Liz
@Liz@midwest.social
- Comment on School legend 1 week ago:
Maybe you could categorize it under poor impulse control and poor understanding of social norms. But like, one incident doesn’t make a diagnosis.
- Comment on Cheeto devouring his nation 2 weeks ago:
Strategic voting can be an optional strategy under ordinary approval voting. If I don’t like either of the top two candidates, it’s still in my best interest to vote for the runner-up, if I hate them less than I hate the front-runner.
And look man, I’m honestly not interested in picking over the details. Any proportional system is better than single-winner. By miles.
- Comment on Cheeto devouring his nation 3 weeks ago:
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While this complaint is technically true for SPAV, the likelihood that a popular candidate would fail to win a seat because everyone thought they were too popular is just… Not gonna happen. We already know from real-world AV elections that voters largely prefer to vote honestly, there’s no reason to think they would get more strategic when it gets harder to figure out the optimal strategy.
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This is a problem inherit to nearly all systems designed to produce proportional results. I honestly can’t think of a worthwhile system that doesn’t have this problem. Anyway, the goal is not to make the parties take turns. It’s to make it possible for minor parties to win seats in the legislature. In the end, no single party would ever have a controlling majority, and they would be forced to form coalitions to pass legislation.
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- Comment on Cheeto devouring his nation 3 weeks ago:
Hey! You come back here with that irrelevant commentary!
- Comment on Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts 3 weeks ago:
Yeah but the entire philosophy of Framework would be one phone construction standard and then you swap out the radio chip. Granted, there’s never been a hard phone standard, and the parts have never been designed for swapping. They would be the ones designing and commissioning these standards. Anyway, so I’m gonna be waiting very patiently.
- Comment on Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts 3 weeks ago:
I hope my phone lasts until we get a framework phone.
- Comment on Cheeto devouring his nation 3 weeks ago:
You’re going to have to get more specific if you want a response beyond “yeah man, it is 250 years old.”
- Comment on Cheeto devouring his nation 3 weeks ago:
He certainly wasn’t horrified about doing it in the original myth, as far as I remember.
- Comment on Cheeto devouring his nation 3 weeks ago:
Gonna need fundamental change to make the president less powerful and make it so that no one party ever holds a majority in Congress ever again. The first would follow the second, so we should be pushing for something like Sequential Proportional Approval Voting for every legislature we got.
- Comment on Always there 3 weeks ago:
Brother, you can’t say “Iran and Russia have a defense pact” and then laugh and pivot to China after I point out Russia is not going to be able to make good on that pact. You haven’t earned the right to be arrogant if you never mentioned China in your first comment. I wasn’t talking about China. But now that your mention China…
China is not currently interested in a proxy war to defend a middle eastern ally of convenience. They’re gearing up to invade Taiwan. They will leave Iran to fend for itself, like how Russia let Syria collapse.
In all likelihood, Iran is gonna be forced to just take the L and do a bit of posturing.
- Comment on Always there 3 weeks ago:
Russia is incapable of coming to the aid of Iran at the moment.
- Comment on Dear Kevin 3 weeks ago:
Archaea, Bacteria, and Eukarya
- Comment on VPN Registrations Increase by 1,000%, less than Hour After PornHub Blocked France From Accessing its Website. 5 weeks ago:
Me. Porn is fine. Teach your children how to handle it. Teach them that it’s not realistic and some of it is straight-up dangerous. Put a filter on your internet if you’re too scared to talk to your kids about uncomfortable topics.
- Comment on (・∀・) 1 month ago:
I think they do it for the gut bacteria, but I’m not an elephant gut ologist.
- Comment on (・∀・) 1 month ago:
Elephants will eat each other’s shit. I’ve seen an elephant reach onto another’s anus and pull out some delicious shit to eat.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
The first check I got from my first job was for $0.00 because I hadn’t worked enough to pay off my uniform. I still have it framed. I was also being paid a sub-minimum training-period wage. America’s labor laws are fucked.
- Comment on For the little guys. 1 month ago:
It’s my understanding that ecologists generally agree we could eradicate human-biting mosquitos and it wouldn’t cause any real problems. Yes, other species eat them, but they’re not a critical species in any ecosystem, apparently.
You know how there’s those stories of scientists introducing a species into an ecosystem for one reason or another, and all sorts of unintended consequences happen? Ever notice how those stories are all from around the 1950s and earlier? It’s because we actually got pretty good at thinking through all of the possible significant impacts. We only introduce/eradicate species now when we know doing so is a good idea and have worked through the consequences. But I want to be clear that I agree with your sentiment. You shouldn’t intentionally change an ecosystem without serious planning and consideration for what will happen when you do.
- Comment on Every toddler becomes a hackerman when they find a tablet 1 month ago:
Modern UX is all slip-on shoes. Not even Velcro.
- Comment on Why is it so hard to buy the same toothbrush twice? 1 month ago:
Same reason software will make pointless UI changes. Keeping things fresh gives their users the “exciting” feeling of novelty without having to switch platforms.
- Comment on Oof 1 month ago:
They’re a very small minority.
- Comment on Microsoft rolls Windows Recall out to the public nearly a year after announcing it 2 months ago:
They will eventually change the default to “on.”
- Comment on Slate, a no-nonsense EV pickup for $20k 2 months ago:
I love this thing too hell and back. This is exactly what I want in a car/truck.
- Comment on Do it 2 months ago:
The California High Speed Rail Songin my ass.
- Comment on European police say KidFlix, "one of the largest pedophile platforms in the world," busted in joint operation. 3 months ago:
It’s not an overpass. A loose brick falls off a truck going in the opposite direction, bounces off the pavement once, then goes through the windshield.
- Comment on Ninja sword owners will be paid to surrender weapons before ban 3 months ago:
I hope they haven’t.
- Comment on Framework’s first desktop is a strange—but unique—mini ITX gaming PC 4 months ago:
Yeah that touchscreen tablet convertible machine is what has me psyched. I’m not the target for it, and already own a 16, but I could see that thing selling well. I honestly think they came out with the desktop because they just kinda felt they needed a desktop.
- Comment on nuked from orbit 4 months ago:
Here’s the thing, we scientists need our cheerleaders. We spend our time getting good at doing science, so it’s worth it to hire someone who is good at hyping and advocating for our work. Go listen to the recordings of James Webb trying to explain to JFK that we need to do a shit-ton of science before we can get to the moon. JFK just plain doesn’t understand the magnitude of what he’s asking for. He thinks we could do it in 6 months. This lady is our champion.
- Comment on my version is better 4 months ago:
To be clear “up above in my head” are the actual lyrics, but I only learned that fact a few weeks ago. I like my version better.
- Comment on my version is better 4 months ago:
Yeah my bad, that was a little ambiguous. Very funny to accidentally blow this person’s mind though.
- Comment on my version is better 4 months ago:
'Cause I’m in too deep
And I’m trying to keep
up above in my head
All the thoughts in my head
'stead of going under