Mister_Rogers

America (and alot of countries to be fair) need ranked choice voting systems so damn badly for this exact reason (if you’re unfamiliar with it, a simple version is that basically you rank your 1st, 2nd, and 3rd pick, your first pick gets 3 points, 2nd pick 2 points, 3rd pick 1 point. At the end they tally up the points, and the party with the most wins).

Singular vote systems trend naturally towards 2 party systems often, whereas with a ranked choice system, far right people would vote for far-right-person that loads of people hate, far left people would vote for far-left-person that loads of people hate, but since almost everyone would put moderate-person as their 2nd choice that everyone kind of doesn’t like, they would be the one to get elected in this case. It’s like the old saying, a good compromise is when nobody is happy. That’s what’s needed to move away from extremist politics, but without a ranked choice system, it’s not going to happen any time soon.

*this is grossly simplified, and there are examples of multi-party systems that don’t use ranked choice, and there’s many many caveats besides when talking so simply about something as complex as electoral politics, but the fundamental point stands.

What a goofy list.

Trump is a giant prick. Robert DeNiro is a lesser prick, but an uneducated, stupid, anti-vax prick nonetheless, who should not have the spotlight shined on him any more. Just because the brainless ape happened to say something correct this time, doesn’t mean his opinion matters. He’s right, but they both suck royally.

No, there isn’t.

Do the actual ethical thing and buy a used car. You’re putting money back into the hands of actual working Americans instead of companies, contributing dramatically less to climate change by reusing an existing product, you’ll get a dramatically nicer vehicle, and save money too.

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As a Canadian it really depends whether I say Zee or Zed. Looking online I was surprised to see that it has apparently been Zed in Canada for a long time, but I distinctly recall being raised on Zee until about the mid 2000s then everywhere in the curriculum it was Zed and I started hearing it more. Probably the biggest influence on whether I say Zee or Zed just depends on pop norms, and what sounds better.

Some examples:

• Zee Zee Top, obviously
• Jay Zee
• 350Zed and 370Zed (in reference to Nissan’s sportscar models, this actually changed for me over time, for the longest time I would say 350Zee or 370Zee, but when referring to the model broadly, it’s always Zee Cars, or for the classic model, it’s Fairlady Zee. Fairlady Zed just sounds awful)
• Day-Zee (the movie and video game)
• Dragon Ball Zee (ALWAYS, Dragon Ball Zed would be madness, I’ve never even considered saying Zed here, perhaps because I encountered it more in my Zee prevalent childhood)
• Zed-DX (the Acura)
• BMW Zed4
• La-Zee-boy (the sofas, obviously, ruins the pun otherwise)
• Alfa Romeo SZed (another car, it seems any time it is separate letters or a series of letter making up a name it’s virtually always Zed)
• ABC song, is always Zee for me, but I’ve heard others say Zed her often. To me it’s weird because otherwise it doesn’t rhyme with “next time won’t you sing with me”. Oddly if you asked me to say the alphabet backwards though, my first instinct would also be Zee.
• the phrase “from A to Zee”
• If you asked me what the last letter of the alphabet is, or to spell Zebra, I would say Zee, it seems when referring to the letter alone I pretty consistently use Zee
• I just asked my wife to spell Zebra and she said Zee though

At least the British and Americans are consistent, I don’t even know what the heck I’m doing here!

This is one of me and my brothers favourite stand up lines and in jokes. You made my day with this, I hope you also have a wonderful day :)