Liz
@Liz@midwest.social
- Comment on School legend 1 week ago:
Maybe you could categorize it under poor impulse control and poor understanding of social norms. But like, one incident doesn’t make a diagnosis.
- Comment on Cheeto devouring his nation 2 weeks ago:
Strategic voting can be an optional strategy under ordinary approval voting. If I don’t like either of the top two candidates, it’s still in my best interest to vote for the runner-up, if I hate them less than I hate the front-runner.
And look man, I’m honestly not interested in picking over the details. Any proportional system is better than single-winner. By miles.
- Comment on Cheeto devouring his nation 2 weeks ago:
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While this complaint is technically true for SPAV, the likelihood that a popular candidate would fail to win a seat because everyone thought they were too popular is just… Not gonna happen. We already know from real-world AV elections that voters largely prefer to vote honestly, there’s no reason to think they would get more strategic when it gets harder to figure out the optimal strategy.
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This is a problem inherit to nearly all systems designed to produce proportional results. I honestly can’t think of a worthwhile system that doesn’t have this problem. Anyway, the goal is not to make the parties take turns. It’s to make it possible for minor parties to win seats in the legislature. In the end, no single party would ever have a controlling majority, and they would be forced to form coalitions to pass legislation.
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- Comment on Cheeto devouring his nation 2 weeks ago:
Hey! You come back here with that irrelevant commentary!
- Comment on Cheeto devouring his nation 2 weeks ago:
You’re going to have to get more specific if you want a response beyond “yeah man, it is 250 years old.”
- Comment on Cheeto devouring his nation 2 weeks ago:
He certainly wasn’t horrified about doing it in the original myth, as far as I remember.
- Comment on Cheeto devouring his nation 2 weeks ago:
Gonna need fundamental change to make the president less powerful and make it so that no one party ever holds a majority in Congress ever again. The first would follow the second, so we should be pushing for something like Sequential Proportional Approval Voting for every legislature we got.
- Comment on Always there 2 weeks ago:
Brother, you can’t say “Iran and Russia have a defense pact” and then laugh and pivot to China after I point out Russia is not going to be able to make good on that pact. You haven’t earned the right to be arrogant if you never mentioned China in your first comment. I wasn’t talking about China. But now that your mention China…
China is not currently interested in a proxy war to defend a middle eastern ally of convenience. They’re gearing up to invade Taiwan. They will leave Iran to fend for itself, like how Russia let Syria collapse.
In all likelihood, Iran is gonna be forced to just take the L and do a bit of posturing.
- Comment on Always there 3 weeks ago:
Russia is incapable of coming to the aid of Iran at the moment.
- Comment on Dear Kevin 3 weeks ago:
Archaea, Bacteria, and Eukarya
- Comment on Anon misses the classic design 1 month ago:
Are mortars rocket propelled? I thought they were just short indirect cannons.
- Comment on (・∀・) 1 month ago:
I think they do it for the gut bacteria, but I’m not an elephant gut ologist.
- Comment on (・∀・) 1 month ago:
Elephants will eat each other’s shit. I’ve seen an elephant reach onto another’s anus and pull out some delicious shit to eat.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
The first check I got from my first job was for $0.00 because I hadn’t worked enough to pay off my uniform. I still have it framed. I was also being paid a sub-minimum training-period wage. America’s labor laws are fucked.
- Comment on For the little guys. 1 month ago:
It’s my understanding that ecologists generally agree we could eradicate human-biting mosquitos and it wouldn’t cause any real problems. Yes, other species eat them, but they’re not a critical species in any ecosystem, apparently.
You know how there’s those stories of scientists introducing a species into an ecosystem for one reason or another, and all sorts of unintended consequences happen? Ever notice how those stories are all from around the 1950s and earlier? It’s because we actually got pretty good at thinking through all of the possible significant impacts. We only introduce/eradicate species now when we know doing so is a good idea and have worked through the consequences. But I want to be clear that I agree with your sentiment. You shouldn’t intentionally change an ecosystem without serious planning and consideration for what will happen when you do.
- Comment on Every toddler becomes a hackerman when they find a tablet 1 month ago:
Modern UX is all slip-on shoes. Not even Velcro.
- Comment on Why is it so hard to buy the same toothbrush twice? 1 month ago:
Same reason software will make pointless UI changes. Keeping things fresh gives their users the “exciting” feeling of novelty without having to switch platforms.
- Comment on My password is not accepted because it is too long 1 month ago:
I once encountered a system that truncated your submitted password if you logged in through their app, but not through their website. So you would set your password through the website, verify that the login was working (through the website) and then have that same login fail through the app.
- Comment on Oof 1 month ago:
They’re a very small minority.
- Comment on Anon indulges 1 month ago:
Yeah, “home-processed” levels of processing ain’t so bad. It’s just interesting that the effects of food processing are measurable even between seemingly small changes. Pretty much, if you take any food and throw it in a blender, you’ll eat more of it.
- Comment on Anon indulges 1 month ago:
Whole fruit is healthy. The more processed you go, the less healthy it is. Interestingly, the more processed you go, the more calories you consume, too. You will eat more apple sauce than you will apples.
- Comment on I'm a 6'1" man with size 3 feet which means every they measure my feet at a shoe store, the Brannock device gatekeeps my gender 2 months ago:
Depends on if you get into barefoot style shoes or not.
- Comment on Do it 2 months ago:
The California High Speed Rail Songin my ass.
- Comment on Ninja sword owners will be paid to surrender weapons before ban 3 months ago:
I hope they haven’t.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Whoops. Point still stands.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
I wish I had enough money to buy 25 acres without a clear idea of what to do with it.
- Comment on Anti-acknowlegements 3 months ago:
It’s from this year.
- Comment on Sounds like a place I'd love to work for 3 months ago:
Taiwan?
- Comment on nuked from orbit 4 months ago:
Here’s the thing, we scientists need our cheerleaders. We spend our time getting good at doing science, so it’s worth it to hire someone who is good at hyping and advocating for our work. Go listen to the recordings of James Webb trying to explain to JFK that we need to do a shit-ton of science before we can get to the moon. JFK just plain doesn’t understand the magnitude of what he’s asking for. He thinks we could do it in 6 months. This lady is our champion.
- Comment on Anon wants $3 million 4 months ago:
Go kick a window in your house right now. If you don’t live in a highrise, you can almost certainly kick it out.