MinusPi

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

I had my phone in a dream for the first time yesterday! I only used it to call my partner, but it was definitely there.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It's an addiction, plain and simple. If the number isn't going up, they're not happy. They're willing to do anything, hurt anyone, to get their fix.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago (51 children)

Look up the spoiler effect to learn why they don't.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

Good, but Mastodon has been a great option for a long time...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

This reduces to "this statement is false"

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The rest of the US doesn't deserve California's economy

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

Everyone here is hilarious thinking they're immune to it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

In that case, they then care primarily about the success of the company. The quality of the product is secondary as long as it sells.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's worse than not voting. Because of the Spoiler Effect, voting 3rd party actually helps your least favorite major candidate.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (9 children)

Unfortunately, the US's winner-takes-all voting system makes it so that your (entirely reasonable and otherwise simply correct) mindset leads to what's called the Spoiler Effect, where a third party vote actually just ends up helping your least favorites. Because of this, the winner-takes-all system inevitably leads to two dominant parties, and being forced to vote for the shiniest of two turds. To fix this, we just need a different voting system. I'm partial to approval voting, but more likely that'd be ranked choice.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago

10th Doctor: "Doesn't he look tired?"

 

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