chaogomu

Actually, no.

Bullet voting is just a thing people do.

Even in places that have been using versions of RCV for decades, about 30% of any given population will bullet vote.

That’s info from FairVote themselves (The main proponents of RCV, even if they’re sort of scummy in their advocacy)

The downvote option turns it from Approval into Score.

I personally like STAR, which is Score, but then adds in some extra features to make it all work better.

Ranked Choice is actually (much) worse overall than the modified Score that OP is describing, even with bullet voting.

As a note, Ranked Choice still has bullet voting. About 30% of voters in a ranked choice election bullet vote.

This video goes into a deep dive about Ranked Choice (and some other systems) and talks about how Ranked Choice might actually be worse than simple plurality. (which is already pretty bad)

A slight misconception in your comment, what OP is describing is much closer to a slightly limited version of Score. Or possibly an expanded Approval.

It’s nothing like Ranked Choice.

To break things down, Ranked Choice is an Ordinal voting system. You rank candidates A then B then C.

The actual mechanics of the election are a series of First Past the Post elections all on a single ballot.

To contrast, Approval and Score are both Cardinal voting systems. You express preference for A, but that doesn’t mean anything about your preference for B. The votes per candidate are counted independently of the votes for any other candidate. This means that Cardinal voting systems are 100% immune to the spoiler effect. They’re also almost completely immune to clone candidates and other such attacks.

Ordinal systems will always fall victim to the spoiler effect, although the more complex ordinal voting systems like Ranked Choice mitigate it somewhat (while making things so much worse when it does crop up)

The thing is, we already know how this goes, because Argentina has had right-wing fanatics in charge before.

The economy is done. That’s how it goes. Everyone except the super rich will be reintroduced to extreme poverty, and anyone who leans even slightly left-wing will have to fear for their lives.

Doctor Who “The Giggle”. Its the third (and final) episode of the 60th anniversary special. It aired last week.

I do love how quickly that episode has been memed.

And the dance number. Got to love a villain that’s having fun with it.

Well, a fictional villain that has fun with their villainy. The real world examples are much less fun.

To be fair, Napoleon didn’t actually start any of his wars, it was the European nobility launching wars to reinstate the French Monarchy.

It depends on the island. Napoleon died on a remote island. It took a few tries though.

You don’t need a clean territorial split for a civil war. You just need clean lines of separation between different groups. There have been civil wars based on ethnic lines, religious lines, and even ideologies.

The wars without clear territory get messy. Like genocide messy.

Since flat earth nonsense is just rebranded creationism, the only being who really needs to be part of the conspiracy is satan.

Then anyone who tells you that the earth is round is either deceived by satan, or is a satan worshiper.

This makes it super easy to dismiss anything that would hint at reality, like ships sailing over the horizon.

Well, COP28 was literally hosted by an Oil CEO…

And with Regulatory capture, many oil execs are positioned to decide energy and environmental matters.

A rocket like that has almost zero pilot control.

In fact, for the longest time, astronauts were 100% payload. Now they’re 99% payload.

10-15 years ago, it was a problem dire enough to drive me back to windows until about the start of the pando, and I’ve not even thought about Wi-Fi drivers since coming back to Linux.

I did have issues with a cheap USB Wi-Fi dongle thing a few years back, but that was likely the fault of the dongle more than anything else, I know because it didn’t really work under widows either.

It’s more accurate to say that Russia under the Soviets was also an authoritarian state.

Authoritarians by their very nature are right-wing.

Putin, the Soviets, the Nazis, Conservatives, and Fascists of all flavors are obsessed with control and conformity.

It’s far easier to control a population when everyone is exactly the same.

This is why the true left wing movements have always embraced minorities and outliers.

This of course is a call back to the very origins of the terms left and right when discussing politics. The French Revolution. A vote was held. One of the first of the new assembly. The question was, “Should the king have an absolute veto over new laws?”. Those in support of the monarchy sat to the right of the speaker’s podium. Those opposed sat to the left.

All the economic bullshit of capitalism v communism was added later. Making the Soviets, a supposedly communist nation, firmly right wing. Not that the Soviets were particularly good at actual communism. Communism sort of requires the workers to control the means of production, not the State. Workers must be working for their own profit, not the profit of the State.

Working for the profit of the State is more of a kleptocracy.

Lemmy.ml calling slave labor efficient because it’s Chinese slave labor.

Got to love your patriotism, but maybe dial it back a bit on the justifying slavery.

Although, thanks to that somewhat bland accent being so prevalent on TV and in movies, regional accents are shifting to sort of match it. Especially in younger generations.

It should be fun a challenge, but maybe not as fun as my naked golden dragonborn monk.

At some point in the run, I just stopped and said, “fuck, I need to play this guy in tabletop game”

He has the shiniest golden scales beneath rippling muscle. He sees the physical form as perfection itself, perfection that is too godly for such window dressing as clothing. But for modesty’s sake, he might be convinced to wear a schlong thong. If you ask nicely.

To download the game in the first place, I had to leave my laptop running overnight. Twice.

It was rough.

As to my paladin… I’m torn. I hard saved as soon as I figured out that I had broken my oath, but I have a soft save just before it happened.

I might just press on.

I’m also playing this run as a “no illithiad powers” run. No mind control, no eating tadpoles. I’ll see how long that lasts.

I’m on an Arch based distro called Garuda.

This is where I found the fix.

https://www.protondb.com/app/1086940/

Got to love that site. Always good to know that I’m not alone in my random errors.