I wish some entrepreneur had instead created an amazing fucking Mastodon instance and put all that marketing and engineering dollar into the platform. But you can’t own Mastodon so you can’t ever sell Mastodon so those types of folks will never invest in Mastodon. We could just say “fuck ‘em” but they have done a serious job of monopolizing the time of all the talented people who know how to make something like this go.

Surely that could never happen again though! /s

We sense less and less as we get older. I’ve learned this from observing my kids and seeing them react to things like needles and spicy food with such greater sensitivity than me. I can remember being like them, too. But I just plow through experiences now with less sensation of them. Part of it is that my senses are physically more dull, but also important: my cognitive filters are much more established and sensations that are outside of them get little notice. Meanwhile my kids are like raw nerves at the mercy of every experience that comes their way. Bubble gum probably doesn’t blow your hair back anymore either but I bet it was awesome when you were a kid.

I guess it all depends on the physical layout but this seems like a very complicated way to get material downhill.

My dad is not Russian. It’s not a “hidden interest,” it’s a life experience that gives me compassion for this person.

Gee is there anything you are doing?

Calling me a Russian shill was an ad hominem, and an attack. The stupidity is getting quite thick here.

Zoom exists. You can’t argue.

LOL you’re absolutely correct. I cannot argue with someone who clearly has no real life experience of their own to provide an actual frame of reference, and will just pop off fast solutions to things like the deep human need for connection like “use zoom, duh.”

So I won’t try.

The title is a little clickbaity though that is frankly the state of YT as a whole these days. Given the rich information in the video and the high effort put into the explanations, let’s allow it.

so trying to be healthy is pointless

No one said anything about pointlessness.

Strictly speaking, the video does a quality job of showing how true democracy is a unfinished science and far less intuitive than most people suppose when they haven’t thought about it much. However it repeatedly makes the same point you do, that some systems are better than others.

I heard this comment in Guinan’s voice.

Your contention that Russian civilians should be punished for the acts of their government is ghoulish and evil, and your repeated attempts to clothe yourself in the righteousness of the Ukrainian cause is unconvincing and frankly an insult to Ukrainians, including children.

She did more against Russia by picking herself up and moving away from it than you will ever do with your “fuck Russia” comments online. Your derision for her is as impotent and pitiful as your hatred of her birth country. You’re never going to “fuck Russia” or anything else with this small dick energy.

I ain’t gonna be sad

Yeah man, I picked up on your total lack of compassion for this person whose life was just ruined by the Russia you so hate.

Shill for Russia much?

Wow, you are not only barking up the wrong tree, you dragged your entire bed up to the top of the wrong tree so you could shit it there.

No, fool, I don’t shill for Russia, ever, even a little. I have a nickel’s worth of compassion for someone who still has a life back in some corrupt old country, because that’s my father. He left that shitty country. It doesn’t mean he never visited again, because he has so much family there.

I’m just going to let your first massively downvoted comment stand. Your whole “dipshit got what she deserved” comment is stupid enough without me having to put on gloves to handle this one:

All Russians should suffer

Child, grow up.

Why only for the presidency? The principle seems the same at any level.

This interesting video details some of the problems with various vote counting systems, including ranked choice. Turns out that formulating the perfect democratic process is something people have been trying and failing at for centuries.

It doesn’t sound particularly good, either.

I found this video on the mathematics of democracy fascinating. It’s not some accident that third parties hurt the party they’re more aligned with: it’s inevitable under first-past-the-post. Really, the only reason to start a third party is to influence one of the other parties, and even then it’s a dangerous game because your spoiler effect may create backlash, drawing people away from the ideas you want to promote. The older I get, the more I see that you can’t win the game without playing it.

How dare she visit family or anything else that might take her there. Really every Russian should leave forever one-way at their earliest opportunity or they get what they deserve?

Excuse me, presumptuous one. I did read the article and I know she has dual citizenship.

I was not talking solely about visas, though that is obviously the limit of your imagination.

There are also family, professional opportunities, and cultural ties to consider.

In the article it actually says she moved to the US in 2015. It’s unclear why she was there to be charged. Visiting family perhaps? Oh well then I guess she deserves it for having the audacious stupidity to visit her parents in a shitty country where shitty things happen?