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DC Campaign to Submit Over 40K Signatures for Open Primaries, Ranked Choice Voting ( ivn.us )

Seeing as how some people here on Lemmy get upset at any mention of Ranked Choice Voting and respond that, in their opinion, it's not perfect, and that we should therefore keep the voting system we have while we debate which alternative is perfect for several decades, allow me to preemptively respond....

poweruser ,

Good news! RCV already solves that problem

If Bernie didn't get enough votes to win, the votes for him go to the voters' second choice candidate (Biden – few voters would want Bernie-Trump). If those combined votes are enough for him to win, then Biden wins in that state. In RCV, Trump would only win if people actually preferred him over Biden

poweruser ,

[Borat voice: wife!] right now

poweruser ,

Human Centipede is a tour-de-force

poweruser ,

I knew a guy who knew a guy who had a friend who was in Iraq around the same time and he said his friend spotted a camel spider running toward them on its hind legs. He unloaded on it with a SAW and blew off a few limbs but it still didn't die!

-a totally true story, I'm sure

poweruser ,

Still perhaps my favorite album. I wasn't quite cool enough in 2001 to listen to it though. I learned about Green Day mainly from American Idiot, then went back to find their older stuff.

If it weren't for them "selling out" then I wouldn't have heard of them, living in my nowhere town. Maybe I wouldn't have heard their subversive ideas. I might have just listened to country.

Maybe Green Day had a part in making me who I am

poweruser ,

Also, Mussolini didn't make the trains run on time. He forbade the press from reporting the trains running late

poweruser ,

We're barreling headlong toward global famine but, sure, it's the environmentalists that want to make you eat bugs.

I suppose they are, in the sense that they want everyone to be able to eat...

poweruser ,

It would indeed be a silly not

poweruser ,

They briefly mentioned government cheese on the post. The story of "government cheese" is actually quite interesting itself. There's an Omnibus podcast episode about it https://www.omnibusproject.com/200

poweruser ,

Can someone who knows how to make memes make this:

Take the Kanye West/Taylor Swift VMA speech where he takes her microphone and paste Taylor Swift's face over Kanye's, then paste Travis Kelce's face over 2009 Swift. Then swap her award for a Lombardi trophy.

Have a caption of her saying "Yo Travis, I'm really happy for you, I'mma let you finish, but Joe Biden is the real winner of the Super Bowl"

poweruser ,

That's exactly the message I got. Probably they are blocking any prompt with Taylor Swift in it

poweruser ,

Also
"Does the ToS have a binding arbitration agreement"

poweruser ,

I was going to disagree with you by using AI to generate my response, but the generated response was easily recognizable as non-human. You may be onto something lol

poweruser ,

If they name it Red Power maybe Eloraam would come back

Supermarket responds after Reddit user’s warning about self-checkout overcharge — ‘Was annoyed that the total amount due on my supermarket purchase did not equate to the individual items I purchased.’ ( 7news.com.au )

Supermarket responds after Reddit user’s warning about self-checkout overcharge — ‘Was annoyed that the total amount due on my supermarket purchase did not equate to the individual items I purchased.’::‘Was annoyed that the amount due on my Woolies purchase did not equate to the individual items I purchased.’

poweruser ,

I imagine there's code to do something like currency conversion or maybe rewards points calculation so the displayed amount is not actually the number used for the final total

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