Whut?

ITT: people that don't understand that more OEMs ditching Windows for Linux on flagship gaming handhelds is an incredibly good thing for Linux gaming overall, and would instead rather make the same joke over and over about ink cartridges.

You still changed the topics from seats won and forming a minority government, to preferences and whether Greens vote total will help Labor win the election. It's not a gotcha that I mentioned preferences when you are the one that brought it up ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The biggest problem I see for the Greens is that Labor has no incentive to actually court Green preferences. They assume Greens will always preference them over Liberal, because they always have. They can take those preferences for granted.

This is completely irrelevant in seats where the two party preferred comes down to Greens vs Labor. Which is what I was talking about.

I don't really see it as a preference issue. Greens are likely to lose their Queensland seats at the coming election, but they have a good chance of winning Melbourne Ports, Cooper and Wills in Victoria. Four seats is a lot of bargaining power if both parties fall short of a majority.

My hope is actually that the Liberals, in those three seats, preference Greens over Labor to try and pull some seats away from them. Their preferences alone would handily get Greens over the line.

Yeah definitely, but EVs are being pushed globally as a solution to climate change when they just aren't really.

What like overriding state law and trying to order a state prison to release someone? I don't get how that relates back to Wisconsin, what's happening there?

Personally, my hope is for a Labor minority gov with the Greens as a junior coalition member. It feels like Albo et al. have been pushing towards the right, fearful of their single-seat majority and haven't effected much real change in policy. Whereas with a push from the Greens they might actually do something tangible to solve this fucking housing crisis.

The thing is, that EVs, and Tesla/Musk in particular are trying to continue a war against public transport that the car industry has been fighting for 100+ years at this point. Using the same power sources, an electric train is orders of magnitude more efficient than an EV, and even a diesel train is emitting less CO2. Hell, a diesel bus is probably still emitting less.

Edit: per person/passenger.

Because not everyone is a joyless curmudgeon such as yourself?

As well, Bazzite is for all intents and purposes just SteamOS with support for other handhelds. It runs the exact same gamemode package that the Deck does.

While your feelings are completely valid, I think most people experience the opposite. Even back when my preferred pronouns were only she/her, being he/him'd felt like a punch to the face, and they/them just slid right past me. Maybe that was just a sign that I'd end up being okay with she/they (at least from cis people, my preference around other queer folks is pup/it).

they really has

I still conjugate they as its plural form even when talking about an individual, is that not what most people do? For example:

they really have