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The effect of voting is to shift polices half a voter on average from the median in your direction, and that's a real positive impact. It doesn't make all of your favourite policies come true (which can feel like it not working) because a bunch of other voters genuinely don't like your policies, which is obviously mistaken/terrible of them but it is what it is

One way small donors can easily beat billionaires on marginal utility is that Open Philanthropy splits its donations across many fields, but as a small donor you can just focus on the single most impactful one

@rip_imho we need fifty metrics, I support whatever they were on during the French revolution

🤔 I wonder if there's mastodon tumblr, character limits are silly and just stolen to be like Twitter imo, macroblogging that's also social media feels more like what I want from the internet

and if so is there some way I can move there and still have it interoperate with shelling.pt so I can talk to my friends there too

*causally gets some fraction** of you to join shelling.pt on mastodon by showing you this tweet*

** as in Everett branches of individuals

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Brb checkin out this "torment nexus" thing

*acausally gets you to join mastdon by tweeting there, so the part of my algorithm that chooses where to tweet outputs mastodon, so the similar part of your algorithm has a similar output*

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so he can take over masterdon

tfw bound to play dungeon crawl stone soup instead of eating actual stone soup
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RT @sleepr_
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PRIMORDIAL FUNGUS MONOLITHS
PRIMORDIAL FUNGUS MONOLITHS

reading about dath ilan and feelng wistful, we could have had that, hemispheric arch-rivals Empire and Pharaohdom were able to unify into Civilisation, we could totally do that

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