It's called the spoiler effect and it's an issue of the voting system of "First Past the Post".

Imagine you have 4 parties, A,B, C and D. Let's say A, B, and C largely align on issues and D is the outlier. While 70% of the population wants either A,B, or C, if the vote gets split evenly then we see D wins despite on wining 30% of votes.

C says "Not cool man. I'm giving up and telling all my voters to vote for B". Now you have a three party system.

D isn't dumb and so he throws propaganda and budget to draw voters to A despite not agreeing with their policies at all. They are incentivized to split the vote because of how the system is designed. Voters get split between A and B again making 33% the victory threshold. D ekes out another win despite not reaching a majority. A and B decide to join forces to never let D win again and boom two party system.

Numbers are hyperbolic for demonstration but this is how it works. It's why sometimes third party campaigns get backed by the political parties least in alignment with them.

You will never solve the two party system without changing voting to one that negates the spoiler effect.

Another board game or another member of the pocket?

One potential cause is that the Rocky Mountains are maybe newer than oil formation in the region? They are a pretty recent addition (around 50-80mya)

"Sorry, this fell off my radar. Squeakier wheels have been getting greased but I can prioritize on this task if it is of higher importance"

I've said this many many times, but lowering the skill floor for tasks inevitably drops the average quality down. Mathematically provable even.

There's a reason a lot of the tech made in the 50s/60s/70s/80s was amazing because it was made by the brightest of minds whereas the everday person didn't have the skills to get over the floor. Think moon landing, xerox, and many other analog systems.

There used to be barriers for entry into these spaces that would ensure effort is done to participate, with low effort garbage being filtered by the minimum impetus. Now that writing code can be "effortless" you end up with a lot more garbage there is no filter for. Same for all skillsets impacted by AI. Graphic design being another big one that comes to mind.

I have literally never texted with a teacher before

It's almost like moving to all remote learning for a couple years left kids behind educationally. I'm lucky to be old enough to be well out of schooling when the pandemic came around, but I can't imagine having to go through high school remotely and having any sort of expectation for success.

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Never heard of him. Pulled up some of his top songs and never heard those either 🤷🏼‍♂️

I'd argue the AI bubble is still getting worse, just more slowly

They are two different parts of the brisket. The "moist" is from the point which is fattier than the "lean" flat.

Depends on the HOA. Some are basically microdictatorships, some are just actually a group of homeowners trying to make sure their neighborhood doesn't fall apart. Several of the houses down the road that don't have HOAs have broken furniture and smashed cars in their front yards. Imagine trying to sell your home living next to that.

We pay about $500 a year to our HOA, and that gives us access to a neighborhood playground/yearly events/etc. Only time we had to reach out was to build a fence and it was just verifying we were in the guidelines for type of fence allowed and not encroaching neighbors.