Right.....I'll preface all this by saying I live in an RCV country which used to have a 2 party system way back when. The question was genuine because I'm very happy with our voting system and if there were flaws I'm interested to explore better options.

The hypothetical you're discussing there never happens. I've been voting for 30 years and have never come across (or myself done) the kind of shenanigans you mention. There's just no need for it.

You go in, rank your options in order and the fairest option for you (with some small caveats) comes out on top. Our recent European elections in my district are a good example. There were 4 seats up for grabs and 8 parties and a bunch of independents up. The larger parties will frequently field 2 candidates. In that election, the 5th place candidate overtook 4th on eliminations from the 6th place preferences to take the last seat.

In the case of the nazi's, they get eliminated first round here then 90+% of their votes will pass to some other right wing party with 10% not counting because they are the end of the line for that voter.

One example I'll give is for a centre left voter. They would hypothetically vote some combination of labour, greens and centre left independents. Once those options had run out on the ballot, you're looking at whether they're more likely to go far left or centre right. Where I live, a large number of the votes will actually fall centre right as they're closer idealogically than far left.

For what it's worth, here's how the breakdown of voting was in my district:

https://www.rte.ie/news/elections-2024/results/#/local/fingal-county-county

The counting thing actually adds a bit of spice and voter excitement because you're keen to see how votes transfer in each round. Certainly I was checking in regularly and was keen to see if the pundits were right on the final elimination I mentioned above (they were).

Recounts are rarely necessary but do happen in the event that it's looking close for an actual seat and not who's going to be eliminated next.

I have heard of star voting and must read more on it, but I am very happy with RCV for now and I'm not sure Star would represent any meaningful change in a country that moved from 2 party to many party with a strong independent voice in our parliament.

Edit: One thing I like about RCV is voting for a candidate even though I feel they're likely to get eliminated simply because they match my views closely, knowing that my further down preferences will count and if they are elected well all the better. That is just not really an option with FPTP. It's a horrible system.

I'm curious to hear what those issues are?

I feel well represented under RCV.

Ireland also has this. It's great. I believe that's what's being referred to as "ranked choice voting" in this thread.

I would generally go quite far down the ballot though I do believe some stop at 1 or 2.

Very nice package. No mention of striking inside Russia unfortunately. :(

I got the one for you, follow me.

This is an old one, but:

The Mission, scored by Ennio Morricone.

Ah tbh I stole it from elsewhere so steal away :D It's a good one!

Love seeing the Ukrainian home grown dildo of consequences absolutely fucking up logistics like this. Those depots looked like the flippin' moon afterwards there were so many craters.

The kabooms were also very satisfying to watch.

Car charger that does the OnePlus specific fast charge thing. Cost me $12 delivered on AliExpress. Adds about 2% per minute to my phone battery. I love it so much.

It also has a second port which does "normal" fast charge for any passengers.

Fair enough. :) Tell you what though... Green shirt and denim jeans sounds like a solid combo.

You probably have plenty of protein in your diet. Requirements aren't that high for it. They're not a complete protein either but easily become one when paired with stuff most of us eat anyway.

They're pretty decent for b vitamins and things like copper (which is used for iron absorption).

Long story short you probably just like PB. I mean it's nice stuff but easy to get sick of.

I think you're being downvoted because if you had a reputable link you'd just link it.

Any time someone says "just Google it" it sets off massive bullshit alarms.

Definitely. Any time there's a de-anonymisation where Tor is involved it should be closely looked at IMO.

It's trickle down economics in action.

Just installed. Looks great. Thank you.

Estimate was 30KT stored there. Most of it went up, even in the hardened bunker sections.

The north west section was completely obliterated. A lot of that was just out in the open so I wouldn't be surprised if that was the massive fireball.

For reference, Hiroshima was 15KT but obviously this was cooking off for a long time after that big blast.

Scalp comes from France.

Suchomimus does a decent breakdown. 60 bunkers confirmed destroyed. Some still unclear because of smoke. 30KT of explosives apparently stored at this site. Absolutely incredible work by Ukraine.

It's normal in Ireland. I can always get one same day or next day.

I feel like this infographic is full of shite on the GP part tbh.

Javelins are pretty good kit.

I mean there's a saint named after them.

And yeah it would seem crazy to sacrifice it if it wasn't damaged in fairness.