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Cake day: January 4th, 2024

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  • The harm or less harm are thanks to Ordinal voting.

    First Past the Post is the absolute worst offender, but every single Ordinal voting system will eventually devolve into a forced choice between this or that.

    Thankfully there are Cardinal voting systems. Those always boil down to the word and. For example, I can say that I support getting ice cream, and sandwiches, and a slushy, and even just finishing the route, but not going over that cliff.

    My support for any given item is counted independently of my support for any other option.

    To see what option wins, you just look at total support.

    Different Cardinal systems have their own little quirks, but the key in all of them is that ability to give multiple items identical levels of support.















  • I feel the need to add some context here.

    The patriarchal push to erase the pantheon started just before the Babylonian Exile under the reign of King Josiah. He ruled from 640 to 609 BCE.

    His son Ellakim (or Jehoiakim) refused to pay tribute to the Neo-Babylonians which resulted in 60 years of slavery for some 7000 Judeans.

    It was only in 539 BCE when the Neo-Babylonian Empire fell that they were allowed to go home.

    The Judeans come home, but their temple has been sacked and most of their sacred texts burnt, so they rebuild and recreate.

    This is when Noah and Moses were invented, a long with anything before Solomon, and even much of his life as well.