letsgo

More to the point if "addicted to alcohol" is alcoholic, why isn't "addicted to work" workic?

Oh, I can do project management too!

Your next task is waves hands around ... the thing ... waves hands around some more ... like the other thing ... but different.

"Which server do I join?" seems to be a sticking point for a lot of people.

The "Browse servers" page does say at the top "You can access all content in the lemmyverse from any server, so it doesn't matter which one you choose", but on showing this page you immediately scroll that message off the screen. Maybe if you kept that bit visible it would help.

Also I think comparing it with email servers might be helpful. People already know they can email anyone from any email server, and that signing up to, say, Posteo, doesn't mean you can only email other Posteo users.

Inasmuch as we can, yeah. None of our planning so far has allowed for the possibility of Moronica turning into a loose cannon and going around threatening all its friends and allies. As with Ukraine, if Moronica decides you're fucked, you're fucked, and there's not a whole lot we can do about it.

I can't find it now but I seem to remember a proof that a collection of points could be divided in half by a straight line, first by assuming that no three points were collinear, then by picking any point on the plane, drawing a straight line through it, then rotating it around that point until you could get half the points on each side. The implication of this though is that you could pick someone in Aberdeen, which the above map would seem to suggest isn't possible.

The location of the second line would have to be determined by sliding it along the first, rather than rotation, so it could end up resting on 0, 1 or 2 points. Either way you're probably close enough. The proof, for or against, is outside my mathematical ability.

But sometimes you have to pick the least worst option. Or did they genuinely believe Harris would be worse?

You haven't said which government so I'll assume you mean the American one.

There are plenty of people with both means and influence. The problem is that they just got voted out, and there aren't enough Republicans that are moderate enough to start voting against Trump.

Yet.

And that's the key thing. As Trump gets more and more trumpy, the more moderate Republicans will start getting hacked off with it all and will start voting against their party, or at the very least abstaining. IIRC the Rep majority is 3, so there need to be 4 Rep abstentions to get a united Dem opposition over the line.

The problem is that doing so is likely to end their political career. So there needs to be some really good mileage in them voting with the Democrats.

As the Republicans hold a majority and all of them are currently with Trump, whatever Trump says goes. Even if all Dems say no, that isn't a majority no until they start getting some objections from the Reps.

So ultimately the power lies with the voters. If the Reps won't vote in the country's interests then the country needs to start voting in the country's interests. Trump said what he was going to do, and the whole point of Trump is that he isn't the usual lying politician that says whatever it takes to get into power then does whatever they want anyway. So "I didn't think he meant it" isn't going to fly when Trump does what Trump said he would. (Although obviously he didn't end putin's war on day 1, so the list of Trump's broken promises is already not empty.)

There were plenty of non-voting voters who could have made the Reps a tiny minority. But for some reason they couldn't bring themselves to vote for Harris, so they opted out. Personally I'm surprised she couldn't win simply on "I'm not Trump".

For the next four years I also propose renaming en_us to an-us.

The United States of Moronica

no offense to actual morons intended

How about Gulf of Moronica?

Same way you solved all those other problems that require coordination despite not having any.