This last election was one of the most polarized we've had. And they happen. But the nod came close to winning a majority in my lifetime (they've really lost the plot lately).
The influence of parties outside the "big two" waxes and wanes but they remain an important factor in a democratic process that, while flawed because of FPTP and many other reasons, remains a healthy-ish democracy. I stress the ish.
Every other country with first past the post parting has third and fourth parties that actually win seats.
I'd agree with the overall point of your comment though. First past the post is problematic and does tend towards favouring two parties, though to my knowledge out all of the countries that employ FPTP the us is the only one where people believe there are only two possible options.
Coalitions are formed all the time in Canada between our two most popular parties and smaller parties.
Patents can't be owned by companies. Only individuals. In the event of any patent being the result of a team effort each person responsible for its development is gets a proportion of profits from it.
If person develops a patent while employed at a corporation that company owns a lease on the patent lasting 10 or 20 years or something .
I'm sure there's holes in this you can drive a truck through but high level I feel like there is something there.
i never liked yourube. i have barely ever watched it. and it has been a huge driver pf the enshitifcation of the internet since its debut, as more and more content became bideo content, and accessing useful information in text form became more and kore difficult.
it is kind of hard for me to have strong feelings about something that, in my opinion, has always sucked ass, sucking more ass
im handy with a soldering iron but dont know jack about the math behind electronics - can you provide any guidance as to how one would do this,
id be comfortable deslldering something and surface soldering something back onto a pcb but i am mot sure how what i would actually need to do to do this.
Also while im on the subject - how woukd one do this with bluetooth with a device with a bluetooth chip soldered to the board?
i was watching jurassic world in the theatre and drinking heavily. i kept laughing at the god awful dialogue and ridiculous plot points. a couple people glared at me... the first time. The second time the whole theatre was joining in.
it was just so fucking bad. there is something about being in a theatre that helps people not notice the shit, and ive often found that all it takes is some laughter to cut theough the shitty veneer and the garbage is evident.
I don't see why a group of people can't pool resources and lvie collectively around shared values while also participating in many of the morrundane aspects of modern life.
like. Why couldnt half of the commune leave to go work and come back? And even if people sre living communally, how communal does it need to be, reslly?
I am not super knowledgeable on the subject but the little i know seems to indicate that there are always pepple that dont pull their weight - and maybe that is one of the big problems here? Trading the oppressive weight of obligation from contemporary urban living for the weight of obligation fron a more intimate communal setting seems very tit for tat.
then again I really don't have much knowledge here. just observations from the outside.
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