Hell yeah! What’s first on the list to learn/play?

No, it isn’t.

Mixed member proportional has regional list candidates that compensate parties that are underrepresented in seats compared to their popular vote within that region. Regardless of how your preferred candidate does, your vote affects the regional results. New Zealand uses this at a national level, and Germany and the UK both have it in some sub-national elections

Party list proportional has you vote for a party rather than a candidate, and each party gets a number of seats proportional to the number of votes. If your preferred party doesn’t win, they still get some seats. If they do win, your vote still gets them more seats. Absolutely loads of countries do this method.

In a single transferable vote system, you rank the candidates. If candidates get enough first-choice votes to meet a given threshold, they’re elected. Any surplus votes go towards the voter’s next choice, potentially electing them. If your first choice is the least-popular, they’re eliminated and your vote goes to your next choice. Either way, the vote isn’t wasted. Ireland and Australia use this.

I think with this carton you can get a weight-balanced arrangement for any number of eggs except one and seventeen. So whatever you do at the start and end of the carton, it better involve at least two eggs

Is that sort of wrestling actually a sport? It seems like anything with scripted results is more of a stage play to me. Which is totally fine if that’s what someone wants to go see, it’s essentially just the theatre counterpart to an action movie

I think a lot of us rugby fans who see American football try to watch it like rugby too. The impression I get from talking to Americans is that going to the football is a day out (or in) wth friends and you’re only actively watching sometimes with regular breaks for food and the like

Well sometimes it’a fun to see people be really good at things, and sometimes it’s fun to get invested in something with other people

Doing your own sports is good, obviously, but the two aren’t mutually exclusive unless you’re completely out of free time

Our island is full of idiots but I swear we can make this up to you

Scotland has islands on this map, but in a really weird way: all of the five biggest ones are missing, and I’m 95% sure that one of the two depicted is actually a peninsula that the map has chopped off from the mainland

Alternatively we can just assume Norway took the islands back

It’s real https://nitter.net/LindseyGrahamSC/status/1917331380297478530#m

Deploying elsewhere in Europe, not in Ukraine. It is for Ukraine’s benefit, but the headline is implying that they are deployed in Ukraine

“Deployment” seems like a weird turn of phrase for what NZ is actually doing here to the point of being probably intentionally misleading

Of note, the Centrist is the recently-founded pet project of a Canadian billionaire who has been attempting to take over NZ’s biggest newspapers

For everyone’s listening pleasure

Alright @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] here we go. I picked up some of my cat Alaric’s favourite treats so we could get that authentic “give me food” sound as I kept them away from him.

I went with a virtual amp instead of the actual pedals so that I could show the exact same clips with and without amplification. I tried replicating something like the two pedals that are visible, but I couldn’t get it to work with the stuff that I already have so I just went ahead and dialed in a general death metal-ish tone of high drive distortion > Marshall JCM 900 with the mids scooped > a little tiny bit of reverb > a 4x12 cab. The clip has ten seconds of guitar recorded straight into the computer, the exact same guitar clip but with the amp turned on, then Alaric, and then the same clip of Alaric but amplified. Headphones warning, it is quite loud

https://vocaroo.com/13XyCW2raFOE

Also a picture of the star vocalist, of course

Battle Beast

Noora Vuorinen’s voice should be on the UNESCO world heritage list

I love Myrkur’s stuff. How heavy it is varies widely from album to album, anywhere from straight traditional Danish folk music to the lighter end of black metal, but I like both ends of that spectrum

There’s also Feminazgul, who I’m not super keen on but their name is so good that they deserve a mention anyway

Also Trump’s voterbase will believe anything he says over anything Xi says

Your dream of pasta and soup is real and it is beautiful, it’s just called pho

Not gonna lie I only got curious because I recognised the name Anahuac from research I did for a Civ 6 mod, so I am not an expert here. And I do think that the suspicion is very justifiable given the circumstances

For what it’s worth, this Anahuac is not named after anything to do with the local Native Americans. It’s the Nahuatl name for the Valley of Mexico. Anahuac, Texas was named by a white American serving in the Mexican army when he established a fort on the site

I don’t doubt for a second that the current American government would do what you’re describing, but unless I’m missing something (I am not a local to the area or even American) this doesn’t seem to be erasing anything to do with the people that lived there before the USA (or Spanish colonisation, for that matter)

I am personally a big fan of Voices of the Past and Fall of Civilisations.

Voices is very specific in what it does. It doesn’t actually give you a historian’s perspective, it’s strictly primary sources translated into English and then read out as-is. Since it makes absolutely no attempt to account for material evidence or the biases of the authors it is much more about the perspective of individuals from the time than recounting accurate history, but I think that’s very interesting

As its name suggests, Fall focusses on the end of civilisations, ranging from the Greenland Norse and Rapa Nui to Han China and Byzantium.

It doesn’t hurt that the speakers in both have very pleasant voices