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My hardware store is locally own and carries phone mounts. I realize this is an outlier though.

Damn this hit me hard. If I ever hear this I know it's time to retire.

You forgot about the part where the virus mutates and jumps to humans.

The people you mention are too egotistic to even think that is a possibility. You don't get to be the people they are by thinking you have blindspots and aren't the greatest human to ever live.

His idea is eugenics but for chickens. Just let it spread it through all the birds and the ones that get infected will die and the ones that are immune will survive and breed and the chicken race will be stronger for it.

If I recall the problem with approval voting is that it is much easier to tamper with than RCV. Filling in an empty bubble is a lot easier than changing the order of ranking on a ballot

Way to miss the point. They said box product is well understood but it isn't these days.

Lot of young people don't know what a box product is. You're showing your age.

Enough people know about it that it has been put on ballots in several states and has had strong pushes in other states while STAR hasn't at all. If you want to get outside and start informing people about STAR then please do but RCV has a decade long head start and is the path of least resistance.

It absolutely makes sense. You need buy in from the public. RCV is the most known alternative and it has taken a decade to get it that far. If you want to start the work of informing people about STAR voting then be my guess but RCV is a tremendous improvement from what we have and an acceptable alternative.

It is important to contextualize that a lot of things this article is mourning have not come to pass.

> OBBBA sets the stage for the proposed cuts in the upcoming Presidential 2026 budget request, which aims to destroy federal research.

While it may seem hopeless and that "call your representatives" is pointless, there are several provisions that were stricken from this bill that are clear losses for the Trump admin. Trump's plan to sell off federal land was taken out of the bill due to huge backlash from Republican states for example. We are also heading in a midterm year so putting pressure on your representatives will be your best move. In the eyes of politicians, people who bother to call are people who bother to vote.

Anything is better than what we have and ranked choice voting is the most popular alternative.

Trump himself said he would like to deport citizens.