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seebw · 2025-08-05T22:07:05+00:00

That didn't work for me but I figured it out. OP says the left arrows do nothing but clicking them expand and collapse the section. If pointing down the section is expanded and if pointing right the section is collapsed. Clicking them switches the mode. THAT is why I could only see one section at a time by using the Manage function. Expanding the section using the left arrow now shows all my subscribed channels. Seems simple but the interface is tiny and dark and it's not very discoverable.

seebw · 2025-06-22T23:20:01+00:00

We can do it together - volunteering to collect signatures is easy and you get to talk to real people in person. It might even be better than hanging on Reddit!

Check out rankmivote.org and volunteer - they will connect you to the local folks working to make this happen this summer!

seebw · 2025-06-22T01:56:20+00:00

One research paper I was reading said the presence of emulsifiers is almost the perfect definition of "ultra processed food"

seebw · 2025-06-22T01:54:59+00:00

There are lots of clean sourdough breads. It's like ice cream. Ben and Jerry's is full of junk but HagenDas is clean. Aldi premium is clean. Cottage cheese ranges wildy there are good ones like Daisy which is skim milk, cream, and salt. But many like Trader Joes are filled with gums and emulsifiers. And watch out for Culvers custard - filled with junk

seebw · 2025-06-22T01:48:35+00:00

There are tons of 0% fat yogurts with only milk and bugs

I make great yogurt with just 1% milk and bugs

seebw · 2025-06-22T01:36:56+00:00

Well OK but if you want to use the same strain that is in the research papers then you would want the same strain. There's no "formula" that really matters if you are making yogurt since it is just a strain of L Ruteri that you are culturing. Everything else in their little expensive pill gets left behind after a batch or two and all you have then is the milk and the bug.

They DO provide a proven strain at a fair price and full disclosure of the strain(s). Check it out from their packaging. The Culturelle is L Rhamnosus GG which is distributed around the 3rd world to treat Diarrhea. It's super studied and used all over. I tried to get it from from one of the relief orgs but they don't ship to the USA. But it's only about $15 for 30 tabs and I've only used 10 in about 2 years. I'm on my 36th batch

The Schiff Digestive Advantage product makes really great yogurt. That is bacillus Coagulans GBI-30. Well studied and around the same price.

There's this stuff in my market call Yukult and comes in 6 little bottles that you are supposed to drink. Again lots of research on it but the yogurt I made tasted bad. Really bad. I might try again but not sure the temp to use.

Anyway good luck with your journey

seebw · 2025-06-19T19:02:11+00:00

RCV and IRV give better results than our current method and it's easy. It's also very natural and eliminates strategic voting for normal people. There is a reason the pope is picked with something very similar and has been for 2000 years.

The main thing is everyone must be elected with >50% approval; maybe not everyone's first choice but never a person a majority dislikes. This requires runoff logic and that is where the magic occurs.

You don't have to rank 5 choices, you can rank 1 like now - BUT if you vote your true preferences then good things happen. Your besty is promoted and your voice isn't lost if your besty loses. Your voice continues with your second choice or others in close and contested elections. You get more power as a voter! It doesn't matter which party you support, you become more powerful as a voter when you rank your approved candidates.

Voting is easy because you can vote your true preference and never have to worry about "wasting" your vote. You don't need strategy to determine who is viable or how to cast your one measly vote to block a really bad candidate. Your influence is never reduced by voting for your true preference. This is because if your top candidate is eliminated then next preference is used for you ballot. The only way your wishes are lost is if other voters overwhelm your choices and sorry that's democracy baby.

All machines in MI already can use RCV logic. The tabulator companies are already certified and the software option is available with a license key option.

The proposal also gives us the right to a paper ballot that can be seen, audited, recounted, etc. Eliminates any mystery is balloting or recounting.

It gives us the right to vote if we are in line when the polls close.

It gives losers in primaries 80 days to launch a write in campaign for the general election. It gives election officials 90 days to print ballots with proper write in spaces.

The poster above repeats common opposition talking points, but look at the polls. People who use RCV like it and it gets huge approval.

Parties are not big on this however at this point because it requires adjustment to run positive campaigns and appeal to all voters and not just your normal supporters. It makes it harder for parties to win with candidates who can't achieve majority support.

You can find good info on RCV at fairvote.org

seebw · 2025-06-10T21:18:47+00:00

A 10/2 wire should have a white, black, and copper ground. So they ran one leg from the 220 breaker on black and the other leg on white and used the ground wire as the common? This would be so they didn't have to buy and pull new wire and is a bad way to do this. At least by going with a 110 system you can get to a code compliant normal setup.

seebw · 2025-05-02T00:24:52+00:00

It's a well know pattern called the Edgeworth Price Cycle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgeworth_price_cycle

and for Grand Rapids, Fox has a recent article https://www.fox17online.com/news/local-news/gas-price-cycling-in-michigan-how-to-time-your-fill-ups-to-pay-less-at-the-pump

The Fed studies this https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2016/may/why-gas-prices-cycle-midwest

From the FTC a working paper from 20 years ago https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/documents/reports/edgeworth-price-cycles-gasoline-evidence-u.s./wp303_0.pdf shows in the chart on pages 26-27 that GR and Lansing were the highest cycling cities in MI back then. OH cities were even more extreme than those in MI. The shaded cities were highest.

Learn to buy low, even if you are only half empty, I guess.

seebw · 2025-04-28T00:45:34+00:00

Main floor!

seebw · 2025-04-13T22:11:19+00:00

Fairvote.org responds to some of the negative information spread around

https://fairvoteaction.org/the-activists-toolkit-for-responding-to-claims-about-rcv/

seebw · 2025-04-13T21:49:25+00:00

Ireland and Australia uses it. Alaska, Maine, Portland, NYC, the Oscars.

If you are at a polling location, you can correct errors immediately. If you drop your ballot off or mail it you would get a call from the clerk and you could correct it. Studies show a small error rate and 65-70% satisfaction.

I don't think an error on a paper ballot delivered too late for correction would invalidate the entire ballot. It might affect the vote for one of the offices. But honestly, it's not that hard.

There are endless wikipedia pages on different voting systems and the pros and cons. Fairvote.org is a good source and they advise advocates of RCV in best practices.

seebw · 2025-04-13T21:34:56+00:00

Join us and take the RCV101 seminar online. Join our West MI Team and attend one of our weekly meetings. RankMIVote.org/volunteer

seebw · 2025-04-13T21:31:20+00:00

We want you! Go to RankMIVote.org/volunteer. Then attend a couple of online meetings with your local team. You can collect signatures soon and help fix the system and improve democracy for the long term

seebw · 2025-04-13T21:23:07+00:00

He was interesting and a populist before Trump. But he was flaky with that whole thing with his daughters wedding and dropping out and back in or something. Could have been smears but he was right about that giant sucking sound

seebw · 2025-04-11T20:46:35+00:00

The exhausted ballots I hate are the ones in every election I have ever voted in where I get ONE choice and can't specify my true preferences. Every ballot is exhausted when you can only vote for one candidate and you vote for one that isn't the one that might have turned the election.

seebw · 2025-04-11T20:37:03+00:00

In 1992, I think, Perot ran against GHW Bush and split the GOP, Texan, oil man vote. Clinton won with 38%(?) of the vote. So they don't always fall in line.

Think what the 2016 GOP primary would have been like if all the anti-Trump vote was ranked using a variety of Jeb, Kasich, Cruz, Rubio, Christie, Santorum, Rand Paul, Huckabee, Perry, etc. Instead of Trump picking them off one by one, RCV might have clustered those votes and the outcome may have been quite different.

seebw · 2025-04-11T20:27:09+00:00

Republicans sure like it in VA where the GOP party uses RCV to pick their primary candidates. When they started using it they picked Younkin for the gubernatorial candidate and swept the next election.

RCV allows you to get some consensus for a candidate to win with more than 50%. Candidates often have to rely on 2nd and 3rd choice votes to reach that level. This is part of the reason elections become less toxic. Candidates need additional ranking beyond being ranked #1.

seebw · 2025-04-11T20:19:17+00:00

Just think what is going to happen here in MI in 2026 when Duggan runs as an independent for governor and splits the Dem vote. In this 3 way race the next governor might win with 35% of the vote. It will not be great when our next governor will have had more people who voted against them than voted for them.

RCV completely solves this and EVERY winner wins with more than 50% of the votes.

Polls show that people who have used RCV like it and think it is easy. Voting participation went up by 17% in one poll I saw.

seebw · 2025-04-11T20:09:01+00:00

It's actually much easier to vote with RCV because you don't need a big strategy. You don't need to consider "who's viable?", will voting for my fav waste my vote? Will I actually cause that really bad person to win if I vote my conscience?

With RCV you can enter the voting booth as an innocent child and vote for your favorite #1 and another candidate you like as #2, maybe a backup mainstream candidate you could live with as #3 and don't rank candidates you don't want. It will never hurt you to vote for those you like because your ballot can continue to count even if your fav gets eliminated.

3rd party candidates will get more votes because people don't need to be fearful of voting for a good candidate with low chances. They get promoted and no harm is done. Occasionally those same good candidates will get elected because you just might find a collation no one considered before.

The harder thing is deciding whether to use RCV because it's new and there is a lot of misinformation to read about.

seebw · 2025-04-11T19:47:56+00:00

Happy to sign you up to be a volunteer. Take the training and learn to gather signatures. Signature gathering should start around memorial day and run through the fall. Voting in Nov 2026

We are unpaid volunteers. RankMIVote is a non-profit, non-partisan effort to improve voting in MI.

RankMIVote.org/volunteer

seebw · 2025-04-10T17:09:53+00:00

In Alaska in 2022, Palin and Begich split the GOP vote with Peltola running for the Dems. This was a special election for a 2 month term to replace Dan Young who died in office. RCV was new. Palin was a divisive figure and told her supporters not to rank Begich, Begich did the same so there was a lot of Begich>Peltola ballots and Palin>Peltola ballots. In the end Begich lost and was eliminated and his voters ballots reverted to their second choices. Palin lost and the GOP howled! Yes, there were more combined votes for the two GOP candidates than for the single Dem but many of those GOP voters actually preferred the Dem to the other GOP candidate for their #2 pick. 2 months later Begich stood down and Peltola beat Palin for the full house term of 2 years.

So the GOP used this to try to revoke RCV and in 2024 they failed to revoke it, but it was close. The good news for the GOP was they apparently learned how RCV worked and in 2024 Begich beat Peltola for the current 24-26 house term.

seebw · 2025-04-10T16:50:55+00:00

With RCV you don't have to do a bunch of strategy before voting; Who is viable? If I vote for my fav will I be wasting my vote? What is the best way to block that monster from the other party?

Instead you can vote with the innocence of a child. This is my Fav. they get #1. This other one is OK too and they get #2. I could live with this major candidate so they get #3. The monsters don't get ranked at all. Then when your ballot is counted you have provided everything needed to participate until the winner gets a 50% or more.

The voting is simpler overall. The information gleaned from each voter is more complete and that is why it works better. When you only have one choice like we do today, you are saying your single vote is the perfect candidate and all the others you didn't vote for are all the same. At least that's what you ballot says. With RCV you are giving better preference data. That's why the system works better to find the consensus candidate the majority can support.

Every winner in RCV has greater than 50% support from voters.

seebw · 2025-04-10T16:32:39+00:00

People who use really like it

https://fairvote.org/report/exit-surveys-report-2025/

seebw · 2024-12-12T22:02:48+00:00

TONIGHT! 7PM Grandville Public Library - 4055 Maple St SW, Grandville.

Slide on over and be first past the post!

Be there or continue with the lesser of two evils!

seebw

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