The states control voting so it will have to happen at the state level. RCV reduces the power of the 2 parties so it would only be politically viable in states where there is already popular independents or politicians that don’t want to be with their current party (DSA backed Democrats or libertarians running as Republicans for example). Even then, it kinda seems like the DSA politicians are more interested in shifting the Democrats platform than making the DSA into its own party.

Mississippi winning what?

FYI, ball bearings refers to the whole assembly pictured. The rolling elements are just called balls. This is the pedantic hill I die on.

Yeah he was so used to soda that water didn’t give him the same stimulation he expected. He was hoping to use fruit juice to ween himself off the stimulation to eventually switch to water.

Buffalo wings come from Buffalo NY. I think the standard should be if consumers believed something incorrect. I know several people that thought Country Croc was butter. Compare that to “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter” and nobody thinks that’s butter. Several “ice cream” bars in the freezer isle actually don’t contain ice cream. I bet the average person perusing the freezer isle wouldn’t know that since the packaging and marketing are all meant to convince you that it does contain ice cream. Many services will advertise a price and then include a bunch of fees people don’t expect. In general, I don’t like how marketing is so deceptive. It breeds a culture of lying and distrust where the worst behaviors are rewarded and honesty is punished.

Good. False advertisement is too narrowly defined and never enforced. I had a roommate that was trying to drink less soda for health reasons. He decided to switch to fruit juice so he could still get a sweet drink but it’s slightly more healthy. He didn’t notice until I pointed out that he had bought fruit juice cocktail, which is essentially Kool aid. I don’t blame him for the mistake because the packaging made it look like a bottle of real juice. Marketing frequently aims to trick people into believing false things about their products while technically not lying.

And why is a safety system’s fail state allowing unrestricted speeds? Shouldn’t the fail state be the restricted speed?

Not trans but I know a lot of transfems because I used to run a weekly video game tournament. There have been several trans people in that community over the years and many of them have made a lot of friends there.

I’m also in a friend group centered around riding bikes and there is decent trans representation there as well. It’s not as dense as in the tournament scene but they’re around.

I guess what I’m saying is, if you have a hobby, find a local meetup for that hobby. If the group is inclusive and respectful, you might meet some people. Also, if you play super smash bros, that’s like a cheat code.

The incentives in capitalism are what sets it up for the business owner and makes them the original out of touch weirdo believing contradictions and setting the incentives for the rest. I firmly believe that a person’s whole worldview is largely shaped by their incentives. Most people don’t do evil things that they think are evil. They mold their ethics, morality, philosophy, and even interpret their religion to make following their incentives virtuous.

Andrew Carnegie at 33:

I propose to take an income no greater than $50,000 per annum! Beyond this I need ever earn, make no effort to increase my fortune, but spend the surplus each year for benevolent purposes!..I will resign business at thirty-five, but during these ensuing two years I wish to spend the afternoons in receiving instruction and in reading systematically!

He later became one of the most ruthless robber barons of the gilded age. Bad behavior is done by individuals that should be held accountable. But accountability can’t outperform incentives. The incentives must change for a systemic change in behavior to occur. You could fire all C-suite and promote the best and after a while, you would be back to the same behavior.

I sometimes do this. If cars aren’t stopping to let me cross. Just confidently walk in front of them. Be ready to jump back if they call your bluff but I’ve never had to.

I used vapes to quit cigarettes and became more addicted to vaping than smoking. I could puff pretty much anywhere anytime. Nicotine pouches actually helped quit vaping though.

Businesses also make those people. Once they align your incentives toward making the company the most profit, you will gradually become an out-of-touch weirdo that fetishizes productivity and thinks empathy is weakness.

I think the meaning of roguelike has evolved beyond being a game like rogue. After all, a dungeon crawler that’s not procedurally generated and doesn’t have permadeath would be more like Rogue but it wouldn’t be considered a roguelike. I wish the genre of “procedural run-based game with permadeath” had a better name. It reminds me of how shooters in the 90s were called Doom-clones. Platform fighters went through the same phase with “smash clones” for a while. I think the resurgence of roguelikes happened so far after Rogue that players didn’t have the feeling of disrespect of their game from the term. Anybody who likes a platform fighter wouldn’t want their game reduced to a “smash clone”. Same goes for shooters and Doom. But Rogue was far enough out of the public consciousness that “roguelike” didn’t feel like a comparison.

What other term could we use? “Random run game”? I’ve heard “roguelite” to refer to procedural games with progression between runs rather than starting from 0 every time. I also think this distinction isn’t very meaningful since I can’t imagine many people looking for that style of gameplay loop would be super concerned about the progression system.

Ehh. I don’t see much value in the distinction. The meaning of roguelike has evolved.

Is the Isle of Mann part of England? I think the Isle of Mann TT is pretty cool and would like it to continue.

With quite a bit of work. That’s more than one setup and probably a decent amount of time getting the CAM programming right.

The bubble popping will take out a huge chunk of the economy with it. We might not be able to afford more drives even if they come down in price.

Wait was that an option?

The problem there is “presentism”. People have this tendency to see the present as somehow different or more real than past historical events. Slavery will be bundled with the Spanish inquisition in their mind as old things from before times. Before we had our modern thinking. They can mentally compartmentalize slavery. Maybe Jim Crowe would be a better example since there are still people alive today who remember it. Women in the US weren’t generally allowed to get a credit card or bank account in their own name until 1974.

Nah trans people’s existence challenges essentialist gender narratives, which indirectly challenges patriarchy.

Crypto is not a scam. Crypto is an unregulated transfer mechanism, which has many scammers. If you’re just buying crypto to fund your vpn, you’re not getting scammed unless the VPN itself is a scam.