gedhrel

@gedhrel@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ABC 2025 Election Watch Party⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ABC 2025 Election Watch Party⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ABC 2025 Election Watch Party⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ABC 2025 Election Watch Party⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  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”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ABC 2025 Election Watch Party⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  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.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ABC 2025 Election Watch Party⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Watch Peter Dutton lose his seat, live⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The use of the metric fucksystem is just icing on the cake.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ABC 2025 Election Watch Party⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon studies Buddhism⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Joshu wants nothing on his pizza.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Henry Symeonis⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait until you hear why Cambridge exists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon watches her boyfriend play videogames⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Grimes is on 4chan?!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon fixes Super Mario Bros⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks. My preference is intersectional second ed. I don’t mind conflict as long as it’s not derived from lazy racist tropes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon fixes Super Mario Bros⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can’t claim you climbed a mountain, if each time you fell you just resumed from where you lost grip.

  Sure you can; it’s called redpointing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you actually care about your friend's new baby, vacation abroad or similar life events or are you just being nice?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I care about my friends, and if they want to talk about it, I’m happy to listen.

  Depending on what the thing is (eg, potential new person) they can be inherently interesting too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dozens from UK take up Putin’s offer to ditch ‘woke’ West and move to Russia⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s around one in a million.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The age of wood⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Excel famously misidentifies all trees as dates.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What knot(s) should I use to secure this?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Figure eight on a bight.