nailingjello

Monterey Park is the city in California, in case anyone else is wondering.

Been using URLCheck for a while now and love it.

It also casually reminds me how clean the URLs in Lemmy/Piefed are since they don’t include ten different tracking redirects.

Jimmy Eat World should be part of the conversation due to their acronym.

Thanks for the tip on Grayjay. FYI, I had to add this repo on F-Droid in order to find it there.

NewPipe still seems to be working (thankfully)

Text for the lazy.

Duverger’s Law

In political science, Duverger’s law holds that single-ballot plurality-rule elections (such as first past the post) structured within single-member districts tend to favor a two-party system.

Duverger’s law is the reason why U.S. voters select one of the two leading candidates when voting tactically, even if a third-party candidate would better represent their interests. This behavior arises out to fear of vote splitting

One consequence of Duverger’s law is that you can improve the viability of third-party candidates by changing the voting system. For example, Approval voting is more resistant to vote splitting and therefore more conducive to third-party candidates.