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gedhrel

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  • Finland to criminalise Holocaust denial

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  • You make a persuasive case that free speech, by your definition, isn't all it's cracked up to be.

    Why would you want to be hateful?!

  • Three climbers fell 400 feet to their death. One climber survived and drove to a pay phone

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  • Training, decent modern equipment, understanding and managing risk, gear redundancy, and wear a frickin' helmet (esp. when belaying).

    Yeah, there are some yahoos, but there're also people who drop dead playing table-tennis.

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  • With massive OOO pipelines, what's the alternative?

  • Three climbers fell 400 feet to their death. One climber survived and drove to a pay phone

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  • Sounds like a really bad decision - forced error due to some other reason to back out rapidly. What an awful tragedy.

  • Trump administration poised to accept 'palace in the sky' as a gift for Trump from Qatar: Sources

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  • I was under the impression that Musk was going to "fix" Boeing's delivery of AF1. I think his suggestions included relaxing the security clearance for new hires and getting everyone working 60-hour weeks.

    News of that all went very quiet after the announcement though.

  • ABC 2025 Election Watch Party

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  • Okay.

  • ABC 2025 Election Watch Party

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  • Definitely a poor opinion then.

    My concern isn't for my own vote. It's for everyone; there's a pervading notion that voting is either irrelevant, useless, or a balancing act to find the least-worst option.

    I don't recognise the "listless wandering" you describe. It's poetic but doesn't reflect what's actually going on here: people aren't looking for entertainment; they are worried how they're going to pay the bills. It would frankly be a relative utopia to have the privilege to not care about politics and what it's doing to people.

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  • I'd say "democratic" rather than "consumerist"; that's a really odd choice of term (and a poor one I think). I live in a ward that's solidly single-party in an FPTP system. Whether I vote or not is strictly irrelevant and always will be. There is no incentive for my representative to be anything other than a party cypher.

    I'd rather see a PR system in place (STV by preference, but we'd probably end up with AMS so that party sinecures are still possible). For single-seat wards, I'd sooner have ranked-choice, because at the moment people have to thread a needle in order to attempt to stave off the headbanger candidates.

    Mandatory voting I'd be less keen on unless it came with a "reopen nominations" but the issue with that is that that option would win by a landslide.

  • ABC 2025 Election Watch Party

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  • A solution to "people feel disempowered" isn't "force them to express an opinion". If turnout is low then give the lie to "my vote doesn't matter".

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  • Choice-ranking systems aren't hard to explain: "put these people in the order you prefer them".

    The anti-AV campaign had Cameron reading out an algorithm for the vote counting process in a dull voice and trying to establish: "yes well I went to Eton and although I am very clever I find this difficult". The AV referendum failed in large part because it was a LibDem thing and people wanted to give Clegg a shoeing for going back on his election pledges. (That Clegg got outplayed by Cameron tells you everything you need to know about what a useless chancer he is.)

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  • Just wish the Labour party in the UK would learn from this rather than triangulating with Farage's fucking racist bullshit.

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  • As someone watching from the other side of the world - is this another election victory that can be chalked up to Trump?

  • China cancels 12,000 metric tons of US pork shipments

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  • Time for Liz Truss to shine!!

  • Trans women should use toilets based on biological sex, Phillipson says

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  • What precisely is your interpretation of Falkner's assertion that trans people should lobby for a "third place"?

  • Fears grow that Signal leaks make Pete Hegseth top espionage target

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  • He had a number of unchaperoned calls with Putin. I think it's more likely that he's acting in fear of an unpleasant death; sometimes direct credible threats work wonders.

  • US sets tariffs of up to 3,521% on South East Asia solar panels

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  • Thousands separator.

  • For the First Time, Artificial Intelligence Is Being Used at a Nuclear Power Plant

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  • I'm not sure if that opening sentence is fatuous or not. What errors in any industrial enterprise are not human in origin?

  • 44% of Icelanders in favour of joining the EU

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  • Did it? I thought that was Britain, in 1941.

    (Edited to say: May 1940 - that was earlier than I'd thought.)

  • TIL antimatter is the most expensive substance on Earth, costing $60 trillion per gram

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  • It doesn't, but if it did that'd explain why there isn't much of it around.