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I have to admit, as an Albertan, to the tiniest bit of relief to finally see a different province’s name in a headline like this.

Also dread that it’s spreading, though.

“If we knew what we were doing it wouldn’t be an experiment, would it?”

And also just generally a matter of practicality. If every time you raised an issue of medical or scientific ethics you had to simultaneously mention every single other instance where that issue came into play it’d be impossible to discuss them.

The way I’ve reconciled the Paradox of Tolerance for myself is to view tolerance as part of a social contract. The social contract demands that tolerance be extended to everyone who in turn accepts that social contract themselves. “Being tolerant” doesn’t necessarily require that tolerance to be given out indiscriminately. Like how I wouldn’t consider a vegan any less a vegan if they ended up having to kill something in self-defense, even if they had to kill it by biting chunks out of it.

There is. luarocks is basically the “pip” equivalent for lua, it installs packages (called “rocks”) and manages dependencies. These packages can extend lua with all sorts of practical capabilities.

There are well-documented instances of this. Republicans supported the Green Party in the 2024 American elections, for example, providing them with legal and consulting aid. Same with independent candidate Cornel Green. This technique relies on people not voting strategically.

I’m sure the Conservative party would have been very happy if the NDP had siphoned some additional votes away from the Liberals in tightly contested ridings.

The NDP is not currently a recognized party at all, let alone a “major” one. Or are you referring to the Bloc?

Vote for what is closest to your values or just don’t show up

That’s the same picture if you’re an NDP voter in most ridings in the last election. Watch the video, it’s very short and explains the problem quite well.

You’re insisting on an outcome that was not possible. The NDP were not going to achieve any significant power or influence in the previous election. With a handful of exceptional ridings, any vote for the NDP was effectively a vote for Pierre. You may not be happy with that but it is the reality dictated by the electoral facts on the ground and by basic game theory. Insisting otherwise results in people ending up voting against their own interests.

First-past-the-post voting systems are inherently two-party.

In a minority Liberal government, perhaps. I don’t see a Conservative minority government being particularly interested in working with the NDP.

Obviously I know that. Carney’s current government is a minority government.

You really think the NDP would be a meaningful partner in any sense to a Conservative government? They’d work with the Liberals instead, they’re more closely aligned with Conservative goals and values.

Only two parties were realistically capable of forming a government in that election. One was led by Carney, the other by Pollievre.

You’re saying going with the Carney option was a “big mistake?”

Well, we don’t like them.

Has China said anything about intending to annex us?

Still better than trading with the US.

You could literally chop the lower half of this image off and it would make no difference to the data visualization.

The duplication would result in an arc being drawn twice with exactly the same pixels. Ie, it would make no difference whatsoever to the display. It has no effect on the “beauty” part. You might as well be objecting to the font that the text is in.

The text at the bottom has duplicates, sure. Do you think that’s the “beautiful” part?

Okay, so as I was suspecting this has nothing to do with proportional representation in the government of Canada. Or in general, really, because the Fediverse is not a government and “holding 39%” doesn’t have any particular voting power.

And I’m not even in the “lemmyverse” for that matter, I’m on an mbin instance. If you want to gripe about the ecosystem being dominated by particular elements perhaps that’s an even bigger issue to look at.

I assure you it’s not intentional. It’s completely unclear to me what this means, either in the context of Canadian proportional representation or with regard to the Fediverse. I didn’t know that the logo in the second panel was for Lemmy.world until you mentioned it in one of the comments, I have no idea what drama is going on that involves them, and what little I’ve gleaned from the comments so far doesn’t give any indication that it’s linked to the subject of this community at all.