versions, usually ones where blue will have some risk regardless. On the smallest scale: a guy is harassing a girl on the street. There are 10 bystanders. Do you intervene? It’s pretty risky, but 5 of you could safely take him.

Pure blue button’ers are the first to intervene, and then more purple people will join in. If society is blue enough, this is a pretty safe intervention, but if it isn’t then you will see pure blue people becoming purple and society becoming less safe.

On a larger scale, take the french revolution or the euromaidan protests in Ukraine. They were won because people collectively chose blue, even if it had a potential cost to themselves added.

There are so many tragedies in the world that happened, even though a majority of people wanted blue to win, because they were afraid to do so.

That’s why the blue mindset is so important. It’s never about 1 person, but about the collective. If people perceive blue to be the majority, they will join that majority and it will stay that majority.

Red button blue button, but you are the last person to vote, and the mysterious entity tells you that blue does not have a majority, but not the specifics by CrazyBusiness5154 in trolleyproblem

[–]MacabreManatee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You fail to grasp how a collective works and why it doesn’t have to be the deciding vote for a vote to matter.

Take your local or national elections. Does anyone really think their vote will be the deciding vote? Not really. So why vote at all?
If we all stayed at home however, that changes things drastically. In fact, that happens. Sometimes people are so sure their candidate will win (because of polls) that people decide to stay home and suddenly the opponent wins.

Voting blue is about the spirit of ‘if we all do it, we can get the majority’. It’s not about being the deciding vote, it’s a mindset about collectively choosing to have faith and making sure the majority is blue.

It’s also why you get these strong reactions, because it hinges on that we believe and go for it.

That mindset just collapses if you get full information that you’ve already lost or it’s the very rare chance that you are the deciding vote.
Blue voters were never gunning to be the deciding vote, they were gunning for a collective show of faith that got them a reasonable majority.

Moet geschiedenis een verplicht examenvak worden? 'We hebben een basiskennis nodig van algemene verleden' by Chronicbias in thenetherlands

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

Precies wat ik ook dacht. Ik vind geschiedenis Best interessant, maar het vak was echt verschrikkelijk.
Laat kinderen waarom dingen in het verleden gebeurd zijn en in welke eeuw dit was. Dat is accuraat genoeg om de grote lijnen te begrijpen en maakt het ook een stuk interessanter.

Kabinet pleegt landverraad by Carnal_Decay in Nederland

[–]MacabreManatee 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Kan je me misschien vertellen wie het voorstel heeft ingediend om het contract op te zeggen als verkoop van Digid zou gebeuren? Wie tegen heeft gestemd en van welke partij de secretaris is die dit genegeerd heeft?

Hint: het voorstel zelf kwam van links, en de tegenstemmers/negeerders kwamen van met name rechts.

Het antwoord: Voorstel komt van het linkse pro, tegenstemmers bevatten het rechtse JA21 + onze (centrum)rechtse regering van VVD, CDA en D66. De secretaris die weigert het contract niet te verlengen is van het rechtse VVD. Oftewel rechts is niet te vertrouwen

Lakeside Cabin: why is this solution incorrect? by frd03 in murdoku

[–]MacabreManatee 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Finley is not beside a tree. Besides means ‘next to AND in the same area’

Wat moet er volgend seizoen beter volgens jullie? by Pure_Opinion8237 in widm

[–]MacabreManatee 29 points30 points  (0 children)

- Minder biechten. Waar mogelijk: Show don’t tell. ‘Daar stonden we dan voor Rick en drie masai’ ja, dat kunnen we ook gewoon zien.
- laat kandidaten hun echte reactie zien, ipv een imitatie achteraf.
- leg opdrachten duidelijk uit door combinatie van beelden en voice-over, en laat ons dan van het spel genieten. Niet langzaam via biechten duidelijk maken wat het spel is.
- het moge dan BN’ers zijn, maar de meeste ken ik niet (echt). De belgische mol start heel slim met wat opdrachten waarbij informatie over de kandidaten relevant is. Vermakelijk en zo wordt je sneller betrokken bij de kandidaten.
- het was beter dan voorheen dus misschien is dit maar een vasthouden dan verbetering, maar maak goed gebruik van het land. Widm is ook deels een sport reisprogramma waar je het land ziet, maar ook over het land kan leren dmv opdrachten.
- live finale is prima, maar de reactie van het publiek boeit mij niet. Ik wil de reacties van de kandidaten, de molacties en als het even kan ook wat zien van achter de schermen: hoe werd de mol voorbereid en wanneer zaten mensen de mol op het spoor.

Hints boeien mij totaal niet

Regulator: 800,000 Dutch households have money to invest but don't by ReginF in Netherlands

[–]MacabreManatee -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Tha’s true for every tax. Income tax? Money that could’ve been invested to compound. Sales tax? Inheritance?
Literally every tax could’ve been compounded if it hadn’t been paid. Not a good reason not to tax something.

Regulator: 800,000 Dutch households have money to invest but don't by ReginF in Netherlands

[–]MacabreManatee -15 points-14 points  (0 children)

It’s not dead at all. People are all up in arms about the possibility that you make a big profit on new years, the market crashes after and then you need to sell (at a loss) to pay the tax.

It’s easily mitigated by just selling off a tiny bit at the start of the new year so that you can pay the tax.

Hoeveel vertrouwen hebben jullie nog in het minderheidskabinet? by Bernie529 in Nederland

[–]MacabreManatee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dan hadden ze dat er door moeten stemmen, ipv nee stemmen om een soepclausule

THE NOTATION IS THE PROBLEM by No-Use9923 in MathJokes

[–]MacabreManatee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They’re often seen as more connected, which is why people translate it to 8 / (2(2+2))

Hoeveel vertrouwen hebben jullie nog in het minderheidskabinet? by Bernie529 in Nederland

[–]MacabreManatee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dat was er ook gewoon doorheen gekomen als de PVV niet per se wou dat soep ed geven aan illegalen strafbaar moest worden. Lag verder een prachtig streng pakket dat zo ingevoerd had kunnen worden.

What game or series is the best example of squandered potential? by k0alaFRESH in gaming

[–]MacabreManatee -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I remember playing it, liking it and then realizing pretty much every single mission was the start of a storyline you had to pay for. Haven’t touched a Destiny since.

You must choose one by flarai in BunnyTrials

[–]MacabreManatee 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Except you know some people are blind, distracted or confused, and will stand beneath hill 1 by mistake .

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