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Cake day: June 12th, 2025

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  • pick up the “analogue bag” trend. none of us older than you approve of the internet today: we had a different place to grow up in online. you will be the happiest and most hopeful person around- others will remember your calm and seek you for comfort.

    stop using AI. period. your brain is developing, let it suffer the growing pains of wondering what to draw; of which source of knowledge learn from; how to compose your thoughts. you will be the most intelligent person around- ever increasingly so as years go by.

    age old traps checklist: status, whoevers the most popular that moment, flips on the head as you grow up… everyone will Hate how the most popular person behaves now in a few years. be humble if you’re the popular one. at the sane time enjoy yourself: if you wanna indulge, indulge. saying stupid things from your heart is indulging. listening more than you speak is humble. that’s the secret to popularity that lasts beyond school years.

    hug all around you. say hi to everyone around you, even those you don’t feel are cool- that you’d get bullied for associating with. that’s all we adults are doing: catching up on hugs and greetings, because it helps our mood and makes us feel meaningful wherever we have to be.

    learn an instrument, or an art, or a craft, or a sport.

    say no to drugs. period. your brain and body are fully developed when you are 26. then you don’t get as addicted and have an easer time finding a balance between partying and cozying up intimately in a couch. statistically you’ll end up regretful if not abusing drugs or being abused while doing drugs below 26 years old. i can attest. drugs don’t fix problems. they hide and let problems infect other parts of your life.

    say no to sex that makes you feel pressured. as a guy i got status from chasing sex at your age, but if fucked me up to only be liked for being attractive. friends who cuddle are more important than acquaintances who fuck. one validates you as a human being and makes you feel seen. the other hollows you out while forcing you to become a person for the sake of others to feel seen.

    be outdoors. pet animals. eat vegetables. drink water, not soda. drop food additives like “flavour enhancers” (e621) and aromas (vanilla aroma is made of literal cowdung and fossil fuels.) companies are not your friends: you’re as cattle to the companies, so yeet their brands. wear natural fibres and what you like.

    welp i have more but idk if you’d read all










  • oh…!!!

    in the given example (linked wikipedia page) i clearly see the issue of not having the condorcet criterion!

    curious at how i’d solve this. how would you?

    100 voters rank three candidates (Alice Bob Cecilia) by three grades (1st 2nd 3rd) and these are the votes

    • 35 voted A > B > C
    • 34 voted C > B > A
    • 31 voted B > C > A

    according to the instant-runoff (also called single transferrable vote) type of systems the winner would be decided by elimination of first grade votes - Bob would lose the first round of tallying votes - then from the defeated Bob is siphoned voters to those left standing: Alice & Cecilia. In this scenario all of Bob’s voters are siphoned to Cecilia who then wins the next and final round of tallying votes. However this, if i understand correctly, is called adheering to mutual majority criterion and not the majority criterion.

    so i could go on but i am typing on a phone and the Blorb client is laggy to type into. tldw i thought to assign 3 points to the 1st grade votes … etc … 1 point to the 3rd grade votes. adding the points dedicated to each candidate as a total value of popularity in this election then reflects B as most popular, C as next and A as least. it’s the same result as what the majority criterion demands. would this system of adding points according to rank hold up? open question. is there a name of this system already? i’d call it Concord Voting hehe but i doubt i’m the first to think of that