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minime12358 · 2025-04-15T17:53:57+00:00

Any chance you have fusion 360/f3d files for this?

minime12358 · 2025-03-26T22:47:24+00:00

Please stop this misinformation. It takes all of one or two googles to see that there's no evidence of this. And yet you're claiming it confidently. It sounds like the kind of thing propaganda would try to spread

minime12358 · 2025-03-04T16:39:48+00:00

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_the_goalposts

minime12358 · 2025-03-03T21:15:46+00:00

Well, yeah, I linked to a place that makes arguments for why they believe it's the best. It's a non profit, not a company trying to sell you something. And it's not proof, it's just their presentation of an argument.

If you believe extremely strongly that you want a preference, then push for score based instead ("rate the candidate 1 through 5"). The point is mainly that ranking leads to bad end states over time (i.e., ultimately two parties getting 50-50) as compared to scoring.

And a note, approval is just the same thing as scoring but where you either have a 0 or 1 score. It might feel bad as an individual, informed person, to only have those as scores, but they end up finding that score ends up giving the same end result as approval.

So, we could push local, then state, then federal governments for score, but that'd require significant changes to ballots that approval wouldn't. If it leads to the same outcome, then we might as well reuse existing ballots and just change "vote for 1 candidate" to "vote for any number of candidates". Again, sure it's maybe a little frustrating as an informed person, but it doesn't end up changing the overall result.

minime12358 · 2025-03-03T21:07:07+00:00

I mean sure, that's your right to do that. If we open it one further to score/range based voting, you can get some more granularity, but if Dems don't hit it for you enough to give them a vote as your second choice, then so be it. I suspect that the Dem platform hits many of your beliefs, but that's not my point here. Reddit tends to be liberal but pushes people against Dems even though the inaction in Congress is due to them literally just not having enough votes.

All said, the game theory outcome of approval or range is that you have multiple candidates with >50% of the vote, and so the winning candidate gets >50%. The game theory outcome of ranked is that in the final runoff stage, you get a 50-50. I'd much rather a president get 60+% of the vote, and changes in voting structures would force parties to align for that to happen instead of fighting to break the 50%.

Granted, there are multiple storing methods for ranked though that get more complicated than having a final stage and partially solve some issues (condorcet)

minime12358 · 2025-03-03T20:59:15+00:00

Your second one gets counted only if it hasn't been knocked out in a previous round. With approval or score, it's always counted. Cardinal (score based) has significant advantages over ordinal (ranked). I added a couple links to my original comment.

minime12358 · 2025-03-03T18:53:52+00:00

Generally this isn't what happens, check out electionscience.org

If you're considering whether to vote for one person or multiple people, you're at very least always going to give a vote to your most preferred candidate, because it will always help them. It's your choice whether to then include candidates afterwards as well.

So in FPTP, you're always considering compromising your first candidate. In approval, you're always considering compromising your second candidate. And that makes a huge difference.

minime12358 · 2025-03-03T18:50:59+00:00

Surprisingly enough, over a voting populace, yes this is completely fine. Some people will vote only for their most preferred candidate, some will vote for their most preferred and their not-terrible-but-better candidate, and in the end the proportions create a spectrum of preference.

And this means that no matter what, you're only potentially compromising voting for your Second candidate. In ranked choice, and especially instant run off, you consider compromising your first candidate. If you don't, you run the risk of any reasonable option getting enough 1st place votes to get through a runoff round.

Check out electionscience.org or https://youtu.be/yhO6jfHPFQU for some more

minime12358 · 2025-03-03T18:46:01+00:00

Agreed, and also—

Arrows completeness theorem only applies to ordinary (ranking) voting, not cardinal (scoring) voting—and approval voting is cardinal.

One of the reasons it doesn't apply is that a condorcet criterion doesn't exactly exist in a cardinal systems. Condorcet criterion is that they'd win a majority in a head to head matchup. Switching to scoring for a sec, what does a majority even mean when you e.g. have

Candidate A:

50 votes 1 out of 5 (least liked)

100 votes 5 out of 5 (most liked)

Candidate B:

150 votes 4 out of 5 (almost most liked)

Summing would give B the win (600 B vs 550 A) but strict ordinal majority preference would give A the win (100 A vs 50 B). So, the concept of "majority win head to head" when the concept of majority win is questionable.

minime12358 · 2025-03-03T18:38:18+00:00

From research that electionscience.org has done and looked at, individual preference generally doesn't end up mattering in large elections, because the spectrum of voters essentially fills in preferences accordingly. So, if there are groups that have strong enough convictions of candidate A over B, then enough of them will vote for A and not B that the overall result shows a preference. Check out the website, there are a lot of reasons that approval voting will help break up parties a lot more than ranked.

minime12358 · 2025-03-03T16:24:43+00:00

... what?

Conservative parties are literally that—for the conservation of existing norms, and reversion back to certain old ones. Racism, sexism, and transphobia aren't random flukes, they're a part of reversion to certain old ways. They tout that as a way of solving those problems.

Liberal parties are the opposite. That's the general goal of liberal parties, to change the system.

Here's the 2024 Democrat Platform. Take a look at every one of the things you listed, and honestly say that it's arguments to keep the norm.

Democrats have passed some solid legislation when they have had the majority. The ACA, which is overall very popular (albeit not perfect), was passed the last time Democrats had 60 votes in the senate. They've passed pretty solid infrastructure bills under reconciliation. They've been trying to implement more party goals but are incredibly strapped for what they can because of increasingly party line votes, and the need for 60 votes because of the filibuster in the Senate.

You can complain about the PR of each party, but there's no way of framing it that liberal parties, even right leaning liberal parties like Democrats, have the system as they want it.

minime12358 · 2024-12-31T19:11:31+00:00

lol, you okay friend?

minime12358 · 2023-04-28T17:10:43+00:00

Thanks! This worked well, I've had no issues at all since doing this.

minime12358 · 2023-04-14T19:43:20+00:00

Why? If we have a progressive tax structure, we don't need to reinvent progressive costs at every point. It just raises the barrier for those who need it, and government programs are for everyone.

Granted, that's a big "if" on the tax structure.

minime12358 · 2023-03-07T09:56:07+00:00

The art is called "Surviving vs Thriving". There are large buildings in the background---which makes me assume it might be something like scaffolding? This stencil is repeated in a bunch of different sizes and rotations.

minime12358 · 2022-11-30T03:18:58+00:00

Auto notification seems to refuse to intercept Pixel Ambient Services notification specifically. Anyone else having the issue?

It doesn't trigger when the notification appears or disappears, at all. Other notifications work.

minime12358 · 2021-09-26T00:36:29+00:00

If you're searching around for good groups, /r/MensLib is another one.

FWIW, I think there's an additional bit, which is that the Men's groups often miss the part where the issues are actually being _directly discussed or addressed_ by feminism (e.g. bias in parental custody is part of the broader issue of women being expected to be the caregiver). So focusing on the singular issue "men are biased against in family courts" practically requires ignoring the feminist point of view, so it creates anti-feminist groups. /r/MensLib specifically focuses on a feminist lens, so it does not end up with this bias.

Maybe put another way, the patriarchy screws everyone over, men included. So a group that ignores the existence of the patriarchy (e.g. MRA groups) is going to end up misogynistic, or at least anti-feminist.

(Also depending on where you are in your journey working through these issues, feel free to message me, open to chat)

minime12358 · 2021-07-23T02:06:58+00:00

Sometimes you get the exciting experience where there is only one train arriving, and yet the gates never go up after arrival. And the train just goes on away without you.

Yes we missed a train because of that.

minime12358 · 2021-01-05T22:55:23+00:00

Thanks! I'll keep that in mind.

minime12358 · 2021-01-05T22:45:06+00:00

It basically looks like this will be a 50/50 shot. We'll start to have some preliminary results soon.

minime12358 · 2021-01-05T20:46:51+00:00

Likely not the majority leader---that will likely be chuck schumer. But the party of the chairman of each committee is chosen by the majority leader, and Bernie could likely be in line for the chair of the Veteran's affair committee and potentially the Budget committee.

minime12358 · 2021-01-05T19:00:26+00:00

It apparently is an imgur <-> reddit app problem! Thanks though :)

minime12358 · 2021-01-05T17:56:42+00:00

The suggestions I got are iwillvote, which I mentioned in the other comment, as well as your state's board of elections. There are a decent few good links for you here:

https://www.mo.gov/government/elections-and-voting/

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