ST. LOUIS — Five states have banned ranked choice voting in the last two months, bringing the total number of Republican-leaning states now prohibiting the voting method to 10....
That is literally the problem. People resistant to change (willfully or not) don’t want RCV.
No /s required.
Where I live we have RCV for some local government stuff but central government voting is MMP, which works quite well (except in the opinion of our conservatives). TL;DR: you vote for a candidate and also for a party. The party vote essentially sets how many seats each party gets in parliament, the candidate vote is for who represents your electorate.
Once use of drugs is no longer a legal problem and solely a heath problem then it’s safer for everyone.
One cannot just sell booze or tabacco out the boot of ones car either, neither should any other drug dealer. There’s already precedent for how to manage legal drugs.
I’m helping a family member build a pc. He wanted to use Windows because “Linux can’t play games” despite me having a perfectly good gaming laptop running Linux that runs all my games, even graphically intensive ones....
He'll be living with this for the rest of his life (lemmy.world)
Rabbi coming thru with the language of fellow nerds to put things into context... (lemmy.world)
Top news app caught sharing “entirely false” AI-generated news (arstechnica.com)
Most credible PLA marksman training (sh.itjust.works)
Missouri joins other red states in trying to stamp out ranked choice voting (www.npr.org)
ST. LOUIS — Five states have banned ranked choice voting in the last two months, bringing the total number of Republican-leaning states now prohibiting the voting method to 10....
Trump’s Vows to Prosecute Rivals Put Rule of Law on the Ballot (www.nytimes.com)
CEO Relieved AI Can Never Replace Him If He Already Contributes Nothing To Company (www.theonion.com)
Software for new supermarket bodycams linked to police number plate technology (www.rnz.co.nz)
Two multinational companies with close ties to the New Zealand police have teamed up on anti-crime surveillance inside stores....
Employment dispute costing TVNZ nearly $6000 a day a ‘total cluster’, says union (www.stuff.co.nz)
This is a bit of a personal rant, so please read it with that bias in mind....
What is/was your distrohopping journey?
For me it was:...
One of the world's richest women will support Trump if he promises to back Israel annexation of the West Bank (nymag.com)
Alcohol causing 20 times the harm of meth, police float tighter regulation (www.newshub.co.nz)
TL;DR:...
3 June 2024 (sh.itjust.works)
Maldives will ban Israelis from entering the country over the war in Gaza (apnews.com)
so computer papers don't fall out i think (lemmy.world)
no cheating
All possible permutations (i.imgur.com)
Google AI making up recalls that didn’t happen (lemmy.world)
[Rant] I swear to fucking god. Windows is harder to use than Linux. Have any of you ever USED Windows lately? Holy fuck.
I’m helping a family member build a pc. He wanted to use Windows because “Linux can’t play games” despite me having a perfectly good gaming laptop running Linux that runs all my games, even graphically intensive ones....