You need a way to ensure the presidental candidate is popular across many states, because that’s part of the election. Straight popular vote can easily skew to a candidate that wins a few states by a large margin, but ultimately loses the election.

Straight popular vote for a candidate is a great way to almost guarantee losses for the electoral college.

So they plan to kill super delegates?

Crazy idea. What if the Democratic primary was actually a democracy? Let the candidate who wins the most states with an electoral weight be the candidate.

This is a boring narrative. The system isn’t stacked in favor of the GOP, it’s stacked in favor of parties that play by the actual rules. If a party can’t make a compelling message to multiple different states, it’s on them.

This is actually an area where some tenant rights laws should be added or may already exist and just need to be enforced. Once private equity is forced to realize that rent comes with risk, the problem will likely go away as they divest from direct ownership.

Compromise doesn’t have to mean meeting in the middle. You could agree to allow abortions and require hospitals to provide guns for newborns.

That happens when groups get into purity spirals. When you push people who mostly agree with you away, they might find people that you really don’t agree with.

I shouldn’t be surprised Lemmy thinks this is a good thing. It’s really a problem for Democrats, and it’s a big reason trump won in the first place. You need people that disagree with you on occasion.

That would require real ownership which is unlikely to ever happen. Company failures more likely just means loss of any library from them.

Honestly 20 different companies would probably suck for the consumer. That’s 20 different storefronts to compare, 20 different libraries to manage, potentially 20 different sets of logins, 20 sources of data breaches. It’s unlikely they would adopt an open standard to allow a shared library. Maybe you have a 21st company that makes a product like heroic launcher. You’d likely run into regionality issues where a particular store is unavailable, so you may not be able to play purchased games. You would have all sorts of odd exclusive dlc and pre order bonuses so a cosmetic item you like could be locked to a store you haven’t used. Multiplayer likely wouldn’t be global cross play between all companies, you likely get some set of 20 companies working together for multiplayer. Some games may develop a good scene available to a single store, requiring a game to be repurchased. Exclusives or timed exclusives would be annoying to track, as each store would likely have different catalogs.

They absolutely were heading that direction with both windows and Xbox until the massive backlash from the public forced them to tone down their plans. It’s still the same company that tried to kill used games on consoles, and they basically have with the creation of game pass. Valve built an escape hatch to Linux for gaming, which has forced them to be a bit nicer on the PC front, but that’s not a sign of Microsoft being good.

Unless games become something we truly own, steam is going to stay dominant. It’s more like a utility than a storefront. If you want to remove the dominance of steam you need to force a way to move libraries of games to other platforms.

Steam also got their monopoly the honest way by simply being the most consumer friendly option.

Microsoft tried to flip the switch years ago to kill anything outside the Microsoft store. That’s when steam released the original steam machines. Combined with general negative response to the messaging Microsoft has backed off, but they absolutely want to do it still.

I think what’s going to bring change ultimately is the corporate loss from people not spending those benefits they didn’t get.

Not sure I can go that far. Lego is vastly superior quality to other blocks. Though they have been heavily reliant on licensed IP over original sets.

The illegal orders thing is a catch 22. It’s taught to everyone, but it’s also taught there aren’t illegal orders.

Passing a driving test in the US is usually one of the first accomplishments of becoming an adult, which makes it notable, but not necessarily big.

They may actually be doing it l. There was a leaked presentation from after trump won the first time that Google was going to stop being neutral and start being more active in pushing their beliefs.

Watching butterfly effect in college. 30 seconds into the movie I jokingly say he’s going to go back and kill himself. My friend who had already seen it was pissed and held his tongue through the whole movie.