LemoineFairclough

If the people you're talking to will make or have accounts, https://www.privacyguides.org/en/real-time-communication/ should have more useful information for you.

If people don't want to make accounts, I know about https://framatalk.org/ (from https://degooglisons-internet.org/ (from https://framasoft.org/)) but I haven't used that software myself.

I definitely recognized "Huskvarna" for some reason, but didn't know its location or why I would have recognized it before reading your comment. I haven't lived in Sweden or a place that would have been very easy for me to get to Sweden from.

Brussels sprouts used to taste different: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brussels_sprout#Contemporary_Brussels_sprouts

Why do you think that STAR is a better system than Ranked Choice Voting?

If you just need a more general term to describe your desired electoral reform(s), "proportional representation" is probably suitable:

Under the amended 1976 Electoral Act, European elections must be based on proportional representation and use either the list system or the single transferable vote system. Member States may also authorise voting based on a preferential list system.

A ballot that contains 1 skipped ranking before its highest continuing ranking is interesting. I suppose that means a voter is expressing "I only want to participate in an election for an office elected by ranked-choice voting: if there aren't 3 or more candidates I don't want to participate". Such a ballot is not necessarily an "Exhausted ballot":

"Exhausted ballot" means a ballot that does not rank any continuing candidate, contains an overvote at the highest continuing ranking or contains 2 or more sequential skipped rankings before its highest continuing ranking.

Note that there are more resources I found at https://www.legislature.maine.gov/lawlibrary/ranked-choice-voting-in-maine/9509

It's interesting that the text of Washington, D.C., Initiative 83, Ranked-Choice Voting Initiative (November 2024) is similar to the Maine statutes, but specifically says that voters should be informed that they should not skip a ranking:

“Inactive ballot” means a ballot on which no active candidate is ranked, contains an overvote at the highest ranking of active candidates, or contains 2 or more sequential skipped rankings before its highest-ranked active candidate.

Each ballot shall contain instructions informing the voter of the following, [...] That the voter should not give more than one candidate the same ranking, rank a candidate more than once, or skip a ranking.

I think this is not among the most important things to be talking about.

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/magazine/magazine_article/fluoridated-drinking-water/

https://nutritionsource.hsph.harvard.edu/fluoride/

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ftsa&q=fluoride+site%3A.edu&ia=web

I've used reddit.com before but I never made many posts or comments and I haven't used it in years. I'm pretty sure there was a period where I visited it regularly though.

I don't think I've ever posted anything with facebook.com or twitter.com either. I never browsed them for fun, and if I want to coordinate with someone in my family I just contact them directly. I do use youtube.com a lot though.

I tried using pleroma but I haven't used that in a while either. I prefer lemmy much more (probably because posts being different from comments provides more structure).

https://www.privacyguides.org/fr/real-time-communication/

Programs that do multiple things are not simple, so successfully using or understanding what they do is less likely to be possible for you. I expect that wanting to avoid interacting with many programs will lead a person to use programs that are nonfree more often than they otherwise would, so it would be more likely that a program controls the users.

I can list some alternatives to Discord that you probably don't know, and requirements for an alternative to Discord: https://degooglisons-internet.org/ https://framasoft.org/en/manifest https://www.privacyguides.org/en/real-time-communication/ https://www.privacyguides.org/en/real-time-communication/#criteria

Also consider https://soatok.blog/2024/08/04/against-xmppomemo/ https://soatok.blog/2024/07/31/what-does-it-mean-to-be-a-signal-competitor/ [email protected]

Typo: s/FOUR\/FOR\/s/s\/FOUR\/FOR\//

To "substitute", the editing command is s/RE/replacement/ which has a s character before any <slash> (/) character: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/utilities/sed.html#tag_20_109_13_03

It doesn't matter if anything is behind you or not: any other road users would also be obligated to give up their right of way (by stopping) if you chose to stop, if doing so would help prevent collisions.