Are you talking about the UTV interview? He only said he wasn't going to discuss it at that meeting and expressed a general feeling that he doesn't think it's a good idea. That's not a violation of th GFA at all - not least because the PM isn't the one with the power to call a border poll under it
Thank you! And no, it was very much just a case of staring at a picture of each character and hoping that it'd be at least vaguely recognisable (plus, of course, a cheated save with every piece of equipment to pick from)
Ooh, that does sound nice. Savory is difficult to find where I am, and it's usually winter savory if I can find it, but I will see if I can get some! Do you just mix it into the dough while kneading?
Oh, and a quick overview of the parties. All left-right descriptions are within the UK's mainstream Overton window:
LAB (red): Labour. Currently in power, centre-left to centre. Rooted in trade unions, though that relationship has grown increasingly strained.
LD (orange): Liberal Democrats, colloquially Lib Dems. Usually found somewhere between the two major parties, like economic liberalism a lot.
GRN (green): Greens. Specifically, Green Party of England and Wales, as the Scottish and Northern Irish Green parties are separate things. Progressive, pro-environmentalism, and anti-nuclear (power and weapons)
SNP (yellow): Scottish National Party. A little left of Labour on most issues, but not hugely. The big distinction is that they are pro-Scottish-independence or, failing that, in favour of increased autonomy for Scotland within the UK. Not ethnonationalist, thankfully. Currently in power in the Scottish parliament and the most successful party in Scotland in UK general elections.
PC (dark green): Plaid Cymru. Take the SNP description and replace "Scotland" with "Wales" and the policies are pretty much there. Less electorally successful than the SNP, but doing well recently.
REF (light blue): Reform UK. Populist right / far right. Basically just the latest vehicle for the biggest anti-EU voice in British politics, Nigel Farage (the guy who recently got challenged by Count Binface). Currently positioned to, potentially, remove the Conservatives from their extremely long run as one of the UK's two big parties.
CON (dark blue): Conservatives, colloquially Tories. Traditionally on the rightward end of mainstream British politics, started drifting ever further right as their prior run in government stretched on. Sort of struggling to figure out exactly what their deal is and rebuild in the wake of that mess, particularly as heaps of their members and voters went to Reform.
FPTP: you get one vote, and each constituency elects one representative. Whoever has the most votes in each constituency wins, every other candidate in the constituency gets nothing.
AMS: Like FPTP, but with an extra layer of regional elections. The results of the regional are weighted towards parties that got a lower number of seats in the FPTP section than their share of the votes (so a party that comes second or third a lot but rarely wins in FPTP will do well). This isn't completely proportional, but it does shift the results a bit towards proportionality and makes it so that votes for non-winning candidates still have some effect.
STV: Instead of voting for one person, you rank the available choices. The candidate with the fewest first-preference votes is eliminated, and that candidates votes are given to their second preference. This repeats until someone gets a majority. This reduces the pressure of tactical voting compared to FPTP, because you can pick a first preference even if you don't expect them to win and a lower preference as your "well at least it's not the other big party that I dislike more" as a backup
Party list PR: Each party is given a number of seats equal to their share of the national vote. The party's most popular candidates in each constituency get seats first (so results will tend towards candidates that are popular in each area, though not strictly. This sacrifices local representation for maximum proportionality
The UK's general elections are currently FPTP. The Scottish Parliament and Welsh Senedd use AMS, the Northern Irish Assembly uses STV, and the UK used Party List PR for EU elections prior to Brexit
A bit of Seamless Co-op Elden Ring with our resident sad_detective_man! I'll have to get back to you on the Gamescom stuff once I have watched it
It was the last one, just some image editing. Although it would be funny to do a BG3-themed Seamless game
Are you talking about the UTV interview? He only said he wasn't going to discuss it at that meeting and expressed a general feeling that he doesn't think it's a good idea. That's not a violation of th GFA at all - not least because the PM isn't the one with the power to call a border poll under it
Thank you! And no, it was very much just a case of staring at a picture of each character and hoping that it'd be at least vaguely recognisable (plus, of course, a cheated save with every piece of equipment to pick from)
Yes! Uhh, in the sense that I made them in ER, not that they're my original characters (in case anyone here doesn't know the Baldur's Gate 3 crew)
Pottery was one of the first things humans invented, we don't know that Big E didn't come from a jar
There is no game I would buy an entire system for
To quote TANA's telegram bio:
Very neutral very cool
Ooh, that does sound nice. Savory is difficult to find where I am, and it's usually winter savory if I can find it, but I will see if I can get some! Do you just mix it into the dough while kneading?
I love baking some rosemary and black pepper into crackers
I'm guessing that it's this and it's because they used water that was way too hot to bloom the yeast
Go into the DLC, no matter what level you are it WILL make you feel weak again when you start it
Gitting gud by simply having fun being bad
The Australian Senate and Irish Parliament are the two national-level examples of STV that I know of
Get a karaoke set, point it at his house, and sing along as passionately as possible
Oh, and a quick overview of the parties. All left-right descriptions are within the UK's mainstream Overton window:
LAB (red): Labour. Currently in power, centre-left to centre. Rooted in trade unions, though that relationship has grown increasingly strained.
LD (orange): Liberal Democrats, colloquially Lib Dems. Usually found somewhere between the two major parties, like economic liberalism a lot.
GRN (green): Greens. Specifically, Green Party of England and Wales, as the Scottish and Northern Irish Green parties are separate things. Progressive, pro-environmentalism, and anti-nuclear (power and weapons)
SNP (yellow): Scottish National Party. A little left of Labour on most issues, but not hugely. The big distinction is that they are pro-Scottish-independence or, failing that, in favour of increased autonomy for Scotland within the UK. Not ethnonationalist, thankfully. Currently in power in the Scottish parliament and the most successful party in Scotland in UK general elections.
PC (dark green): Plaid Cymru. Take the SNP description and replace "Scotland" with "Wales" and the policies are pretty much there. Less electorally successful than the SNP, but doing well recently.
REF (light blue): Reform UK. Populist right / far right. Basically just the latest vehicle for the biggest anti-EU voice in British politics, Nigel Farage (the guy who recently got challenged by Count Binface). Currently positioned to, potentially, remove the Conservatives from their extremely long run as one of the UK's two big parties.
CON (dark blue): Conservatives, colloquially Tories. Traditionally on the rightward end of mainstream British politics, started drifting ever further right as their prior run in government stretched on. Sort of struggling to figure out exactly what their deal is and rebuild in the wake of that mess, particularly as heaps of their members and voters went to Reform.
FPTP: you get one vote, and each constituency elects one representative. Whoever has the most votes in each constituency wins, every other candidate in the constituency gets nothing.
AMS: Like FPTP, but with an extra layer of regional elections. The results of the regional are weighted towards parties that got a lower number of seats in the FPTP section than their share of the votes (so a party that comes second or third a lot but rarely wins in FPTP will do well). This isn't completely proportional, but it does shift the results a bit towards proportionality and makes it so that votes for non-winning candidates still have some effect.
STV: Instead of voting for one person, you rank the available choices. The candidate with the fewest first-preference votes is eliminated, and that candidates votes are given to their second preference. This repeats until someone gets a majority. This reduces the pressure of tactical voting compared to FPTP, because you can pick a first preference even if you don't expect them to win and a lower preference as your "well at least it's not the other big party that I dislike more" as a backup
Party list PR: Each party is given a number of seats equal to their share of the national vote. The party's most popular candidates in each constituency get seats first (so results will tend towards candidates that are popular in each area, though not strictly. This sacrifices local representation for maximum proportionality
The UK's general elections are currently FPTP. The Scottish Parliament and Welsh Senedd use AMS, the Northern Irish Assembly uses STV, and the UK used Party List PR for EU elections prior to Brexit
They used YouGov polling to fill out the missing data (though they do acknowledge the limitations, including tactical voting) https://electoral-reform.org.uk/latest-news-and-research/publications/a-system-out-of-step-the-2024-general-election
@TheBlackLounge@lemmy.world since you asked about this in your comment
I think it's an attempt to say "I'm annoyed/upset, but also I don't want to fight, please leave me alone"
That's re-apply buffs time!