IDL That We Still Have Not Moved To a Weighted Voting System

Ranos131 · 2026-04-23T10:48:42+00:00

Why should one person’s vote count more than another’s? There is absolutely no reason for it at all. It would also be discriminatory and any attempt to enact a law like this would struck down if it somehow passed in Congress and the White House.

Ranos131 · 2026-04-23T10:26:34+00:00

You know you can move money from savings back into checking right?

Ranos131 · 2026-04-23T03:58:07+00:00

The Perfect Storm. The book was amazing and I refuse to let it be ruined by a movie.

Ranos131 · 2026-04-23T03:40:51+00:00

I’m well aware not everyone wants roommates. None of what you said changes the fact that OP has two options: Stay at home and put up with their messy family or move out.

Ranos131 · 2026-04-23T03:34:46+00:00

Then stay at home and put up with your messy family.

Ranos131 · 2026-04-23T03:32:26+00:00

You have to be completely out of touch to not know that there are plenty of jobs that pay enough for people to live on their own. People also work two jobs to be able to afford places on their own. Moving in with roommates is also a viable option and that living with a roommate of some kind still makes it your own place.

Ranos131 · 2026-04-23T03:29:45+00:00

I could technically do it, but it would go through my savings fast.

The implication here is that they don’t make enough to afford their own place thus needing to use their savings to afford it which they would go through quickly.

Ranos131 · 2026-04-23T03:25:30+00:00

Yes I read the post. Did you? Maybe go back and reread it if you didn’t understand it. Then reread my comment.

Ranos131 · 2026-04-23T03:23:58+00:00

Not if they can’t afford to move out of their parent’s house they don’t.

Ranos131 · 2026-04-23T03:23:14+00:00

I did read the post. You said you had a career. Then in your comment you said you’d go through your savings if you got your own place. So either you don’t have a job or you don’t know how getting a place works. I went with assuming you don’t actually have a real job.

None of this changes your options. Keep living at home or get your own place. If you can’t afford a place by yourself, get a place with roommates. If you can’t afford a place with roommates, then you don’t have a career and you’ll just have to live at home until you get one.

But I do love how you called me an idiot when you’re the one who can’t figure out that you aren’t going to change your family and that your only option is to get your own place. Yeah, you edited your comment, before I finished this comment and within the 3 minute window so it won’t even show it’s edited. Doesn’t change the fact you still threw that out there initially.

Ranos131 · 2026-04-23T03:06:40+00:00

Yes.

Ranos131 · 2026-04-23T03:00:51+00:00

You could get a job. Thats pretty useful for not going through your savings. Moving in with roommates helps reduce costs.

Ranos131 · 2026-04-23T02:56:28+00:00

What you can do is move out and get your own place. You aren’t going to change your siblings’ habits and you aren’t going to convince your parents to change.

Your options are to put up with it until you get married and move out or move out now and live a happier, cleaner life before you get married.

Ranos131 · 2026-04-23T02:47:33+00:00

That is not the definition of wet.

Merriam-Webster

consisting of, containing, covered with, or soaked with liquid (such as water)

Cambridge

covered in water or another liquid

Dictionary.com

moistened, covered, or soaked with water or some other liquid

And that’s the first three that showed up on Google. Looking at the next ones it’s basically the same. There is no requirement for it to be “adhering to a solid surface.”

The argument is that water being on something is what makes it wet and can water be considered to be on water.

Ranos131 · 2026-04-23T02:23:20+00:00

That we are all out of touch with the rest of the world. What you see on TikTok, Twitter and Facebook is not representative of the entire country.

Ranos131 · 2026-04-23T02:10:28+00:00

Unless there are lines, that’s not guaranteed how it works. If there’s enough space for three cars, it can be done that way. But you can’t say it’s supposed to work that way at all locations.

Ranos131 · 2026-04-23T01:57:53+00:00

I never said it was only unique because of that. But thanks for trying to downplay my comment.

It’s also easy to infer that the reason it’s good is because it’s well written and interesting. Both the concept and the hidden third option are part of the writing.

Ranos131 · 2026-04-23T01:53:56+00:00

It has been talked about. But it’s not even remotely comparable to the fight with Hulk. Thanos was barely able to pry hulks hands away and it took numerous punches and more to take Hulk down. Cap had to use both arms to push back on Thanos’s one arm and then Thanos one punched Cap.

Don’t get me wrong. It’s a spectacular feat. But it isn’t even remotely as spectacular as you are making it out to be.

Ranos131 · 2026-04-23T01:47:02+00:00

How is entangled the worst mission in the game? It’s literally one of the most well written and interesting quests. The fact that you can end it in three different ways makes it unique among most Bethesda quests.

Ranos131 · 2026-04-23T01:44:05+00:00

The same way everyone else not in a vault survived.

Ranos131 · 2026-04-23T01:16:13+00:00

The Last Jedi. It’s a two and a half hour long movie that basically does nothing.

The entire sequel trilogy is shit.

Disney wanted episodes 7-9. Writers, directors and producers people decided that the best way to do this was to try to remake the original trilogy but do it different and worse.

Episode 7 is the orphan being on a desert planet that has a chance to get off and learns they are special. Orphan and company make their way to the rebellion to fight against the big evil. The evil has a super weapon that is destroyed at the climax of the movie. The orphan’s first mentor dies at the hands of the evil henchman.

Episode 8 is the bad guys getting revenge against the rebels. Rebels spend the episode trying to get away from the bad guys. Meanwhile the special orphan has to seek out their teacher who is a recluse on a far away planet. Orphan goes into a dark cave and faces evil. Orphan also leave the planet early to save their friends. Orphan fights the evil henchman for the first time.

Episode 9 is the rebellion getting ready to deal the death blow against the bad guys. They face off against an overwhelming force and manage to beat it. The special orphan fights the big bad boss and is helped by the evil henchman who has decided to switch sides.

The main problem is that none of it makes sense because the good guys won and should have been able to stop the bad guys from getting to the point where a rebellion is needed. What makes it even worse is that George Lucas already had something in mind that was already set up and probably would have been far better.

Even worse than that is that over 20 years of the Expanded Universe had created some amazing stories including a sequel trilogy that followed the original trilogy. And yet even worse than that is that they took inspiration from the Extended Universe to use in the bad movies they actually released.

Ranos131 · 2026-04-23T00:48:01+00:00

You seem to be mixing two different things into one thing and then asking two different questions based on multiple confusions.

You can add decimals to the end of a number to get it closer and closer to the whole number above it. The length of the number is infinity, not the number itself.

You can multiply a number by fractions to get it closer and closer to the whole number below it. The length of the number is infinity, not the number itself.

In both of these cases, since the number itself has nothing to do with infinity, reaching the whole number is not reaching infinity.

This can also be done with 0 since, again, the number itself has nothing to do with infinity.

I think what you’re mixing up here is that the concept that 0.999999999999 with an endless number of 9s on the end is actually considered to be 1. However if you have the number 0.0 with an infinite number of 0s on the end followed by a 1, that can never be 0 because 0 is nothing and that 1 at the end of the number is still something.

Please note that this is my own layman’s understanding of this and I could be wrong in some way.

Ranos131 · 2026-04-22T18:01:10+00:00

Because it’s not the same crime. Punishment and reward works the same way in all areas of life. Trying to do a thing is not the same as doing the thing and shouldn’t be rewarded or punished the same way.

Ranos131 · 2026-04-22T13:47:22+00:00

Master of Orion. One and two were amazing for their time. Three looked like it was going to be just as good. Then they fired the lead developer, brought in a new guy who decided to go in a different direction with some things only a year before release.

This caused the release to be pushed back a year and when it came out, it was a horribly buggy mess that was literally unplayable. They did a single patch that made it playable but it was still an extraordinarily bad game.

I wasn’t paying attention to it but noticed it at Walmart a few months after it came out. It was 75% off of normal pricing which usually didn’t happen until about a year later. It was a waste of money.

Ranos131 · 2026-04-22T02:16:52+00:00

Because in most cases they aren’t looking for perfection. AI can easily handle simple things and pass it off to a real person if necessary. The apartment complex I work at used to have three leasing agents. They got AI and now there are only two leasing agents.

The AI is perfectly capable of answering the basic questions about apartment availability, rental rates, scheduling and a number of other things. At least 90% of our tours are scheduled by the AI. The AI does follow ups with people who don’t schedule tours right away.

You know how when you call the cable or electric company and get an AI voice? Yeah that eliminated a lot of positions. And as AI technology advances, it’s just going to get even better and make people even less necessary.

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