Liz

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[–] Liz@midwest.social 1 points 1 month ago

Should have gone with multi-member proportional districts using something like Sequential Proportional Approval Voting so that gerrymandering would be near-impossible. Five members is generally considered the minimum needed to make gerrymandering pointless to even attempt.

[–] Liz@midwest.social 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He should definitely resign from the Senate. I'm not sure if he's legally allowed to back out of the VP nomination.

[–] Liz@midwest.social 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There is evidence that poor voters submit invalid RCV ballots at a higher rate than middle class and rich voters, something that isn't true under FPTP. It's impossible to submit an invalid ballot under Approval Voting, so that's another mark in its favor.

[–] Liz@midwest.social 1 points 2 months ago

It is incredibly annoying that the worst improvement is the most popular, isn't it. Do you have the option to put through a referendum in your city/county/state? City referendums are usually accessible enough that you and your friends can commit to getting it done with a little legal help from an established organization like Election Science.

[–] Liz@midwest.social 1 points 2 months ago
[–] Liz@midwest.social 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Russia already stays far away from Ukrainian controlled Ukraine with their planes, because Ukraine has the ability to shoot them down. We could improve that ability, but they're still not getting close to flying over land they don't control.

[–] Liz@midwest.social 1 points 2 months ago

They gave up pointless cruelty precisely because doing so cost them nothing.

[–] Liz@midwest.social 2 points 2 months ago

Looks like they go for around $3000. That's out of my price range.

[–] Liz@midwest.social 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's not how math works.

[–] Liz@midwest.social 2 points 2 months ago

Seeing as how 40% of the security issues that have been found over the years wouldn't exist in a memory-safe language, I would say a re-write is extremely worth it.

[–] Liz@midwest.social 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Recently I downloaded Chrome for some testing that I wanted to let separate from my Firefox browser. After a while I realized my computer was always getting hot every time I opened chrome. I took a look at the system monitor: chrome was using 30% of of my CPU power to play a single YouTube video in the background. What the fuck? I ended up switching the testing environment over the libreWolf and CPU load went down to only 10%.

[–] Liz@midwest.social 3 points 2 months ago

A practically guaranteed scenario, no doubt.

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