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Toronto based human.
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Mike MacLeod
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I like beige as much as any other middle aged white man (which is to say: a lot), but even I know a nursery needs some damn colour. This is a nursery for adults. The child’s needs have not been considered.
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Mike MacLeod
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FYI, I'm Canadian, so while we have a broadly similar system as the UK, there are some subtle differences. My reform preferences apply specifically to the Canadian context. My general preferences on representation vs. accountability apply broadly.
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Mike MacLeod
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Weirdly, I prefer a strong government that can effectively implement its platform. And then in four or five years, the voters get a chance to yay or nay the results. Now, I would like to see some electoral reforms. In particular, ranked choice ballots, which solve the strategic voting problem.
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Mike MacLeod
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I weight perfect representation a bit lower, and weight accountability a bit higher. I think the process of mapping voter preferences to party platforms is a messy process anyway, so even if the government is representative of votes cast, it's still an imperfect representation of voter prefs.
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Mike MacLeod
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Yup. It’s a good mechanism for accountability, if not representation. But game out how the current vote share would look in an MMP system. Labour + LD doesn’t get you to 50%, so it’s either a minority government or a coalition with some small fry pulled from the “other” category.
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Mike MacLeod
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FPTP in a parliamentary system has a few graces. In particular, it’s sensitive to small changes in voting patterns like this, meaning you can truly “kick the bums out” when they’re past their best before date.
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Mike MacLeod
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Success! Busy, but not a full fledged goat rodeo. And I didn’t hear anyone giving any staff grief. Heard several people voice their support (including yours truly).
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Mike MacLeod
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I fully support their decision to strike! But I’m also a scotch drinker…
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Mike MacLeod
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Fuck, i should run up to the store now…
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Mike MacLeod
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Hmmm, in that case I was also gonna propose Nimoy. But then I remembered he’s dead too.
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Mike MacLeod
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Is this like the sandwich alignment chart, but for boy bands?
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Mike MacLeod
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Ah, gotcha. I saw that interaction scroll past but thought you were the impetus.
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Mike MacLeod
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Wasn’t it raised literally because you hit the limit with the ttrpg labeler and complained?
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Mike MacLeod
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There’s even precedent for the cops dropping bombs in urban settings. I can’t imagine an executive ordering it and having immunity for the order is going to discourage them.
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Mike MacLeod
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Some labelers may decide to create lists from their account level labels (because you can’t actually block based on labels).
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Mike MacLeod
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Lists contains accounts, and when you subscribe you can either mute or block every account in the list. Labelers can have many labels, and labels can be applied to both accounts and individual posts. There are more options for how to handle handle each label. They’re both opinions of the creator.
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Mike MacLeod
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The bomb has been set.
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Mike MacLeod
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Oh that’s smart. Good idea.
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Mike MacLeod
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Doesn’t fantasy football depend specifically depend on the performance of real and identifiable people? This is less grounded in reality than fantasy football.
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Mike MacLeod
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Intelligence is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put tomato in a fruit salad. Charisma is calling tomato-based fruit salad “salsa”.
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Mike MacLeod
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I’m not even sure you need the “in many ways” qualifier.
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Wacky Lesbian Hour
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Mike MacLeod
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Champion?!?! 😂 It’s so wrong I kinda wanna keep it, lol.
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Mike MacLeod
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I don't have a lot of free time right now, but if you're serious and can't find anyone to help in a week, ping me and I may have some spare cycles.
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Mike MacLeod
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Unironically, please do. The labeling system has so much potential beyond just T&S stuff.
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Mike MacLeod
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Okay, yeah, you can be trusted.
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Mike MacLeod
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iirc, the loli related labels were their main focus, with the transphobia and other labels just meant to supplement Aegis.
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Mike MacLeod
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One issue is it was mod, singular, not plural. The timing of Aegis imploding was crap, as the Taurus mod had recently lost their father. Anyway, just saying I’d be charitable. They wanted to help, but were quickly overwhelmed.
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Mike MacLeod
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My condolences. I lost my father earlier this year, it sucks so much. I appreciate the work you did with Taurus Shield (was a subscriber long before *all this*), but you need to take care of yourself first.
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Mike MacLeod
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Unironically yes, absolutely. I want to see lots of completely subjective "fuck you" labelers, lots of silly labelers (bouba/kiki was great), and maybe even some "these are good people" labelers.
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Mike MacLeod
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That same desire to have clear accountability is why I don’t like presidential systems, and am also not a republican. I’m not really a monarchist, but our head of state being so silly helps ensure it can never be an office with a political mandate. I wish we could keep the ghost of QEII, lol.
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Mike MacLeod
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Yup. Part of me likes that our senate is so obviously silly that it can never have a real political mandate. Again, I think it helps ensure accountability sits in the lower house. And the few times the senate has actually done anything to affect the political process in my lifetime seemed good?
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Mike MacLeod
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I prefer STV over MMP, but it feels over-engineered. Notably I don’t think any Canada-sized or larger country has used it for all legislative houses? I could get behind going Aussie style with STV for a newly elected senate, and seeing how it works there.
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Mike MacLeod
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I find it very funny that the parties all use ranked ballots for leadership elections, but won’t do it for general elections. The other reason I like ranked ballot for Canada is I think it has a chance? MMP is too big a change for a place with a small-c conservative mindset like Canada.
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Mike MacLeod
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Those thresholds are arbitrary and distort the situation as much as anything else. Too low and you get cranks with narrow interests. Too high and you lose a lot of the value proposition of MMP.
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Mike MacLeod
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I want a system where a low information voter with poor understanding of mechanics of government can nonetheless accurately asses who is responsible for the state of things and vote their heart on a regular basis.
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Mike MacLeod
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In a sense, while FPTP isn’t representative I think it might be more accountable, if that makes sense. Ranked ballots mostly solve the strategic voting weakness, which is the main weakness of our setup (in my view).
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Mike MacLeod
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MMP encourages lots of smaller parties and horse trading coalitions, which makes it hard to know who is responsible for what policy without being very clued in. Those small parties cling to their political base (and seats) and can linger in coalitions and government.
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Mike MacLeod
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I’m a bit idiosyncratic in that I don’t want proportional representation. I want an effective government that we can kick out once they’re past their due date. Maybe that’s possible with MMP, but there’s too many examples where that isn’t true.
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Mike MacLeod
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Generally speaking I think having more narrowly focused labelers is healthy for the network. Not only does it make it easier for two labelers to compete, but it also limits the blast radius if one goes up in smoke. Which is a long way of saying I think it’s great you want to spin it out.
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Mike MacLeod
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Have you seen Rah’s thread about T&S and labelers, which includes some suggestions (especially in the discussion around it) about what kind of labels should be grouped in a labeler and which are better split among different labelers?
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Mike MacLeod
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I worked for a hosting company and the guys in the on call pager rotation never actually checked the pager. They just learned the cadence and intensity of an outage vs the background noise of pointless alerts. Basically, if you could warm up a burrito by laying it next to the pager, shit was down.
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Mike MacLeod
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I’m subscribed to six community labelers. A couple are novelties, but three (Aegis, Taurus, and Profile Labeler) are (or were) legit attempts at providing a real T&S layer. I set almost all labels to warn/info. They provide a bit of extra context I can ignore or not before I decide whether to engage
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Mike MacLeod
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Most of my group chats are forwards of the funny shit we find online and failed attempts to schedule in-person hangouts because we’re busy? You’re saying I coulda been doing sex cult stuff instead?
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Mike MacLeod
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This is why my preferred electoral reform was just ranked ballots. Simple and small tweak that is easy to explain and lets you vote your heart for first place and your lessor of the evils after that. Solves the strategic voting problem. But everyone, libs and cons, know that means more NDP seats.
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Mike MacLeod
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I feel like that’s pretty good turnout for a by election. As for the electoral reform, the problem was they refused to run on a specific reform, which was smart electorally because everyone could fill in the blanks with their preferred reform, but killed any chance of actually implementing a change
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Mike MacLeod
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“Oh, my apologies, let me hand this off to my coworker Alan Smithee to finish”
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Mike MacLeod
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People today I think struggle to recognize the level of risk and enforced practicality you had to accept whenever you stepped on a boat until the invention of radio. New Zealand maintained a string of castaway depots on islands until the late 1920s.
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Mike MacLeod
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I didn’t mean to pick on you specifically; you’re not the only one I’ve seen do this. And everyone close to the situation probably is amped up on emotions and physically drained, so charity of interpretation should be the order of the day.
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Mike MacLeod
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One passenger *at a time*. No telling how long you’ll be stranded for.
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