Real talk, if you don’t think that ranked choice voting would help the matter what do you think might? I suspect the answer is no, but do you think there is any voting system that would escape this plight? Is democracy not a viable option and if so what would be a better system?

Great stuff! I agree that the no kings rallies are not doing enough. I don’t quite see how any of this is contradictory to coopting the less bad political party though.

So much forward momentum! Just a few more decades I’m sure!

Jokes aside I’d love to see a left wing revolution in my country but it just doesn’t seem like it is going to happen any time soon.

Frankly, I think the best way to make it happen is through electoral politics. Getting people to vote also gets them organized and influences them in favor of revolution. Also having governmental power can produce materially better conditions; less repressive police state, more favorable judges, making the economy better so people can organize instead of work a second job, etc.

The point is that just “organizing for revolution” is just being smug and not doing anything. I’m standing by what I said.

Lovely! I would adore it if we could get ranked choice voting in. Unfortunately, right now we don’t have it. Getting it would require electoral power. Which brings us back to my first comment. It is an unfortunate situation

And what is your solution for one bad party and one worse party in a first past the post system? Just leave the bad party as it is? A third party splitting the vote and handing a win to the worse party? Being smug and not doing anything? Being smug and saying “the revolution will fix everything” and also doing nothing? It seems like you are being smug and trying to convince other people to do nothing too.

As others have said, copious amounts of super glue or epoxy. Pro tip for the super glue is to sprinkle baking soda on it to speed up the cure time.

I watched Tom Stanton’s vid and it was pretty cool. He almost made it look easy. Crazy that he built a gravity powered device that basically shoots like a gun

You are dead wrong. Upvoted for a truly controversial opinion though

Bro didn’t even know civ7 existed and in the same breath confidently called it bad. This is how stupid someone has to be to hate on Luigi.

I knew that civ7 existed because on December 4th 2024 around 6:45am Luigi was at my house and was showing me how excited he was about some of the features he was adding to it. Really great guy.

“I’ve been down voted, therefore democracy is the same thing as slavery” can’t possibly be what you mean but it is genuinely the only take away I’ve got from this comment.

No true scottsma📣

That is a really good article!

Pretty much no keyboard will collect data on you, they are too often made to cost to afford the extra brain power to do that fortunately.

Keyboards are nice in that a good one will get better with age and use as long as it is kept clean (or you are up to the task of cleaning a dirty one). This means you will benefit from getting a used one. What used ones are easy to get depends on where you live a little bit, but if you are ok with something loud I’d suggest a Unicomp (reliable, durable, high quality mechanical parts, made in USA). If you want something quieter I actually really like Mitsumi KFK keyboards, not always using USB but if you are using a desktop it will have a PS/2 plug for the KFK keyboard, they are quiet cheap but shockingly good, not mechanical but Mitsumi just did everything right when making them. You can also just snag whatever looks fun when you search “used mechanical keyboard” in ebay or craigslist, no need to overthink it, keyboard designs that aren’t good died off during the cost cutting of the 90s and 00s.

Here is proof that I know what I’m talking about and also proof that you can ask me more questions without bothering me because I like to talk about keyboards: https://youtube.com/@mandarbmax

Good to know it is not!

Image looks AI?

Edit: it probably is not :)

Why don’t you go somewhere where people want you around? This feels like a waste of your time. Don’t you have anything better to do?

Y axis starts at 40 👎

In fourteen and this is deep

Idk dude, saying that men are larger and stronger than women and that women should leave partners that hit them isn’t exactly promoting alt right ideology. Maybe this is worse in the original Greek and translates in a way that makes it seem better but it just seems like a regular crummy text book, not an especially far right one.

😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

Gonna miss you, Pug.