Right? I was so excited to sign my state’s ranked choice ballot proposal petition at the No King’s rally last month. I think it is ones of the most important issues, because it impacts all the others.

Those bastards. Union busting and PC racism?

cause I don’t have PlayStation

Isn’t it also releasing on PC and Xbox?

What’s happening right now is happening because people didn’t go out and vote against it. Trump didn’t gain a significant number of votes from 2020 to 2024, Harris just didn’t get nearly as many as Biden did. Yes, there were plenty of reasons behind this, but regardless, she would have been better than Trump.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of fascism is for people to not vote for the only viable non-fascist candidate.

I’m not trying to defend the system. It’s broken. I’m just saying vote rationally based on the reality you live in.

Yup. No doubt. But the choice between “things are bad” and “fascism” is, while distasteful, an easy choice. The spoiler effect means that in a First Past the Post voting system, mathematically, if you decide to instead vote for the idealistic but unpopular “things could be better,” all you’re doing is removing a vote from “things are bad,” which only benefits “fascism.”

It sucks. I know it sucks. But it’s what we have right now. Ideally we can make a better system, but we won’t get there by letting fascism win. At least not without a LOT MORE people dying.

Again, make positive change where and when you can, and vote rationally.

Did I miss something? What happened to Slotkin?

You’ve clearly never been to Saugatuck, MI.

*Gestures at everything*

Stuff changed. Are you happy with the changes? Cause I’m not. I want positive change, but I’d rather have the status quo than this. And I’d especially rather have incremental improvement rather than rapid devolution.

Refusing to vote in your best interests because you want faster change is absurd. Make changes happen where and when you can, and vote rationally.

It’s not pink! It’s lightish red!

It’s not that it’s a good idea. It isn’t. It’s a terrible idea.

It’s that without ranked choice voting, the spoiler effect means a third party vote is shooting yourself (and everyone else) in the foot.

I had a similar situation, then they gave me a cavity filling on one of the teeth and the gap went away. Maybe they can fake a filling to fill the gap? 🤣

Well sure, life savers aren’t food, but Life Savers® are.

The investigation is taking its sweet time.

Not really. We already have the preliminary report. Final reports take a long time. Often a year or more.

🤣😂🤣

Weird how I never once said metric horsepower was part of “The Metric System” and how I also gave the kW value in my very first post.

It’s not that I don’t know what you mean, my friend, it’s that I am not using the word metric the same way you are. That’s the whole point. You can say colloquial all you want! I never disagreed! You can talk about by and large all you want! You’re not wrong!

Metric horsepower is a metric unit, it’s in the name. Whether it’s an SI-unit or part of “the metric system” is completely irrelevant. I am technically correct, the best kind of correct.

I am shocked we’re arguing about this. Again, I apologize for trying to have fun on the internet, I promise it won’t happen again.

I’m not ignoring your point. I’m saying your point is irrelevant. This is a unit in use today, with “metric” in its English name. I don’t care that it isn’t part of what is colloquially called “the metric system.” That wasn’t the point.

But don’t worry, next time I think to myself, “I could reply with a fun bit of trivia I know and make a comment that is both correct and also not at all what the person I’m replying to means or expects,” I’ll first ask myself, “What would Dasus say?”

Oh I read your pedantry. You just really don’t want to say, “Oh, interesting, I didn’t realize there was ever a metric horsepower.”

Got it. Metric horsepower isn’t metric. Forgive me for thinking a recognized metric unit is metric. And also for not putting the kW conversion in bold or something.

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So I’m not goanna say your wrong per se. But you’re not exactly right either

In what way am I not right? We’re talking about an electric motor for automobiles, and I gave a metric unit that automakers use. What’s more, I also gave it in kW! 🤣

What are you on about? The metric unit for power is the Watt

They said anything but metric. The SI unit for power is the Watt, sure, but there are other metric units that are not SI units. One of these is the metric horsepower. 1 metric horsepower is defined as the amount of power required to raise 75kg of mass 1 meter in 1 second against Earth’s gravity. I used pferdestärke because automakers use the “PS” abbreviation in my experience.

This unit exists as an attempt to have a value comparable to historic mechanical horsepower measurements but defined with metric terms.

Obviously Watts are the preferred unit for most things, but the automotive world still likes horsepower. So, metric horsepower.