I think we should just go the Swiss-route and do direct democracy;

That’s literally the Anarchy system. I.e Laws and no leaders.

As an Australian who has ranked choice (we call it preferential) it’s not the panecea folks here seem to think it is to bring about the enlightenment.

I’m 58, have voted in every election from when I was eligible through to this year. We don’t have ICE but we have Border Force and we routinely deport non citizens, we inspect digital devices at the border, we off shore legal refugees in internment camps, we have zero care for the enviorment and love penis shaped defence spending, we are a car dependent shit hole with few redeeming qualities… It’s ever been thus, Donad Horne oponed on this in the 1970s.

We don’t have feedom of the press or freedom of speech, so often these things are unable to even be reported on at all and our most egregious atrocities have widespread support amongst the broader population. In that respect its not as big a divisor as. n the US as we’re all arseholes :) We’re happy to allow religious scumbags to discriminate against LGBQT folks, happy to have our privacy removed, are quite fond of fucking over our indigenous peoples and the wider enviorment and near zero concern for exestential issues like climate change. We’re happy to shit over homeless people and have unaffordable housing and racism is broadly endemic.

We have never elected a government that i think is anything but objectively fucking horrible, we have our tongue firmly stuck up the US foreign policy asshole and follow them into every stupid dumb shit military action. We have had the occasionally decent poltican but then so does the US (Bernie etc) .

Like us, your people are broken and you’re not going to cure what ails ya’ with RCV.

Ask Trump?

I find the actual user ENGAGEMENT significantly worse.

That’s the point though?

I don’t use Mastodon for engagement but a feed of interesting stuff across a variety of subjects posted by others. Masto is a little bit like an RSS feed, I don’t castigate RSS for that either.

Therefore I’ve come to the clear scientific and educated decision that Lemmy is simply superior

Sarcasm aside, that’s like saying a screwdriver is better then a hammer.

Intelligence? Talent? No, the ultra-rich got to where they are through luck and brutality.

https://www.monbiot.com/2011/11/07/the-self-attribution-fallacy/

Woosh ? Thats literally the proble. thr OP referred to,he to has a Plexpass and his watchers are being notified.

Rice or pasta with cheap sauce and some grinded meat can sustain a person for quite a long time.

Another tip is to mix ground beans (just use a blender, black beans and chick peas etc) into the minced meat as well at say 50/50

Chrome’s buyer f***s up too badly and Normies

Not sure what sort of borked mess it would need to be to change peoples habits. Goggle’s fucked Chrome themselves and " normies" aren’t fleeing.

I handled the heat by moving from Northern Australia to Tasmania.

There must me much cooler places in India?

I use Joplin for note taking.

Hahah nooooo I’ll be banned from Lemmy and the police will knock on my door.

Ao some banal shit ? Pepsi is better then coke ?

Australia and New Zealand

People

I’m an Australian, as a 16 ur old I’d slong my gun over mu shoulder and rodee my trail bike up the range to hunt for pet food. Drape a gutted dead roo over the back of my motobike and bring it jwome, meat for the dogs and skin it. No one batted an eyelid or said anything.

Now I’d be labeled a terrorist, have police helicopters chase me down and be in jail for decades.

For most of the democratic world, the US Democrats are right wing, like Canada, Australian mainstream. conservatives are to then left of the Democrats…eg it was Australians mainstream right wing party that brought in compararively draconian gun laws (by US standards)

Chatham Islands ?

I chose Tasmania, am here now… I dont think anywhere is but i am hoping it’s lesser and i am not the literal tip of the spear.

Albiet the poulation is older, white, conservative, religious so there is that problem.

Trump has broad aupport.

Im 58, I’ve et 4 people in my life I’d classify as “good”. Im with one and I’m not one.

All 4 are women, which gives me pause as a guy.

https://forums.whirlpool.net.au/

Indeed, GAB is a great example, their “freeze peach” or banned :)

Compartmentalise. It’s a trait of Homo sapien to convice themselves things are true, so they can believe any bullshit, try not to fall for it yourself in otjer areas.

The problem for me arises when they speak from authority on another subject they are expert in, if they’re so naive and easily misled on that, how can i trust their opinion on anything substantive?

A superb example of this is Katherine Hayhoe. I get around it by just reading nothing she writes on climate change because her evangelical christianisim just muddies the waters too much to take her at all seriously. On a side note, my goto is Professor Kevin Andersin.