Overshadowed? What was it overshadowed by?
Formerly /u/Zagorath on the alien site.
Overshadowed? What was it overshadowed by?
If I’m not being explicitly paid to be on call, I’m not ever even having notifications come through to my phone from anything work-related.
Oh neat, I’d never thought of that before. Woulda been handy back last time I was working on a PWA!
200 OK (from service worker)
So yeah, getting it from the cache.
If you’re on linux
I’m not, but I do have WSL installed. It returned “Can’t find pathfinder.social: No answer”
Out of interest, I tried the same command in Microsoft PowerShell, I get:
Server: dns9.quad9.net
Address: 9.9.9.9
Name: pathfinder.social
That’s the full output. No actual list of returned addresses.
I’m guessing my system just has pathfinder.social cached.
I’m actually not really clear on what the status of that instance is. Like, for me, when I browse to https://pathfinder.social, I actually see what looks like an empty Lemmy instance running 0.18.2. Some communities show the same for me, while others show a generic error message. So I don’t know whether it’s running in some failed state due to caching, or deregistered, or what.
Yes, that’s the full domain. It used to host communities such as !pf2general@pathfinder.social. Unfortunately it’s been dead for 9–10 months now.
Out of interest, is pathfinder.social among those snatched up by these?
Earl Grey - for the Great Reform Act, which was a necessary precondition to Britain becoming a modern democracy
Also tea. His. Hot.
But MMP does that. I don’t understand how that description differs from regular MMP.
I have often wondered why MMP is always done using FPTP for the local component. Why not IRV + proportional top-ups?
I don’t really understand AMS as well as MMP, but I think the same question could be applied.
Aaaaaand this is why Labour will never countenance this within this parliament.
This is why it’s important to hammer home to them that this election is an anomaly. Look at all the elections since 2010. What would all those Parliaments have looked like in proportional elections?
FPTP helped Labour this week. It hurts them far more often.
I just had a brief look at AMS on Wikipedia but I’m struggling to understand it. They say it’s less proportional than MMP as used in New Zealand and Germany, but the brief description of how AMS works sounded very much like how MMP works. What’s the difference?
An independent (SNP) and unionist (Labour) party would be hard-pressed to form a government.
Would they? Outside of the question of independence, the two parties agree on more than not, don’t they? If they alternative is no functioning government, couldn’t you see Labour giving some minor concession to the SNP (like maybe allowing Holyrood to have power over one or two of the things that was recently denied by the Supreme Court) in exchange for the SNP’s support in Confidence?
the big question would be how government is formed
I’m not really sure what you mean. (It doesn’t help that the rest of that paragraph is ridden by typos to the point of being unintelligible. Sorry.) Government would be formed the same way they do it in Germany or New Zealand or any of the many other countries with proportional systems. They would find a way to reach a majority by agreeing on whatever compromises are palatable to both sides. In a hypothetical where the SNP had way more seats, Labour might have to agree to a second independence referendum. If they really needed Green support they might agree to pass strong climate legislation. They might have to give the LibDems a couple of significant cabinet positions. Proportional systems force politicians to actually do politics and pass legislation that is supported by a majority of people, instead of giving a single party a majority of seats based on a minority of people supporting them.
Every day is a good day to criticise FPTP.
A proportional system would have been to Reform’s benefit, but it would also have been to the Green’s and SNP’s.
IRV would have actually been to Labour’s benefit in the two seats I randomly happened to notice. Though I’m sure there would also be some seats where it would’ve benefited the Tories.
But I think the most important thing is that belief in a better electoral system should not depend on which party world benefit. It should be about creating a more democratic outcome. And what we saw yesterday really highlighted how deeply undemocratic the UK is.
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and arguably worse than FPTP
Sorry but no. Absolutely no. The only downside is the ability to use it as an excuse not to upgrade to a proportional system in the future.
More complicated? Yeah, I guess. But not enough to actually matter. Not unless you think British people are just exceptionally stupid compared to Australians.
More disproportionate results? Impossible. They’re both single-winner systems. The key difference is that FPTP allows a plurality to win while IRV requires a majority. It might create a situation where it seems less proportionate, but that’s only because you reduce strategic voting so people are voting their true beliefs, so candidates that weren’t going to win under either system end up getting more votes under IRV. But the ultimate result is that the candidate who wins in each electorate is the one who had the most support.
They even brought in Rudd for a second go, which didn’t seem to be within the spirit of the game if I’m honest, but that’s Australia for you.
Is a particularly biting bit of satire on the way we usually hear about sports reporting.
I figure satire articles probably aren’t allowed in the general community, but hopefully it’s ok in the megathread? This was brilliant.
https://theshovel.com.au/2024/07/05/australia-loses-shortest-time-to-5-pms-ashes/
Honestly I can hardly blame you. It was set up to fail the moment Clegg agreed to let it be about IRV instead of a proportional system. That meant it was under assault from both sides which meant it never had a chance.
On my desktop I’ve currently got 4 windows with 101, 103, 17, and 191 tabs. Think it’s about 60 on my phone, and currently only about 30 on my tablet.