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It’s the combination of FPTP voting and the presidential government structure.

In a parliamentary system third parties are more viable because they can act as “king maker” to one of the two larger parties.

Of course a proportional voting system like STV is even better for party diversity.

They’ve done that periodically for years.

I don’t dual boot anymore but when I did I kept each installation on a separate hard drive for that reason.

My condolences.

The sculptor must’ve looked at all those statues that have cloth draped over bodies and said “I can do you one better”.

Where do I sign up for my “doesn’t believe Kamala Harris can control the path of hurricanes with a weather machine” award?

Imagine existing.

Couldn’t be me.

Interesting to note that although HAARP was originally a joint project between the US Air Force, US Navy, DARPA, and the University of Alaska Fairbanks, since 2015 control was transferred exclusively to the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

https://xkcd.com/963/

Fortunately I haven’t had to open it in a very long time.

This story and the Triangle Shirtwaist fire should be a reminder that almost every large business owner would kill you if it meant they could make slightly more money.

How much extra value do you think they generated in a couple of hours of making plastic pipes? That’s what their lives were worth to the factory owners.