Paul Atkinson

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2024-07-09 12:57:41

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It needs to be accompanied by finger guns to be properly appreciated.

2024-07-09 02:03:07

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They count on that, in a sense.
Serious question: do you know why/how FPTP voting inevitably leads to a duopoly? This is game theory.
When you know that, you know why abstaining / 3rd party voting is not, has never been, and can not be an effective way to cause change.

2024-07-09 01:59:54

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Damn. That’s downright impressive.
I was just about to get one for extreme environments. Which one just broke?

2024-07-08 23:10:08

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More voting-age people failed to vote at all than voted for any individual candidate in any election in history in the USA.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_turnout_in_United_States_presidential_elections
If abstaining helped, it'd have helped by now.

2024-07-08 23:06:14

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Even if -- and I think it's ludicrous -- your "as evil as" statement were flatly true, please explain how abstaining from voting advances any cause whatsoever.
10 states have banned RCV. They're all red states.
RCV is...the least best improvement, and getting that or something better is not accomplished by "waiting." It takes action. If your only civic engagement is on a ballot every 2-4 years, you're not going to make change that way.

2024-07-08 18:05:55

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We need to end first-past-the-post voting so more parties and viewpoints can be represented.
Until then, one of the parties does remain — by a considerable margin — the lesser evil.
Those things aren’t in the same place. You fix the first one with changes to state law, not with a presidential ballot vote.

2024-07-06 02:46:17

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That’s rough.

2024-07-06 01:43:08

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To whom are you donating?

2024-07-06 01:33:33

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voting blue works sometimes. Voting 3rd party works never. Not voting works never.
Which do you recommend.

2024-07-05 18:43:26

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I’m GenX.
CNN does not know that.
https://sphere.fx4.net/system/media_attachments/files/112/735/354/287/695/975/original/6e9888f4aa95a990.png

2024-07-05 14:57:36

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“Hey Hank!”
“…yeah?”
“This has to be a code violation, right? Look at it.”
“Oh holy…that’s insane, sure enough.”
“Yeah, but…what code does it violate? I can’t reject it without a citation and…I can’t find one.”
“What? Let me look that up.
…
Huh. Guess we didn’t see this coming.”
“I’m approving it while you write up a code change proposal.”

2024-07-05 05:22:44

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https://sphere.fx4.net/system/media_attachments/files/112/732/206/476/332/524/original/4f59c2682ec31b26.jpg

2024-07-05 04:56:49

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2024-07-04 17:54:01

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It’s a holiday.
But there will be gardening, and food and friends.
https://sphere.fx4.net/system/media_attachments/files/112/729/497/238/765/809/original/d9924cd2fb6ce4a7.jpg

2024-07-02 15:56:58

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Way ahead of you.
I glamp with an Ecoflow battery + solar setup already. Works right now, no waiting, fits in the car, and lets me power the HVAC in my tent.

2024-07-02 15:32:26

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<blush> Awww, thanks! You noticed!

2024-06-29 03:30:42

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What’s killing me is friends who are in those groups and saying they’re going to abstain on principle.
I have no concept how to respond.

2024-06-24 23:33:39

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This is Pippin.
So it’s kinda taken. Nova is pretty good.
https://sphere.fx4.net/system/media_attachments/files/112/674/202/795/717/462/original/97e9727e00fa6940.jpg