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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

There are ways to mitigate this. Scotland and Wales use a system that's basically FPTP with compensation. It's not perfectly proportional and some of the elected representatives are from a party list rather than being voted on individually, but the individual ones are picked first and it's proportional enough that voting for smaller parties isn't a waste of time

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Germany is usually at least in the top fifteen of that list, if not in the top ten. It's not as big as the US, but the disparity is substantially smaller than between the US and Denmark

I would be quite interested to see how they would rank the EU. Not an average of the EU countries, a score for the actual EU itself

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 weeks ago

I believe that the main reason for people as wealthy as him to own newspapers is not the money, it's the influence. This does hurt that

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

When my cat headbutts me. I love that little guy

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't think it is, but at the same time I'm also not sure what else I would call it. I suppose if I've got the structure of it right then it is quite analogous to a nail violin

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

He has a bow in each hand. I think the metal plates on the sides are the component that gets bowed, kinda like a musical saw

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago

"Here's an attempt to re-write the thing you're going to read the original of anyway" seems like a waste of time too

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Even without considering privacy, why would you want it to re-write incoming texts? It's not like those are usually unreasonably long to read

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

While you're obviously not wrong to play the way you like playing, you won because none of your opponents were playing effectively with the strategy Vindictive describes. You can comfortably get a science victory centuries before 1900 without even playing a civ that has science buffs. Someone playing tall science well doesn't need to ever let the game get anywhere near 1900.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

So I got petty. I couldn't beat him at the manipulation game.

Well this clearly isn't true, you just work more slowly

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

If we're going to introduce a different way to write the voiced dental fricative, dh is the obvious sensible choice

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It was definitely legit in the sense of it being something completely counterable by my friend had she been looking out for it, and it certanly wasn't an exploit. It did still feel dirty to make use of information that she hadn't noticed to get her to defeat herself, particularly since it only worked by me carefully not saying anything about it for as long as it took to do

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