The more important point where the graph is misleading.

While their market share went down, that says nothing. The market exploded over that period.

Total installs is the thing you want to graph.

Or Monthly Active Users, which has been mostly flat or slightly declining since 2019, the oldest date that Firefox currently lists on their website. Because all sorts of graphs are publicly available on that site.

I’m also certain that I can find data going back further.

I have a better idea than the gallows. Give them a minimum wage job that deals with customers.

A small one bedroom apartment thrown is as well, and no access to their money for a few years. just their minimum wage.

Over on reddit there’s an entire genre of this sort of fiction in /r/hfy

Edge cases like you describe are a key part of Ordinal voting systems, Cardinal voting systems are immune to that sort of thing.

Also, Cardinal voting systems can be super easy. Take Approval.

Simply take a list of names, and mark next to each candidate you approve of. If you feel like you need to have a moral conundrum over what you feel like approval means, then go ahead, but just mark the next to any or all of the names on the list that you like.

After that, the counting is simple as well. You add up the approval of each candidate, independent of what any other candidate gets, and then the winner is the one with the most approval.

It is literally impossible to elect an unpopular candidate via Approval, unless only unpopular candidates run.

STAR is slightly more complex, in that you rate each candidate on a scale of 0-5. Again, no one actually cares about your personal journey in rating someone a 4 or whatnot, just do it and move on.

Then when counting, you again add up the numbers, take the highest two, and see where they rate on each individual ballot. If one is rated higher than the other, they get the vote from that ballot.

Changing the voting system so that third parties are actually possible.

You need a cardinal voting system, otherwise you’ll fall prey to Durverger’s Law and Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem.

I favor STAR, it’s the best system designed to date.

Except the truth is that no, almost every venom is safe to ingest. Provided you don’t have any cuts in your mouth or throat.

Snakes are not immune to their own venom. They don’t need to be, because their stomach acid can break it down.

As can ours.

Ranked Choice is an Ordinal voting system that fails Arrow’s Theorem.

In some rare cases, it can produce a result even worse than First Past the Post. There are a bunch of flaws in RCV, because it was invented before mathematical evaluation was as robust as it is these days.

Simulation, and some unfortunate real world examples, show that if you vote in and election with at least three somewhat viable candidates, and keep strategy in mind, you can rate your preferred candidate second and improve their chances of winning.

No voting system should be able to do this. RCV has more flaws in addition to this already game breaking one.

It is literally to have a viable third party under First Past the Post. It boils down to Duverger’s law. Or more broadly Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem

We need to focus on the actual voting system before we can start generating and supporting Third Parties.

Specifically we need a cardinal voting system. It’s literally the only way to gain viable third parties that are not just extensions of the major two.

Sadly it’s too late to get voting reform on any more ballots this year.

But you can still get involved.

https://www.equal.vote/

It’s not a remake. It’s a sequel with the same director and writing team as the first one.

It also has a few truly disturbing scenes.

Now I’m thinking about a pair of elves is the worst sort of codependent relationship, but one light year apart.

They use sign language to constantly argue and make up with each other, but because of the one light year delay, they’re maybe never quite at the same place in the argument/reconciliation cycle, both of them arguing with their counterpart one year prior.

If it’s an old patent, chances are it’s expired and free to use now.

Yeah, while there are dozens or possibly hundreds of flavors of “wicca”. The first tenent is almost always some variation on “do no harm”. Normally phrased something like “as it harms none, do as thou will”… Which is odd phrasing for something written in the last century.

The main exception is those who follow Crowley. His whole deal was “do what thou will shall be the whole of the law”.

Crowley was mostly in it for the shock value.

And again, Crowley’s “ancient wisdom” is newer than the invention of photography. We even have recordings of him speaking.

The Lego Movie was done correctly. The Minecraft movie looks to be a dumpster fire of horrible, rushed CGI.

There was a write up from one of the writers who worked on the series.

This was written after he and most of the team left Valve.

It’s already happened once.

The Big Mike banana was super popular until the 1950s, when a fungal infection basically wiped them out. (they’re still grown in a few places, but are super susceptible to infection)

So, the banana growers switched over to the Cavendish banana. It was resistant to the fungus.

But the days of the Cavendish were always numbered because of how they’re grown. A seedless banana can only grow via cuttings. Which is how they’ve been grown since the beginning. Every single banana on the shelf at your local supermarket is genetically identical. They’ve been identical since the 50s, and the fungus has adapted to them. Worse still, the particular fungus that’s now attacking the Cavendish cultivar is extremely resistant to fungicides.

So yeah, without some sort of massive shift in genetic diversity, the Banana will no longer be a thing in Central America. Do note, that the banana is not a native plant in the Americas, and is cultivated widely in Southeast Asia. So yeah, the Banana will not go extinct, but it will vanish from American and European stores.

That “waste product” isn’t just thrown away.

They’re still hydrocarbons. Which are used in other places or burned for fuel… Which isn’t actually all that great for the environment…

Actually, tossing the waste product in a pit might be better, environmentally speaking.