do you think that a half dozen lemmy users are capable of changing the voting system?

there have been some initiatives passed in some states, but thats only half the election. And the people in power benefit from a first past the post voting system, so transitioning out is slow work. It is possible, and it is happening, but there’s not a magic button that says “swap to superior voting method” that a single socialist can press

they exist, but the electoral system is designed to keep them from gaining power. And since (most) states use first past the post, secondary preferences aren’t taken into account, so if you vote third party when you would have voted for Harris otherwise you increase Trumps chance of winning. There’s some argument to be made that voting third party or not voting might influence democrats in the future to change their policy to appeal to those voters but I don’t know how realistic that is.

Wizards First Rule is Goodkind not Brooks, Brooks wrote Shanarra

I’ll throw in my most recent guilty pleasure is Space Battleship Yamato. I didn’t grow up with the original so I’m currently re-watching the 2012 remake. But for fun at the start I watched episode one of the original Yamato, Star Blazers (70s American localization) and the remake in the same day just to compare, which was a cooler experience than I expected it to be.

Great show if you think One Punch Man would be better if Saitama was a spaceship

Warframe is great but you can’t do 95% of the story missions multiplayer

THAT’S how I’m supposed to get ten years of experience in a five year old technology

i spend my days in a big black unmarked van

got an email during university that I had been given access to an array of digital resources for free, all I had to do was link my university email credentials. Only after I had already done that did I realize how sketchy it was, but then it did actually turn out to be legit. Wish i remembered/still had access I remember there being some good stuff on there

the oldest Billy Goat Gruff, who knocked the troll off the bridge saving both his siblings

gotta go with the velociraptor, Little knife chicken

those are different groups, the loan providers were in support of loan forgiveness. pause to make sure I know what I’m talking about. Unless your fed loans are serviced by MOHELA, in which case the state of Missouri sued on their behalf

yeah, OsmAnd is open source, so someone else built it to be released on fdroid, and the original developers have said that they don’t have a problem with that I think as long as they don’t release it on Play/try to sell it

OsmAnd~ is free on fdroid