Bob

It's a tagging issue. Essentially people are used to not having to tag posts in NSFW subreddits because they're set to NSFW by default. That function doesn't yet exist in Lemmy, so people are forgetting.

If you expect Cincinnati chili to be anything like real chili, you're going to hate it. If you throw expectations out the window? It's pretty good.

I won't have something to share for a few years at least, but when I do, I'm looking forward to it!

Sorry if this is mentioned in the article, but I have difficulty reading busy web pages. Has anyone calculated the theoretical carrying capacity of the island?

Cheers! Cincinnati checking in! Thank you for building this space for us to play in!

Yep. Sure is.

What's the financial situation like? I can shuffle around my donation money, but I'd rather not if this place is currently in the black.

The thing the modern movies always get wrong about Superman is that he's not supposed to be interesting as a superhero, he's supposed to be interesting as an outsider trying to fit in.

I feel like at this point Google should ditch the annual OS level-up. Phones and their OSs have matured and pushing out a new version every year is just increasing the support Google has to provide without much benefit. I was running Android 9 until recently, and while I'm now on the 14 beta, I could easily see my current phone lasting long enough to outlive the current 5 years of security updates promised.

Ah, thanks for the short version, I couldn't see the full article.

I see no reason we can't have multiple party endorsements on the ballot.

So, the thing is, it's not.

BUT, it's perfectly fine if you don't want to learn the differences between systems and all the little details and that stuff. In fact, it would be weird if everyone was as interested in voting and representation systems as I was.

But this lack of interest is exactly why the voting system needs to be dummy simple. Even people who actively dislike learning should be able to fully understand how the voting system works and what kinds of problems it has. (They all have problems.)

With approval, well, I already explained it. Vote for everyone you like, most votes wins. That's it. No elimination rounds, no counting and recounting. It's just plain obvious how it works.

And the thing is, when you get really nerdy and all the different voting methods, it turns out all the good ones end up with pretty similar results, so why make things more complicated than you have to? Approval works.

Here's approval voting:

1. vote for everyone you like

2. Don't vote for everyone you don't like

3. most votes wins

That's it.

Here's a more detailed article.

Here's some simulations demonstrating how well-behaved different voting systems are.

Approval vs RCV in a presidential primary

Chicago mayor primary using four different voting methods

Basically, "choose one" voting sucks balls for a bunch of reasons, so people have spent a lot of time coming up with different ways to vote. Approval voting gets pretty much the same results as all the other improvements, while requiring a hell of a lot less effort and being way easier to understand.

Add in the fact that it's super easy to tweak it for use with multi-winner elections or party-proportional elections and it's just amazing to me that people champion the more complicated methods.