Should Approval Voting Have A Primary? Should elections using approval voting have a primary and should primary elections even exist? My answers: “sure” and “yes!”. A ballot from the San Francisco’s 2024 ma…

I believe that all important elections that potentially have more than two candidates should have a primary prune the list... robla.blog/2026/01/17/s...

The "fighters vs folders" taxonomy (as opposed to the "progressives vs moderates" taxonomy) for the @democraticparty.bsky.social is an interesting take. #BradLander did pretty well hitching his wagon to #Mamdani (and getting himself arrested).

McDonald's Skipped the Food Truck Trend and Went Straight to Food Trailer As the official sponsor of the NFL, McDonald's is trying to pull its weight. Its brand new 40+ foot long trailer is ready to serve your tailgating party.

I wonder how McDonalds' food trailer business in the United States has panned out so far. I haven't seen any, but I haven't exactly been looking for them...
www.eater.com/2014/8/28/61...

Well, we are a bunch of dumbasses, aren't we?
www.reddit.com/r/fivethirty...

Jameson Quinn died in a fall in Guatemala on March 23, 2025.
This is his mother Helen Quinn, just to inform his followers here of this tragic event. We will check this profile for your responses. Anyone who has copies of recent writings from him not posted here please let us know.

3/ He was persistent, which I appreciate now more than ever. He was patient with me when I was unreasonable & I've learned so much from him. With the huge digital footprint he left, many of us will be learning from him for quite some time. We will miss him, and others will learn to miss him too.

2/ Jameson was a moderating force in many conversations over the decades, and was patient about getting unreasonable people to listen to reason. This seemed almost adorable when I first learned of him, given whose minds he was sometimes trying to change: lists.electorama.com/pipermail/el...

1/ Helen, I am so sorry for your loss. As we all know, Jameson was brilliant, and his death came much too soon. One big reason why I joined the Equal.Vote Coaltion: the opportunity to work with Jameson. I'll stick with it, but it'll be harder without him.

Trump might ‘compensate’ Jan. 6 criminals he pardoned—with your money Amid a wave of federal program cuts affecting millions of Americans, President Donald Trump announced that his administration is considering compensating the MAGA loyalists who stormed the Capitol on ...

Ugh...
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Tomorrow’s Gods: What is the future of religion? Throughout history, people’s faith and their attachments to religious institutions have transformed, argues Sumit Paul-Choudhury. So what’s next?

TIL: what Roko's Basilisk is. It seems the Pascal's Wager comparison has been made for a while...
www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Why Sara switched from Ranked Choice to STAR Sara shares her story of switching to STAR Voting after being a Ranked Choice Voting fan.Short clipped from PDX Real: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_a6bAPp...

Learn why Sara switched from supporting Ranked Choice Voting to STAR Voting 💫

www.youtube.com/shorts/HG39b...

It Was an Ambush Friday marked one of the grimmest days in the history of American diplomacy.

In fairness, The Atlantic got it right -- perhaps the exception that proves the rule...

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I just released the code for converting Brian Olson's (@bolson.org) "RCV Election Data" into ABIF and published the results using ABIF web tool (awt) . Now I'm publishing the results of over 400 elections:
www.reddit.com/r/EndFPTP/co...

Laughing so I don’t cry

Stocks rapidly cut steep earlier losses as Trump pauses Mexico tariffs, Dow down just 150 points: Live updates President Donald Trump on Saturday slapped a 25% tariff on goods from Mexico and Canada. He also placed a 10% levy on imports from China.

What's becoming clear is that this is Trump's negotiating tactic to get Mexico to build the wall that he promised Mexico would pay for in his first term.
www.cnbc.com/2025/02/02/s...
I'm not privy to whether a U.S/Canadian wall is in the works, nor who is paying for it.

What makes davidzmorris think there are no Rationalists in China?

February Revolution - Wikipedia

You're probably right. #GenX didn't have to hide under the desks (that was a #Boomer thing), but I learned about the two Russian revolutions of 1917 in high school, and it was just taken as a given that we could be nuked by the Russians at any time.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Februar...

The likely reason why Elon Musk is mad at Wikipedia Elon Musk is angry at Wikipedia for reporting on his alleged ‘Nazi salute’. But his attacks are part of a long and troubling history of trying to suppress information he finds inconvenient, writes Io ...

Elon Musk "is the world’s leading free speech hypocrite," @seth-stern.bsky.social tells @the-independent.com's @iododds.bsky.social. "And his actions with respect to Wikipedia are further evidence of that."

Elon Musk's arm gesture - Wikipedia

Heh....
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Mu...

Today would have marked 52 years of Roe as the law of the land. But Donald Trump packed the Supreme Court with anti-abortion extremists to get it overturned.

This week, he cut off access to reproductiverights.gov.

We must keep fighting for women’s rights.

Fox News host throws ax, hits drummer YouTube video by CNN

The Hegseth axe throwing incident (this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMrV... ) seems like the least of our worries regarding his appointment as Secretary of Defense. However, it is VERY telling of overconfidence and not knowing one's limitations. Dunning-Kruger anyone?

Part 1. Broadband Adoption in the United States How Broadband is Spreading Through the Population Broadband growth in the United States in early 2006 has resumed its fast upward trajectory. As of March

There are many RealNetworks alums that are a little sore about this thread ("haters gonna hate!"). I was at RNWK for nine years (1996-2005). There was a lot we did wrong, but we had the best tech for dialup users. Broadband was adopted quickly, wasn't it?
www.pewresearch.org/internet/200...

This Cybertruck did not crash. It made a heartfelt and perhaps ill-advised gesture that, in the moment, might have been misinterpreted as a crash, but we should not rush to judgement.

How Many Times Do I Have to Say I’m Not a Nazi? I’m not a Nazi. How many times do I have to say this? Three times? Twenty-seven? Every single time someone accuses me? I’d never get anything done!...

www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/how...

Would you believe that the Anti-Defamation League believes it was just an "awkward gesture"?
x.com/ADL/status/1...

LMAO the Village People's "YMCA" performance at Trump's inaugural ball went so far off the rails the band basically had to stop playing

It is REALLY difficult to claim this is anything but a Nazi salute:
www.reddit.com/r/centrist/c...

Apparently, the weather in DC was similar on January 20, 1961 as it is likely to be today.
www.reddit.com/r/Trumpvirus...

From the facebook community on Reddit: List of serious alternatives to Facebook. Is there anything missing from this list? Posted by robla - 1 vote and 6 comments

I started a conversation on reddit about Facebook alternatives, which hasn't gotten a lot of traction yet, but hopefully it will:
www.reddit.com/r/facebook/c...