Remember as you read more and more news like this that many of the owners of Y Combinator supported this.
Who, specifically, are you referring to; and what have they done or said to make you believe that they support this?
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> The participation rate has always been low in rich western countries. Australia has entered the chat.
You can't bring them up without including that voting is compulsory there.
See my sibling comment. Getting your name checked off is compulsory but nothing stops you from handing in a blank ballot.
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#284I am going to say a thing I say a lot: please edit Wikipedia. It is easier to do than you probably think! Wikipedia's biggest constraint is no longer money or server space, it's editor time (especially since LLM-based garbage is a force multiplier on disruptive editing that does not have a corresponding improvement to good-faith editing). Any topic area you know about and/or care about can benefit from your attention…
Why? Bots reverse every edit.
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Italy had 64% for the parliamentary elections in 2022, which is the lowest ever but it's pretty far from 30%.
just to note that if “30% voted for this” participation was roughly 60%
63.9% per https://www.cfr.org/article/2024-election-numbers Which apparently was quite high. Only 3 presidential elections in the past 100 years exceeded 63%: 1960, 2020, and 2024.
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#287Reason and truth are the enemy of authoritarian regimes. They want you to believe that truth is subjective. Truth and reason provide alternative legitimacy to authority. If nothing is true, there is no basis on which to judge those in power. There is a long legacy of authoritarian regimes attacking curious places, universities, historians, museums, books or any institution that grounds itself in reality which provide…
According to its cofounder, Wikipedia abandoned truth long ago.
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#289The English Wikipedia is a massive target for influence campaigns. I don't think there are any other communities as resilient as it. Just an example: There's certain individual or group that edited under the name "Icewhiz", was banned, and now operates endless sockpuppet accounts in the topic area to influence Wikipedia's coverage on the Middle East. One of them was an account named "Eostrix", that spent years making…
Did you read this post?
https://www.tracingwoodgrains.com/p/reliable-sources-how-wik...
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Maybe I'm too optimistic, but I think actual election fraud, big enough to steal an election, would be too big to miss. Yes, it might only take a small number of votes in the right place, but either you somehow know the right place, or you have to move a lot of votes. There's a reasonable discussion to be had along the lines of 'these guys seem to be doing everything they whine about', but could they get a big operat…
Points B and C are believable. Constant headlines about screw ups like the signal chats and sloppy handling of data from doge