That is a bit of a weird criticism of STAR voting. Scoring Then Automatic Runoff. The runoff is fundamentally a key stage of STAR voting.

I also do not think runoff fixes most voting systems. It isn’t compatible with FPTP, approval voting with runoff would cause alot of vote erasure (if you approve of both finalists, your vote is ignored even if you approve one more than the other), and you’d fundamentally have to change how ranked choice works to accept runoff, to the point that you’ve essentially recreated STAR voting again (but with more or fewer boxes depending on how many candidates there are).

EDIT: just realized the math is off. 101 giving 5 stars each is 505 stars. Doesn’t change outcome, just the math’ll be slightly different.

It feels like you do not fully understand the system yet.

Yes trump and Biden win the most stars, and trump has 1 5 more stars.

Then runoff happens. It’s now a two-person race between the two individuals with the most stars.

Each person has their vote count towards the candidate they gave more stars to, with equal ratings being treated as abstained votes.

I am taking your writing to mean that if a candidate isn’t mentioned for a group, then that group gave zero stars to that candidate. So that is now 200 voters who gave more stars to Biden than trump. Biden 200 - 101 Trump. Biden wins.

The star count only matters for the first stage in narrowing the playing field to two candidates. The actual vote then occurs in runoff. That is not a flaw. The system operated as intended, and the candidate preferred by the largest portion of society won.

Couldn’t tell you the outcome unless you actually gave me the actual votes for each candidate. For personal impact, the first voters has communicated “anyone except this guy” and the second has communicated “I don’t like this guy but I hate every other option”.

STAR does have the risk of having more than two candidates win with the same rating, but the chances of that happening are astronomically low - even in town elections. You’d have to be using an insanely low number of voters for it to even be plausible.

Just gonna throw STAR voting into the rink for the hell of it. Any of these systems is better than FPTP and I would endorse any of them in a local push for better voting.

This is even more relevant to Digimon. I have no idea of whether their file format is supported, or how digiworld differs on OS’s. I’d have to guess it’s some type of web protocol? Dunno…

Edit: dug back into my childhood, the Digiworld is stored on a cluster of servers, so those are pretty likely going to be some flavor of linux. Local PC client applications are used for storing Digimon locally IIRC, and we also see in this clip that it appears that the guys are using windows 95 or something similar.

Still alot of questions but

Shoes off AND pants off? He ded.

Yeah, you could smash a decent number of business windows with a sock full of 100 pennies. Then, when police get there, you could really get into those upper scores! /j

Dioooooo

All the logos over his face makes him look like a rainbow eldritch horror when I see him in my periphery.

So in this case, is the “Would.” Implying “I would fuck that.”? Is this another format of “Hear me out…”?

Get an abacus. Unlock your full potential.

10 + 1 = 11

Is this normal in Iceland? What’s the current situation there?

Edit: Found Details link

Edit2: looks like the town was evacuated

Here’s my delivery app for ya: SMS

You text your buddy, they buy the groceries, you pay em for gas & groceries and alittle extra for the trouble, and you have em over for dinner.

None of these exploitive business models RN.

AWAB, fuck the Mage’s Guild!

Bought 5 foam swords for $3 each. Good purchase.

White man shoulda thought about that before creating race.

The election will pan out how it’ll pan out. I’m voting for Biden so I can give my friends the best chance we can get them.

I am not just voting, though, and you shouldn’t stop at voting either.

Start working towards unionizing your workplace if you can. Join the IWW for training and networking (literally any worker can join).

Join and support any kind of solidarity network in your town you can (tenant unions, volunteer security details, food distributors, etc.) Hell, start one with your friends if there isn’t one.

Participate in protests and public shows of solidarity. Don’t back down.

Help the homeless. They’ve completely lost their voices and are constantly under attack by NIMBYs and cops, and it’s likely that many people you know right now will be in their position in the future, especially if Trump’s Elected.

Right now, ‘the revolution’ would never come. US citizens are atomized and divided, by highways, suburban sprawl, parking lots, hostile architecture, and the constant crushing weight of capitalist responsibilities. We’ve got to rebuilt the networks of solidarity we had during the union wars. That’s the best way forward to a better US. Unionize, uplift your fellow workers, and keep pushing against the oppressors.

Peanut

Meat cows specifically should be wiped out for their methane production being so high. I’ve heard that if we managed to stop beef consumption we’d have something like a 10% decrease in emissions just from that alone.