I think using a method of proportional representation is the most effective defence against gerrymandering. You cannot have unrepresentative elections when the system has representation built into it.
However, that would be difficult to do in the US from what I understand. There would need to be several changes to the law to give it a fighting chance.
I've had my Google account for over a decade. At some point, I noticed my YouTube handle was just my name, and I don't remember setting it to that.
On pretty much all websites, I have a default username I try to use, but I don't remember getting that option when making a Google account
Microsoft Windows was originally called "Wind OS"; the wavy logos from the earlier versions is supposed to be a flag waving in the wind. Consumers kept calling it Windos; eventually Microsoft conceded that the name had stuck and changed it to Windows for 3.1
France, if you squint slightly. Their two-round runoff is a better system, but it's not proportional and can effectively become FPTP under certain conditions.
On my app, tapping the image makes it full screen. I had to figure out how to get to the raw Markdown of the post and go from there.
For those who come after: https://slrpnk.net/comment/16864626
There's an actual response to the issue at hand in that link; man didn't just decide to drop a meme and peace out (though I probably would've assumed that was the case if it wasn't for the edit)
Slightly tangential, but something that really pisses me off is how we had something like this system for elections for mayors and some other local positions.
The Supplementary Vote was used for all combined authority mayoral elections until the Elections Act 2022 abolished it. It was basically the Alternative Vote (Instant Runoff/Ranked Choice Voting) but limited to two choices: the top two candidates who received the most preferences would advance to a runoff which used the second choices. It's similar to the French system but it's all done on the same ballot instead over two separate votes.
The Tories had it in their manifesto to replace it with FPTP, and they did that through the EA2022. I knew they weren't on board with changing parliamentary elections to a better system, but getting rid of (marginally better) established systems says a lot to me about what they think about democracy.
wake up
get up
get out there
me if hayfever didn't exist:
This might be getting into the weeds a little, but to me, "bottle of water" implies a single-use bottle already filled with water, while "water bottle" implies a bottle that is made to be (re)filled with water
... unless I'm the cause of the crisis, then I'm a mess
Wow, TIL, thanks for the info!
S2 finale spoiler: >!they even got the colours right!<