TropicalDingdong
@TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
- Comment on 13 hours ago:
What’s the etiquette for posting #mastodon or other federated posts on some of the other reddit-analogues? From what I see you can just mention a #piefed or #lemmy group in a post and it will create a
Go on…
- Comment on Humans May Be Able to Grow New Teeth Within Just 4 Years 13 hours ago:
Bruh I’m gonna grow so many teeth. I wonder if we’ll be able to get crocodile teeth.
Like can I get just one crocodile tooth that hangs over my lip?
- Comment on Port-a-potty company files for bankruptcy to wipe away $2.4bn in debt 1 day ago:
Economy has gone to shit.
- Comment on Room temperature IQ is a far bigger insult in Europe than America. 1 day ago:
- Comment on China Is Banning Tesla-Style Retractable Door Handles Over Safety Concerns 1 day ago:
Let’sa gooo!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
C/dullmensclub is leaking
- Comment on What should I do with 2 old machines (Mac Mini and HP Pavilion g7)? 1 day ago:
If it has wired Ethernet, proxmox is like, a small miracle of convenience. You can slice and dice multiple machines from one. It’s litterally one for the best pieces of diy infra support I’ve ever experienced…
But you gotta be hardwired.
- Comment on What should I do with 2 old machines (Mac Mini and HP Pavilion g7)? 3 days ago:
With proxmox?
- Comment on What should I do with 2 old machines (Mac Mini and HP Pavilion g7)? 3 days ago:
The only bummer is the requirement of wired Ethernet
- Comment on Ready set go 5 days ago:
Also you can runge most models on a wide range of fuels. Sucrose, glucose, maltose, ethanol, molybdenum disulfide, small rocks, some grass. Really anything.
- Comment on Ready set go 5 days ago:
This guy lead bulbs.
- Comment on Praise them 1 week ago:
- Comment on If Browser and Wario are Mario's mortal ennemies, why did he invited them for a kart race? 1 week ago:
I mean technically DK and Mario are even older tovals
- Comment on how did anyone let this person on a computer 2 weeks ago:
Ok but where do they lay them?
- Comment on ruh roh raggy 2 weeks ago:
It wasnt me
- Comment on If you are a guy living with a woman you know THIS 2 weeks ago:
Easy to forget, especially when going from low flow to high flow use cases. Most people just keep upping the pressure wondering why they aren’t getting consistent flow without realizing it’s actually a tip issue.
Happy to help.
- Comment on If you are a guy living with a woman you know THIS 2 weeks ago:
You might consider adjusting your emitter from mist to stream. Easy to forget this adjustment.
- Comment on Samsung to halt SATA SSD production, leaker warns of up to 18 months of SSD price pressure, worse than Micron ending consumer RAM 2 weeks ago:
So maybe that computer I just bought will be my last for a while then.
- Comment on Painful paper cut. Maybe it will feel better if she licks it 2 weeks ago:
Please mark NSFW.
- Comment on It's quite impressive that most English speakers across the world understand each other, despite variations in accents/dialects 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Lebron James is popping up in Chinese videos shouting "What can I say?" - Is this a Chinese meme? 2 weeks ago:
What can I say?
- Comment on Actual theft 2 weeks ago:
It’s not a filter. She had an eye embiggening.
- Comment on Actual theft 2 weeks ago:
Yep. However, it’s somewhat inconsistent. YT doesn’t want you to be able to but it does work, for now.
- Comment on Actual theft 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on I assume it's corn 2 weeks ago:
Cat
- Comment on If you didn't vote, the current state of things is partially your fault 2 weeks ago:
You’re playing the game whether you like it or not, and if you refuse to take your turn, it doesn’t end or even stall the game, it just lets the other team win more.
See this is where the fallacy lay. You think you are arguing with me about strategic voting, or at least you are presenting it that way. You aren’t. You are arguing with voters, all of them as a set, about your idea of how votes should be used, vote a vote represents, and what “strategic” really means. And thats were this entirely falls apart. And when those voters don’t accept your premises as a set, your strategy falls apart.
The game isn’t a game of one player versus the system, and if your strategy doesn’t adapt when scaled, its not a good strategy. The strategy of “strategic voting” (which I hate the description, because its by no means strategic to employ strategies which operate directly against your purported outcomes) falls apart when you scale the game to any more than one player.
You need to accept the fact that while you, a single voter, accept the premises of what a vote is, how it should be used, and what it means to be “strategic”, voters do not accept these premises or agree with you, as evidenced by their behavior. And because no one beyond the people use this strategy as a cudgel agree with them in terms of their premises, the strategy when employed does actual material damage to the alleged outcomes of those espousing it.
Those making the argument around strategic voting are constantly trying to act smart like they’ve got some kind of logical or moral upper hand, but they understand not either the morality of what they are doing, or the basics of game theory well enough to understand the damage they are doing.
- Comment on Everything is awful because the people who went to business school figured out how to fuck us over as hard as possible. 2 weeks ago:
My wife the tramp.
- Comment on If you didn't vote, the current state of things is partially your fault 2 weeks ago:
I posted this in another thread but it belongs here too, because we need to exterminate this kind of thinking (blaming voters):
Firstly, and I want to be very clear, this exact line of thinking is, in my view, one of the biggest political self-sabotage of the last decade. The “strategic voting” sermon is a toxic meme: it flatters people into thinking they’re doing game theory, when what they’re actually doing is laundering fear, cynicism, and party discipline into moral obligation.
In a FPtP voting system you must vote strategically. You must vote against the party you like least.
No. I don’t “must” do anything, and neither does any other voter. A vote is not a hostage note. It’s not a loyalty oath. It’s a signal of preference, and people will use it that way whether or not you approve.
And the biggest problem is: the whole argument relies on a fantasy version of voters. It assumes (1) everyone agrees on who is “viable,” (2) everyone shares the same ranking of “least bad,” and (3) everyone will coordinate on the same “strategic” choice. That’s not how human beings behave. People have different risk tolerances, different values, different lines they won’t cross, and different beliefs about what’s possible. You can’t brute-force a coordination problem by scolding individuals.
Worse: preaching “strategic voting” is self-fulfilling sabotage. The constant message of “don’t vote for who you want, vote for who you’re allowed to want” depresses enthusiasm, trains people to expect disappointment as the price of participation, and gives a hall pass to candidates to believe they no longer need to work for your vote. If you’re trying to help a candidate or party win, telling potential supporters that their real preferences are irresponsible is a great way to push them into disengagement, protest votes, or staying home, ALL of which are perfectly viable options.
What the “must vote strategically” story really does: it shifts responsibility away from candidates and parties to earn votes, and puts the onus on voters to simply accept less bad, which loses elections. It turns elections into a blame game where voters are treated like malfunctioning parts that need to be corrected, and it handed the country to fascism.
And I noticed what you did, trying to claim this as Russian propaganda. Again, deeply toxic, but I wouldn’t expect less from someone espousing the strategy that handed the country to Fascism.
- Comment on If you didn't vote, the current state of things is partially your fault 2 weeks ago:
This mostly expresses a misunderstanding of how voting and electoralism work in a practical, applied manner.
A voter can be strategic and could be moved. Voters are a statistical distribution. And in the course of an election cycle, won’t be moved. It’s the job of politicians to figure out where voters are at and speak to them.
Blaming voters for a failure like 2016 or 2024 is like blaming people for the failures of recycling. Its the job of parties and candidates to go find the votes, to build a winning coalition, to hear the grievances of voters and then to speak to those grievances.
- Comment on I’m tired of cornposting 2 weeks ago:
You can tell by the beard.
