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Missouri politicians put a trick measure on the November ballot to silence your voice
  • The only current think close to ranked choice voting in the state that I'm aware of is in St. Louis City where a few positions are elected based on a double run off where the top two candidates of the first election have a subsequent run off.

    I read an article a little bit back where the politician championing it was quoted saying "it's too confusing" and that is the primary reason it needs to be banned in the state constitution. So that's the kind of people trying to push this through.

    What I believe they really want is to clamp down on any chance of local municipalities trying to use an alternative voting system to first past the post. Those in power would be threatened by people having more choice.

  • Consumers say they're pulling back on tipping servers, drivers and hair stylists
  • Credit Card companies (ie MasterCard or Visa) typically have a flat per transaction fee that is very small (like fractional cent small). The processors are the ones that take the percentage cut (PoS and your bank). It's been a bit since the last time I looked into it, so things could be a bit different, but I would be surprised if it was.

  • Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Windows 11 to get people to ditch Google
  • I've been dual booting for years. Almost everything works out of the box with proton nowadays, but you will need to tinker on occasion and some companies refuse to allow it for anti-cheat (that's getting very rare, though). On the whole it's very minimal, but you will have occasional frustrations.

  • Americans seem to support abortion access. Why do Republicans keep trying to block it anyway?
  • Interestingly, Democrats have historically had an advantage in the lower income brackets over Republicans. There's a tipping point for the ultra wealthy to swing back to Democrat. This article is a bit older, but it's useful to predate Trump and a bit of the weirdness that has brought with party lines (although my brief search says it still tends to be this way). The wedge issue is much more likely the point of policies like this to get the single issue voters support.

    https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/09/26/161841771/how-income-divides-democrats-republicans-and-independents