I’m more concerned about the Trump Supreme Court, the Trump dept. of Justice, and the Trump military, but this is pretty bad too. It’s nice to see the Democrats have found an issue worth fighting for.

How exactly would it boost moderates except in that once the extremes are eliminated, your vote goes to the moderate that you want rather than it failing to oppose the people you don’t want.

I think you’ve pretty much got it. Extreme candidates tend to get eliminated because they tend to be the least popular with other parties voters. RCV punishes this unpopularity. Also candidates with similar goals can work together, this advantage is obviously is going to be unavailable for people running from the fringe.

Just imagine a New York primary where two weak moderates were running against a progressive. The two moderates are almost working together because it’s likely that whoever looses will gift their votes to the other. Ranked choice candidates have often “teamed up”, with ads asking their supporters to rank the other candidate 2nd.

I think lots of Democrats have been thinking about how the primary in New York could have been different and this is the answer to that question.

Ranked choice voting tends to boost moderate candidates. While this is valuable in a general election, during a party primary it protects the status quo.

It’s hard for me to look at this as anything other than Schumer and Jefferies putting obstacles in the way of Progressives.

The criticism “woke”, “politically correct”, and “bleeding heart” all mean essentially the same thing. That liberals only pretend to care about movements of emancipation to cynically gain political support. And the reason that criticism has lasted so long is because it’s apt.

This is why the Democratic party stinks. Just cynical assholes only loyal to power.

You think Gavan Newsom is different?

I’m a conservative. I support fascism except in the narrow ways it harms people I care about.

Raping children is the only Christian thing about Trump.

Psensor is a graphical widget on top of lm_sensors that’s shows constantly updated temp/fan/usage info. It’s similar to HWMonitor on Windows.

Newsom hates the poor, hates trans people, but loves oligarchs and Israel.

If he becomes the Democratic Nominee, I’m going third party or staying home.

Hawker Hunter?! That’s a British military jet from the 40s. Is there another kind? Am I taking crazy pills?

My frustration with the Epstein list is that nobody seems to give a damn that girls were raped, only which powerful men can held to “account”.

Rich and powerful men can do whatever they please in this country and nobody cares about that, or who they hurt, only the political outcome matters.

It’s good to have a rational for your choices. And we know it can’t be because you think Microsoft makes good software that you enjoy using.

Linux is easier to install than Windows. With the new Win11 requirements, Linux is the only choice for PC hardware more than 5yo. And like you say, hardware drivers just work. This used to be Windows major advantage, but now the chance you run into a compatibility issue is about the same for either OS.

I installed Ubuntu back when that was popular, and insisted on having all the graphical bling, like 3d cube that would spin to change desktops. And windows that shook like jello when you moved them.

Of course all this messing around by an amateur did nothing for stability and after 3 or 4 frustrating issues I went back to Windows.

Uhhhhhhhh! The Nazis did this. anyone who disagreed, caused trouble, or eventually was Luke-warm to National Socialism was seen as “sick”, “degenerate”, or " deranged". This was a classification that meant death for some, exile for others, and terror for anyone who witnessed your fate.

Nobody said Gaza was going to be part of this “Palestinian State”.

It’s a myth that more Americans died in the Civil War than any other conflict. They inflate the numbers by counting slavers as Americans. I mean we didn’t put the names of the Vietnamese on that wall did we? (fucking thing would stretch to Richmond if we did)

As someone who owns a kill-a-watt, this is depressing. I can quibble with the assumptions Energy Star makes, but being able to compare apliences at the store, apples to apples is one of the most pro-customer things in America.