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goat isn't simulated...

Russia is so glorious and advanced that even their three-day invasions last over 300× longer!

I almost feel like I'm being contrarian by asking this, though it isn't my intent: your alternatives sound great at first blush, but how do you intend that those alternatives are enforced? Does that lead into your estimated >1% of offenders?

I like "infintiny" as a replacement for "infinitesimal"

If trees aren't real, how can our birds be real?

...I am so sorry

The birthday problem fits into this somehow, but I can't quite get there right now. Something like an inverse birthday problem to illustrate how, even though the probability of two monkeys typing the same letter rises quickly as more monkeys are added to the mix, and at a certain point (n+1, where n is "possible keystrokes") it is inevitable that at least two monkeys will key identically, the inverse isn't true.

If you have 732 people in a room, there's no guarantee that any one of them was born on August 12th.

There's another one that describes this better but it escapes me.

We're gonna need a bigger sedan...

If you don't have a strong preference now, I would urge you to look deeper into the pros and cons of potential alternatives. RCV carries some very glaring weaknesses that make it only marginally better than FPTP, including the lack of a guarantee of a Condorcet winner (it shares this property with FPTP) and the introduction of perversity (which FPTP does not suffer from).

I'm never for letting the perfect be the enemy of the good, and there is no truly "perfect" voting system, but RCV seems like such a minor improvement that I believe effort would be better spent on something with a bit more impact.

I think I disagree with the idea that it opens the door. If anything, I think implementing RCV would more likely poison the well, at best leading to "didn't we just change how we vote?" apathy/exasperation when another ballot initiative came around.

Of course, that could be a consequence of RCV failing on the ballot as well.

Connections
Puzzle #511
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Is that supposed to be the strange insult?

Just a small, pointless nitpick that doesn't matter, but made me smile because of the implication:

It should be "home turf" not "home terf". But the latter is probably just as true as the former.