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An official act is defined as a purposefully undefinable and thus uncheckable label the temporarily-illegitimate supreme court can apply to any action without reason or precedent so that donald trump can do whatever he wants.

Yeah I mean it’s a better system. People are going to start noticing when they start thinking about that.

It’s a temporary situation. This is early adopter alpha stage shit.

If I had not seen this video, or seen this specific and pretty obscure information presented elsewhere, I would be all in on third parties (though even then I’d understand that this election specifically is not the time), and there would be absolutely no reason for me not to be.

If someone’s emotionally closed down to the fact that first past the post makes third parties impossible, then something needs to open them back up before they can learn it. But plenty of people just have never heard it, and there’s no reason any normal person would have.

And if you don’t know it, the reasonable assumption in its absence is that people don’t vote third party because they’re limp-dicks incapable of imagination and commitment.

All we need do is insert the critical piece of information. Those who haven’t pre-decided beyond all reconsideration will see that it’s a very different situation with that bit of info factored in.

Some games were terrible and you made them better in your memory on accident.

Some are still exactly as good as you hoped.

Most had a cool vibe that made you like it but were guilty of multiple atrocities of game design.

Open source iPod needs to happen. Put 8 damn terabytes on it!

Eating poisoned shit isn’t broadening your horizons.

They want me to wear that shit, their asses can pay me a monthly subscription.

And then still no lol.

If AI is for anything it’s for DnD campaign art.

Make your NPCs and towns and monsters!

It’s still twitter now and always will be so it doesn’t matter.

Project 2025 energy.

A “conspiracy” in the way you used the word here would usually imply that it isn’t true, so a different word would be better.

As long as you’re not in one of the famously shitty places like lemmygrad, it’s pretty politically normal. So, extreme extreme extreme left by American standards. Like “we shouldn’t actively fuck our citizenry in the ass and maybe even help them” levels of left 😱

But do keep away from lemmygrad and whatever the other shitty ones are.

All the others will get bought out and enshittified. The future is not there.

The Fediverse has the potential to be the future. It’s gated behind open sourceheads not being all…open-sourcey about. Making it clunky to use and badly designed and then pulling the establishment economist “you poor schlub you’re just too dumb to get it” card, thereby shooting their own efforts in the foot.

If they can make it open source AND easy to use/intuitive/well designed, then we have a solid future. If not, the future still won’t be those other places.

No it isn’t.

Also, it obviously isn’t.

I’ve been impressed with the number of people who understand this pretty esoteric and fundamentally game-changing bit of technical voting system knowledge:

Https://youtu.be/s7tWHJfhiyo

About first past the post and third parties for those who aren’t going to watch. But do watch! Required viewing for everybody!

The one difference that’s significant is the fediverse can’t die the way reddit died.

Maybe it can die a different way, but it won’t be that way.

Incompetence at being selfish.

They think they’re being selfish, but they fucking suck at it. They think selfish means “I don’t want to pay taxes but fuck you you still have to pay I win you lose”.

If they were even slightly competent at being selfish, they’d realize in about three seconds that doing things that way makes your town (and more) stressed out and shitty, and you still have to live there, and you can only build walls so high.

And even if we got rid of physics so you could build impossibly tall walls, now you’ve definitely lost because you had to build them in the first place, instead of being even remotely sensible and building a world where your neighbor would be happy to see you, or thrive peacefully and leave you be.

The “economics” of it are mostly about couching this damning and embarrassing realization in big words so that everybody stops paying attention because they yawned and lost interest.

Let our boy CGP Grey handle that for you:

Https://youtu.be/s7tWHJfhiyo

Tipping point is the wrong word, because after a certain point it’s tipping and you can’t stop it. There are a few ways that applies, but it very much does not describe the whole situation.

Climate change is a dial on a stove and we’re still cranking it.