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A federal republic: yes or no?

Gotta go with OP on this one.

Options!

Have you suggested being hired to hire and train your replacement(s)? Repeat until you stick.

What are they doing while you're in a traffic-jam? I don't know the laws or habits there.

How are the bicycles doing?

Ranked ballots are good. People like them. Same is true of scored ballots.

A voting method is a balloting method plus a tabulation method. Instant runoff is a poor way to tabulate ranked ballots.

What "ranked choice" means is ranked ballots plus instant runoff. It's a misnomer.

Not really.

When your ranks might make a difference, they're less likely to be counted at all. I created a simplified case so it's easier to see. It matches your description.

Town of 100. Mayoral candidates A, B, C, D, E.

Votes in candidate order by ranking.
1st 22, 18, 21, 19, 20
2nd 0, 80, 10, 5, 3
3rd 0, 0, 15, 16, 29
4th 3, 0, 7, 10, 12

98% ranked B 2nd or 1st. Using "ranked choice", 80 of those votes are never considered. B is eliminated first.

Two of A's voters didn't rank anyone else at all. That leaves 98 second choice votes. Only 18 of them are used for anything at all.

"Guarantees a majority winner." Sure, once people's rankings are tossed out.

Everyone, please look up how Instant Runoff Voting works. "RCV" = rank + instant runoff.

Town of 100. Mayoral candidates A, B, C, D, E.

Votes in candidate order by ranking.
1st 22, 18, 21, 19, 20
2nd 0, 80, 10, 5, 3
3rd 0, 0, 15, 16, 29
4th 3, 0, 7, 10, 12

98% ranked B 2nd or 1st. Using "ranked choice", 80 of those votes are never considered. B is eliminated first.

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“The reading crisis can only be understood alongside the defunding of public education, the discourse of useful and practical throughout educational policy, the rise of tech driven distortions of literacy, and the creation of philanthropy and its corporate salons.”

I am BEGGING you.

Please, PLEASE, do not try to talk your way out of an arrest or detention. Do NOT talk to cops.

"I INVOKE MY RIGHTS TO SILENCE AND COUNSEL AND WILL NOT ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS WITHOUT MY ATTORNEY PRESENT."

Say that and SHUT UP.

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It's time to rethink how success, purpose, and consumption look like.

A society where taking care of others or building or teaching or spreading joy or *fill in blanks* is the prime goal.

/end.Tirade

Okay, this is the end cuz my insomnia is finally abating. I'll probs be embarrassed tmrw. lol

We have until March 6 to comment on whether there should be one million more satellites in orbit or thousands of mirrors that reflect light back at Earth Jesus Fucking H Christ on a Pogostick

Israel also functions as a money laundering scheme where the US can pump unconditional aid and that comes back as political contributions. Also like the largest super PACs in the US are specifically for American conglomerates. Like their spending trump's literally everyone else.

Trump Administration Will Collect Social Media Handles from Legal Immigrants and U.S. Citizens The new requirement poses serious threats to free speech and privacy rights.

With a Pirates in power, we wouldn't collect your social media info, but if we caught wind of immigrants using their 1st Amendment right, we would grant them citizenship immediately. It would be called the Emma Goldman and Thomas Paine Citizenship Program.
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Vermin Supreme

All right, the dogs want walks but it's raining so I'm procrastinating. Gonna do a thread that's been on my mind for a long while, about exactly what "never again" means.

"Never again" got famous after the Holocaust & it's frequently deployed since--in response to, say, the US Japanese internment.

neither my body nor my brain are up for another storm -- they both are refusing to listen to each other making for an impossible situation -- saying I'm scared is an understatement

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It just isn't hard:

[tap to select] > Share > Image Toolbox > OCR > [copypaste].

It's a podcast, after all. What may be a bigger effect than accessibility is being picked up by more feeds which, by default, search alt text.

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Denmark Is Buying US Missiles to Defend Greenland From the United States — Yes, Really Denmark is buying U.S. missiles to defend Greenland as Washington openly flirts with taking it. Irony meets Arctic security.

THE DUMBEST TIMELINE.

www.military.com/feature/2026...

Until recently, accessibility options for voting in general were slowly improving. Do you know if this has been explored for STAR Voting?

Okay, how about for your posts? 😁

No better time than the present.

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Ah! Product placement. Makes sense now.

I don't recall seeing you in trouble.