the overton window aka “the window of discourse” is literally about talking, and making things more acceptable by their existence in the public consciousness
the more people TALK about alternative voting mechanisms, the more likely it is for some change to occur… 1 person can’t just up and change the system overnight, but by “signalling” as you’ve dismissively called it, it makes it more likely that other people talk about it and that makes it more likely that it becomes policy
that’s… just basic statistics given the difference in campaign sizes
i’m not trying to wave it off or anything, but i’d suggest that it’s entirely expected
name a democrat
names republicans
though i’m not an american so idk all your 40 whatever it is presidents but all the ones i recognise there are republicans and im pretty sure that if the ones there are real old then well… it’s a totally different party to what it was? it’s not a team - its politics after all; things change
perhaps, but also they could be confident in their ability but consider it either not the right time for political and likely economic fallout, not the right time to kick off a broader conflict, or simply that they think that whilst they’d win, if they wait and build a bit more they’ll loose less military hardware and lives with a stronger force
oracles lawyers are pretty bad too
the bus company can not ban imports
their methods are indeed significantly more sophisticated than that. explaining them accurately, however is beyond my knowledge… and i’m a principal engineer that deals with security quite regularly
what this requires from developers: possibly documenting protocols in an open way when they choose to shut down games so that people can re-implement FOSS servers
“playable” is open to interpretation, and does not include trademarks, copyright, etc… nobody is asking for to allow assets to be traded (ie piracy), or open sourcing any code
but if you have purchased a game, and the servers for that game go away, someone else should be able to re-implement a method for allowing those games to continue being played
… also if DRM servers go away, you should disable the DRM somehow: you don’t get to just say that the DRM and therefor the game isn’t available any more
all of this is not at all knee-jerk, and very realistic
it’s possible it was generated by multiple people. when i craft my prompts i have a big list of things that mean certain things and i essentially concatenate the 5 ways to say “present all dates in ISO8601” (a standard for presenting machine-readable date times)… it’s possible that it’s simply something like
prompt = allow_bias_prompts + allow_free_thinking_prompts + allow_topics_prompts
or something like that
but you’re right it’s more likely that whoever wrote this is a dim as a pile of bricks and has no self awareness or ability for internal reflection
huh interesting… in australia there’s an upper limit on the amount you can pay with low denomination coins
5c coins are legal tender for amounts not exceeding $5 for any payment of a debt.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_five-cent_coin#cite_note-4
i mean, “unless” tends to be the usual term for an “if not” keyword in languages that implement such a thing
these are separate issues; i never said signalling is the end game, but it has to start there and build
if you want IRV etc to be in the same category as abortion rights and cannabis (as in majority of people think “why the fuck isn’t this done yet?” rather than “huh? what?”) then it starts with simply convincing politicians to acknowledge their support for it - heck even acknowledging it as an issue
there is literally no way to get to policy through a grassroots without it first having a few people “signalling”