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yup they show price per sheet by law

ditto! i’d probably do it in my head for a lot of things still because metric is easy, but it saves me so much time and i’m sure i’m an outlier

generally people think men are evil by default, and women are good by default

i think this is a misunderstanding of the dynamic

we see this play out pretty regularly with the “not all men” arguments and the like: men getting annoyed by women being careful, and taking “you could hurt me” behaviour as some kind of insult. the statement is true: not all men are evil to women, but any man could be evil to women and thus need to be treated as though it’s possible in order to protect themselves

yknow what’s great? unit pricing laws

tldr: in australia businesses must display “unit price” on labels: price per 100g, per 100ml, per sheet, etc for every product so that packages are comparable

and starting with this model leaves room for a “steam machine pro” for people that want more, just like playstation has done

… and also perhaps a “steam machine lite” for people that just want a little bit of retro/2d gaming on their tv

that’s a load of shit… you have exactly 2 options to vote for in an FPTP system, and that’s just game theory and maths… you can be RIGHTLY pissy at the system, but it’s the system you have to work within until it changes

complaining that people don’t vote third party in the US is like complaining that gravity stops you from flying around the world by just jumping: you’re right, it’d be great! but that’s just not how reality works

and blaming people who are largely pulling in the same direction as you (ie away from the far right) is counterproductive to shifting left (and let’s be clear here: we’re not talking about actual left in the US: that’s a long way off; but not far right is still further left than the racist shit sandwich you have right now), and is so straight out of the election rigging playbook that your motives are completely in question, or you’re just wilfully ignorant of how your electoral system works (but ignorance here is still hugely dangerous: this is how you get the world more trump)

i mean… fucked up version of do unto others?

(they misinterpret every other part of religion after all)

also the emdash thing kinda proves that the majority of training data comes properly published works rather than user comments, and that the training methods merge “knowledge” from user stuff like reddit together with books and papers etc

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if every user of the fediverse were to change to this style, it would still be a drop in the ocean

and if you somehow did manage to poison the data then what… the AI company isn’t going to catch it? no they do a find and replace… they don’t even need to do it in the training data (though they would)… they could just filter the output

because the US electoral system is fundamentally broken and if you vote for who you want to vote for you’re likely to get the exact opposite because that’s the spoiler effect for ya!

that’s largely correct, but there are multiple parts to the ballot system: FPTP, RCV, etc are means of counting ballots, but another part is proportional vs representative

you can have representative with RCV (that’s what australia is)

playing by the rules as usual :( it should have been a punishment - not just an equaliser… there’s no reason for them not to try again next time

in melbourne CBD is guess there’s at least 1 per corner

your interpretation of FPTP is mostly correct however it’s a plurality that wins, even if it’s not 50%: if there are 3 candidates, you’d only the highest vote total out of all the candidates to win (which could be as low as 34%)

what you’re talking about though is representative vs proportional systems… in representative systems a group of people directly elects their representative (like in geographic districts, but it doesn’t necessarily have to be geographic: this can be seen in some cases where minorities are codified and those groups elect a minority representative), where in proportional systems your vote goes towards the government as a whole

i think this is far less of a black and white good vs bad than fptp vs stv/rcv/irv:

fptp voting counting leads to huge issues which force a 2 party system that will never represent the majority of people (through things like defensive voting, people vote less for the candidate they want and more for the candidate they think is most likely to win who isn’t the candidate they most don’t want), and recent american politics has shown that fptp also leads to much more polarising politics (in RCV systems candidates care about their 2nd, 3rd, 4th choice votes so they have to be as likeable as possible: they don’t want to come off as bullying they 3rd place candidate, because their voters really do matter)

proportional vs representative is more nuanced though… with representative systems you have someone who is there to represent your group specifically, rather a kind of often nebulous set of ideals… proportional meanwhile you do get more philosophically aligned candidates, but they always have to form coalitions with other parties (nobody has a majority: proportional governments are formed by lots of small parties/candidates) which means you can never really hold them to what they say: they’ll have to compromise a lot, and the government is very much sometimes beholden to the whims of marginal groups who hold the power (this has been happening a lot in europe at the moment where coalitions break down)

so in australia’s case we have a bit of a combination: for our house of representatives we use IRV/representative… we have districts, and we elect a representative, and those representatives form a government and the leader of the majority party is the prime minister. we also have our senate which is proportional (but still IRV), so they have a lot more small parties - including some far right shitbags

note though i am using RCV, STV, and IRV interchangeably but i believe they are different forms of RCV (and yes, i also believe RCV is both the category and a specific implementation). i think our ballot counting is IRV, but that’s based on some high school civics stuff so it may actually be another method and the teacher just said something generic

fptp is about choice of candidate and counting who comes out on top in an area, where gerrymandering is about geography… you can still pack and crack an STV/RCV system… ie if everyone is able to and does vote for the candidate they want (rather then defensive voting etc) then you can still make a single district have 100% of 1 candidates votes and another 2 with 51% of another

in australia we have an STV system, but we also have independent bodies that draw the district boundaries and various things to stop gerrymandering

yes end fptp, but changing from fptp doesn’t stop gerrymandering

afaik those laws only kick in if texas goes through with their plan

rad works :p you could go with BONZA MATE if you’re really putting it on ahah

You can’t change rules retroactively in most places

well the war is ongoing so they wouldn’t be retroactive… the cause for the change might have been some past behaviour, but that’s the case with most laws: you see a problem, make a law, the law applies to future behaviour

EU countries might not want to destroy their credibility as a stable place to hold your money

i think they’ve well and truly proven that unless you’re going to spend years waging war on an EU candidate country then you’ll be fine… and i think it’s wild that russia didn’t pull assets out of the US and EU before the war started… that shouldn’t be an expectation: that your assets are safe even when you commit war crimes? no! your assets shouldn’t be safe anywhere in the world for war criminals and people that are working against the interests of those countries