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very bad

Yea I think they’re gonna freak out upon seeing this ballot.

I think you missed the first sentence I wrote:

The ballot is the same for all ranked voting methods.

Maybe explaining what you think that means would clear up confusion?

I can see a bit of strategic voting happening.

Yes, approval voting is indeed susceptible to strategies including burial, which leads to a “chicken dilemma”.

The ballot is the same for all ranked voting methods. The method of determining winner from those ballots varies, and some are clearly worse.

For instance, if a candidate would beat all others 1-on-1 (Condorcet winner), then should a decent method always select that candidate as winner? RCV doesn’t do that.

Other methods also fail.

This nice table compares voting methods by a wide range of properties. I don’t think it hurts to make a more informed decision before backing a method that will be difficult to change. The US got stuck with FPTP through inadequate research, and it’d be great not to repeat that mistake.

While rated voting methods fail the Condorcet winner criterion, by rating instead of ranking candidates they satisfy another set of criteria also worth considering.

Among ranked voting methods, ranked pairs seems most compelling to me. Among rated voting methods, approval seems pretty good (and extremely simple).

I don’t continue reading

Seems like willful illiteracy & incomplete evidence fallacy. There was literally all the resources on the internet & a quick search to check hastily drawn conclusions before posting them.

Fallacy accusations.

No one needs to waste their time with someone else’s invalid reasoning.

Some of them being also kind of subjective.

Logicians & philosophers would disagree. Fallacies clarify identifying common reasoning errors & save effort overexplaining clearly documented problems.

Was this a valid example or was it a strawman?

Strawman means claiming to refute an argument by instead refuting a misrepresentation of it. Unclear how a question about examples would arise there unless the definition wasn’t understood.

Appeal to fallacies

I’ve seen this misused. An argument from fallacy is a claim that the conclusion of a fallacious argument is false because of the fallacy.

Claiming an argument is invalid (therefore not worth serious consideration until corrected) due to fallacy is not an instance.

In fact Holocaust denial is illegal in quite a lot of countries for quite a while now

That seems like an ad populum fallacy.

Too many here mistake progressivism for removing fundamental rights to express (illiberal) ideas they oppose. Safeguarding fundamental rights unconditionally to deter legal challenges & protect free society is paramount to progressivism. Testing integrity by trying to provoke society to weaken its legal protections enough to punish offensive exercise of fundamental rights is a classic challenge illiberals pose to lure society to attack free society. Progressives before would recognize the challenge & not fall for it. It seems too many “progressives” today are failing these challenges (maybe some weak rationalizations or stupidity).

Imposition of government penalty/force over peaceful (even if detestable/false) expression is difficult to justify. What does it achieve & why is this type of government penalty/force necessary to achieve it? Pretty much everyone knows their falsehoods are false. Legal compulsion can’t convince people of the truth, and it doesn’t deter people from disagreeing or speaking & organizing privately. It does deter people openly revealing their problematic ideas so we can openly challenge & deradicalize them. Taking them underground makes them harder to track.

peace and safety

What peace and safety is gained with the law exactly?

every freedom requires boundaries to ensure other freedoms

Direct harm (eg, incitement, defamation) is a firmer, narrow boundary worked out generations ago. A looser boundary requiring more judgement makes legal protections more vulnerable to poor judgement. Weakening legal integrity of fundamental rights threatens free society.

When I look at the bigger picture, this looks like a loss of integrity in fundamental principles protecting free society for a cheap “win” (ironically, a loss). I’m less clear what good was gained here, but I’m absolutely clear what good was lost.

OP felt a compulsion to protect our virgin eyes & ears.

registry and gpedit

They’re still around and the various configuration technologies tap into them.

Most of us are pissed that all of those methods half work or are depreciating away for no reason other than some UIx twat couldn’t be bothered to hook something properly so they just reskin an element and misplaced half the functions.

Pretty much the case here, too. It mostly works, and the parts that don’t are super annoying & require ad hoc script-fu.

it blows my mind why this has not been resolved

Yep, configuring Microsoft has sucked incredibly hard compared to free OSs. Managing plain text configuration files in /etc & ~/.config is refreshingly nice compared to the bolt-on weirdness hidden behind various interfaces in Windows. It’s cute getting an error to contact your administrator when you’re the administrator.

Attention in that area is extremely late & overdue, so I was happy to see something like configuration.dsc.yaml.

I see AI mostly as an assistant whose work I review. I might give it a fully written text, tell it to clean up my clunky language, then review it. Or I might ask it to provide some answers with references & review those references.

AI won’t fix broken foundations.

I’m sure we can ride out 11 on 10 … right?

I try to avoid Windows altogether if I can & confine it to less serious work.

What if we had all these configuration knobs & switches controlled by a plaintext configuration file, and to replicate the configuration, we could just share the file? Maybe we could call it declarative configuration management?

Wouldn’t that be cool? We already have it (partially)?

Maybe an AI could guide us in preparing that file?

Centralized social media is an advertisement platform that targets advertisements according to information & conduct users feed the platform, and some of those users are teenagers?

They’re advertising cosmetics to teenagers unlike ever before in the history of teen-centric media?

Humans should not be on social media.

Fixed.

Welcome to the internet? Learn skepticism?

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they get upvote because “look at this idiot!”

seems like a great reason: upvoted

I just had a thought: are the Signal people MAGA?

I just had a thought: are the shoelace people MAGA?

former director of the American Institute of Physics

arXiv, which physicists setup nearly as far back as the web, would have a word with this guy. The web was invented at CERN practically so physicists could share research documents.

He also said bluesky’s shift toward a traditional corporate structure and the introduction of centralized moderation tools were major factors behind his leaving the company, and he vouched for alternatives like nostr.

It seems a bit more challenging to pull shit like this on nostr.

Guilty as charged. What is my sentence for this crime?

don’t call women “females”

It’s fine. Call men “males”, too.