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daniel (godunman) @danielwaker.bsky.social · 1h

my bad sometimes I mix up IRV and STV. but I'm not really sure what you mean by "Single transferrable votes for single seats" since STV is only for multiwinner races

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daniel (godunman) @danielwaker.bsky.social · 5h

obviously if there's more than two parties they lose their meaning, but we're not exactly there yet. and I don't really think party membership matters in a two party system

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daniel (godunman) @danielwaker.bsky.social · 5h

...RCV is the same as STV? I don't really hear of any other contexts/systems for it

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daniel (godunman) @danielwaker.bsky.social · 5h

I'm not saying they're good but they're definitely better than partisan primaries, no?

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daniel (godunman) @danielwaker.bsky.social · 6h

ranked choice voting in every major city NOW. jungle primaries work okay too but not as well

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daniel (godunman) @danielwaker.bsky.social · 8h

God I wish I could vote for him again

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daniel (godunman) @danielwaker.bsky.social · 8h

yeah this is straight up grounds for removal from the court. no man, especially a white man born in 1950, should be allowed to lie about what women do with their lives. brother it's only abstract to YOU because you are an infertile man

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daniel (godunman) @danielwaker.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“fitness standards” is so funny because standing in place is not exactly good for you either

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daniel (godunman) @danielwaker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

thanks man you should read a book sometime

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daniel (godunman) @danielwaker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm willing to believe this is true to some degree but part of the point is that with less cars, there is less capacity, and thus less road to repair. a two laner is not the same as a southwestern freeway

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daniel (godunman) @danielwaker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

source on "the vast majority of damage done to pavement is done by trucks and buses"?

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daniel (godunman) @danielwaker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I don't have any opposition to car ownership itself, my opposition is to car ownership as a necessity of daily life

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daniel (godunman) @danielwaker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

it costs more per mile because that is the *point*. you don't need to travel further when you live in places that meet your needs with density and transit! that said, I am still curious about the sourcing of your numbers, which I don't believe are accurate - 30x is definitely off base

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daniel (godunman) @danielwaker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

there are basically two options, 1) densify so you can use transit 2) exponentially increase your taxes to pay for your infrastructure. and no one ever does #2

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daniel (godunman) @danielwaker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

(existing infrastructure, which is notably crumbling and digging itself further into debt in basically every city)

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daniel (godunman) @danielwaker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

should be as in the majority of Americans: they live in urban areas already. decent weather is not a requirement, & healthy passenger is not either, there's not a reason driving a car requires a less healthy passenger than any kind of transit system. the main reason is simply existing infrastructure

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daniel (godunman) @danielwaker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

don't really agree with that, generally people are going to use them because they don't really have any better options and most of the aforementioned costs are obfuscated, which is the purpose of most car oriented infrastructure

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daniel (godunman) @danielwaker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I am mainly curious about the cost numbers

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daniel (godunman) @danielwaker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

which is what roads' primary use should be, instead they are mostly used for individual commutes

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daniel (godunman) @danielwaker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

can you source these numbers for me

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daniel (godunman) @danielwaker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

we should have a day where every road is a toll road that reflects the actual cost of road maintenance and see how people react

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daniel (godunman) @danielwaker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

literally the only field that’s growing

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daniel (godunman) @danielwaker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“wHaT do yOu HaVe On DrAfT” I ask, curious what they have on draft.

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daniel (godunman) @danielwaker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"Firstly, suburbanites help keep the lights on in Chicago." me when I lie

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daniel (godunman) @danielwaker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

it's an uncurious proposition because the implication is that it is acceptable to have the ultra-rich in our society. the goal is not to tax billionaires into funded social programs, it's to not have billionaires anymore

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daniel (godunman) @danielwaker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

right, society is not one thing away from being fixed (whatever that would mean), and the only real “conspiracy” is that people like accumulating money and power. we need more third spaces, but to use them we need more ways to incentivize the use, etc

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daniel (godunman) @danielwaker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

society "prefers" it in the same way that alcoholics prefer to spend all their money alcohol. it's addictive and bad for you in the long run but it feels good in the immediacy of it. you could also compare it to gambling in that it's basically designed to addict you.

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daniel (godunman) @danielwaker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

that’s true. today jobs are often replaced by extracurriculars for those who don’t need the job, which is is both good and bad. even then that third space is usually controlled by the second (school)

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daniel (godunman) @danielwaker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I mean, the internet kind of took it from you, particularly in the area of algorithmic feeds. you don’t need to go anywhere to be entertained, which is really bad for society. you could say Silicon Valley took it from you which would be terribly far off

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daniel (godunman) @danielwaker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I mean, the first and second in “third space” means home and work

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daniel (godunman) @danielwaker.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I have seen discourse about this song a billion times. I also have no idea what it sounds like anyways stream Mule by Orville Peck

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daniel (godunman) @danielwaker.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Memphis and Austin are something at least

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daniel (godunman) @danielwaker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

our LIBERAL schools have succumbed to teaching ARABIC numerals and having SAME SEX bathrooms

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daniel (godunman) @danielwaker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

this person is also not debating that an electric vehicle, compared to non-electric, is better. this is obvious and clear. the point is that the central problem with cars is that they destructively transform all of society to accommodate them if they are the primary mode of transportation.

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daniel (godunman) @danielwaker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

? who are you talking to? no one is debating this

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daniel (godunman) @danielwaker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

EV stans going out of their way to be insufferable really doesn't do the work any favors.

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daniel (godunman) @danielwaker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I have no opposition to private electric vehicles on their own. my opposition is that private electric vehicles *are* the solution. they are downstream of it. I’m not sure you understand environmental racism if you think that the answer does not center on increased transit, biking, and walkability!

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daniel (godunman) @danielwaker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

no you don’t! the replacement for cars doesn’t need to be cars!

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daniel (godunman) @danielwaker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“increasing passengers per vehicle on shared routes” brother we have this. it is called public transit and it is the antithesis of private automobiles. these are things that increase safety, increase energy efficiency, and infrastructurally carbon footprint *today*!

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daniel (godunman) @danielwaker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

right. this is doable! cars necessitate like 100x that, and this causes a cascade of problems as a result

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daniel (godunman) @danielwaker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

this has been the line for the past 15 years and things have only gotten worse. the biggest problems with cars aren't the fuel source or need to have a driver (although these are obviously still problems) it's that they necessitate a wealth of destructive infrastructure to support them

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A lot of society, but esp. the US and the UK, overemphasizes individual effort and problem-solving instead of systemic changes and better government regulations. And it's easier to hyperfixate on the choices of these individuals than focus on how institutions and gov policies discriminate and harm.

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daniel (godunman) @danielwaker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

no one suggested improving ventilation because no one upset is interested in *improvements*

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daniel (godunman) @danielwaker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I know everyone on this app already hates Tik Tok but holy shit why is everyone on it so hostile to bikes and transit. Why is Instagram Reels of all places more forward thinking and reasonable

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daniel (godunman) @danielwaker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

is "drop off your resume at X location" not like an infinitely preferable barrier to AI slop applications or whatever

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