morgan_423

@morgan_423@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that in 16 States in the USA has banned Ranked-Choice voting, including 5 that has just banned it in 2025, and 6 of those bans happened in 2024.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Plenty of issues overall, sure, but I’m speaking specifically about the statistical inability to vote for third parties and have it mean anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that in 16 States in the USA has banned Ranked-Choice voting, including 5 that has just banned it in 2025, and 6 of those bans happened in 2024.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  First past the post voting is the sole issue that is keeping legitimately contending third parties off of our ballots.

  Installing ranked choice voting (or one of its very close cousins) is the the number one reformation change that can be made to give the people their voices back. So of course, the powers that be are terrified of it… no surprises here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has Reddit acknowledged the existence of Lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t see much talk of Lemmy on Reddit, but I’m primarily only on Reddit for a small handful of niche subreddits where no one talks about these things anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that if you hover your mouse over each segment of Wikipedia's IPA pronunciation key (typically found at the beginning of an article), it will let you know how it sounds in the tooltip⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The IPA is fantastically interesting.

  I don’t agree with people who think it should replace our standard alphabets and syllabarries (it is jarring, at least in my opinion, to essentially read other people’s accents from written text when they don’t match your own), but it can be pretty useful in some situations. where you’re actually studying accents, or the most common ways things are said in other languages.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should South Korea launch a preemptive attack on North Korea?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  One would think that out of all countries, South Korea should be the least worried about North Korean nuclear attack. They’re next door neighbors a handful of miles apart from each other geographically, and wind exists to carry fallout right back to Kim Jong Un’s house.

  Same reasons it always seems so odd whenever Russia threatens to nuke Ukraine.