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  • I think there was an unspoken assumption that proportional representation, while good, is orthogonal to the voting ballot tallying. Which is what I think the video mainly focused on. Proportional should absolutely still be used.

  • Trump’s Campaign Is Drowning in Rage: Faced with a surprisingly united Democratic Party, the Republican nominee is trotting out the same old strategy
  • We got some good and necessary changes to delegates after Hillary's failed coronation. Now we'll likely see required primaries due to Biden's almost disaster. I do hope Kamala and Walz make changes to incorporate a truly diverse coalition for democrats. Including leadership for core demographics.

  • B-but muh free market!
  • When I was younger I heard that a planned economy can never be as potentially as efficient over time as a free (not capatilist) market due to the "lack of perfect information". Meaning, not one authority can fully and effectively makimulsy optimize each supply/demand connection across all types of markets (pencils, food, trucks, medicine, tutors, etc...). The benefit of allowing markets to form organically (again, not monopolies, not regulatory capture, but person to person markets) is that each market will self-optimize for their own local maxima of efficiency.

    This local optimization represents the implicit information that each market maker (buyer vs seller) brings to the table: effectively making every small market a mini-planned market. Now, many local maxima does not equal one true global maxima, but with many such algorithms local maxima produce very efficient and high quality results.

    Hence, the challenge with a planned economy is not the control, but the lack of total information necessary to meet a higher efficiency target for all markets than would be possible if each market self-planned.

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  • The bot's info is nice and I appreciate your effort. The wall of text is a turnoff for humans in-general, as we are lazy skimmers. So the text being formatted so densely trains users to automatically ignore it, thus reducing the bot's intended purpose - to supply users with extra info about media bias. (which we desperately need on sites like lemmy)

    If there's any possibility of reformatting so your intentions can more broadly affect the those platform, then I think your goals would be more effectively achieved.

    Again, thank you for the bot.

  • Kamala Harris issues statement on the anti-genocide protesters in Washington DC.
  • It's true. Condemning burning the American flag is a just another form of covering your eyes or ears because you don't like what people are saying. We should both strive to improve our country, listen to protestors, and live up to the American ideals of freedom.

  • Trees reveal climate surprise: Microbes living in bark remove methane from the atmosphere
  • Somehow I'm not too shocked that nature has created self-balancing biomes and microbiomes across... Well everything. In some sense, isn't the collective biome of life on Earth the very definition of "nature"?

    We are all connected.

  • Biden calls his decision to step aside from 2024 race a matter of defending democracy
  • No. We are considering multiple challenges at the same time.

    His decision here does help unite the democrats and brings hope to the younger generations. But, this decision also does not absolve him of his war crimes. Both can be true.

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