Olgratin_Magmatoe

Workers need to earn those kinds of benefits by achieving record setting profits.

New teeth horror just dropped.

I feel seen

They can make it the new AF1, but they can't do so securely. There's a million nooks and cranies, moving parts, and it would be a waste of time to try to secure it all. And that's before you even get to the software, which is its own nightmare.

Not that I'd be complaining if this lead to Trump and some of his cronies discovering the meaning of "Don't Look Up", but the whole concept is just stupid.

Congrats, we have a glorified FPTP and spoiler effect yet again!

Not quite. As you've just observed, this kind of strategic voting is risky, and self destructive. Which means that many would recognize this, and not use this voting strategy. Its a game of chicken, and lots of people prefer not to play such a game and instead support the safe bet, which means supporting those you genuinely support.

And as !ammonium@lemmy.world pointed out, it isn't possible to have a perfect voting system.

Then there is the fact that there is more to this than just voting strategies. There are the other effects to keep in mind. For example approval is far simpler to explain than RCV, especially when you explain how the counting works.

Another example is that approval is purely an additive process for counting, RCV is not. That means auditing results is significantly easier and quicker under approval than RCV. That leads to higher voter confidence in results than RCV audits.

Now, other election systems could also have strategic voting, but its less likely with, for example, RCV, since you can rank candidates.

RCV still can experience the spoiler effect just as FPTP, because it is in effect FPTP taking place over some number of instant rounds.

Approval and STAR are better anyway. Not that they wouldn't find a piss poor excuse to ban those as well.

Seems a bit odd to not use a base 10 number of months.

And then when people complain because its an inherently worse service, they resort to "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" and "just start your own company even though you have no capital" type bullshit.

Good. I wish them luck. We need more space agencies out there.

Woosh

A better message:

"closed due to trump taxes"

His name should be on it, and call it what it is, a tax. Conservatives like to foam at the mouth at the sound of taxes after all. It's one of the few things they've been trained to do.

I wouldn't even feel safe if I had a close electrician friend strip the batteries for use as a house battery.