Pseudonymous Jan 28

@NickGates
@virtualbri

#US parties regularly had defections and replacements every 40 years or so going right up to when the bipartisan #Boomer alliance began passing laws to prevent that (1990s). Nancy Pelosi and Newt Gingrich were instrumental in that effort. 

Today, the kind of reforms you're suggesting (non-party elections) have been tried in a few states (Louisiana legislature, Ohio state supreme court, etc.) and led to more members of a single party rather than diverse membership, since there was no way to strategically reject unpopular candidates. Now the #Boomers are trying to push parliamentary systems as a way to let party bosses choose the winners instead. 

Proportional representation may look good in #CGPGrey 's YouTube video, but he's just bloviating against Britain's recent reforms to switch to a more-like-the-U.S.A. system. Maybe consider pushing along a different angle. Can you think of a workable alternative? 

शून्यताJan 27
The more he says “bestagons” the more it sounds like a cult. (smi) #HexagonsAreBestagons #Hexagons #Bestagons #CGPGrey
tomwsmfNov 15

#CGPGrey from 11 years ago. A lot has happened in 11 years...a lot has not. How are you doing?
https://youtu.be/7Pq-S557XQU

#HumansNeedNotApply #ClimateWhat?
#TellMeAgainWhyThisWontHappen

Humans Are Becoming Horses

YouTube
शून्यताNov 13

Das ist das Ende!

Des Pennies. #CGPGrey hat (endlich?) gewonnen. #USMint

https://www.tagesspiegel.de/wirtschaft/nach-232-jahren-kein-penny-mehr-usa-beenden-produktion-von-on-ein-cent-munzen-14824256.html

Nach 232 Jahren kein Penny mehr: USA beenden Produktion von Ein-Cent-Münzen

In den Vereinigten Staaten wird die bisher kleinste Münze nicht mehr in Umlauf gebracht – die Herstellung ist schlicht zu teuer. Der Penny gilt aber weiter als Zahlungsmittel.

Der Tagesspiegel
Eugene Alvin Villar 🇵🇭Nov 12

This news about the final pennies 🪙 to be minted reminded me of the now 14-year-old #CGPGrey video advocating for this very day to come.

https://apnews.com/article/us-mint-treasury-department-penny-end-production-86139df5644ef0885a9baf98e9677380

https://youtu.be/y5UT04p5f7U

#coins #numismatics

US Mint in Philadelphia presses final pennies

The U.S. Mint has ended production of the penny, a change made to save money and in recognition of the growing irrelevance of the 1-cent coin. The last pennies were struck Wednesday at the mint in Philadelphia, where the country’s smallest denomination coins have been produced since 1793, a year after Congress passed the Coinage Act. President Donald Trump ordered the penny's demise as costs climbed to nearly 4 cents per penny and the 1-cent valuation became somewhat obsolete. Billions of pennies remain in circulation, but they are rarely essential for financial transactions in the 21st century economy.

AP News
Show threadJdeBPOct 25

@jbond @ianb

It is. First Past The Post lost the argument well over half a century before I was even born. The structural flaws of FPTP were such a mainstream idea that they had even reached the books I read in the school library.

Even for the it-only-exists-if-it-is-on-a-video generation, #CGPGrey's videos about #SingleTransferableVote are over a decade old at this point, and those are comparatively recent.

https://lder.org

https://labourforelectoralreform.org.uk

https://senedd.wales/media/eqbesxl2/a-parliament-that-works-for-wales.pdf#page=131

Liberal Democrats for Electoral Reform

Timo TijhofOct 18

The Making of Fox News:

"""
It's not enough that conservatives like us, it's important that liberals hate us.
"""

Excellent documentary by Fern & Hoog. Divisive politics is by design. Not surprising but quite something to see it laid bare.

Reminds me of CGPGrey about how "thought germs" in ad/algo-feeds evolve to maximise anger, divisiveness, and departure from truth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=HDC6q4V1JmRBgm9L

CGPGrey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=7Xd-u4M8c12pMue_

#documentary #CGPGrey #ferntv #hoog #FoxNews

YouTube

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Just… Josh Sep 16, 2025
This video by #CGPGrey has aged well like fine wine. Who needs humans anymore?

https://youtu.be/7Pq-S557XQU?si=UnbEX5Op_kgqjiYE
Humans Need Not Apply

YouTube
threelonmusketeersJul 22, 2025

Cortex #167: Ten Years of Cortex - Relay

https://sh.itjust.works/post/42573218

Cortex #167: Ten Years of Cortex - Relay - sh.itjust.works

> Grey and Myke look back on ten years of the show. It is also announced that Grey will be taking a break from the show, and Myke will interview a series of guests going forward.

threelonmusketeersJul 22, 2025

The Simple Secret of Runway Numbers [V2]

https://sh.itjust.works/post/42573145

The Simple Secret of Runway Numbers [V2] - sh.itjust.works

Grey’s explanation for the re-upload: > “If it’s your second watch through, did you notice this video is a version two? With sharp eyes, you might have spotted what’s changed. During the landing at Nuuk, V1 had the runway number repainting go up a number when it should have gone down. The opposite, actually. Now, after first upload, this seemed like only a glitch, right? Causing some confused comments to come in, but as I thought about it more, it grew to a blunder. A blunder that kept bothering me. For, after all, the first half of the video builds towards these two correctly calculating the runway number in advance of their landing before finding the unexpected, and then being proven correct (which they weren’t) before the rest of the adventure. This mistake brought me much gloom, and eventually graduated this glitch turned blunder to an error, kind catastrophicus. So I’ve sucked it up, sacrificing the V1 view count and algorithmic love of the YouTube gods to probably annoy a lot of people with what looks like a pointless re-upload if you didn’t make it to this part, post-video (which most won’t) but, you did, so thank you.”