Yup, and this is not new information. i've seen studies about this effect for at least a decade, probably more like 2 but time flies now

I use Firefox with ad blockers to watch YouTube. Chrome seems to be allowing them to block my ad blocker

It's also top comment on the .social link

Yeah I'm comparing 3rd party votes to voting for the less harmful duopoly + activism, you're comparing it to doing nothing.

You're right voting 3rd party is better than doing absolutely nothing. What a high bar

in what way is buying a competitor not inherently anti-competitive?

If someone has a history of anti-competitive behavior, preventing them from buying competitors is perfectly logical

What are you even talking about? I've seen videos of cops shooting at dogs wagging their tails. I've seen cops shoot at small dogs and accidentally hit the owners. Here's just one of many videos, see if you can watch it without being disgusted by these pigs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0D1wzZU14h0

That’s true until it isn’t.

The way you change that is election reform. Not thoughts and prayers and spoiler votes when one of the 2 big parties is running a wannabe-dictator.

Think, if fools in Florida didn't vote 3rd party in 2000 you'd never have bush or the war in iraq, and we might have given a shit about global warming.

Please, tell me you're a child who knows nothing about the US electoral system without telling me. People like you got us Trump

Too much of a baby to read and understand the spoiler effect that comes with FPTP? Too impatient and short-sighted to push for election reform (RCV or approval voting) and just want some low effort immediate option that requires nothing more than casting a vote? Child. Democracies require effort to survive.

Did you just scoff at the idea of competition improving a market?

or they're simply pumped full of Fox brand fear of anything slightly different and prefer this guys brand of crazy

Yup, few people remember how few and far between big budget fantasy films used to be. Computer graphics have gotten cheap enough now that we see big fantasy sets all the time. Back when LOTR hit it was really rare for someone to cater to the fantasy crowd on the big screen, especially for a whole trilogy.

Much like the original Tolkien novels are a hard read but still seen as classics because they laid groundwork for the genre, the movies are seen as classics because they came first. They are probably Peter Jackson's best movies but that's only because he got even worse at editing as he went on.

Study was funded by a wasabi company of course

As planned

Okay but they have no incentive to do any of that and instead have monetary incentive to shift right

Do participate in bringing ranked choice voting to your state if you want a shift left in the USA. Competition will force the shift you are looking for

Nope. Wasted questions on animal/plant/mineral when that paradigm isn't accurate enough for a machine I guess.

Seemed to understand alive vs not.

guys really do think about women laughing at them as much as we think about them trying to murder us

Except the casino can refuse to pay out for any reason at all

USA strikers should take notes

The global elite buy the USA politicians. They are for sale internationally

In Bush's case, the family is owned by the Saudis. And the Saudis couldn't have the USA president going after oil.

Really? The right around here is burning books, claiming their religious beliefs should be enshrined in laws forced on others, and openly supporting a wannabe dictator while calling anyone in their party who doesn't agree a 'Rino' (Republica in name only). To say nothing of the connection to churches and their 'flocks'

That is a lot of trying to force viewpoints on others and create a uniform viewpoint

In the usa we did vote for AL gore, who campaigned pretty much solely on stopping climate change.

When it became clear gore would win, the Supreme Court stopped counting ballots and gave the win to Bush, an oil tycoon who went to war for oil. Later Kavanaugh, who worked the case for Bush, was given a lifetime appointment to the same court for their effective cronyism

So yes, the global elite are the reason here.

Young people of all generations do not have full brains developed yet, they are basic and self righteous until 27ish

This may be unpopular but the marraige model was never good for women in the west, and Im glad we are free of it.

We were expected to be live-in bang-maid-mothers. Women were lobotomized during the 'golden 1950s' that some (often conservative men) worship.

I think I am starting to prefer a model where I live together in groups with friends/ family for protection and support.

Now its just the kids aging into mario kart abilities, like my niece who just asked for this for her bday

CHOOSE:

freedom of thought, but you have to learn to work with people you disagree with slightly or find annoying: left

uniformity of thought, but you are surrounded by bleating sheep and must bleat along: right

'We' can't address climate change because the global elite are dependent on the profits from harming the environment to fill their money banks, and it turns out they have all the power.

I do not need to rewire my brain, I need to build power structure so that I can eat the rich w/ that donut

Britain did brexit and a bunch of other countries elected right wing nut jobs in response to globalization, not just the us

Ah yes, the nuanced thinking of a 5 year old - everything is black and white and everyone who doesn't agree w me 100% is evil

I'm just here to enjoy all the new content and memes they hopefully make. I bet a bunch of my switch-only youtubers make some awesome videos about it

🙀 😸

Probably 'Talos Principle'. I still haven't finished it though. A tier puzzle game for me. Maybe S tier by the time I finish!

Can the legislature be forced to follow the people's mandate by law enforcement? We seriously need to pass laws that jail legislators who fail to act in a timely manner on the peoples will

I think people should think of gender as a spectrum, but what would 'getting rid of gender' look like? Are we seperating that from biological sex somehow? Although I am all for men getting asked if they are pregnant as often as I am when trying to access basic health services.

edit: also just read the firefighter analogy more. Okay but why are you reducing firefighting to physical strength? I've heard of cases where fitting through tight spaces were key to a rescue in firefighting. Does that mean I should now reduce firefighting to 'fits through tight spaces' requirement and prefer only small people? Be less reductive in your reasoning.

You're wrong about the state of the usa, but right about how Americans are coping - by pretending its not happening. It's pretty similar to how we all cope with climate change

I thought we had already established the public has the right to film on duty police, no exceptions.

GOP has very obviously fallen to fascists.

stop, I'm not used to good news!

yeah its been 'fun' talking about this on Lemmy and Reddit at the same time.

On reddit, I'm an anti-semite. On lemmy, I'm a racist zionist.

In reality I understand the paradox of tolerance extends to fundamentalist abrahamic religions, which are all intolerant themselves, and therefore should not be tolerated.

Are you still going? I thought you had tired yourself out. Sure you're not projecting with all that?