Liz

At this point it's entirely a self-referential joke. People bring it up to reference the stereotype itself, not to actually call the French cowards.

The only thing proposed that's reasonable is "changing regulation." It's too easy to block new housing, and often times it's just flat out illegal to increase density or build mixed use.

It'll make the bottom of the market more expensive.

For real. Dude is claiming old memes used to be creative while using leek spin as the example.

Yeah, but your fridge doesn't break every six years. I'm totally on team repair (FrameWork will be my next laptop when this one can't go on any further, my shoes can be resoled, I just touched up my jacket, etc) but a 10x premium doesn't exactly make sense, even when you factor in that repairability is unfortunately a niche feature these days.

CF being short for what, in this case?

So I looked them up, and the cheapest home-style refrigerator they sell costs $10,000. Am I missing something or are they really just that expensive?

RCV still has spoilers, it's just they happen differently. Mostly commonly in three-way competitive races, but they can technically happen under any number of candidates greater than two with any level of support.

Cardinal methods don't have mathematical spoilers, though a new candidate can change voter behavior. But, that's possible under any system.

More reading:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoiler_effect

I know STAR. Can you explain the multi-winner variety?

That's not what a fail-safe is. A fail-safe is just what it says: the device fails into a safe configuration. In this case, someone has to press a button to quench the magnet, which is not really a failure mode of the machine.

A typical fail-safe is something like a solenoid valve. The valve has a default position when no power is given to the solenoid, and you should design your machine so that the default position is safe (whether that be open or closed). The most likely failure mode is a power loss, so the configuration is said to be fail-safe.

1. You have no idea if this was as a bigbox store or a local place

2. Ordinary people are the ones who have to deal with that kind of stupid problem, not the suits in an office park somewhere.

3. That's not how you fuck over corporations anyhow, you're just raising the cost of goods for everyone with no upside. You fuck over the corporations by breaking up monopolies, installing Medicare for All, changing way unions work to make them easier to form and run, make worker co-ops more legally exciting, and require all publicly owned companies to pay out at least 1% of their annual gross profit in dividends each year, among other things.