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Weak civics education or willful ignorance has failed a generation into self-inflicted gunshot wounds.
a spoiler effect happens when a losing candidate affects the results of an election simply by participating
Vote splitting is the most common cause of spoiler effects in FPP. In these systems, the presence of many ideologically-similar candidates causes their vote total to be split between them, placing these candidates at a disadvantage. This is most visible in elections where a minor candidate draws votes away from a major candidate with similar politics, thereby causing a strong opponent of both to win.
Right, they’re not wasted: they help win the major candidate you oppose most. Giving your opponents unreciprocated support as Jesus preached is selflessly generous!
But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you
11·1 day agoSometimes less is more.
I’ve learned of the passing of former Vice President Dick Cheney.
Vice President Cheney was a public servant, from the halls of Congress to many positions of leadership in multiple presidential administrations.
Doug and I are keeping Lynne, their daughters Liz and Mary, and the entire Cheney family in our thoughts during this time.
Lack of link to (archived) source (per rule 4) creates a usability issue: we can’t quote the text without pointless bullshit like retyping it or OCR.
Other issues when image lacks text alternative such as link
- authenticability: we can’t verify the authenticity of the reproduction unless we go on a fishing expedition for the source
- usability: can’t reflow text to varied screen sizes or vary presentation (size, contrast) or modality (audio, braille), we can’t find by text content
- accessibility: some users can’t read this due to misleading alt text, users can’t adapt the text for dyslexia or vision impairments, systems can’t read the text to them or send it to braille devices
- searchability: the “text” isn’t indexable by search engine in a meaningful way
- fault tolerance: no text fallback if image breaks.
Contrary to age & humble appearance, text is an advanced technology that provides all these capabilities absent from images.
A link to a text-based source is useful.
Edit: thanks! 👍
is a good idea
Nope, they’re saying political reality is we don’t get a mythical multi-party system until electoral policies change.
people are happy to erode free speech norms & justify censorship of content they dislike on social media (private companies aren’t legally obligated to refrain from censorship) until they reap the logical rewards of that unscrupulous ethos
1·2 days agoexpressing an opinion we disapprove of isn’t an exception to free speech: for that we can express our condemnation
the harm principle requires more than mere offensiveness such as true threat or incitement of imminent, lawless action
proved reddit’s free speech stance wrong
free speech is never wrong
Images of text are evil & this lacks text alternative (ie, breaks accessibility and a host of web features). Please post text as text?
17·2 days agobut she just had go and develop a moral compass
It’s not so straightforward.
Traditionally Israel’s government and military have considered the existence of an independent judiciary a crucial barrier to international legal tribunals investigating Israel for alleged abuses against Palestinians.
Where there is a robust national legal system willing and able to investigate and prosecute crimes, international courts are less likely to have jurisdiction to intervene.
“Don’t they understand we had no choice? That the only way to address the wave of international legal proceedings is by proving we can investigate ourselves?” the investigative reporter Ronen Bergman quoted the advocate general telling colleagues six weeks ago, in a report for Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper.
In recent decades many Israelis have seen the role of the military advocate general “as protecting soldiers from prosecution abroad”, said Prof Yagil Levy, head of the Institute for the Study of Civil-Military Relations at Israel’s Open University.
“In other words, the law is not upheld as a value in itself, but as a defence against international tribunals.”
Her office exists (to self-police just enough?) to avert international prosecution.
That’s just such an easy link to memorise, isn’t it?
You memorize your links & type them out like a boomer?
21·3 days agoNeeds text alternative.
leaks classified/military state secrets
Were they? Not sure activities & conduct of public agents are secrets the public isn’t entitled to know.
she knew she would eventually be fucked, life over, did it anyway, heroine
Before praising that, consider her office basically exists to perform token investigations, so international tribunals don’t investigate all other crimes.
Traditionally Israel’s government and military have considered the existence of an independent judiciary a crucial barrier to international legal tribunals investigating Israel for alleged abuses against Palestinians.
Where there is a robust national legal system willing and able to investigate and prosecute crimes, international courts are less likely to have jurisdiction to intervene.
“Don’t they understand we had no choice? That the only way to address the wave of international legal proceedings is by proving we can investigate ourselves?” the investigative reporter Ronen Bergman quoted the advocate general telling colleagues six weeks ago, in a report for Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper.
In recent decades many Israelis have seen the role of the military advocate general “as protecting soldiers from prosecution abroad”, said Prof Yagil Levy, head of the Institute for the Study of Civil-Military Relations at Israel’s Open University.
“In other words, the law is not upheld as a value in itself, but as a defence against international tribunals.”
Notice that ain’t a dictionary.
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lemmy will upvote anything
Cybercrime isn’t “research”?
12·3 days agoEarly christians had an interesting take on this.
Before the religion organized into a hierarchical orthodoxy, communities distant from the emerging establishment (not particularly attached to jewish traditions) in places like Alexandria were left to their own devices to figure out christianity: they formed loose households & study circles to interpret texts in the context of their local traditions & culture and settled on a number of competing interpretations. Among them emerged a popular, influential interpretation.
- Reading the older jewish scriptures & newer texts quite literally, they concluded there were 2 deities. 1 of whom, the unhidden Demiurge (Yahweh of the old testament) who had created the material universe, was a vengeful and ignorant deity inimical to human welfare. Consequently, material existence is flawed & evil, and they must escape that realm by seeking personal knowledge of the other, hidden deity: the transcendent spiritual entity, the Silent Depth (or the Monad), who briefly inhabited Jesus with that revelatory wisdom or logos found in the newer texts. In other words, there’s cool god (Jesus’s god) & evil genocidal god (Yahweh).
- Moreover, they concluded that church authority isn’t needed: Jesus had awoken a spark of divinity in matter that would find its way back to its transcendent source with little need of episcopal authority or sacramental practice.
This interpretation became known as gnosticism.
Sticklers with the evil trash god of older jewish scriptures didn’t like this idea, became early church authorities, denounced it as heresy, & purged all the texts they could of it.
So, yes, even some early christians believed the entity modern christians refer to as god is kinda shit.
Does that mean tankies are all the same person?
OP thinks security researchers don’t understand how to properly serialize data for correct deserialization. OP also thinks they largely use CSV.
Any shame induced by facing reality (that ignorant actions backfire) is self-inflicted. It’s a consequence of having enough pride to expect better of themselves. No one should like to feel stupid & the messenger did not create the reality they stupidly failed to appreciate. The power is entirely theirs to end their shame by dealing with reality & correcting their folly.
Ridicule isn’t whining. Failing to comprehend the consequences of their actions is their folly.
Not thoughts: reality. Electoral rules have consequences.
You mean owe themselves? Only those who think they owe themselves would feel shame.
Fools defeating themselves with their own stupidity is its own joy. Following the teachings of Jesus to love & support their enemies might earn them accidental sainthood!
Who’s shocked or appalled by pointing out failure to recognize spoiler effect? Seems like someone’s butthurt over the reality of the spoiler effect & reality doesn’t care.